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[rensomsne]

Got my first pimples about age 12, continued to get them throughout puberty, but way more then my classmates. I thought it was bad when I went to university at age 19, but looking at pictures, it really wasn't, probably because I was on birth control. At age 20 it got worse, and I started with antibiotics, which only helped until a certain point.

Now I'm 23, and I'm just finishing my first month on isotretinoin, so far seeing some improvement. I'd say my acne was at its worst last year, and it probably had to do with the fact that I was living in Perú, in a super humid climate, in a super polluted city.

[Andy Gray]

Aww you look so cute rensomsne

[Raskolnikov]

7 years for me, still no sign of slowing down.

[Kimmy_Cup]

since I was in fifth grade, I'm a sophmore now so about 5 years. It's going away now because of skinID and bio-oil. Check out my picture gallery that I update every saturday. It's amazing how much it's going away. :] But now I have hyper pigmentation and I'm hopeing bio-oil will help with that. It's so fustrating staring at my face when I look in the mirror. I hate how acne has affected me mentally and physically. I hope by senior year it will all be gone.

[JoeBloggs]

Started when I was about 14, wasnt too bad just normal teenage acne. When I was 16 it got slightly worse so I started taking Vitamin B5. It cleared me up completely, I mean completely, my skin was amazing.

Unfortunately at around 18 my skin started getting bad again, this time though it was much much worse. Very severe stuff, kept taking B5 hoping it would do wonders again but it didnt. Finally started accutane when I was 19 1/2. Eventually cleared me up (after 2 courses).

Im on a 3rd course now as Im breaking out once again, Im 20 years old now. I regret not taking accutane much earlier on and I hate myself for pinning all my hopes on Vitamin B5. If I took accutane instead I would have probably prevented the scarring I have now

[acne_battle]

18 years

omg, thats terrible! Ive had acne for twelve years and I thought thats a lot. The worst my acne has been was in my early teenage years. I had severe acne because of stress. Junior high=hell

I took Yasmin birth control and I didnt even have acne for a full year, not even mild acne, none. A year later, age 22 it came back and Ive had it every day since.

6 years? I was 8 when i got it, and i've had it moderate since. I cant actually recall when it was the worse, in my head I measure the worse as when the most people were noticing and teasing me for it and that was probably when I was 11

what?! How can you get acne when youre eight years old. The earliest a person can get a period is nine years old so how can you get acne at eight =/

[acne_battle]

22 years. Probably worst when I was about 25.

22 years! :shocks:

[greekgirl]

almost 20 years!

[acne_battle]

I've had it for 3 and a half years...I look better without makeup but I'm self conscious about the red marks. Make up justs drys out my skin and makes it look flaky....I'm currently trying to use all natural things and eat the right way. Today is my last day of freedom Tommorow I start a new life if it doesn't get rid of my acne well that at least I'll be healthier and hopefully happier.
I don't know when it has been worst maybe it was last year and this year because it seems out of control. Where I used to only get it on my cheeks occasionally, I started to get it on my forehead, than on my chin, and sometimes on my nose. It sucks ass to have acne and then look around at other people who have perfect skin complain about a stupid mole or getting sun burned. I know I don't have it as bad as some people but it still angers me when people with one pimple think they have acne! Well anywho I hope you all win you're long or short battles with acne...I wish you all the best of luck.

I hate when people do that too! OMG, I have one pimple oh no! Try getting ten new pimples every single day.

[xLKphotox]

Never had acne till about a year ago. I am 28 now. It really sucks. It started to come out when my hair started to get longer (I have always had variations of short hair).

[acne_battle]

Never had acne till about a year ago. I am 28 now. It really sucks. It started to come out when my hair started to get longer (I have always had variations of short hair).

My mom never had acne either until she turned 28. Apparently her sister had given her this cleanser for her face full of fragrance. It didnt agree with her skin and she broke out everyday for a year and then it stopped. I wish I had her skin urgh

[xLKphotox]

Never had acne till about a year ago. I am 28 now. It really sucks. It started to come out when my hair started to get longer (I have always had variations of short hair).

My mom never had acne either until she turned 28. Apparently her sister had given her this cleanser for her face full of fragrance. It didnt agree with her skin and she broke out everyday for a year and then it stopped. I wish I had her skin urgh

wow! I hope I have skin like that where one day it just stops. That doesn't sound like my luck though. Also, I couldn't help but notice your picture. I work for Nick Arrojo. He is on WNTW.

[acne_battle]

You do! OMG! Hes awesome

[Snugs]

Since i was 14 that I can recall... Then, with treatments, i had about a two year break with a return of the dreaded breakouts getting severe again. Then, accutane twice, followed by about eight good years. Never totally clear, but much, much better... one here and there.
Finally, it returned again and continues to be a battle with some better, short-lived periods.
All total: twenty-three years of breakouts...
Joyful....

[rensomsne]

Aww you look so cute rensomsne

Oh, thank you

[chris8835]

Going on 5 years now. It started when I was 16 I will be 21 on May 3rd

[Zeezoo27]

5 years
since i was about 14 and now im 19
it was its worst last summer when i stopped all treatments

[Half Century of Acne]

My grandfather on my mother's side endured life-long acne. My mother endured acne at least until she was 40 and her facial skin's texture revealed imperfect healing. My acne first became troubling while I was in school grade 6 at age 11. By the time my 7th grade school class group photo was taken from about 30 feet, my acne was obvious even from that distance. That was 1956. During the 53 years since then I have not experienced one day without multiple breakouts on my face and neck. I have no idea why my super-oily skin heals without visible scaring, but it does. I've always stayed reasonably lean rather than cycling between high and low body fat percentages. My symmetrically-located nasal-facial folds appeared when I was a child but my face has not developed any more persistent wrinkles since. I believe that's because
1) my face stays continuously oily,
2) I've avoided fat-stretch/lean-collapse skin-stress cycling, and
3) early in life I decided to avoid furrowing my forehead because I saw how it causes persistent disfiguring forehead wrinkles. At one time I demonstrated to a 22 year old weight training friend that he could hold a dime in one of his forehead wrinkles! That incident occurred about 30 years ago , I can only wonder how his forehead appears today. Yet my forehead doesn't have a wrinkle due to very-intensional self restraint which became a lifestyle habit.

I've spent money with numerous dermatologists over the decades. When offered, I've refused to take acutane because I didn't want to risk the permanent changes I saw in others who tried it.

I'm confident that symptoms which different individuals reference as acne are NOT all identical nor are all underlying causes the same. Even acne experienced by an individual may evolve through time as my case has demonstrated. Through time, the most frequently targeted areas can migrate as can how symptoms occur. The simplistic assumption that one management strategy is ideal for all acne sufferers seems too simplistic to me.

[itzLouis]

I've had acne since I was in 5th grade, which was 6 years ago. I'm currently 17 years old and my acne seems to be at its worse. =(

[InTheEye]

Had it for 21 years and it's still going strong. sigh