Aw^^ That made me laugh, I pictured me saying that to myself in the mirror with my crap skin. hahaha

 

I betcha are damn hot!!

hate my skin, feel so down. have had this gigantic cyst on my cheek for a week, and when i say gigantic i mean it..went to the derm today, he shot it in 3 different places. 4th time ive seen him, asked him if i cld try something different than the doxy im takin, and he said no...he said, ur skin looks great except your left cheek..wanted to cry!...ok moron..but my left cheek has had several cysts for the last 4 months, and they have gettin worse and worse, and they all are leaving marks that wont go away for months!<<<thats what i wanted to say to him, but i didnt lol...gonna look for new derm. so i took off work tomorrow cuz i cant see this baseball on my cheek going down any time soon..cant look in the mirror, it actually scares me, ive never cried this much about my face....

Sorry^I hope you get it resolved!

I just got a good look at my face in natural light and fffffuuuuuuuu--It looks pretty awful. It's all red, doesn't even match my neck; like I'm wearing a mask. Makes me not wanna go to class tomorrow, gah! but I shall. I know that it only looks worse to me and not as bad to others, though I know they see it.

Geeking i feel what you are going through. Whenever i'm in the car during the day and catch my face in natural light, I just become so bummed. Recently, i've developed some type of facial redness thats all over my cheeks, along with oily skin.. and of course i have some whiteheads to add on top of it. My skin on my face is so different from that of my neck and forehead I'm just so confused on how this happened or how to fix it, which makes me even more bummed out. Acne used to be my main focus.. However, since i developed this facial redness (possibly rosecea or dermatitis) and oily skin, I am really stressing over my skin.. not sure exactly what to do because i have irish type fair skin so it looks even stranger.. Idk what to do honestly, really just want to hide

I'm fairly light skinned as well. It's crap!

Well we have the board, I'm glad I know that I'm not alone, even though I hate thinking that someone else is going through this too. Yeah I want to hide too but we mustn't, life goes on!

Today I was pretty introverted [more than usual] and self conscious, I just felt like shit. I just have to hope my face will calm down, I just hate when break-outs happen outta nowhere and you can't pinpoint why.

grateful! today, i am drug free, except for birth control. currently have a few blemishes, but no major cysts and no new scars.

....in a few weeks, i'll be visiting an old friend in the great NYC... hoping my skin will be able to keep up with the big apple activities

i know this sounds really psychotic. but i thought i share with u guys.any of u ever experience having a love hate relationship with ur acne? for example, i was feeling disgusted this morning after wakin up from bed. i then took a shower and applied my moisturiser. 30 mins later, i took a look at the mirror and i thought the acne look like they'll improving. an hr ago when i was about to wash my face i look at myself in the mirror and felt it got worse and felt even more disgusted than ever.it is madness. i supposed this all boils down to cooping urself up at home and having a mirror next to my desk does not help at all. talk about emotional rollercoaster. damn..i wonder if im the only one

anyone feels the same way?

chensg - I can totally relate to that.

Maybe first thing in a morning I might look at my face and think it's not so bad. I probably prepared myself for it to look horrible, meaning it doesn't seem so bad.

But then later in the day once I'm used to how it's looking, I start to analyse it and bring myself down again. That negative change would probably result in picking at my face and making it worse.

My mood would probably change maybe four times during the day and the contrast was quite obvious; up one minute and down the next. It's quite draining, emotionally.

My skin's pretty stable these days following a few changes I made, I'm heading towards my third week without my usual breakout. My mood has been equally as stable during that time. In fact, several people at work commented on my great mood I was in last week and how different I seemed, which just goes to show that everyone will have seen that I was really down whenever my face was bad.

I just hope my skin continues getting better and better because I was getting tired of the mood swings and feeling trapped by it all.

i'm feeling lucky as can freaking be having stumbled upon turmeric... i swear i'm gonna start advertising that spice.... ANYWAY its like my whole face changed (in a good way of course) i now feel like a regular teen!!! AHHHHH!!! i used to have moderate to slightly sever acne and i remeber how embarrasing it was. Now while i didn't have many all at once the few that i had (1-3) where big... and painful.... oyy just slighlty caresing my face would hurt :'(... um i guess u could say i rly started constantly having acne like 4 yrs ago... and while they would heal (after a week or so) their scars wouldn't fade... so yes while i did have 1-3 zits on my face their scars didn't fade therefore making my face appear as tho i have PIH freckles D: ...(4 yrs worth of scars combined ... you do the math)...

