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My skin just looks like utter bullshit. Redness/pinkness all over my cheecks because of accutane and having tons of tiny tiny breakouts, whiteheads and some inflammated. I've never even hade whiteheads before.... Can't shave because skin is too thin/fragile and can't apply anything for the same reason and the redness ofcourse. Anybody have any tips?
Also, how long is the delay from diet-related breakouts?
*sigh*
Ugh... how annoying! Right on the bridge of my nose, between my eyebrows, I have a very red, very noticeable, painful bump. And it's been like that for the last 2 days at least - it won't come to a head - it's just sitting under the skin. I have other acne and similar red/noticeable ones on one temple but they don't bother me as much because they can be hidden if I wear my hear down. Everything looked like it was calming down a bit after I did the mask yesterday but I guess it was temporary. I'm just hoping my skin will look a bit nicer by the time I start back at uni again next week. Wishful thinking...
Also annoyed that I can't seem to get this 'de la cruz' sulfur cream I've been wanting to try. I can only find it online but the price of shipping on amazon,from the stores that ship to Australia, isn't worth it! Hopefully I can find it somewhere else - ebay maybe.. because I really want to try it out. I've heard a lot of good things about it.
Hope things start looking up skin-wise for us all soon! Hang in there everyone...
I started back on the regimen today. Hopefully it gets my skin under control. My new plan is to do the regimen only, be super gentle and "by the books" for a while using something that has worked in the past (or at least got my acne to about 80-90% better) versus continue on this rollercoaster of the unknown. It seems that the weekly chem peels are too harsh while using the benzoyl peroxide, so hopefully after using the BP for a while I will be clear and then slowly ease back the amount of BP I use and begin to do chemical peels again. Maybe I can get my body in a better place and fix my hormones by then, although I have no idea how I would do that.
I started back on the regimen today. Hopefully it gets my skin under control. My new plan is to do the regimen only, be super gentle and "by the books" for a while using something that has worked in the past (or at least got my acne to about 80-90% better) versus continue on this rollercoaster of the unknown. It seems that the weekly chem peels are too harsh while using the benzoyl peroxide, so hopefully after using the BP for a while I will be clear and then slowly ease back the amount of BP I use and begin to do chemical peels again. Maybe I can get my body in a better place and fix my hormones by then, although I have no idea how I would do that.
Best of luck. Dan's BP worked amazingly for me for a couple years, then my face decided to get extremely sensitive to BP this past fall. Sigh
I started back on the regimen today. Hopefully it gets my skin under control. My new plan is to do the regimen only, be super gentle and "by the books" for a while using something that has worked in the past (or at least got my acne to about 80-90% better) versus continue on this rollercoaster of the unknown. It seems that the weekly chem peels are too harsh while using the benzoyl peroxide, so hopefully after using the BP for a while I will be clear and then slowly ease back the amount of BP I use and begin to do chemical peels again. Maybe I can get my body in a better place and fix my hormones by then, although I have no idea how I would do that.
Good luck! Hope it works out well for you 
Got two pimples on my jawline. One of them is so far back you can barely see it unless my hair is up, and one is right near my chin. Not too bad though because they popped quickly and are now on their way to healing, although they're red. :/ I still get self conscious about even one or two spots, and I haven't gotten a real pimple in a while, either. I'm almost certain this is because of my period. I should just be grateful that my acne isn't worse, because I see people with worse skin than me everyday who don't seem to be bothered, or at least don't let it affect their lives so much. There's a lot of things to be grateful for, I just need to remind myself of them. And in the mean time I have my makeup, haha.
The good news is, I was thinking about some of my past relationships today. The last guy I was with had mild - moderate acne, nothing too bad but once in a while he'd get a big pimple. And I realized to myself that I didn't care, because I had liked him so much. To me, I didn't give a damn if his skin was perfect or had pimples. And I realize now that it's the same with other people - if they really care about you, like you for who you are, they won't care if you have pimples or not. This guy was still as attractive to me with pimples as he was without them. I don't know. It just makes me happy to think about that.
