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I give up.
*hug* I'm sorry things are hard right now. Or for a while now. I understand.
Things are going okay for me. I've still been beating back my eating disorder issues. Yesterday I walked from my office to my kitchen and back about 8 times, debating eating some of the gluten/soy free chocolate that my boyfriend bought. It had been about 2 years since I had touched "processed" chocolate, as in, chocolate that isn't 100% raw/organic that I made from scratch myself. It would be so damn nice to just, you know, EAT CHOCOLATE like a regular person, but I was so scared. I used to love this brand of chocolate but stopped eating it because I convinced myself it was bad for leaky gut.
On like, the 8th trip back to the kitchen I said FUCK IT and ate some chocolate. 
Nothing bad happened. A bit of a new breakout today but I also said FUCK IT another time yesterday and had some caffeine, plus I'm ovulating, so there you go.
Jesus, I am way too personal on here but who cares, lol.
I feel like the regimen is healing my skin. I'm 2 weeks in, today. But I won't start my official progress logs until I get my official regimen products. I can't technically claim I'm doing the regimen right since I'm still using irritating soap and nothing but oil for moisture. *sigh* These things are taking forever to ship but I'm trying to be patient. It's good to see how much it's helped my skin already.
You have got to be kidding me!! So finally the sulfur ointment I ordered has arrived - but no, if that was it, that would be too easy! - I have to get the one with the container that somehow split and now the product is everywhere in the plastic bag it was sent in. Just a plastic bag and paper envelope. So it's a mess and I can't use it. I'll have to get in touch with the seller... hopefully they can work something out for me. I'm really annoyed with it arriving like that because I was really wanting to try it out!! And I need something - because even in the last day my skin has gotten a whole lot worse - especially my forehead. I had a bit of a breakdown too the other night... started picking at my skin again and couldn't stop thinking so negatively about myself (I guess the positive self-affirming stuff a few days ago was just a lucky/good day). So yeah... not a great day...
Kind of breaking out this week :/ Right now have two active pimples and three recently popped ones. Thankfully most of them are small except for the ones I was rather aggressive with popping. Now I have two red marks there :/ One of them on my jaw is really, really painful - hope it goes soon.
I'm starting to think dramatic changes in weather/humidity/etc have an effect on my skin. Whenever I change climates, it seems like my skin breaks out. For instance, I went from down South to much colder up North. My face and hands feel drier, and I've gotten more pimples this week than I usually do.
So I'm just still using the normal treatments. I switched from Solodyn to generic Mino because Solodyn was $1,300 per bottle - no joke! - and my new insurance didn't want to pay for it. Don't blame them. I can't imagine that switching to generic Mino would give me any kind of breakout, though, right?
Used the Desitin on my face tonight - hopefully it'll calm down some of this breakout....I just hope when I get back to school everything's normal again. But, I really am trying to not let any of it bother me. I'm reminding myself that I'm human and I'm not perfect. No one is. And this breakout will calm down and go away just like all the others. The good thing is, my right side of my face doesn't break out at all, and nor does my forehead. Only my left cheek/jaw does. Weird!
Waiting for saw palmetto supplements to be delivered, should be here by the end of the week or earlier.
My forehead got covered by very small red bumps as soon as I stopped taking probiotics. Problems with stomach came back right away too. Small uninflammed pimple on my cheek turned into a huge cyst filled with puss underneath. As soon as it got softer after exfoliation I popped the puss out and it was bleeding like crazy. Now the blood underneath the skin turned black and it looks awfully visible. Crap. 
My face is breaking the fuck out. Holy shit. It was kinda smooth 2 weeks ago now my forehead is awful, i have 2 big cysts on my right cheek, and i look red af all over. Worst my skin has looked in a while
Sorry my friend. I know how it is. Sooo frustrating.
You have got to be kidding me!! So finally the sulfur ointment I ordered has arrived - but no, if that was it, that would be too easy! - I have to get the one with the container that somehow split and now the product is everywhere in the plastic bag it was sent in. Just a plastic bag and paper envelope. So it's a mess and I can't use it. I'll have to get in touch with the seller... hopefully they can work something out for me. I'm really annoyed with it arriving like that because I was really wanting to try it out!! And I need something - because even in the last day my skin has gotten a whole lot worse - especially my forehead. I had a bit of a breakdown too the other night... started picking at my skin again and couldn't stop thinking so negatively about myself (I guess the positive self-affirming stuff a few days ago was just a lucky/good day). So yeah... not a great day...
That really sucks. I wonder if you could return it and ask for a product that is actually packaged correctly for shipping. You shouldn't have to pay for that!
Dans regimen how I love you <3 ! Lifesaver !
I have a dime size cyst on my right temple. I have not broken out on my temples in 3 months .
I'm content w/my skin !
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I've been watching your progress for a while now and you have given me hope that the regimen is going to help me this time around as much as it did the last two times. Good luck with your continued progress.
Kind of breaking out this week :/ Right now have two active pimples and three recently popped ones. Thankfully most of them are small except for the ones I was rather aggressive with popping. Now I have two red marks there :/ One of them on my jaw is really, really painful - hope it goes soon.
I'm starting to think dramatic changes in weather/humidity/etc have an effect on my skin. Whenever I change climates, it seems like my skin breaks out. For instance, I went from down South to much colder up North. My face and hands feel drier, and I've gotten more pimples this week than I usually do.
So I'm just still using the normal treatments. I switched from Solodyn to generic Mino because Solodyn was $1,300 per bottle - no joke! - and my new insurance didn't want to pay for it. Don't blame them. I can't imagine that switching to generic Mino would give me any kind of breakout, though, right?
