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[borie88]

I'm 20 years old. I have been on accutane twice and I have been off of it for 2 years now. I've been holding off acne pretty well except that I only get these milia things on my cheeks by my nose, below the bags of my eyes and right under my lower lip. These things have been there forever and they don't go away. Every once in awhile about 2 at a time will start to get infected for no apparent reason and come to a head after about 3 days of being an ugly red, painful spot. i squeeze the bacteria out, and also try to get the hard oil out. Sometimes all of it comes out, but other times it just won't, even with an extractor. then it just heals over that and there's a scar with the hard oil still stuck under and it probably ends up going through the same process months later.

my derm has used the electric needle cauterizer thing to poke holes in them and that helps somewhat for a little bit, but they come back.

I wash my face every day and put on epi-duo which is differin/bp. i do this morning and night. I also use neutrogena lotion- The lotion does not cause the milia because i have changed lotions since and both were non oily. I spot treat infected ones with 10% bp. I also put AHA on the milia, but it doesnt do anything... maybe just causes them to get infected sooner.

Last week I ran out of epi duo for the week and alot of the milia started to get infected. =/. pretty much all on the right side of my face too. i got mad and tried to extract the dormant ones with the loop extractor and just ended up making more of them irritated...

Does anyone have or ever had the same problem as me? Accutane gets rid of one type of acne and caused another for me!

What do i dooo?

Edit: Just in case this matters I also take 400mg niacin, 2 green tea pills, 400mcg chromium, 100mg zinc, and 1200mg fish oil per day. i dont really eat too good cuz im allergic to alot of food

Edited by borie88, 07 November 2009 - 10:03 AM.

[borie88]

bump

[dwhaa]

the only thing I can think of for you is looking at Paula's choice SA 2% or something like it. SA has helped me with that in the past, especially the below the lip, above chin area. Every thing that you are doing is so drying to the skin, and aha is great and sorry that it isn't working for you. I think that exfoliation is key for you imo. Try neosporin on the infected ones you pop instead of the 10% bp, since you are already using that. It helps me alot.

If you skin isn't inflamed, look for exfoliating wash clothes in stores and gently use in the am and pm.