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My skin has honestly been doing great for the past few weeks. I have gotten no 'real' zits, just a few tiny clogged pores that go away within the next day. I'm not sure if the Solodyn has finally started to kick in or if it's the Tria Blue Light therapy that I started. I've been using the Blue Light every night and I have to say I like it!
Still dealing with some of the emotional aftermath; for ex one of the first things I do in the morning is turn on my light and inspect my face for any new pimples. It's bad, and I know I need to stop.
Oh, and also, this is random but I need advice. I'm considering getting a small tattoo in script on the inside of my wrist. It would be coverable by a watch or big bracelet. But I'm just wondering, do you guys think this could seriously impact my job prospects? I don't want to get something that will make people not want to hire me.
I want to get 2 words from a Beatles song that is very dear to me.
All I can say is that I would never work anywhere that wouldn't hire me because of tattoos. Obviously it depends on what you want to do. But I won't allow anyone to try to control what I do with my body like that. So I say screw it, get the tattoo if you want it! It's your body.
I've been using the regimen since the very end of November. December was hell. First week my skin was dry and I only used a small dot of bp. I also broke out in small white heads all over my cheaks. The second week I cut out the bp to help with the dryness but then week 3 and 4 I broke out with the most horrible cyst. I had 3 cyst on my face. I normally only get one cyst every 6 months to a year. First week of January I was still recovering from the breakouts so i added bp again. These week and last week I have been using more bp. A lot more and I have not experienced any dryness what so ever. My skin is so clear right now. No active breakouts. The regimen is actually working on me now that I'm using bp. It was he'll at first but now I'm berry happy. Now I'm left trying to figure out how to help fade the red marks left over. Any tips? An advice on products?
I feel terrible. Not really because of my acne, but because of lack of support from those, who are supposed to be there for you, when you really need. I am often trying out new things and diets in order to improve my health and skin. But whenever I talk to my boyfriend about it and tells me that I have not enough of problems in life so I create them by myself. He denies I have acne and calls me sick or crazy, when I mention it. He didn't know me at the time I had severe acne now I have it significantly better of course, but I still get breakouts and it hurts my whole cheek because of few bumps and I want to research on that. I get 0 support from him and now, when I decided to go on low carb diet, he tries to persuade me to eat white bread or rice, and calls me sick, if I don't. That brings me down much more than acne itself which I only see as an annoying thing I will calmly get rid of. It's cool he doesn't bother about it, but it would be nice to get some support from him - it's a subject I really care about... 
I feel terrible. Not really because of my acne, but because of lack of support from those, who are supposed to be there for you, when you really need. I am often trying out new things and diets in order to improve my health and skin. But whenever I talk to my boyfriend about it and tells me that I have not enough of problems in life so I create them by myself. He denies I have acne and calls me sick or crazy, when I mention it. He didn't know me at the time I had severe acne now I have it significantly better of course, but I still get breakouts and it hurts my whole cheek because of few bumps and I want to research on that. I get 0 support from him and now, when I decided to go on low carb diet, he tries to persuade me to eat white bread or rice, and calls me sick, if I don't. That brings me down much more than acne itself which I only see as an annoying thing I will calmly get rid of. It's cool he doesn't bother about it, but it would be nice to get some support from him - it's a subject I really care about...
I'm sorry. I know how frustrating that can be. My boyfriend doesn't call me sick or anything but sometimes I can tell he is tired of my BDD issues and distress over my skin. He tries so hard to be supportive and I hate to see myself draining him.
Your man probably doesn't know how to help you emotionally so he just tries to encourage you not to worry about it. They don't understand that we can't help but think about it.
Not too bad, it's deceptively calm. I'm now on treatment but who knows if it's this or a fluke. I don't get my hopes up these days.
I guess the worst part is the amount of pain we go through, every single day.
Whether we take medication that ultimately damages our bodies because let's face it - there's always a trade off with medicine, whatever it might be. From antibiotics to hormones to Roaccutane. These will all damage us, might not even work, but what's the alternative?
Or we have to go through the mental pain, so much so that we have to try and force ourselves to think differently just to get through a day.
The things we lose, the time that's lost and cannot be brought back.
It's an endless revolving vortex that revolves constantly ever draining our resolve, the fight is never over. It's always there and when it's not we live in fear it will remerge from nowhere.
I'm so tired of this. I just wish it would end. Hell, I wish acne was a life threatening disease so there would be more urgency to find safer and more effective treatments. There has to be a better way... this disease is so common and has been with us for thousands of years...there has to be some way.
Not too bad, it's deceptively calm. I'm now on treatment but who knows if it's this or a fluke. I don't get my hopes up these days.
I guess the worst part is the amount of pain we go through, every single day.
Whether we take medication that ultimately damages our bodies because let's face it - there's always a trade off with medicine, whatever it might be. From antibiotics to hormones to Roaccutane. These will all damage us, might not even work, but what's the alternative?
Or we have to go through the mental pain, so much so that we have to try and force ourselves to think differently just to get through a day.
