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(@mcp91)

Posted : 11/20/2011 5:17 pm

I feel horrible. I hate my face. I am going to try to get accutane tomorrow but I'm reading horrible things that it has done to people. Do I keep my acne or take tane and risk getting serious heath issues that will ruin my life even further? I had a panic attack and suicidal thoughts at work last week. (thoughts that i will never act on but still cannot help having.) I tried staying positive and I thought things where improving but I'm not going to lie to myself. I want to quit my job and limit interaction with everyone except the people I am living with.

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(@phoenix-fireless)

Posted : 11/20/2011 7:36 pm

I feel pretty mediocre, overall: can't believe I've been doing this benzoylperoxide nonsense for years, I'm turning 27 in a month, when will it end :(

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(@mgx)

Posted : 11/22/2011 8:39 am

...still......

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(@mjri94)

Posted : 11/22/2011 9:39 am

Not great, skin is dry and worn out and feels tight to boot

Just gotta keep pluggin' away I guess smile.png

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(@deedeeparis)

Posted : 11/22/2011 10:58 am

not bad! its there but I'm able to deal with it! Hopefully epiduo can work its wonder on me!

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(@tyga)

Posted : 11/22/2011 9:32 pm

No acne but it psychologically destroyed me.

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(@mcp91)

Posted : 11/23/2011 5:19 pm

No acne but it psychologically destroyed me.

 

So you're clear, how do you feel currently?

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(@tyga)

Posted : 11/23/2011 9:18 pm

Jinxed myself two new pimples this morning. Not huge but still irritating to get at my age. My situation feels hopeless. My scarring is not going to clear 100% so I am going to have to accept it at some point. Or I don't have to accept it. I can just stay miserable. Maybe I should be focusing on achieving things that actually matter like an education. I have reached the age where my looks will begin to slowly deteriorate and my prime years are behind me. Maybe I should just move on.

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(@jjballer22)

Posted : 11/24/2011 11:50 am

i have clear skin now and it's great. tbh it's not that great of a difference in my life, except i can speak more confidently to woman and i'm a little more open. life honestly doesn't just get sooooo much better once you get clear skin, yea it's a plus but it's seriously a non factor on a lot of things. looking back i just don't know why i wasn't just confident as a i was now when i did have acne, people dont care about that shit. too much going on to care.

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(@vitaminoflove333)

Posted : 11/24/2011 4:15 pm

Goode. The weird rash dissapeared in about 5 days, as I left it alone. I only have 1 actaul pimple, normal sized pink one on the side of my nose...but its the same one so its good . ihave some tiny weeny white heads patrolling my nose and forehead. not niticeable at all, not one bit, but i see them when i look close, not an anoyance, just hoping they stay at bay. OTherwise my skni looks pretty good. But when its this good, I wake up in them orning in fear that it wont be liek that this day.

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(@hotburrito)

Posted : 11/24/2011 5:28 pm

Jinxed myself two new pimples this morning. Not huge but still irritating to get at my age. My situation feels hopeless. My scarring is not going to clear 100% so I am going to have to accept it at some point. Or I don't have to accept it. I can just stay miserable. Maybe I should be focusing on achieving things that actually matter like an education. I have reached the age where my looks will begin to slowly deteriorate and my prime years are behind me. Maybe I should just move on.

 

Eh, I personally feel like accepting it would probably be a lot less... well, misery-inducing than staying miserable. Have you thought about getting laser work/peels if you're worried about the scarring? Yes it might take a while, but it's better than taking... a longer while. (Wow, I am bad at being optimistic.)

At the risk of sounding a little sexist, I think men's prime years last a lot longer than women's prime years. So unless you're nearing 50, I think you still probably have a decent amount of mileage left. If you're in your thirties, then these are your prime years.

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(@tyga)

Posted : 11/24/2011 7:52 pm

I am definitely not in my thirties. How dare you

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(@laura-yancie)

Posted : 11/24/2011 8:45 pm

PISSED OFF.

my face was finally starting to feel better after the breakout I got earlier this week and then I get a new under the skin pimple on the other side of my face. it would be nice to have consistent clear skin, because lately it's been acting up and it's really bringing me down.

