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Had a dream I had pitted scars on my face from acne last night. I remember looking in my school mirror and analyzing my skin and being amazed on the facelt I hadn't noticed it before. Woke up feeling relieved. Didn't have the best sleep last night. Started getting a pimple yesterday but its a good thing actually. I need to learn to cope with acne and still maintain a happy life without going crazy. I don't always have to have perfect skin. Feeling good overall. Good day everyone. 
Don't know what I feel right now. The scab on my spot fell off in the shower and then more fell off while I was moisturizing. It looks a bit better but still has a very pink/red spot that has two little 'bleeding' spots. That spot oozed a bit and now it feels like it's re-scabbed over. I honestly feel so distraught about all of this I just can't handle it. Makeup doesn't really help either. It IS a small spot and I know to anyone else I am completely overreacting but I know now I'm not mentally stable. Something is very, very wrong and if this doesn't get better I don't see myself doing well in ANY of my classes, wanting to hang out with friends, or do anything really. I can honestly say I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel anymore. If I stay in school, I'll most likely fail out. If I withdraw for the semester, I'll be disappointing, worrying, aggravating my parents, not to mention I'll feel like I gave up. In either option I'll most likely lose my friends because I'm not acting like myself. My youth is becoming wasted. I feel like a burden on everyone because no one understands why I feel so strongly about this and can only get frustrated. I feel SO lost, alone, and hopeless. I thought when the scab fell off it'd just be normal pink skin like it usually happens but no, instead it more or less looks the same and now has re-scabbed over. I don't know what I'm going to do. I would have NEVER expected myself to fell so downtrodden and distraught. I pictured my sophomore year being amazing, a new start, good classes, continuing on my way to a career in Psychology. Instead I feel as though I have no future. I think this is the closest I've felt to suicidal. I hate to say all this but I need somewhere to vent I'm sorry. 
Not great. It's a day where I can't avoid meeting people in full sunlight, and today my skin has got to me enough to make me want to just stay at home and hide.
Hoping today ends up being ok and that tomorrow is better.
Don't know what I feel right now. The scab on my spot fell off in the shower and then more fell off while I was moisturizing. It looks a bit better but still has a very pink/red spot that has two little 'bleeding' spots. That spot oozed a bit and now it feels like it's re-scabbed over. I honestly feel so distraught about all of this I just can't handle it. Makeup doesn't really help either. It IS a small spot and I know to anyone else I am completely overreacting but I know now I'm not mentally stable. Something is very, very wrong and if this doesn't get better I don't see myself doing well in ANY of my classes, wanting to hang out with friends, or do anything really. I can honestly say I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel anymore. If I stay in school, I'll most likely fail out. If I withdraw for the semester, I'll be disappointing, worrying, aggravating my parents, not to mention I'll feel like I gave up. In either option I'll most likely lose my friends because I'm not acting like myself. My youth is becoming wasted. I feel like a burden on everyone because no one understands why I feel so strongly about this and can only get frustrated. I feel SO lost, alone, and hopeless. I thought when the scab fell off it'd just be normal pink skin like it usually happens but no, instead it more or less looks the same and now has re-scabbed over. I don't know what I'm going to do. I would have NEVER expected myself to fell so downtrodden and distraught. I pictured my sophomore year being amazing, a new start, good classes, continuing on my way to a career in Psychology. Instead I feel as though I have no future. I think this is the closest I've felt to suicidal. I hate to say all this but I need somewhere to vent I'm sorry.
Don't apologise for how you're feeling or for needing to vent.
Are you seeing a psychologist/ counselor at the moment?
I feel bad posting good news in here, but maybe you can look at it like... if I'm feeling good about my skin a couple days after being extremely bummed out about it, then you never know what might happen for you.
Anyway, yeah, I feel good about my skin today. It's close to looking the same as it did a few weeks ago. And since that's massive improvement in a week, I know if I keep up with my regimen it won't be long until it looks better than it has in quite a while.
I looked at myself at my Dad's new car and my skin looked bad since the mirror is new and so clear. I saw lots of marks. I really don't want bad scarring after these marks fade. My skin is still smooth . I knew everyone in class would have clear skin. I was right. I'm the only one with marks.. ;\
Not great. It's a day where I can't avoid meeting people in full sunlight, and today my skin has got to me enough to make me want to just stay at home and hide.
Hoping today ends up being ok and that tomorrow is better.
