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I'm not posting every day about how miraculous B5 and ALCAR has been for me to brag. I just want to help. I want people to try it and have the same success as me. Seriously, it's been a week, even less since I introduced the ALCAR, and my acne is gone. No pimples. Normal levels of oil. Even the red marks I thought were scars are fading. I can barely even believe it myself. I do wish now that I took a "before" picture so I could prove it with an "after" picture.
So I think the reason it's working is because it's killing my candida. The whiteness on my tongue is gone, my eyes are less bloodshot. I have die-off symptoms: migraines, sore throat, slight fever. It could also be reducing sebum like everyone else says B5 does, but I don't think that's the entire story.
EDIT: It also must be doing something to speed up healing, or else I don't know how the red marks could be fading, just because sebum is reduced and candida is being killed off.
homepage of an internet search engine, Duchess of Cambridge spends 2nd day at hospital....
ok fine...you're definitely preggers...you're gonna have a royal baby....good for you!...that's about it for me.
coz' i don't wanna jinx the royal couple. i think the media should lay off of them.
putting that much pressure on a pregnant lady?... not good.
anyway..... i'm trying to wean my skin off of the usual cetaphil lotion i've been using....
opting for the organic aloe vera moisturizer i bought last week.... liking it soo far.... feels like a mini face lift after applying.....
anybody ever heard of these ingredients to be comedogenic?.... your insights would really mean a lot
pure aloe vera extract
lemongrass distillate
elemi oil
Today was both a bad and good day.
The bad: Period is late (I'm not worried-not pregnant lol) which is making me SO hormonal and acne is at its peak for the month which is highly unpleasant, sore, loads of painful cysts. Just bad, very bad.
The good: I added one of my "fear" foods back into my diet. By fear foods I mean a food that I developed a fear for without any good reason. One day I just convinced myself that chicken breaks me out. I do have some legitimate serious food allergies and that was something that really scared me and trained me to be terrified of food. But it's just grown and grown in my mind into this unhealthy monster... I guess some might call that orthorexia. I just keep restricting and restricting, trying to help my skin, convincing myself that more and more foods were killing me slowly. I got scared I was going to get to the point where there was nothing left.
Today I ate a whole small plate of my boyfriend's fried chicken (no breading) and it was so delicious. I told myself "do not fear this, you won't get cystic acne from eating chicken," and then I deep breathed and let it go and just ate. It was amazing.
I know it sounds weird to be so damn proud of myself for eating chicken, but if you could see how fucked up my mind has become, you'd understand what a huge step in the right direction this is for me. I'm going to stick to this no-sugar thing for a little while longer and then add fruit and honey back in too. At some point when i feel ready, I may even try a small serving of rice. Not because I think grains are great, but just because I want to believe I CAN digest them and be okay if I only eat them here and there.
I feel kind of embarrassed about my behavior at times on this forum. Looking back at some of my posts, it seems obvious to me now that I was developing some type of eating disorder. 
I talked down to people over diet like I was superior because I liked the way my ultra-restricted diet made me feel powerful and in control when inside I was dying and miserable. I am sorry for that. I am going to be working to change my mentality about food and view it in a more healthy balanced way. Of course I am never going to eat things I am violently allergic to, like gluten. But I am going to work on relaxing and believing that my body is capable of handling more foods and that foods are not poison or something to fear.
I'm just glad I started trying to turn this around before I got really out of control and began eating nothing but lettuce and water.
Ps. Thanks for letting me share this stuff here. This is one of the only places I feel safe to just say ANYTHING, you know? I really do love you all.
I'm not posting every day about how miraculous B5 and ALCAR has been for me to brag. I just want to help. I want people to try it and have the same success as me. Seriously, it's been a week, even less since I introduced the ALCAR, and my acne is gone. No pimples. Normal levels of oil. Even the red marks I thought were scars are fading. I can barely even believe it myself. I do wish now that I took a "before" picture so I could prove it with an "after" picture.
So I think the reason it's working is because it's killing my candida. The whiteness on my tongue is gone, my eyes are less bloodshot. I have die-off symptoms: migraines, sore throat, slight fever. It could also be reducing sebum like everyone else says B5 does, but I don't think that's the entire story.
EDIT: It also must be doing something to speed up healing, or else I don't know how the red marks could be fading, just because sebum is reduced and candida is being killed off.
