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I'm breaking out on my chin again ffs...woke up to a nice white pimple on my chin...thought my acne was clearing after 6 weeks of meds and now this...and I've just turned down Roaccutane...my bad
Mel, retinoids are unfortunately like that. Give it 12 weeks to see if you see consistent improvement.....if not, then may be you'll consider accutane or some supplement/medication to deal with hormones. Give it time.
Hi, I've heard you have to give it 3 months to really see an improvement so I'm half way there...my patience is wearing thin though, I wish acne would go away as quickly as it came!! Roaccutane really will be my last resort, I hope it doesn't come to that.
You'll get through it Mel. At least you have the roacctane as a back up...should ease your mind a bit. I suspect your sudden resergence of acne could be due to hormones. Have you looked into hormone therapy (not birth control of course but maybe something like Spiro or natural supplements)?
Didn't break out much. My skin is very smooth and I can't wait to apply aloe vera because it makes my skin even more smoother. I am going to apply the aztec healing clay twice a week or once a week.
School starts tomorrow and despite having some red spots and marks here and there I'm kinda excited
Same! Even though I never make friends, etc.. but I just love learning new things. Learning is a good thing! Makes us smarter. I look forward taking A&P 2, almost one of the hardest course. My goal is to get an A to make up the B i got for A&P 1 ;\ I didn't try at all because I broke out bad!! Worst than ever. That's why I got a B. I was feeling so down and hopeless.
Not good.
I am very stressed out, family stuff (which I am very unhappy about) and school is starting and I have stuff to buy. I feel my face is going to be flaring up. I am trying not to stress, think positively, and relax but it's nearly impossible.
Actually sounds really similar to my situation earlier this year. I had some frustrating / stressful family issues going on that had me quite upset for a while (especially since we'd all been relatively close until the last few years). It made me feel like there was too much going on in my head - I was stressed about that, worried about my skin and had uni study to keep up with...Trying to focus on something else may help but can be hard to do. Give it a shot anyway?
I usually find once I get back into the routine of school I can feel more at ease - hopefully it'll be the same for you...
Hang in there 
Not good.
I am very stressed out, family stuff (which I am very unhappy about) and school is starting and I have stuff to buy. I feel my face is going to be flaring up. I am trying not to stress, think positively, and relax but it's nearly impossible.
Actually sounds really similar to my situation earlier this year. I had some frustrating / stressful family issues going on that had me quite upset for a while (especially since we'd all been relatively close until the last few years). It made me feel like there was too much going on in my head - I was stressed about that, worried about my skin and had uni study to keep up with...Trying to focus on something else may help but can be hard to do. Give it a shot anyway?
I usually find once I get back into the routine of school I can feel more at ease - hopefully it'll be the same for you...
Hang in there
thank you
Like you said, I do feel that once I get back into the groove of school I can focus more on that, something more constructive than being at home with the things, well person, that is stressing me out. I was feeling good about my skin the other day and then all this stuff happened. gah!
thank you
Like you said, I do feel that once I get back into the groove of school I can focus more on that, something more constructive than being at home with the things, well person, that is stressing me out. I was feeling good about my skin the other day and then all this stuff happened. gah!
Yeah I know what you mean.
Acne is like an annoying roller-coaster that you never wanted to get on, can make you want to scream, and can seem as if it'll never end! 
But it will. It has to.
I'm breaking out on my chin again ffs...woke up to a nice white pimple on my chin...thought my acne was clearing after 6 weeks of meds and now this...and I've just turned down Roaccutane...my bad
Mel, retinoids are unfortunately like that. Give it 12 weeks to see if you see consistent improvement.....if not, then may be you'll consider accutane or some supplement/medication to deal with hormones. Give it time.
Hi, I've heard you have to give it 3 months to really see an improvement so I'm half way there...my patience is wearing thin though, I wish acne would go away as quickly as it came!! Roaccutane really will be my last resort, I hope it doesn't come to that.
You'll get through it Mel. At least you have the roacctane as a back up...should ease your mind a bit. I suspect your sudden resergence of acne could be due to hormones. Have you looked into hormone therapy (not birth control of course but maybe something like Spiro or natural supplements)?
I have been quite stressed recently, I'm sure that has a part to play...as for the hormones I've not had my usual PMS this month which was a first in a while! maybe the hormones chose my skin as an outlet instead of my mind and body?? I might start to re-introduce natural supplements first to help with the hormones. At least my skin is no worse today which is always a plus!
Evening primrose oil and agnus castus in pill form and green tea as a drink has really helped to balance my hormones which were severely out of whack thanks to my PCOS. It's made the monthlies a lot easier and got rid of my ovarian cysts, although I did still break out this month (all on the top of my face - my skin likes to be different, apparently). I'm not sure what they'll do for your skin, but they're great for all the other aspects of PMS.