Scars became my main dilema instead of the acne.. i searched for "home remdies" and i don't how i stumbled upon it but someway, somehow i found turmeric and all its gloriness lol... since i started using it my acne hasn't came back!!! it just stopped AND my stubborn PIH scars are almost gone!!!!

.... Just so grateful

you guys should look into if yall haven't tried it

I am feeling grateful and light. Light because a weight has finally been lifted off my shoulders and grateful that acne is no longer in my system. It was nice to take a shower and not even have to worry about looking at my face in the mirror before going on a walk with one of my best friends. It is so warm outside, and it was nice to feel the breeze blowing on my face and through my hair. Just walking so casually.. no paranoia of what my skin was looking like. It was liberating.

I was going to make a vent thread, but I thought this would be a nice substitute. Basically I'll just be whining about life every few days, maybe every day.

Basically right now my face is horrible. I'm sick of feeling horrible too. I'm so sick of reading reviews on here and feeling hopeful and realizing my skin is not improving. The problem isn't necessarily the acne always, because there's other problems too. The redness it leaves behind. But, you know what I'm doing to get rid of that? Lemon juice! Apparently the miracle for any hyper-pigmentation. I've been using it for a week now and I'm breaking out even more. Awesome. I am just so sickkkk of feeling so down because of it. I hate to say it but my mood depends solely on my skin.

Somebody potentially awesome has come into my life and I just feel my skin is the one thing that's stopping me. I honestly think I would be a decent looking guy without all these skin problems. Oh yeah, my skin is burning and bright red because of the lemon now. I've locked myself in my room. I can't go downstairs or let anybody see me right now. It's horrible. Going to university everyday is honestly such a pain. Something as simple as looking in the mirror has somewhat taken over my life. Every few minutes when I'm not doing anything I go and have a look. I just get more down when I do it. Starting now I am making the conscious decision to avoid mirrors at all costs. It's going to be bloody hard, but I guess emotionally-wise I should feel slightly better? I don't know, probably not.

Biiiiiiiiiiiig vent. Could go on for another few thousand words. I'll leave that for tomorrow.

hah havent felt that meh about it as atm in pretty long times, just soo mehhh

I'm feeling pretty good, a little bit dry but I'll just apply some moisturizer. My "acne-level" hasn't been this low in a long time, which makes me happer than I usually am I just started with a new treatment, so I guess it's doing it's job. Now I'll just have to wait and see if it has any effect in the long run.

Not too bad. I've got a lot of stress in my life at the moment, so it's nice to have a blame to the spots though. I was feeling pretty positive yesterday and had a tiny red spot above my lip. Wasn't too suspicious about it, until I woke up and it is MASSIVE. Did not need that. The pimples I have is throwing of the symmetry of my face intensely. Not a good look.

Broke out a bit, but overall just fiiine cos school is nearly out!

It's horrible. Going to university everyday is honestly such a pain.

God, I feel this. Didn't go to uni yesterday or today because of how down I was feeling about my skin. A friend text me asking if I was going to a lecture and I said I was feeling 'a bit average'. Understatement doesn't begin to cover it there...

haha I'm sitting here right now skipping a lecture

I'm feeling fine about my skin right now, though i'm cursing my dentist. for some bizarre reason she decided to go smother some kind of lip gloss around my mouth (?!) about 3 times while cleaning my teeth. the whole time i was thinking f*ck, that is going to make me break out. sure enough, it did!

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Sick of this.

Eh, alright. Not too worried about it, mainly because it is the weekend. Not going out anyway, so I've just been sitting at home looking cool with calamine lotion all over my face. I'm sick of clearing up the problems and then getting some more over night. Just wish I was clear all the time.