After hearing these results and reading other really positive stories about ALCAR, I just ordered some online. It was really affordable so I figure it's worth a try. I take creatine already to support my weight lifting regimen...do you know if it's okay to take ALCAR and Creatine at the same time? (like ALCAR in the morning, creatine at night after a work out)
Feeling OK! I tried not to stress at all .. I had an exam today and I've been sick last week.. so I couldn't study at all and I missed two lectures which is important to go since she always tell us what to study.. AT least I didn't stress big time.... I want a B for the course, I might end up with a C+ or -B, it depends how I did for this exam. We'll see... if I got a 40-50... screwed.. lol
My skin is doing OK since I tried not to stress. I am not breaking out at all.
Good and bad
The random whiteheads that appeared about 4 days ago are healing nicely so thats nice
The bad is that i'm still super shy around girls because of my acne marks. Anyways the girl i like was just ahead of me on the way back from school talking to nobody. I really wanted to talk to her, but just couldn't find the confidence
It sucks how she is loud and funny around other guys, but around me she is SO quiet.
I get the feeling she doesn't even want to talk to me...
I'm sorry. Remember that this is only a moment and things could change at any time.
Me:
Feeling okay. I think I got some answers about some things I was doing wrong with my healing routine. Today was my first day back at my cleaning job. The bathroom mirrors were horrifying. Most of them weren't TOO much worse than the ones at my house but...this one...I don't know what type of light this is, but it should be BANNED. It brings out every bit of redness in the skin. Every scar that is normally light brown and hardly noticeable in the sunlight was BRIGHT red under this light. My entire chin looked red and inflamed. It was horrible, I don't even know how I survived it.
Luckily we don't clean that house again until two weeks from now, and I'm hoping and praying my skin will be healed enough for it to be bearable by then...
Today was both a bad and good day.
The bad: Period is late (I'm not worried-not pregnant lol) which is making me SO hormonal and acne is at its peak for the month which is highly unpleasant, sore, loads of painful cysts. Just bad, very bad.
The good: I added one of my "fear" foods back into my diet. By fear foods I mean a food that I developed a fear for without any good reason. One day I just convinced myself that chicken breaks me out. I do have some legitimate serious food allergies and that was something that really scared me and trained me to be terrified of food. But it's just grown and grown in my mind into this unhealthy monster... I guess some might call that orthorexia. I just keep restricting and restricting, trying to help my skin, convincing myself that more and more foods were killing me slowly. I got scared I was going to get to the point where there was nothing left.
Today I ate a whole small plate of my boyfriend's fried chicken (no breading) and it was so delicious. I told myself "do not fear this, you won't get cystic acne from eating chicken," and then I deep breathed and let it go and just ate. It was amazing.
I know it sounds weird to be so damn proud of myself for eating chicken, but if you could see how fucked up my mind has become, you'd understand what a huge step in the right direction this is for me. I'm going to stick to this no-sugar thing for a little while longer and then add fruit and honey back in too. At some point when i feel ready, I may even try a small serving of rice. Not because I think grains are great, but just because I want to believe I CAN digest them and be okay if I only eat them here and there.
I feel kind of embarrassed about my behavior at times on this forum. Looking back at some of my posts, it seems obvious to me now that I was developing some type of eating disorder.
I talked down to people over diet like I was superior because I liked the way my ultra-restricted diet made me feel powerful and in control when inside I was dying and miserable. I am sorry for that. I am going to be working to change my mentality about food and view it in a more healthy balanced way. Of course I am never going to eat things I am violently allergic to, like gluten. But I am going to work on relaxing and believing that my body is capable of handling more foods and that foods are not poison or something to fear.
I'm just glad I started trying to turn this around before I got really out of control and began eating nothing but lettuce and water.
Ps. Thanks for letting me share this stuff here. This is one of the only places I feel safe to just say ANYTHING, you know? I really do love you all.
Dejaclairevoyant, your comment about the fried chicken does not seem messed up to me - it is exactly the sort of thing that I do.
I have posted on these forums before about my fears about eating certain foods - here is the link http://www.acne.org/messageboard/index.php/topic/322891-diet/ . I think it originated from back when I had really bad acne and eliminating all dairy and as much refined sugar from my diet as possible may have gone some way towards diminishing the severity of my acne. The problem is that since then I have developed a real phobia about certain foods that may trigger a breakout. Up until recently though, the obsession had got so bad that even the consequences of eating a fucking digestive biscuit would worry me to death (sorry for the language).
Anyway in recent weeks in consultation with the counsellor that I see and as a kind of precursor to the CBT I`m going to be having in the near future, I have tried to challenge my way of thinking by introducing different meals and beverages into my diet. I have had fish and chips on a couple of occasions and had a roast dinner at my sister`s on Sunday. In addition, I have been having the occasional takeaway cappucino. As pathetic as it sounds, I`m proud of myself for having these different meals and drinks. What`s more, although I have one or two spots at the moment, my skin isn`t any worse than when I was denying myself.
