Leonard V

Not so sure what I'm doing. Ended up picking a lot of things today, which is of course never a good thing. The light therapy, which I thought was helping, ended up really not showing any improvements after the first few days, and ultimately it made things work. Having tried all these different things, I think the best thing for my skin is to just let it heal through using light cleansers, lotions, and nothing too strong or burning that will irritate my skin. Will update with pictures sometime in the next week- Still getting lots of pustules (or whatever things under the skin that are painful to the touch are called) as well as lots of whiteheads and blackheads- very frustrating.

Hey man- wish you the best as luck as well. The clindamicine in my own experience has done a good job of keeping things generally not inflamed. Let me know how it works. Keep at the regimen and give it some more time to work.

Well it has been a week of using this light therapy- I have decided to take a rest from it for tomorrow to let my skin heal. Overall I really can't tell what sorts of effects it has had. My skin is very sore and red from it, which is frustrating, but I feel that in certain areas it has definitely cleared up the complexion. Will update again shortly.

So I purchased the light therapy which arrived last Wednesday, so I have used it for about 5 days now. It worked immediately, and after about 2 days I was seeing major improvements. Unfortunately (and not to my knowledge) if used too much this treatment can actually irritate and 'burn' the skin, so right now my skin is pretty red and sore from it. However, after seeing what it was able to do in such a short amount of time, I am confident that if used in smaller amounts it can be effective in really reducing some of my acne. I will post some pictures later in the week, but overall, despite taking steps backwards over the past 2 days, I have still seen improvements and am quite pleased. My skin after 2 days of the light therapy was the best it has been in a very long time.

Having trouble staying motivated on this regimen. Spent the weekend away from home and I feel like I went all the way back to day 1 in terms of how my face is looking. Still taking the pantothen pill and eating as healthy as possible, so I will keep this updated there. After 4 weeks of the saw palmetto I didn't notice any effect from it, so I have decided to cut that out.