After the stress and upset I've experienced this week, like nothing I've experienced before, it could be a lot worse. The left side of my face is broken out because I decided to pick at it and make it worse. My nose isn't looking too amazing either. Been better, but it's been worse too. Give it a few days and it'll be gone so I don't really care to be honest, haven't got the energy for it right now.

I suppose what bugs me most is that I always feel like I'm so close to clearing up for a while, then... BANG! BREAKOUT! Just leaves me thinking, 'Why can't you just give me a break for a while?!'

I got the break I was looking for a couple of months ago but I think the way I "managed" a stressful situation which came after resulted in me messing it up. I think that's the main thing I have to change now; leave it alone and stop making it worse.

I am done. I am sick of vitamins, drinking tons of water, using bp, neosporin or any other cream, ointment or topical on my face. At 51 yrs of age I am done. No one else my age has this crap to deal with. I am embaressed and just really have better things to look forward to like lines, wrinkles and puffiness! I am sick of worring about going out to eat, being invited to a party and then worring all the way home if it will effect me with a break out. I am done trying to find the cure. And there is no cure, at least not for me. Fight the good fight everyone and if you find your cure, I am happy for you! Other wise I AM DONE. Elf

I am done. I am sick of vitamins, drinking tons of water, using bp, neosporin or any other cream, ointment or topical on my face. At 51 yrs of age I am done. No one else my age has this crap to deal with. I am embaressed and just really have better things to look forward to like lines, wrinkles and puffiness! I am sick of worring about going out to eat, being invited to a party and then worring all the way home if it will effect me with a break out. I am done trying to find the cure. And there is no cure, at least not for me. Fight the good fight everyone and if you find your cure, I am happy for you! Other wise I AM DONE. Elf

i hear you elf!! im going to be 44 next week, and im so sick and tired of this! i always had acne but it was manageable for the most part till like 7 months ago..43 years old!! i started to get cystic acne then on my left cheek, how frkn depressing! im glad to say im going on 7 weeks of no new acne, buttt the marks i am dealing with now on my left cheek are so depressing. at 43 my skin doesnt heal as fast or as nicely as it did. and now to deal with wrinkles, its just not fair! im feelin moderately ok abt my skin today bc im grateful that im not breaking out. but it sucks to wake up every morning scared ..i just dont think i cld handle another cystic break out at this point...my left cheek is so marked up and will take a very long time for the hyperpigmentation to go away, and for something new to happen wld really just suck!!

I feel hopeful today.

not feeling good..hope the zinc helps..just started last week..

i met a gal after a long long time..we used to talk on the phone..and so we met in person..she was shocked i guess..what could i expect??me and my red face with my scars.i'm better off alone anyways..

Shiiiiiiiiiit. My skin is so freaking red, dry and patchy.

not feeling good..hope the zinc helps..just started last week..

i met a gal after a long long time..we used to talk on the phone..and so we met in person..she was shocked i guess..what could i expect??me and my red face with my scars.i'm better off alone anyways..

That's a shame. To be fair, I think you could have expected more than what you got. Granted, if people don't find us physically attractive, so be it. But if her response to you was based purely on your skin, that's pretty shallow. Seems like you would be better off without her in that respect because she doesn't sound supportive. Probably best to try not to dwell on it. Easier said than done of course.

So far this year, I've met two girls with whom I thought something may happen. In both cases, my skin was looking good and didn't seem to be an issue to either of them, yet they both ended up giving reasons (or possibly excuses?) as to why they didn't want to see me again. I was hoping to learn from the experiences but neither of them were straight with me so in the end I had more questions than answers.

The worst thing is, I'd never gone looking for a relationship or gone on dates because of a lack of confidence etc, which was initially triggered by my acne. Then the girls came along and I tried my best to show some confidence, which worked to a point, but I don't suppose either of them realised or appreciated what it took for me to do that, and I feel like neither of them took my feelings into account at all.

I guess I'm better without them because, in both cases, they didn't really show me that they're caring people, but it still brings me down. Yet another blow to my confidence, and yet another thing which has continued to feed my depression and lack of self esteem.

Still, it's not the worst thing that could happen to us and I'm sure things will come good for us sooner or later.