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(@paulh85)

Posted : 11/24/2011 9:09 pm

I am definitely not in my thirties. How dare you

 

Easy, she said if. Our prime years are whenever we decide they are because life is what we make it. There is probably going to have to be a degree of acceptance, sure, but don't give up hope of things improving or of being able to find things which help. :)

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(@tyga)

Posted : 11/24/2011 11:38 pm

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(@vitaminoflove333)

Posted : 11/26/2011 5:43 pm

So, I was delanig iwth some tiny potentials around my cheeks and nose and eyebrows. Most have dried away and out acutally. So my nose is healing, and going away. And my forhead....well there wasnt really anything there, tis just slgihtly dry at the moment. My cheeky nose area is a bit dry and my nose zit dried out. I see a slight colorless, almost bumpless potential on my other cheek. Its not noticeale, IM just watching it. I got a smallsih pimple on my temple by my hair. It sort of hurts tho, but its a slight pale pink, so its ont very inflamed. MY hiar covers it pretty mcuh, so no biggie. OTherwise my skin looks pretty good right now, jsut a little dry, and put osme fo my special after dead zit lotion on it, and I should be good as newww:) Hopefully...

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(@jjballer22)

Posted : 11/26/2011 10:06 pm

i feel sexy, if i could have sex with myself i would right now. i should be going out and getting laid right now, what am i doing?

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(@laura-yancie)

Posted : 11/26/2011 10:14 pm

I feel much better. pimple on the left side of my face is almost gone, and no new pimples! :)

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(@jjballer22)

Posted : 11/26/2011 10:20 pm

I feel much better. pimple on the left side of my face is almost gone, and no new pimples! smile.png

 

youre cutee

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(@laura-yancie)

Posted : 11/26/2011 10:28 pm

 

I feel much better. pimple on the left side of my face is almost gone, and no new pimples! smile.png

 

youre cutee

 

why thank you! lol

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(@vitaminoflove333)

Posted : 11/26/2011 11:59 pm

Although my nose pimple ( i call it the BirthMark, since it reoccurs so often its always there) is gone down alot and isnt infalmed, i mdelanig iwth some potential action on my cheek. Potentials are like under the skin bumps, they are smal lthough and not hard, and you cant relayl see them, unlesss in a certain light and than you can see slgiht soft little bumps....that is, if youre looking for them. SOme turn reddish, some dont. Some are bigger than others. Right now I have three. But my cheeks are already sort of dry so I have to be catious iwth the Tea Tree Oil, although I need to vangquish them before they rear their ugly heads. I hate them, alot. ALthough others dont notice them, they bother me. Becuase Im so worried that theyll get bigger or worse, or more...and they get relaly frustarting...especially when there are three, like there is now. And you ry out your face jsut to rpevetnt the worse, although it doesnt relaly result in the best...ugh, whatever. MY cheeks feel taut, and i feel those bumps.

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(@reclusivefeline)

Posted : 11/27/2011 12:42 am

The stress I'm under at the moment is having a negative effect on my skin =[

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(@gems2889)

Posted : 11/27/2011 1:21 am

I am fudging tried of it. hoping for clearer skin for xmas ....

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(@vitaminoflove333)

Posted : 11/27/2011 1:26 pm

And my fears were answered. So, although my nose looks pretty damn good and my forheads looking great....my cheeks (around my smile lines to be specific) are PISSSSSSINNNNGGGGG ME OFFFF. So the left sdie, cleared the potentials, although left with a redness and dryness, and the right side, OH THE RIGHT SIDE. Well, instead of just staying with the one potential I had, I got 3. And they are the pointy ones. Okay, theyre not cysts. But they are under the skin, they are soft, (meaning theyre not liek hard rocks like cysts) So not cysts. Theyre about the size of half the O or 0 on your keyborad, or one the size of the whole O. So theyre not huge, they are noticeable in sunlight. They are currently red. And that area of my cheek is red and dry and taut form treating them with Tea Tree Oil. BUt theyre not gone yet, so mutherfuck. I am so frustrated. My plan? To abolish them much as possible with Tea Tree Oil today and than tongiht put my magic healing lotion on them. The lotion should take away the redness and dryness, and possibly even the swelling. BUT I AM SO FRUSTRATED. I hate theses so much. I get them all the time on my cheeks and its like WTF?

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(@mceal)

Posted : 11/27/2011 2:30 pm

Bad :/ tomorrow I head back to school after having a week off for Thanksgiving. My face is looking worst than ever, and I just don't think I can handle waking up early tomorrow and putting makeup on my face only to go to school and look terrible even then. My friends came to the door around thirty minutes ago, and i told my mom to tell them I felt sick. I can't go out there without make up on. :( My face hurts, it feels like i have bruises all over it.

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