happens every summer and nothing helps, i just have to wait until the weather cools down for them to go away. any ideas would be appreciated.

First of all - I'm very happy to see this subforum opened. My neck acne has ALWAYS been different from the acne on my face and body.

I've had a bunch of cysts on my neck for 6 months I think. I was trying so many things - TCA peels, glycolic acid, mandelic acid.

Recently, no new pimples have surfaced. What did I do?

Well - NOTHING. Stopped putting so many chemicals on it. I moisturized and put vaseline on the individual spots.

To me, this was a shock because it was the total opposite of what I was doing. Sometimes, your skin needs to be left alone in order to fix itself.

edit- i got on accutane, and my neck is clearing nicely.

I need some advice. I am 47 and I am still battling cystic acne on my neck of all places. This is so embarassing, especially at my age. I have used BP in varying strengths w/ limited success. I have used Nucelle mandelic acid exclusively since Sept. of 2008. My opinion it is no worse or better than when I used BP. I do not want to go on accutane. Not only do I have to battle cysts on my neck, sometimes this results in my neck looking like crap, because this also results in drying of my neck so I look like crap w/ the dry, flakey skin w/ cysts. I hate having to worry about wrinkles and acne. Is there anyone else that battles this type of acne on their neck ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Dan recommends using the same regimen for acne on the front of the neck that is used for facial acne...cleansing, 2.5% bp, and moisturizing. Has anyone used Dan's regimen for acne on the front of the neck? If so, what were you results?

Hi, I have been getting acne on my neck again. By all means I am super frustrated. Right now I am using nothing on my neck, but washing with Dove unscented bar soap for sensitive skin. I do take 500 mg of Ampicillin twice a day. Mostly I get these tiny little bumps and the occasional nodule. I just got one yesterday that is right under my chin. As I don't have much of a regimen for this area of my body does anyone have any suggestions on what to do? I already have a galore of redmarks and I don't see how they are going to get better if I keep getting new ones. This is such a sensitive part of the body and so hard to treat that I would really like to hear suggestions of what has and hasn't worked for others. If things don't improve I will go to the derm again. Thanks for your help!

& I'm like...no.

It seems as if I always get a cyst underneath my chin......................in the same exact spot. Why is that? OH YEAH FIRST POST AND POSTER!!!

Okay, i've been dealing with neck acne for a while. Actually, 90% of all my acne is on my neck. Whiteheads, pustules, and fucking cysts.. and my neck is COVERED with them. Before i had like 20-25 "active" pustules and cysts on my neck, but now it's down to like a couple of cysts and some pustules and i attribute that to cutting out dairy and soy.

Anyway, to cut to the chase, even though i'm slowly clearing up, i still get sebum plugs from my neck. Does this happen to anyone else? I'm talking about the thin areas of the neck like around the adam's apple.

I don't understand why i get acne mostly on my neck. It's really strange.