Don't know what I feel right now. The scab on my spot fell off in the shower and then more fell off while I was moisturizing. It looks a bit better but still has a very pink/red spot that has two little 'bleeding' spots. That spot oozed a bit and now it feels like it's re-scabbed over. I honestly feel so distraught about all of this I just can't handle it. Makeup doesn't really help either. It IS a small spot and I know to anyone else I am completely overreacting but I know now I'm not mentally stable. Something is very, very wrong and if this doesn't get better I don't see myself doing well in ANY of my classes, wanting to hang out with friends, or do anything really. I can honestly say I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel anymore. If I stay in school, I'll most likely fail out. If I withdraw for the semester, I'll be disappointing, worrying, aggravating my parents, not to mention I'll feel like I gave up. In either option I'll most likely lose my friends because I'm not acting like myself. My youth is becoming wasted. I feel like a burden on everyone because no one understands why I feel so strongly about this and can only get frustrated. I feel SO lost, alone, and hopeless. I thought when the scab fell off it'd just be normal pink skin like it usually happens but no, instead it more or less looks the same and now has re-scabbed over. I don't know what I'm going to do. I would have NEVER expected myself to fell so downtrodden and distraught. I pictured my sophomore year being amazing, a new start, good classes, continuing on my way to a career in Psychology. Instead I feel as though I have no future. I think this is the closest I've felt to suicidal. I hate to say all this but I need somewhere to vent I'm sorry.
Don't apologise for how you're feeling or for needing to vent.
Are you seeing a psychologist/ counselor at the moment?
*Hugs* Sorry I haven't replied. I will reply in a bit <3
I normally don't have any acne along my jawline, but I do now. I don't know if it's left over from taking prednisone and antibiotics, followed by probiotics and CandiZyme, or if it's from the new supplements I've been taking - magnesium and chromium. I don't see why those would do anything, but I'm going to stop taking them for a bit and see what happens.
I'm going to simplify my whole regimen:
Wake up - spray face with distilled water, drink some apple cider vinegar
Lunch - take Opti-L-Zinc
Before dinner - take glucomannan
A while after dinner - drink some apple cider vinegar
Before bed - apply apple cider vinegar to face, leave on
And I'm going to try to work some milk thistle into there too. I think my liver's fucked. Which could explain why supplements seem to make my skin worse.
This is annoying. I notice my face immediately erupts in little red spots after showering. I barely get my face wet, and it's cold water, and I don't use a cleanser. What gives?
I normally don't have any acne along my jawline, but I do now. I don't know if it's left over from taking prednisone and antibiotics, followed by
probiotics and CandiZyme, or if it's from the new
supplements I've been taking - magnesium and
chromium. I don't see why those would do
anything, but I'm going to stop taking them for a
bit and see what happens
I'm going to simplify my whole regimen:
Wake up - spray face with distilled water, drink some apple cider vinega
Lunch - take Opti-L-Zinc
Before dinner - take glucomanna
A while after dinner - drink some apple cider vinegar
Before bed - apply apple cider vinegar to face,
leave
And I'm going to try to work some milk thistle into there too. I think my liver's fucked. Which could explain why supplements seem to make my skin worse
This is annoying. I notice my face immediately erupts in little red spots after showering. I barely get my face wet, and it's cold water, and I don't
use a cleanser. What gives?
I took magnesium and chromium supplements and killed practically 80% of my severe acne, at first it made me break out but after 3 months I had no cyst or nodules. It didn't completely cure my shit but it helped alot along with zinc and saw palmetto. I still break out but not nearlly as bad as before Wich was every day. Now once a week Wich still fucks with me along with the horrible scars that will forever remain but yea keep at it.
Well, I have to say that I love wakeing up and feeling no hurt , touching my skin and feeling it smooth and nice , but when I look in the mirror I always see that bad acne again , I don't know what's worse acne or acne red marks , they are just SO red, and my skin is pale just imagine how I look !!So depressing :<
Haven't been getting any pimples lately, which is GREAT. Not even little whiteheads. I guess the culprit of my recent 'breakout' was the reduced intake of Doxy after all. Although, that makes me a bit scared, because that means my skin is really dependent on Doxy, and I'm going to have to go off it someday...
Overall my skin looks great, I'm very happy with it, but this scratch/cut/whatever on my face is still causing me anxiety. I feel a lot better today than I did yesterday (yesterday was so entirely awful) but I'm still worried. Everytime I look at it in the mirror I just wonder how it will heal. Part of me thinks it looks like there's a slight 'crater' there, another part of me thinks I'm just imagining it and that it just looks superficial. I NEVER get crater, icepick, whatever scars, even when I pop pimples (and I've gotten cystic pimples before) so I just can't imagine how my fingernail would cause a crater or dip scar in my skin. But who knows. Another part of me is worried the pore where the blackhead was will look really bad once the scab is off and everything's healed. I'm just so worried as to how it will all look once fully healed. I know it's not fully healed because the scab fell off yesterday in the shower and it was oozing serous fluid/a little blood and then re-scabbed over. It doesn't even look like a real scab actually, it feels extremely thin like if I wipe a towel across it it'll fall off. Which worries me also. I just really, really hope that when it's healed and the scab is gone or whatever it will just be a mark. I can deal with marks, I have throughout my whole adolescence. What worries me is the idea of scarred pore, horrible crater scar, whatever.
