All through school I never had a problem with acne. I didn't even really think about it. Well, I sure thought about it starting eight years ago when I graduated highschool and got married. These past eight years acne has ruled me. I try to convince myself that it doesn't matter while trying everything under the sun and spending hundreds and hundreds on products. After a few years you just want to lay down and cry. Your just defeated. Four years ago I tried Proactive. It worked. I was so excited and the relief was so great that I actually did cry. I had two wonderful acne free years before it stopped working. More worry and more money. Now, all these years of acne I've wondered more and more, Why? Why all of the sudden did this develop? I've done so much research into everything inside my body and it suddenly hit me two days ago when I was talking to a friend about the sudden appearance of my acne eight years ago, and she asked if I had taken birth control and stopped..... Why yes! I started taking birth control months before I got married (divorced shortly after) and It made me irritable and agressive so I stopped. The timeing is perfect!!! Thats when it started for me. My hormones are crazy. I never want to take birth control again but would like some advice.
I've been visiting this site for 6 months but never joined. I've just been miserably reading and hoping. I've kept myself alone in this for so long and I hate that I feel stupid saying this, but I need this support system. People with acne problems like me. My acne free friends and family never really understand that constant hopeless feeling. They sympathize but I know they wonder why I just can't let it go. I'm just tired. I'm tired of thinking about acne. I'm tired of looking for solutions. I'm tired of feeling sorry for myself and feeling bitter and resentful of those who aren't " blessed " with acne. In this day in age, how can there not be a solution found? I just can't believe it! WOW. Lol... I sound really pathetic. My intention was to keep it short and to the point. Sorry. It's just that ya'll understand, and I need you. Okay. Crazy pathetic again
. Anyway... Thanks for letting me go on and on, and for sticking it out and reading the whole thing. Talk to ya soon.
Perhaps depends on the pill but I hardly believe that birth control in and of itself would cause acne for years after as it is out of your system. Maybe once you started breaking out you started going through a cycle of putting stuff on your face which could have turned into a cycle of irritation but had you left it alone from the beginning it would have gone on its own?
Even if the pill affected your liver, the liver regenerates within 2 years and unless there is constant trauma to it it heals itself. Perhaps if you just leave your acne alone it'll go away? Some people on this board have had success with that.
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I got back on the pill but nothing has happened as of yet so Im contemplating accutane. I Know it;s hard but we'll figure it out!
Talk about long term.