Speaking of my skin though - ugh, I have so many of those gunk filled, bloody huge whiteheads on my forehead and next to my eyebrows! I just went to town on them with the comedone extractor, so now they're just red wounds instead of infected bumps. I'm not worried about scarring because that only ever happens on my cheeks.
I started using unrefined 100% pure shea butter today. It's absolute bliss, even if it does take forever to absorb.
I might be seeing a friend later on today, and luckily I just got my foundations of choice via the mail. I think I'll definitley be getting some of that on later.
Evening primrose oil and agnus castus in pill form and green tea as a drink has really helped to balance my hormones which were severely out of whack thanks to my PCOS. It's made the monthlies a lot easier and got rid of my ovarian cysts, although I did still break out this month (all on the top of my face - my skin likes to be different, apparently). I'm not sure what they'll do for your skin, but they're great for all the other aspects of PMS.
Speaking of my skin though - ugh, I have so many of those gunk filled, bloody huge whiteheads on my forehead and next to my eyebrows! I just went to town on them with the comedone extractor, so now they're just red wounds instead of infected bumps. I'm not worried about scarring because that only ever happens on my cheeks.
I started using unrefined 100% pure shea butter today. It's absolute bliss, even if it does take forever to absorb.
I might be seeing a friend later on today, and luckily I just got my foundations of choice via the mail. I think I'll definitley be getting some of that on later.
Have you found the agnus castus to make any difference to your acne at all? Have you been taking it for long?
I finished the last of my pills of it about 2 weeks ago and had taken them for about a month. I didn't really notice any difference in that short time and from what I can gather it can take quite a while to show results as far as acne goes. Do you know anything about it or how it works at all? I'm not sure whether to buy more of it... (sorry about all the questions by the way! - just would like to hear some other peoples experiences/opinions of it)
Have a nice time out with your friend today, if you do meet up, - might be a good way to get you're mind off all things skin/acne for a little while
I've been taking it for around *pauses to think* 7 months now. I do think it needs quite a long time to get into your system, as it's only in the last month or so I've seen any kind of regulation in my hormones. My skin has been actually pretty good in the last month right up until now, when I've had my usual monthly break out. I'm not sure how effective it is on it's own as my doctor reccomended it after I'd already started to take the evening primrose oil. I do think the green tea has been the main element which helped with my skin and hormones, but the agnus castus and evening primrose were definitley working together to stop my mood swings before I started on the green tea.
I'm afraid I don't know much about the scientific elements of how it works. I wouldn't stop taking it now because I think it works well with the other two things to help balance out my general hormones, but I don't think it'd make a drastic change to my skin if I came off it.
Thankyou, but I don't think I'll get too. He's always at work and I'm starting up Uni again real soon. I may just have a day in of feeling sorry for myself.
I've been taking it for around *pauses to think* 7 months now. I do think it needs quite a long time to get into your system, as it's only in the last month or so I've seen any kind of regulation in my hormones. My skin has been actually pretty good in the last month right up until now, when I've had my usual monthly break out. I'm not sure how effective it is on it's own as my doctor reccomended it after I'd already started to take the evening primrose oil. I do think the green tea has been the main element which helped with my skin and hormones, but the agnus castus and evening primrose were definitley working together to stop my mood swings before I started on the green tea.
I'm afraid I don't know much about the scientific elements of how it works. I wouldn't stop taking it now because I think it works well with the other two things to help balance out my general hormones, but I don't think it'd make a drastic change to my skin if I came off it.
Thankyou, but I don't think I'll get too. He's always at work and I'm starting up Uni again real soon. I may just have a day in of feeling sorry for myself.
Thanks for that I'll probably go get some more seeing as I really didn't take it that long anyway... Good to hear the combination of things seems to be working out for you
Whatever you do - don't spend the day feeling miserable! Even if you do spend the day at home, watch a movie or listen to some music or do something that lets you distract yourself from your skin for a bit -which I find is always a good thing
Try and enjoy your day regardless and good luck with uni when it comes around.
So I basically have three pimples right now. For some odd reason I'm bummed not not extremely bummed which is quite rare. Lol I'm tired of always worrying about it. It is what it is. Cant do much about it except not get so upset. It really isn't helping anyway. I still have to believe I'm beautiful.
Didn't give it a second thought. Two days of not looking in a mirror helped. Had a good friend of mine over to dinner, meal was great and conversation was awesome.