But my brother is coming this weekend to spend the weekend with me. He always makes me feel better so I am really looking forward to this. He's also a med student so he knows a lot about the healing process etc. And he has dealt with acne too so he knows how it all feels.
I just want this to be healed, and healed well. If that happens I will literally never complain about my skin again. I'm so tired of feeling self conscious about this pink scab on my face and wondering what's going on beneath it and if it's healing. I want to go back to being my fun, happy self and being able to laugh with my friends like normal. I guess I will find out within a week what this mark is going to look like. The NP I saw told me it would probably take about a week to fully heal. Please, please let it look alright.
But yeah I won't have internet access this weekend (probably a good thing) so I will come back on Sunday hopefully with better looking skin. I hope you all have great weekends.
Pretty terrible. As always. I'm getting really frustrated. Nothing seems to work for me and I can't get rid of it. It frustrates me even more when very little people my age have acne the way I do. They'll have the occasional pimple, and I have a god damn plague on my face.
I'm starting to become resentful of clear-skinned people.
Having trouble going out in public anymore. Contemplating wearing concealer and i'm a guy, that's how desperate I'm feeling. So summary, yeah..pretty awful.
My skin has been clearing nicely over the last 8 weeks until last week when I thought the time was right to start wearing makeup again (I wore Vichy Dermablend foundation 2 days, Dalton concealer as foundation 1 day and Almay Clear Complexion foundation 1 day). Then I noticed I was getting new spots and bumps which were sore. I'm pretty sure it was the makeup that made my skin breakout so I've quit using makeup once more and my skin has started clearing again. Phew! It's annoying though because for those few days wearing makeup I looked and felt normal again, like the old me.
My skin has been clearing nicely over the last 8 weeks until last week when I thought the time was right to start wearing makeup again (I wore Vichy Dermablend foundation 2 days, Dalton concealer as foundation 1 day and Almay Clear Complexion foundation 1 day). Then I noticed I was getting new spots and bumps which were sore. I'm pretty sure it was the makeup that made my skin breakout so I've quit using makeup once more and my skin has started clearing again. Phew! It's annoying though because for those few days wearing makeup I looked and felt normal again, like the old me.
You might just have to find the right makeup for you. I've noticed this certain liquid foundation makes me breakout more but the current concealer+powder foundation combination I use doesn't.
My skin has been clearing nicely over the last 8 weeks until last week when I thought the time was right to start wearing makeup again (I wore Vichy Dermablend foundation 2 days, Dalton concealer as foundation 1 day and Almay Clear Complexion foundation 1 day). Then I noticed I was getting new spots and bumps which were sore. I'm pretty sure it was the makeup that made my skin breakout so I've quit using makeup once more and my skin has started clearing again. Phew! It's annoying though because for those few days wearing makeup I looked and felt normal again, like the old me.
You might just have to find the right makeup for you. I've noticed this certain liquid foundation makes me breakout more but the current concealer+powder foundation combination I use doesn't.
Yea you're probably right, I only tried the Almay Clear Complexion once so I'll try that again once my skin is settled. It's just a case of trial and error. Which powder founation/concealer are you using?
No new pimples yet. I bet I will break out soon because college started so I am gonna be stressful. Especially when the teacher said the first 2 exams are the hardest. I gotta study and study. I'm happy with my skin though, but these dark marks are taking a while to heal. They have improved though.
Really good but i'm afraid b/c I feel like I just woke up from a long and terrible nightmare, only worried that I might slip back into it again. But overall, things are looking really good. Really hoping that this continues... feels like a dream coming true. crazy.
Feeling great! Went fishing tonight and caught a big ass striped bass. Talked it up with everyone on the boat, saw my skin in the mirror in the bathroom and I had to smile. My skin is no joke, 90% clear. I'm lovin it. Thanks to tuffluck for finding this cure. Youre the man!
I go home on Monday and I'm really excited!
I would classify today as "okay." I do have a new blemish right on the side of my nose. It looks like it might become medium-sized. I used one of those biore pore strips the other night to clean some of the blackheads from my nose, and I think that might be what irritated my skin and caused the pimple. It seems like whenever I do use one of those strips (which is rarely) a few days later I'll get a pimple on my nose.