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A week? Why a week? Wouldn't it have been from something today or yesterday?
usually foods you eat take about 4 days to 2 weeks to show out towards the skin
the foods that make you break out over night are food that you have intolerences for like if youre allergi to dairy and you drink milk = breakout in the morning
Feeling a bit better
Although rather pissed I spent a fair amount of money on Rowse Manuka Honey only to realise it's not actually raw honey and thats probably why I got an allergic reaction to it.
Anyone want a free jar of honey ahaha? xD
Ended up spending 15 on Steens Raw Manuka Honey, hopefully it'll go a bit better
Anyway - the gross thing on my chin has fooked off pretty much, red marks just needs to heal now ^-^
Been clear for a month now, it was the week before Christmas when everything began to stop. Had maybe five or six pimples during that whole time which of course isn't a problem and certainly isn't acne! I'd rather not have any pimples or blemishes at all but that's not realistic. Besides, after thirteen years, I imagine it probably will take a little while longer for things to calm down fully. Happy though because I wanted to get to the one month mark and see if things would still be going well, which hasn't happened before.
I got clear because of the things I cut out of my diet and intolerances I knew I had. I've reintroduced a few things once or twice just to see how much of a trigger they actually are, individually. For whatever reason, it seemed like processed cheese on things like frozen pizza was a big problem. I'd gone six weeks without eating any and the eczema I'd had for a few years vanished without trace. I had one small frozen pizza just over week ago and the eczema started to appear a day later. It lasted a week and only just cleared up yesterday. It only triggered the eczema though, no new pimples. I'd had freshly made pizza during that six week period with no issues at all so it's definitely the frozen stuff which I'll stay clear of from now on. In a way, I was kind of pleased that it made the eczema come back because it proved that it was the cause. As the saying goes, knowledge is power.
I'm feeling better in myself and the main thing I've noticed is that I'm not anxious about looking in the mirror. I still check to see if anything's happening, out of habit I suppose, but I'm not actively trying to seek things out. I've probably regained several hours each week, just because I'm not looking in the mirror and making a mess of my face. I'm also starting to like the person staring back at me a bit more and what I'm seeing is becoming familiar. I've always felt that one of the biggest problems was that I never quite knew for sure what I looked like because the ever-changing complexion meant that, by definition, I'd look different almost every day. Now, I feel like I look the same most days and that things are now just usually as they were the day before. Kind of feel like I assumed people without acne feel, even though I couldn't actually remember what that was like. It feels, "normal", I guess...
nice job man im happy for ya! and you cured your eczema naturally too thats awesome! im beginning to clear my acne naturally with just the water approach and its going good! when i look in the mirrior i just look past the acne now and its also helping my rednss fades more and more everyday im starting to feel like a new person!
so for that said i feel good about my acne today!
im beginning to clear my acne naturally with just the water approach and its going good!
Here's hoping it carries on going well for you. 
I gave that a go a couple of times but I caved each time. I think it was a control thing, like I just felt like I actively should have been doing something more, even if "something more" certainly wasn't always helpful. I kind of went the opposite way for a while, over-washing and over-applying topical products and so on. I guess it comes down to finding a balance and indeed balancing things out where our skin is concerned so that everything's regulated and as calm as possible.
Personally, I assume that I'll remain acne and eczema prone in the sense that I haven't cured it in the true sense of the word. Rather, it's been about removing the triggers. If those triggers are going to remain an underlying thing then I guess the potential for me to have acne will remain for years to come, too. But I'll just carry on avoiding those things and, as far as the results are concerned, the resulting clear skin is just as good as a true cure.
this is true if i found a definite trigger for acne and ezcema i would just stay away from it even if it meant for life! think about it i mean people all over the world have symptons like these and rules that they have to follow. diabetes need to maintain low sugar same deal, ya feel me bro? i know you can do it! just stay far away from them digiorno pizzas! hahah
as for the water only i cant even tell you how much i want to cave and wash! once i started seeing whiteheads form i was in shock and was very worried. but they are slowly going away! wish me luck! lol
well last ngiht when i was going to bed i didnt feel good about my acne because i had a really inflammed red bump that took over ontop of a cluster of white heads. it hurt so bad then by morning it came to a head a huge head of white pus then i showered and the water i think popped it when i dried off it no longer hurt and the swelling actually looks like its going down so now i feel alot better even though a pimple popped isnt always a good thing.. im hoping that it wont come to a head again or spread! other than that i had a few new spots come in today but they are small so i can managae with it have a good day guys!
Awful. I've thought that my mirrors at home "play tricks" on me for whatever reason--the type of mirror, the lighting, whatever (though it's like 5-6 mirrors all in places with different amounts of lighting, so who knows).