The things we lose, the time that's lost and cannot be brought back.
It's an endless revolving vortex that revolves constantly ever draining our resolve, the fight is never over. It's always there and when it's not we live in fear it will remerge from nowhere.
I'm so tired of this. I just wish it would end. Hell, I wish acne was a life threatening disease so there would be more urgency to find safer and more effective treatments. There has to be a better way... this disease is so common and has been with us for thousands of years...there has to be some way.
I think acne is an urgency in a way. It's a symptom of something serious that will sooner or later catch up with us, so Accutane and antibiotics is just a temporary fix, targeting the wrong problem... I was on the edge of deciding to take it, thinking, that after 10 years of acne it's high time to get on something that would let me finally have a smooth face, but then again - I'm so afraid to suffer from the consequences of such an aggressive treatment. It feels like it's an illusion that will be given to us, to have few happy years and then we'll be facing something much deeper and more life-threatening.
I think acne is not a disease, it's just a life saving mechanism, that our body turns on - "look, you're doing it wrong! Maybe if i give you these spots you'll finally understand that your ways of living are killing me??" or that's how I imagine. 
Feeling super! No active pimples. I haven't gotten any break out for weeks now. I started using Derma roller 1.0 mm for my acne scars and will soon order a 2.0 mm. So far, I see improvements. I will be very happy if I can get rid of scars with derma roller. I don't want to do Chemical peeling or laser treatments. I've heard that the Derma roller works better than Chemical peeling which is great.
I haven't had dairy in a few days and my skin is significantly less inflamed. So I guess my eating disordered mind was right: I can't have foods I enjoy.
I gave up dairy too (for the most part). I love cereal, so giving that up has been difficult. I do have ice cream on occasion, but in reality how much acutal dairy is in there? hah
I haven't had dairy in a few days and my skin is significantly less inflamed. So I guess my eating disordered mind was right: I can't have foods I enjoy.
You can enjoy healthy food. They are tasty and cleaner. lol So don't be upset! 
I haven't had dairy in a few days and my skin is significantly less inflamed. So I guess my eating disordered mind was right: I can't have foods I enjoy.
I gave up dairy too (for the most part). I love cereal, so giving that up has been difficult. I do have ice cream on occasion, but in reality how much acutal dairy is in there? hah
I tried dairy-free ice cream and it taste so-oh good!! They sell a lot of non-dairy ice cream. You can still enjoy your ice cream, if non-dairy You can also add non-dairy milk on cereal. I remember eating Ezekiel cereals with oat milk, I loved it! I just wish the ezekiel cereals were cheap
Feeling really good. I'm confident that this is the answer:
-B5 and L-cysteine
-No liquids 1 hour before or 3 hours after eating
-Positive thinking
-Sleeping well
-Water only, but also rubbing oil off face with fingers
My diet doesn't seem to matter much as long as I'm doing the above. I eat half a box of cookies every day, plus entire bags of chips some days. I do avoid dairy though.
Feeling really good. I'm confident that this is the answer:
-B5 and L-cysteine
-No liquids 1 hour before or 3 hours after eating
-Positive thinking
-Sleeping well
-Water only, but also rubbing oil off face with fingers
My diet doesn't seem to matter much as long as I'm doing the above. I eat half a box of cookies every day, plus entire bags of chips some days. I do avoid dairy though.
How are you going with b5?
I'm in week 7th and its going great no new pimples this week will see how week 8th goes.
I stayed at my friend's house over the weekend. Barely any sleep, forgot to take my skincare, walked everywhere in the freezing weather, lived off cake and junk food. Came home and my skin is the best it's been in forever and I've lost five pounds. This is confusing, in a good way.
Feeling really good. I'm confident that this is the answer:
-B5 and L-cysteine
-No liquids 1 hour before or 3 hours after eating
-Positive thinking
-Sleeping well
-Water only, but also rubbing oil off face with fingers
My diet doesn't seem to matter much as long as I'm doing the above. I eat half a box of cookies every day, plus entire bags of chips some days. I do avoid dairy though.
How are you going with b5?
I'm in week 7th and its going great no new pimples this week will see how week 8th goes.
Feeling really good. I'm confident that this is the answer:
-B5 and L-cysteine
-No liquids 1 hour before or 3 hours after eating
-Positive thinking
-Sleeping well
-Water only, but also rubbing oil off face with fingers
My diet doesn't seem to matter much as long as I'm doing the above. I eat half a box of cookies every day, plus entire bags of chips some days. I do avoid dairy though.
How are you going with b5?
I'm in week 7th and its going great no new pimples this week will see how week 8th goes.
Also try using a topical B5. Skinceuticals makes a high end b5 serum.
I'm feeling good! My skin is really really good right now. I'm on my third week of chemical peels and have been doing emotional work whenever I feel any rise in stress over my skin condition. Getting those energetic emotional toxins out of your body is SO important. I can't stress this enough!