Used the Desitin on my face tonight - hopefully it'll calm down some of this breakout....I just hope when I get back to school everything's normal again. But, I really am trying to not let any of it bother me. I'm reminding myself that I'm human and I'm not perfect. No one is. And this breakout will calm down and go away just like all the others. The good thing is, my right side of my face doesn't break out at all, and nor does my forehead. Only my left cheek/jaw does. Weird!
Sorry about the breakout.
Waiting for saw palmetto supplements to be delivered, should be here by the end of the week or earlier.
My forehead got covered by very small red bumps as soon as I stopped taking probiotics. Problems with stomach came back right away too. Small uninflammed pimple on my cheek turned into a huge cyst filled with puss underneath. As soon as it got softer after exfoliation I popped the puss out and it was bleeding like crazy. Now the blood underneath the skin turned black and it looks awfully visible. Crap.
How weird. I swear, probiotics make me so much worse. I've stopped eating/taking them recently and have gotten far less new spots than before. I am doing the regimen, but I am still getting breakouts every day I eat ANYTHING probiotic despite the medication. I don't understand why they are so bad for me.
Yeah I'm 2 weeks in but "officially" starting my regimen today, as my products just arrived in the mail a few minutes ago! Woo hoo!
Yay! Good luck with it - follow it 'to a T' so you really know how it goes for you
and thanks - yeah it does suck. Still waiting to hear back from the seller but I hope she's reasonable and can exchange it for one that is packaged better
I was feeling depressed about my skin lately. Today my skin felt like it was cracking, and I have been getting some spontaneous scarring in places that have no acne. Anyway, I was feeling miserable until I walked by a girl who had a leg impediment and couldn't walk straight. She was limping but she had a smile on her face. That put everything into perspective for me, and I felt instantly thankful for all the positive things in my life. On my way home, I walked past a homeless man sleeping on a bench in the cold. Another wake up call to feel grateful for everything I have, and not get fixated on what I don't have (clear skin) because some people have less and are still content with their lives.
Yesterday I sat in train together with my boyfriend when another couple sat themselves right in front of us. I'm used to communicating in English with my bf, so the dumbass girl assumed we are foreigners and don't understand any Swedish. She whispered to her guy: "Look at her cheek". I looked at her and demonstratively pulled my scarf on the cheek, but she didn't seem to be ashamed, her guy grinned at me.
Later in the night we came back home and I saw that I have a giant hole on my cheek (didn't check myself in a mirror throughout the whole day). I have recently had a new cyst right next to a deep scar left by another cyst a year ago. After popping that new one it formed a scar during one day (WTF??) and joing the old scar into one huge deep scar.... (((((( I just want to cry.
Breakout has calmed down! My left cheek looks pretty good right now. The one small zit that showed up yesterday was ready to be popped within a day, so now it's gone. And the two PIH marks from past pimples this week don't look very dark at all. The only zit right now is this stupid painful one on my right jaw. Thankfully it's not huge, and it's not in a noticeable place, but it hurts a lot. I tried to pop it last night and some stuff came out, but it's still a bump/painful today :/ I just iced it and it feels a bit better. I just hope it goes away soon. But I'm trying not to worry about it. I don't think it's a cyst because it's not that hard and it formed a head last night, so yeah. Maybe it'll form another head again soon and then it'll go away once and for all.
I still have acne here and there but school and work really keep my mind at peace . They both coexist In harmony for me
Trying to focus more on what's important . For example, like living in the moment. I realized that my acne will take years to subside and my face will take some years as well to heal from the cystic acne damage, but that doesn't mean I will hibernate, seclude myself an isolate myself. I have to explore the platitudes, the sorrow and the warmth of the sun . I laugh at the face of acne because it hasn't defeated me . NEVER WILL.
I'm starting to see some major improvements. Skin is getting smoother, and when I do get active stuff, it seems to be fairly small. I'm wondering if it's due to this new cleanser I'm trying out. For a few years I washed my face with just strictly water because I heard that most soaps can be super drying and they can strip natural oils away from the skin, but ever since I introduced this cleanser into my regimen it seems like I'm seeing better results. Still plenty old scars, but not too many new blemishes. I'm super cynical about my skin though so knowing my luck it probably won't last, but I'm crossing my fingers anyways!
Yesterday I was kind of feeling alright for the first time in ages. I have this big red mark right under the corner of my mouth but I thought it was starting to heal. But this morning I woke up with 2 spots right by my mouth on the same side, and the inflammation has made this red mark look big and aggravated again.
I'm supposed to be going to a house party tomorrow night, what a barrel of laughs that's gonna be; constantly looking away from people, making no eye contact, worrying about how bad my face looks...
I'm starting to see some major improvements. Skin is getting smoother, and when I do get active stuff, it seems to be fairly small. I'm wondering if it's due to this new cleanser I'm trying out. For a few years I washed my face with just strictly water because I heard that most soaps can be super drying and they can strip natural oils away from the skin, but ever since I introduced this cleanser into my regimen it seems like I'm seeing better results. Still plenty old scars, but not too many new blemishes. I'm super cynical about my skin though so knowing my luck it probably won't last, but I'm crossing my fingers anyways!
All of those not washing your face, oil cleansing or water-only methods were TERRIBLE for me. Worst breakouts ever and they only got more and more infected until my face was one big sore... I don't believe in any of that bull anymore. You need to wash your face with a cleanser when you are acne prone.