The mirrors at college make my hyper pigmentation/the few actives I have look WAY worse than the ones at my house (which make them look relatively decent, though still pretty bad).
Well, I just got back to school today, and boom...down goes whatever optimism I had. It looked like I had made pretty good improvement over break. I figured it had been almost a month, so even if my mirrors at home were decieving me in some way, my PIH had still faded a good amount. Wrong. Sure, I can notice a *slight* (I mean slight, barely noticeable) improvement, but jeeze, what a let down. I'm so tired of not knowing how I really look.
Ugh. Well, tohse piunheads turned into a dry sahara battle of fatties. Well, there was like 7 bad ones. Now its been reduced to 2 bad ones and one sorta ehhh one. The rest have helad. My ksnis still dry stil I put helaing lotion on the part where it was dry and theyre not huge or anything, theyre just red sort of medium ones. Its relayl dry around them so Im putting hleaing lotion on and maybe leave them alnoe 2moro night. When I got out of the sohwer they had pearly heads, so I lightly pricked them and now i wiat and see. The rest of my face is fine. My other cheek was bad for two days but its hleaed now. I have this lgiht pink slight bump by my nose on my other cheek that Im not scared of relaly, just some TTO. Its mostly the like 2 or 3 on my forhead that are pissing me off. I have alot to do Firday and Saturday far as going out during the night for fun. Hopefully tihngs are dim lit. Its relaly justl ike 2 red ones that are noticeable. And like aonther msall lump or two.
Ugh, fricken zits. Whatever. When I siad to my firend, Im like "ohmygod my ofrehead sucks today" shes like "i cant see shit" (we were inside and my never cover up does conceal the redness quite well) so I turned my head into the lgiht so she could see the like 4 bumps.she liek "ohmygod, theres like 2 little bumps. chill"
My friend had forhead pimples (not acne) becuase she never washed off her makeup before bed. All it took was a week after she started washing her face and her sknis perfect. Not fair :/ Eh, I dont look bad:) Just two really. Im gonna go have fun this weekend despite my little forhead battle.
I don't even know how I feel anymore. I look in the mirror and think "it's not that bad" but I don't know if I'm just lying to myself to make me feel better. I look around and feel like everyone has clear, perfect skin. It's almost insane how uncommon acne seems to be in college. It's like everyone grew out of it but me. And the worst part is, it's my hyperpigmentation that's bad. Not even the active pimples. The hyperpigmentation is so dark that it just makes me look worse even though there's no pimples there. I just wish I could literally peel off my face. I feel like I can't focus in school---all I think about during class is what my skin looks like. If I could without any consequences, I would drop out, I think. All I want to do is be with my parents and be at home all day and wait for my skin to get better. People really underestimate the emotional effects that acne has...I don't know if I've ever felt this bad about it in my life.
I don't even know how I feel anymore. I look in the mirror and think "it's not that bad" but I don't know if I'm just lying to myself to make me feel better. I look around and feel like everyone has clear, perfect skin. It's almost insane how uncommon acne seems to be in college. It's like everyone grew out of it but me. And the worst part is, it's my hyperpigmentation that's bad. Not even the active pimples. The hyperpigmentation is so dark that it just makes me look worse even though there's no pimples there. I just wish I could literally peel off my face. I feel like I can't focus in school---all I think about during class is what my skin looks like. If I could without any consequences, I would drop out, I think. All I want to do is be with my parents and be at home all day and wait for my skin to get better. People really underestimate the emotional effects that acne has...I don't know if I've ever felt this bad about it in my life.
I could have written this exact thing -- almost word for word. I manage to focus in class (actually helps take my mind off of it), and I still wouldn't drop out even with no consequences, but everything else is spot on. I wrote a few days ago in this thread that the mirrors here make my hyperpigmentation look so much worse than the mirrors at home, and that was a huge blow as I got back thinking I had improved a good amount (relatively speaking).
Over the past 48 hours though, I've just been like "yeah, it doesn't look as improved as it did at home, but if you look closely you can notice *some* improvement, which is better than none at all, right?" It's like I need to think like that to avoid feeling like complete shit.
I, like you (as least this is what I gathered from your post), only have one or two spots of active acne, and it's not bad at all -- that part has improved dramatically since it was at it's worst back in August. The fucking hyperpigmentation though just makes it look so much worse.
For now I'm taking that mindset I said above ("at least you've made some improvement"), but I need to go back to the derm. What he currently has me on is mainly for active acne, as i haven't been since September when that was the biggest problem ( it has a tiny amount of retin-A to deal with hyperpigmenation, but it's clearly not doing as good a job as other options would).
I don't know if I've ever felt this bad about it in my life.