If you have a medically proven food allergy then by all means, eliminate the culprit food or beverage from your diet. However in my case I have no proven food allergies and have just been making myself miserable by denying myself. I will never stuff my face with cakes and biscuits and live on takeaways but I hope from here on in that I will be able to have the occasional treat without fearing what it may or may not do to my skin.
It's going to be something we just have to keep working on--getting that fear out of our minds. This has been building inside of me for so long. And some of the things have caused breakouts--but I'm not sure anymore if the stress and worry while eating could have caused them in some cases, you know?
On 12/7/2012 at 6:54 AM, dejaclairevoyant said:It's going to be something we just have to keep working on--getting that fear out of our minds. This has been building inside of me for so long. And some of the things have caused breakouts--but I'm not sure anymore if the stress and worry while eating could have caused them in some cases, you know?
Good point about the stress and worry - may be more of a problem than the eating itself in some instances. It`s hard when a belief has become so ingrained but I do feel the only way to overcome it is by challenging ourselves to eat a certain food, drink or meal that we have become fearful of. It`s an ongoing process.
By the way, I really appreciate being able to post this sort of stuff on this forum and be comfortable that no one is going to judge me. If I was to mention at my place of work for instance that I`m not eating a jam doughnut because I don`t want to aggravate my skin, everyone would think I was totally bonkers! Thank you everyone.
I went to go get a hair cut today. Well we all know what that's like. Terrible but it had to be done. Now that I finished my semester of school I'm gonna start focusing more on my diet and exercise. And work i guess. I still get pimples here and there but not anything severe so let's hope this diet thing helps. Everyone hang in there
My acne wasn't any worse today than yesterday, but today was a bad day because we had a new house to clean and guess what? Yup. Another NIGHTMARE BATHROOM with those fluorescent, red-enhancing lights. It's truly terrifying. Before cleaning other people's houses I had never been exposed to these lights. It's like they make your skin see-through and you can see every single bit of blood in your face. They even make deep, under-the-skin cysts that aren't inflamed or surfacing let look bright red. I don't see how it's possible.
I tried not to look at it, but it was so hard not to. I started having a panic attack again, wondering how the girls I work with could stand to look at me.
it sucks. I never feel great to look in the mirror, but getting through these moments at work is my biggest challenge right now.
Having a pretty bad day. This might be TMI for some of you but I have to vent somewhere because I can't talk to my parents or friends..
My skin's been doing alright as of late, some pimples here and there but nothing too bad. My left side of my face has some bad marks but they're lightening up more and more. Now, this morning, because of an incident last night I had to take Plan B....aka the morning after pill. The chances of me getting pregnant were very unlikely but I decided I wanted to take it anyway. I'm not feeling any side effects right now but out of curiosity I Googled whether or not Plan B can cause acne. To my horror, there seems to be a lot of reports of people getting BAD acne after taking Plan B. I'm so scared right now. I already went through a horrible breakout last year and it pretty much traumatized me in terms of my skin. My skin is my biggest insecurity, and now I'm so scared as to what Plan B might do to it. Worst of all, I can't talk to my parents about this because I don't want them to know I had sex. It wasn't with a random guy or anything but it was basically with an ex who they don't like. I can't talk to anyone about this, and I feel so scared and stressed. I'm hoping to God that my skin doesn't respond too badly, but who knows? I know I needed to take the Plan B but I'm just so sad now all I want to do is cry.
Yeah it gave me really bad acne. It also made me feel sick for a few weeks, but that's just me. I react terribly to anything that messes with my hormones (including regular BC pills).
Not trying to scare you, but I think that stuff is evil. That said, whatever it does to you, you'll recover. Just take really good care of your body.
Just curious, why would you take it if the chances were unlikely? I'm sorry you're stressing...
Yeah it gave me really bad acne. It also made me feel sick for a few weeks, but that's just me. I react terribly to anything that messes with my hormones (including regular BC pills).
Not trying to scare you, but I think that stuff is evil. That said, whatever it does to you, you'll recover. Just take really good care of your body.
Just curious, why would you take it if the chances were unlikely?
The condom broke and even though it was the last day of my period I just wanted to get it to be sure. I didn't think about the side effects until after I took it. It doesn't list acne as a common side effect, and it seems to be 50/50 in that some people break out after it, some people don't....
I guess possibly getting a breakout is much better than an unwanted pregnancy, though. I just really hope my skin doesn't freak out. I'm taking antibiotics and using topical gel at night so maybe that will counteract any of the side effects. As of right now, I haven't felt naseous or dizzy or anything.