I'm feeling iffy about my skin. It's really broken out, but in a weird way? Five or six painful pimples of the exact same size and type, all over my face. They aren't the normal weird pustules or the giant cysts I get though. They are just small, dark red, normal-sized pimples that are very red and painful.
I don't know if this is some purging process from the BP (can't remember if I had an initial breakout before) or if I just drank too much caffeine the other day or what.
I did my first full application of BP last night. A full finger's worth, all over my face. They talk about how you have to work up to using that much or your skin will get very red and dry, but my skin just soaked it up, no problems. I honestly think that when I got my skin "used" to doing BP the first time I did the regimen, I changed it permanantly. 
Because it never went back and got "un-used" to the BP and became normal skin. It seems like it needs BP to function and this is a very depressing thought... but I figure life is too short and as long as I can get clear skin (PRAYING) then I'll be addicted to a medicine if I have to.
My biggest fear is that BP won't work either.
Not good. Haven't been feeling the best today. I can feel a lot of bumps under the skin on my jaw and sides of my face - can't see all of them but I can feel them. Pretty hard and I think they'll take a while to go away. I doubt they'll surface or come to a head. At least the bothersome spot in between my eyebrows is calming down a little. I hope it's gone by Monday and that everything else is calmer by then too...
This is day 3 with no caffeine (again). The last bad breakout I had was on a day I had green tea, and considering the severely painful cyst that appeared within minutes of having coffee last week, I really can't deny the connection anymore. But it's so hard because there are times I can drink *some* caffeine and it doesn't trigger a breakout. My new theory is that it's a threshold thing. There's some sort of threshold and once I go over it, I break out. But a lot of different things can push me there, such as stress, lack of sleep, too much bad foods, too much caffeine, my hormones flaring due to my cycle. Sometimes, when I'm doing well enough, I can handle a cup of coffee and it doesn't push me over the threshold into inflammatory breakout land...but other times...
I think this is why it's so confusing and so hard to tell what is causing our acne. So just for experiment's sake, I'm going to go without caffeine for a little while and drink some again on a day when I'm feeling un-stressed and my hormones aren't surging, and see what happens. I don't think I have an actual allergy to caffeine or I would probably break out every time. It's likely more of an acidity/harshness to my stomach sort of deal.
Instead of coffee I've been drinking hot blackstrap mollasses every morning. I can't tell whether it's good or bad for my acne, but it has a ton of nutrients and is supposed to help with your feminine cycle, so I'm trying it out.
I was able to order the sulfur ointment so I'm looking forward to trying it whenever it arrives. That's about where the 'good' ends though... I'm not feeling great today. I've put makeup on today after a few weeks of not wearing it and it's just depressing. Because I'm quite pale, it's hard to find any makeup that matches my skin. I find with pale foundations they're often in a thin formula / are a lighter coverage so they don't really cover much for me. Or foundations that are fuller coverage, but even their lightest shade isn't right, I can only use a little of or it looks obvious that it doesn't match my skin etc. So I usually have to mix the two. It makes it better than no makeup but it's still obvious that I have red marks (hyperpigmentation /scarring) and acne (though I don't expect makeup to hide actual active acne - it would be nice if I could manage to hide hyperpigmentation)
So I don't feel good about myself or how I look today. But this is how it is anytime I wear makeup - but for some reason it's getting to me more today... And I need to go get a few things for uni - the last thing I want to do is be out in public today but I can't avoid it.
Just have to try and forget about it and get on with the day - Just keep on keeping on...
Well i'm still just siting at my house waiting for one more scab to go away after that i will be satisfied with the way i'll look. my face has improved over this 2 month's i'm hoping i wont get any new serious breakout... i might just finally be over over with this nightmare, my fingers are crossed.
