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I am going to start my log on my way to clear beautiful skin! RUN YOU ACNE RUN ~
Description of my case :
Am living in a sunny small dot named Singapore, notorious for it's humidity and warm weather
Skin was clear until I hit 15 years young, one pustule once a week, dab on some BP and will be gone in 2days top.
Nothing major, so never visited dermatologist and never know anything about treating a pimple, just applying the BP my dad gave me.
Skin hit a major turn as I turned 17, got painful cyst and more pustules. I hated it and asked my dad to bring me to a derm.
Was first prescribe doxy/mino for 2months, not working. Still growing more, argh. So I switched over to accutane.
My case back then was definitely not severe neither moderate, it was just quite mild and I was prescribe accutane easily unlike some mentioned that they got rejected because their acne wasn't that severe.
Maybe that's how dermatologists in Singapore works.
Weird case of mine, was prescribe a pill of 10mg, told to take it twice or thrice a week which means only 20-30mg a week! Compared to most people here, they are actually taking 30mg a day or even twice of that.
I shouldn't question my derm.. hmm
But my skin got cleared after few months! Say 3 months.
I stop going back to my derm last year December, and things got worse. I am 19 this year.
I noticed clog pores started forming on the sides of my face, 4 or 5 on each side of my face. No pustule, cyst.
So I went online and did some research and decided to get a BHA to deal with the clog pores. Paula Choice's btw.
My face broke out more, way worse than compared to when I was 17!
But I comfort myself by telling it was just the initial purging stage I am going through. Well, it was. After a month of using that, my clog pores were gone totally. But was left with many red marks from the purging.
In exchange of that, pustule came back! Skin became oiller. The accutane effect too must have worn off. My sebum production is slowly increasing.
I became desperate, I googled, rampaged through all the websites that could possibly helped me.
Then retin-a came up, and seems to be a good investment. "Helps with acne and also an anti-aging product." Wow, why don't everyone just use this stuff? Purchased mine from alldaychemist in the strength of 0.025 gel form.
Have used this for a month, started on 6th March I written on my diary.
Well, right now my state is face with clog pores, cysts, pustules and my face is extremely oily. My nose pores will be filled with sparkling spots of oil after 30mins from shower
And yes, my face broke out more with the use of Retin-A. Well, it might be purging. But I really wanna fcuk this purging. DIDN'T YOU FINISHED PURGING FROM THE BHA?!
My confidence was plummeted to the pit bottom, all my friends used to compliment my skin as smooth and clear and have zero zits while I'm on accutane, but now, I don't even meet them nor go out that often anymore. I feel so bare, so naked if I were to go out with this ugly scarred face of mine, with yellow pus and bumps all over. I don't wanna scare anyone and save myself from the embarrassment.
So I visited my derm again two days back. I was prescribed 10mg everyday instead of twice/thrice a week as before because I questioned him
I told him my "friends", which are the people here in the forum, they are eating 30/40mg a day and why am I only eating so little? He explained that I will get very dry and my lips will crack blah blah blah which all I know from reading the posts here. I don't know why but I just don't trust him at all. But I go to him just for my prescription of accutane.
I also took 3 pills of fish oil (180mg EPA, 120mg DHA per pill) everyday back then and I stopped because I finished (the same time I last took my accutane) it and didn't went back to him since last Dec. And he reprimanded me when I told him I stopped taking it.
He even told me "Once your skin is clear from Accutane and if ever they come back again, you just eat MORE fish oil and that will do."
Isn't that ridiculous? I don't trust it at all. How can intaking MORE fish oil helps with acne? Some here even broke out from fish oil!
Another reason I stopped the fish oil is because the fish oil is only carried by practitioner, (Nutrition Care brand) and it's expensive. I can find another fish oil with the same amount of EPA/DHA half the price of his!
So I just walk off as soon as I took my prescription. I think I learned more and know more from this forum and am more willing to believe people here THAN HIM!
I know I should trust my derm but.. :S I just feel that I know what I am doing to my body more than him.
So I have been incorporating one tomato into my diet everyday. Tomato contain lycopene, one of the most power antioxidants known.Also has high amount of vitamin A & C.
The reason why tomato is because one of my mom's friend swear by it as an "anti-aging food". Her skin is glowing always and has no wrinkles at all!
So I wash my face with Avene soapless foaming gel in the morning, apply grapeseed oil as a moisturiser.
Grapeseed oil because it is also high in its antioxidant properties!
At night I will wash again with the avene cleanser and after 30mins, I will apply Retin-A.
I hope I can get stupendous result with this three belonging to the same family of vitamin A! Tomato, retin a and accutane.
I remembered someone mentioned that the vitamin A from tomato is different from that of Accutane, can anyone assure this?
I really don't wanna get overdosed on vitamin A as it's fat soluble and I have suffered hairloss, IBS, headaches before from this drug.
I will post pictures of my retin-A progress I took for the month and then start taking for the progress on my accutane.