My skin totally cleared at the end of the second week (about a week after my second peel). I'm not sure if this is because I stopped the cow dairy or because of the peel, but it was noticeable and instant. All pimples gone after about 4 days free of the dairy. Obviously the dairy wasn't the cause as I've been dairy free for 3 years before this period of trying new foods. But maybe the cow dairy is still too much for my system and I was on my way to healing but it bumped me back and slowed my progress a bit. I'm going to continue with small amounts of goat dairy and keep training my system to hopefully be able to digest it fine one day.
I also started using BB cream around the same time period and it definitely seems to do good things for my skin. So that might have something to do with my clearing also.
Im pretty darn annoyed deep down but weirdly enough am able to put these feelings behind me (maybe the Anti-depressants?) A huge whitehead on my chin burst this morning! I hate it when that happens! I also ate a bit too much last night (dairy actually - yummy yummy organic coconut yoghurt) so I kinda feel a bit shitty cos of this too...decided to just have my morning coffee, go for a long walk later (my usual Monday morning routine) fasting until about 12 and have some soup then.
I seem to have alot of these UNDER SKIN bumps on my forehead, they are colourless however I do still have alot of marks (HIP? or HPI? Im not sure) on my foreahd too and my cheeks. My most activ acne is actually around my chin, the bottom of it mainly, a few on each cheek near the hair line and next to my nose/middle of cheek, also some well a couple big ones on my forehead.
My period is actually MEANT to be due like this week so it could very well be because of this, this is probably why I am craving and binging too...who knows.
I am pretty excited for tomorrow though since I have ordered a food processor!! And Ive decided to start juicing and making ALL meals from scratch...so hopefully this new way of eating will help me too!
I stayed at my friend's house over the weekend. Barely any sleep, forgot to take my skincare, walked everywhere in the freezing weather, lived off cake and junk food. Came home and my skin is the best it's been in forever and I've lost five pounds. This is confusing, in a good way.
I always get soo nervous about staying at friends houses, I actually shy away from it..I think its because Im worried about how my skin will react to new bed covers and the awkwardness of doing my facial routines and stuff. Also the idea of eating different foods for breakfast since I don't know what they will have in their house. Im meant to be staying at a friends on the 12th of Feb for a night out in Glasgow but I am actually bricking it. :/
Sometimes I think though letting go for a bit is actually helpful to our skin, and metabolism funnily enough, after eating very well for a while a different way of eating seems to shock our bodies into burning more to get rid of the toxins..I think anyway, I have read alot about "firing-up" our metabolism by having a "cheat-day" or whatever...so maybe thats what happened 
I woke up and found out that my skin got even worse over the night. All the pimples on my jawline are inflamed now, and there are some new breakouts on my cheeks close to the ear. I feel so disappointed - I'm eating so healthy, avoiding possible irritants like dairy, wear no makeup at all, change my pillow case every night and still this happens. Some girls I know eat junk food, go to sleep with their makeup on and drink alcohol every weekend, and still has not a single pimple... How is that possible??
But, a good news are that I might have discovered a cause for my stomach problems. I suspect low stomach acid to be the problem! Yesterday I squeezed half a lemon into water and drank it together with my meals. My stomach feels better than ever!! I even woke up without feeling the bloating, which was a usually a part of my morning!!! I will go and buy betaine HCL and see how it will go. Maybe it will even help my acne??
Well according my face hasn't looked this well in years so that's a plus. i'm also trying to slowly go out into the world little by little to get my self in the habit of doing it. iv also received positive comment here on the org that's helped too thanks guys
Eh ! Have a cyst that's been lingering for 2 weeks now on my jawline . Tried popping it and failed ! So now it's angry at me haha ! Eff you cyst . I wish you could just die already haha ! And another pimple on my r/ t jawline by the chin area. It's not that big. But ehh whatever !
Skin's looking good. I think my routine of using my Clarisonic + Solodyn + Tria Blue Light + Epiduo every night is really doing good things for my skin! I have still gotten a few small pimples, but they're literally on their way to healing within a day or two. I feel pretty great looking in the mirror and seeing basically clear skin. Then, of course, I also feel scared, wondering if I'll have some sort of freak breakout...
The only thing bothering me now is I still have this 'OCD' about my skin. I have one small bump on the side of my forehead right now, and it's bothering me even though it's barely noticeable. I've tried popping it but all that came out was clear liquid + a bit of blood. It doesn't even really feel like a pimple, it's just...there. I think it's getting flatter by the day but I can't really tell because it's small in the first place. But the real worry is, why is this bothering me? Why am I feeling self conscious about one little pimple when I've walked around with huge cystic pimples before? It's bizarre. I'm still taking my Prozac every day, but I won't start therapy again until 3 weeks from now, possibly.
Walking around in public, though, I feel grateful that my skin is doing well right now. I have a lot of other stressors in my life right now and for once my skin is actually not one of them.
Oddly enough, i don't feel complete shit about my skin today. There hasn't even been a huge improvement either. Just concentrating on positivity and a healthy lifestyle has helped me emotionally and physically, plenty of energy, feel stronger. Things looking up *knock on wood*
