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On 12/11/2013 at 12:51 AM, Geeking said:Really low self esteem . My skin is getting really dry and red from the cold. Any moisturizer recommendations? I'm usually really oily but now just dry.
What moisturiser do you currently use? Have you ever tried jojoba oil or adding it to your moisturiser? I find it really does help with the dryness I get from the regimen but I only use jojoba oil at night (with cetaphil). In the morning I use cetaphil and neutrogena oil free spf 15 moisturiser. Cetaphil can be a bit greasy I think (it's not my favourite moisturiser but it's great with really dry skin I think).
Hope you're feeling better soon - Hang in there
It's funny how when your skin is clearing...one zit can freak you out and make you think you're completely regressing! -- When before...5-6 new zits would be just another day. I've got one under my chin that came up after putting Mint Julep mask on it over night. That stuff really makes the spot come to a head. Anyway, I posted another picture in my gallery-- 19 days of trying not to pick and my new regimen.
Really low self esteem . My skin is getting really dry and red from the cold. Any moisturizer recommendations? I'm usually really oily but now just dry.
What moisturiser do you currently use? Have you ever tried jojoba oil or adding it to your moisturiser? I find it really does help with the dryness I get from the regimen but I only use jojoba oil at night (with cetaphil). In the morning I use cetaphil and neutrogena oil free spf 15 moisturiser. Cetaphil can be a bit greasy I think (it's not my favourite moisturiser but it's great with really dry skin I think).
Hope you're feeling better soon - Hang in there
I don't use anything since in always so greasy. What moisturizer do you use?
I'm feeling worse today. I had a nasty white head this morning and popped what I could but now it's early afternoon and its getting a second wind and turning white again. I feel I should wear a sign that says "Don't look at me" and I have a presentation in a few hours. I just wanna be alone.
Congratulations on graduating Lily!
So.
It's come back.
Now, on the whole I'm not too worried about it. It does this sometimes - my face becomes a warzone then quietly fades into a truce after a few weeks of being babied and tip toed around. This time, however, it's getting me down a bit. Don't get me wrong, my acne is mild, moderate at best, and I know it's not too much to deal with - it's just an unwanted little annoyance amongst a sea of big important things I'm thinking about. I refuse to wear make-up though and went out without the foundation anyway. My days of being all apologetic about having breakouts is over.
Really low self esteem . My skin is getting really dry and red from the cold. Any moisturizer recommendations? I'm usually really oily but now just dry.
What moisturiser do you currently use? Have you ever tried jojoba oil or adding it to your moisturiser? I find it really does help with the dryness I get from the regimen but I only use jojoba oil at night (with cetaphil). In the morning I use cetaphil and neutrogena oil free spf 15 moisturiser. Cetaphil can be a bit greasy I think (it's not my favourite moisturiser but it's great with really dry skin I think).
Hope you're feeling better soon - Hang in there
I don't use anything since in always so greasy. What moisturizer do you use?
I'm feeling worse today. I had a nasty white head this morning and popped what I could but now it's early afternoon and its getting a second wind and turning white again. I feel I should wear a sign that says "Don't look at me" and I have a presentation in a few hours. I just wanna be alone.
Cetaphil moisturising lotion I think it's called. And neutrogena and jojoba oil.
Hope your presentation went ok 
Congratulations on graduating Lily!
So.
It's come back.
Now, on the whole I'm not too worried about it. It does this sometimes - my face becomes a warzone then quietly fades into a truce after a few weeks of being babied and tip toed around. This time, however, it's getting me down a bit. Don't get me wrong, my acne is mild, moderate at best, and I know it's not too much to deal with - it's just an unwanted little annoyance amongst a sea of big important things I'm thinking about. I refuse to wear make-up though and went out without the foundation anyway. My days of being all apologetic about having breakouts is over.
Thank you!
That's annoying your skin is going through a breakout right now - mine too.
Awesome for going without makeup / foundation! I really want to be able to do that but I'm still not there yet.
Congratulations on graduating Lily!
So.
It's come back.
Now, on the whole I'm not too worried about it. It does this sometimes - my face becomes a warzone then quietly fades into a truce after a few weeks of being babied and tip toed around. This time, however, it's getting me down a bit. Don't get me wrong, my acne is mild, moderate at best, and I know it's not too much to deal with - it's just an unwanted little annoyance amongst a sea of big important things I'm thinking about. I refuse to wear make-up though and went out without the foundation anyway. My days of being all apologetic about having breakouts is over.
What a great attitude! I need to adopt this-- no reason to be apologetic to other people about your skin! 
Sorry about your breakout, though...I know it can be frustrating when you have been clear and then it decides to creep back. But at least you know what will get you clear!