Also, just to add, this last line fits me as well. I was telling my brother how shitty I felt about it the other day, and he was like "dude, you've had acne off and on for like 3 years now" (his way of asking why I all of a sudden felt so down about it). Yeah, i have, but it was always a few spots here or there -- nothing all that bad, and nothing that many don't get. Plus, none of them ever left any PIH marks, so it was just like a week to two week at a time thing, and then I was good for a bit.
August/September of last year was probably the worst I've felt about it, but I still feel pretty terrible about it now. Are you on any regimen or anything to help with the PIH?
I feel kind of depressed but also hopeful.
Got back from the hospital today, they had to remove the cyst I had down my back with a surgery. The docs told me that getting big lumps all over the body is actually just another form of acne, called "acne inversa". And that's what I have, combined with the "normal" acne on my face. Great, isn't it? And accutane can not help with acne inversa, sadly. 
(
Well, but I'm hopeful that the cyst won't come back, and that my fresh wound will heal properly and fast. I don't want them to be opening it up again, just because it won't heal. But the doc told me that it may be coming back like in 50% and it may not with the other 50%, so I can be hopeful.
Awful. I've thought that my mirrors at home "play tricks" on me for whatever reason--the type of mirror, the lighting, whatever (though it's like 5-6 mirrors all in places with different amounts of lighting, so who knows).
The mirrors at college make my hyper pigmentation/the few actives I have look WAY worse than the ones at my house (which make them look relatively decent, though still pretty bad).
Well, I just got back to school today, and boom...down goes whatever optimism I had. It looked like I had made pretty good improvement over break. I figured it had been almost a month, so even if my mirrors at home were decieving me in some way, my PIH had still faded a good amount. Wrong. Sure, I can notice a *slight* (I mean slight, barely noticeable) improvement, but jeeze, what a let down. I'm so tired of not knowing how I really look.
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I get to school and my skin looks so much worse. Even with my makeup I can't tell from home how it'll look at school. I once thought I had found a perfect concealer match for my skin tone, got to school, looked in the mirror, and had hideous cakey pale, purplish dots of the concealer on my face. It didn't match my skin at all. After winter break, I thought my acne had made a big improvement, but I got to school, and no improvement. At all.
I don't even know how I feel anymore. I look in the mirror and think "it's not that bad" but I don't know if I'm just lying to myself to make me feel better. I look around and feel like everyone has clear, perfect skin. It's almost insane how uncommon acne seems to be in college. It's like everyone grew out of it but me. And the worst part is, it's my hyperpigmentation that's bad. Not even the active pimples. The hyperpigmentation is so dark that it just makes me look worse even though there's no pimples there. I just wish I could literally peel off my face. I feel like I can't focus in school---all I think about during class is what my skin looks like. If I could without any consequences, I would drop out, I think. All I want to do is be with my parents and be at home all day and wait for my skin to get better. People really underestimate the emotional effects that acne has...I don't know if I've ever felt this bad about it in my life.
I could have written this exact thing -- almost word for word. I manage to focus in class (actually helps take my mind off of it), and I still wouldn't drop out even with no consequences, but everything else is spot on. I wrote a few days ago in this thread that the mirrors here make my hyperpigmentation look so much worse than the mirrors at home, and that was a huge blow as I got back thinking I had improved a good amount (relatively speaking).
Over the past 48 hours though, I've just been like "yeah, it doesn't look as improved as it did at home, but if you look closely you can notice *some* improvement, which is better than none at all, right?" It's like I need to think like that to avoid feeling like complete shit.
I, like you (as least this is what I gathered from your post), only have one or two spots of active acne, and it's not bad at all -- that part has improved dramatically since it was at it's worst back in August. The fucking hyperpigmentation though just makes it look so much worse.
For now I'm taking that mindset I said above ("at least you've made some improvement"), but I need to go back to the derm. What he currently has me on is mainly for active acne, as i haven't been since September when that was the biggest problem ( it has a tiny amount of retin-A to deal with hyperpigmenation, but it's clearly not doing as good a job as other options would).
I don't know if I've ever felt this bad about it in my life.
Also, just to add, this last line fits me as well. I was telling my brother how shitty I felt about it the other day, and he was like "dude, you've had acne off and on for like 3 years now" (his way of asking why I all of a sudden felt so down about it). Yeah, i have, but it was always a few spots here or there -- nothing all that bad, and nothing that many don't get. Plus, none of them ever left any PIH marks, so it was just like a week to two week at a time thing, and then I was good for a bit.
August/September of last year was probably the worst I've felt about it, but I still feel pretty terrible about it now. Are you on any regimen or anything to help with the PIH?
I'm glad someone else feels the same way....and I'm taking Monodox twice a day while using Epiduo at night. I think it has improved some, but right now I think I'm going through the "initial breakout" period, which isn't too great.