Today was a day that acne wasn't king
Yeah I had a good day. I went with my cousin and her boyfriend to this autism fundraiser at an outback steakhouse. There were ALOT of people. It was the first time I have been out in public in 6 months in broad daylight with my skin. I feel like people look at me, then look away. I don't know. My skin like I've said is the best it's looked in 6 months, and I do have some red marks, but I feel like people don't like what they see and look away. Maybe it's just me and what I think. No one has EVER said anything about my skin and people look at me in my eyes when we talk, but I still feel like my skin is noticeable and people notice it. I try to say "I don't care what people think of me, I am who I am" but it's so tough bc I had perfect skin 6 months ago. I know, or hope, my skin will be perfect again, it's just hard.
Getting better as I'm on Zineryt and Tetralysal again at the minute, not ideal but as people in this thread have mentioned I'm also worried about starting uni looking like a monster so a temporary fix is what I'm trying to achieve.
Not related to acne but I got up today at 6.30 am (way too early for the lazy slob that I am) to do a car theory test (again!) at 8 am... I get there and they tell me the computer system is down ... what a waste of time, money and petrol, my luck is so bad I can only laugh at it - I'd go insane otherwise!
I ended up going out with my friend yesterday. We had a good time other than falling asleep in a rubbish movie, but my face was piled high with makeup. He's very tactile and I winced every time he touched my face (from pain and awareness at how thick my makeup was and the bumps underneath it). I'm feeling pretty low today because this is one of the worst break outs I've had in months, and because he kept going on about how I look amazing all the time. He's not seen me on an off day with no makeup on, my hair not done and wearing my scruffy stuff. I don't know, I guess I just feel like I'm lying about what I look like to him, and I don't like lying to my friends. My other friends have all seen me looking my utter most worse and they don't care. I guess I just feel like I get so many people telling me how stunning I am when I have makeup on or clear skin for the time being. If I take the makeup off at the moment, I feel like I don't get a second glance. Maybe it's all just in my head.
It doesn't help being newly single again. My ex actually prefered me with no makeup on. Now that I'm back in the whole dating world all of the rules have changed again.
I wonder why I bother with makeup sometimes. I can't hide bumpiness with makeup and it nicely shows off unwanted dry spots or wears off during the day :/ Maybe I'm just horrible at applying it - I think that might be the case haha At least it lessens any redness I might have and it makes me feel the tiniest bit more confident. I guess that's why I use it. Today was definitely a bad makeup day and bad skin day in general. I left uni early - partially to get back home sooner to hide my face and remove the makeup sooner and partially because I have assessment to finish up for tomorrow.
Had the chance to talk to some new (and good looking) guys today - but avoided it. I'm annoyed about that. I'm a shy person and being self-conscious about my acne/skin doesn't help. I just think that's all they're seeing...
Oh well...- I'm hoping tomorrow is a better day.
I ended up going out with my friend yesterday. We had a good time other than falling asleep in a rubbish movie, but my face was piled high with makeup. He's very tactile and I winced every time he touched my face (from pain and awareness at how thick my makeup was and the bumps underneath it). I'm feeling pretty low today because this is one of the worst break outs I've had in months, and because he kept going on about how I look amazing all the time. He's not seen me on an off day with no makeup on, my hair not done and wearing my scruffy stuff. I don't know, I guess I just feel like I'm lying about what I look like to him, and I don't like lying to my friends. My other friends have all seen me looking my utter most worse and they don't care. I guess I just feel like I get so many people telling me how stunning I am when I have makeup on or clear skin for the time being. If I take the makeup off at the moment, I feel like I don't get a second glance. Maybe it's all just in my head.
It doesn't help being newly single again. My ex actually prefered me with no makeup on. Now that I'm back in the whole dating world all of the rules have changed again.
I hear you hun...I was the same, I've always worn makeup but when I first started with my bad breakout I piled it on all the more trying to hide what lay beneath but then mine got so bad it was impossible to put makeup on at all. It was alien to me to go out bare faced but I braved it and it's not so bad...my skin is actually breathing for the first time in 14 years!! I am single too and I also feel like I don't get a look in - you either get the wrong kind of attention or it's like wearing an invisibility cloak 
Evening primrose oil and agnus castus in pill form and green tea as a drink has really helped to balance my hormones which were severely out of whack thanks to my PCOS. It's made the monthlies a lot easier and got rid of my ovarian cysts, although I did still break out this month (all on the top of my face - my skin likes to be different, apparently). I'm not sure what they'll do for your skin, but they're great for all the other aspects of PMS.
That's great they got rid of your cysts and helped ease your monthlies
I'll have to try agnus castus...EPO and green tea and a B vitamin complex worked wonders for me, it was kind of sedating too in a good way haha but I was told to cut all supplements out when I broke out bad. I want to reintroduce natural supplements again soon though so I don't turn into a she-devil once a month!!