Hello,
I have been suffering from Acne for a very long time. Now I just bought Saw Palmetto and really want to try it. I just do not understand how it will effect my skin later. First of all, can anyone tell me, how long should you take this? A month? until the bottle runs out? Forever? In addition, once you stop DHT will your body over-produce DHT and make your acne worse, or will it under-produce DHT? I really need these questions answered because I can not find anything about this anywhere. Thank you guys!
Never felt so bad in my life. I have a giant angry red patch of skin that covers the whole area between my eyebrows. Pops up overnight, takes several days, maybe even a week, to even start seeing it return back to normal. This has been going on for months now, and nothing helps.
I love locking myself away in my room, having no social life and no motivation for anything...
Feel pretty bad. I thought my back was done breaking out, but painful pimples are popping up again. The whole left side of my face is a red, swollen, oozy mess. The right side is somewhat better but still a long way to go until clear. I do have "clear-ish" spots, but I live in constant fear that these, too, will start breaking out again in the near future.
I'm feeling better. I hope everyone is having a great weekend.
My face is looking pretty bad today - nothing new, just the spots that were already there are all reaching that coming to a head, bright red phase. I'm a little sad that I'm probably going to be retouching my Christmas photos and I really hope it clears up for an important interview and meeting with an old friend in the new year.
So fed up of still breaking out after 6 months on antibiotics, Epiduo, and birth control. I am never going to get clear and that is the sorry truth of the matter. There's not even any chance of me taking isotretinoin anymore. Nobody has time to see me for my mental health issues so the dermatologist will continue refusing to prescribe it to me when I see him again in January because he's made it very clear that he won't prescribe unless I have some kind of support in place. I've tried everything in my power to get that support but there is no support out there to get. I wish I'd never been born.
sorry to hear of your struggles moonlitriver, seeing as though you have tried to antibiotic route have you checked out the diet & hollistic health forum yet? in my opinion if the antibiotics aren't working for you then it could be an internal problem relating to your diet/hormones... hopefully you can find something relevant over there... you are not alone though, millions of us are going through this battle too! chin up
Well I had my hormones tested and they apparently came back normal. Have eliminated dairy and as much sugar as humanly possible for those 6 months as well to no avail and my dermatologist swears diet has no effect on acne anyway. He's never going to let me take isotretinoin while I have depression and I'm never going to get over depression while I have acne so I am basically screwed on both fronts.
yeah i've had all that rubbish from derms and doctors before, 'diet plays no role in acne' .. what an absolute load of tosh, i've recently come to the thought if we cure ourselves of all these ailments then doctors and derms are out of the job lol. It could be that you have an intolerance to something you are eating. I'm currently in the process of going down the diet approach as i've had 9 years of antibiotics and creams for my skin each with no success! I am currently undertaking the candida/leaky gut diet which is something i think you should have a quick look over to see if any of the symptoms are relevant to you.. the fact that you have taking long courses of antibiotics is a prime thing needed for candida to develop
Well I had my hormones tested and they apparently came back normal. Have eliminated dairy and as much sugar as humanly possible for those 6 months as well to no avail and my dermatologist swears diet has no effect on acne anyway. He's never going to let me take isotretinoin while I have depression and I'm never going to get over depression while I have acne so I am basically screwed on both fronts.
Maybe go to a new derm and don't tell him about your depression? I know for a fact that acne is the cause if not a huge contributor to my depression and any depression that Accutane creates (if any at all) would be offsetted by the fact that my skin would be clearing.
Maybe go to a new derm and don't tell him about your depression? I know for a fact that acne is the cause if not a huge contributor to my depression and any depression that Accutane creates (if any at all) would be offsetted by the fact that my skin would be clearing.
I wish I hadn't told this one about it in the first place but I'm being treated on the NHS so I can't really pick and choose who I see we just get referred to a hospital and they take it from there. I feel exactly the same as you though. I genuinely can't understand the logic that says "she's more likely to kill herself if we give her a drug that will give her hope of finally clearing her skin after 8 long years of feeling like a monster and hiding behind tonnes of make-up". Yeh..... cos that makes so much sense! I also told him that nothing in this world could possibly make my depression worse because if it was any worse I'd be dead. He still wouldn't give it to me though. 
Feeling pretty darn low about my skin at the moment. Got some important days coming up and it turns out makeup isn't covering it at all. The spots aren't bad in severity, but they're really, really red and distributed in such a way as no part of my face is clear. I've tried to over treat which has made everything look about 10x worse. I tried taking some pictures for a makeup review and I honestly didn't realize how horrific things are looking. Normally I wouldn't give a stuff about things I can't change in my appearance but I'm going to be in situations fairly soon where people will be scrutinizing me very closely. I don't know if it's the stress of some other stuff that's going on or what but this is the first time I've cried about my skin in months.