*sighs* not so good, I guess =(
I've been breaking out a little more than usual, and I'm not sure if CeraVe is to blame. I just started using this moisturizer..
I have moderate acne, with red marks all over my cheeks (had them for 3 years now, tried everything to get rid of them, even fraxel laser won't do shit) Its starting to get to me. I feel so nasty and ugly.
Looking at my 2 new indented scars (both on the same cheek) and feeling sad...I don't know why one of my cheeks keeps getting them instead of being nice like my other one 
. When will it end????????????? Haven't I suffered enough? I get nervous every time I get a pimple because I know what they can leave behind on my fragile skin!
I want to try fillers when I can afford it (if ever).
Awful! Guilty! Haven't picked at my face for a long time and yesterday,all of a sudden,I squeezed this little whitehead on my cheek and now it's red and 4x bigger. Arghhh! Stupid me.
Awful. I've thought that my mirrors at home "play tricks" on me for whatever reason--the type of mirror, the lighting, whatever (though it's like 5-6 mirrors all in places with different amounts of lighting, so who knows).
The mirrors at college make my hyper pigmentation/the few actives I have look WAY worse than the ones at my house (which make them look relatively decent, though still pretty bad).
Well, I just got back to school today, and boom...down goes whatever optimism I had. It looked like I had made pretty good improvement over break. I figured it had been almost a month, so even if my mirrors at home were decieving me in some way, my PIH had still faded a good amount. Wrong. Sure, I can notice a *slight* (I mean slight, barely noticeable) improvement, but jeeze, what a let down. I'm so tired of not knowing how I really look.
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I get to school and my skin looks so much worse. Even with my makeup I can't tell from home how it'll look at school. I once thought I had found a perfect concealer match for my skin tone, got to school, looked in the mirror, and had hideous cakey pale, purplish dots of the concealer on my face. It didn't match my skin at all. After winter break, I thought my acne had made a big improvement, but I got to school, and no improvement. At all.
Yeah -- it's really frustrating. I've gotten better at only looking in the mirror when absolutely necessary though, and that is helping a bit.
I don't even know how I feel anymore. I look in the mirror and think "it's not that bad" but I don't know if I'm just lying to myself to make me feel better. I look around and feel like everyone has clear, perfect skin. It's almost insane how uncommon acne seems to be in college. It's like everyone grew out of it but me. And the worst part is, it's my hyperpigmentation that's bad. Not even the active pimples. The hyperpigmentation is so dark that it just makes me look worse even though there's no pimples there. I just wish I could literally peel off my face. I feel like I can't focus in school---all I think about during class is what my skin looks like. If I could without any consequences, I would drop out, I think. All I want to do is be with my parents and be at home all day and wait for my skin to get better. People really underestimate the emotional effects that acne has...I don't know if I've ever felt this bad about it in my life.
I could have written this exact thing -- almost word for word. I manage to focus in class (actually helps take my mind off of it), and I still wouldn't drop out even with no consequences, but everything else is spot on. I wrote a few days ago in this thread that the mirrors here make my hyperpigmentation look so much worse than the mirrors at home, and that was a huge blow as I got back thinking I had improved a good amount (relatively speaking).
Over the past 48 hours though, I've just been like "yeah, it doesn't look as improved as it did at home, but if you look closely you can notice *some* improvement, which is better than none at all, right?" It's like I need to think like that to avoid feeling like complete shit.
I, like you (as least this is what I gathered from your post), only have one or two spots of active acne, and it's not bad at all -- that part has improved dramatically since it was at it's worst back in August. The fucking hyperpigmentation though just makes it look so much worse.
For now I'm taking that mindset I said above ("at least you've made some improvement"), but I need to go back to the derm. What he currently has me on is mainly for active acne, as i haven't been since September when that was the biggest problem ( it has a tiny amount of retin-A to deal with hyperpigmenation, but it's clearly not doing as good a job as other options would).
I don't know if I've ever felt this bad about it in my life.
Also, just to add, this last line fits me as well. I was telling my brother how shitty I felt about it the other day, and he was like "dude, you've had acne off and on for like 3 years now" (his way of asking why I all of a sudden felt so down about it). Yeah, i have, but it was always a few spots here or there -- nothing all that bad, and nothing that many don't get. Plus, none of them ever left any PIH marks, so it was just like a week to two week at a time thing, and then I was good for a bit.
August/September of last year was probably the worst I've felt about it, but I still feel pretty terrible about it now. Are you on any regimen or anything to help with the PIH?
I'm glad someone else feels the same way....and I'm taking Monodox twice a day while using Epiduo at night. I think it has improved some, but right now I think I'm going through the "initial breakout" period, which isn't too great.
Cool, well I hope that ends up working!