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the two cysts that popped up have gone down significantly and will be "gone" in a few days. so i'm pretty happy about that.
other than that, life is so so good right now- i have my business that's gaining momentum, I have an awesome girl who loves and supports me in all the things I do, and I'm in some of the best shape I've ever been in my life.
really loving it!
hope you (random internet person) are having a great day too. much <3
-rbamf
well my acne is still no better than 2 weeks ago but im feeling better about myself anyways. i found out that my water only regimen failed.. i caved and washed my face with soap and my face feels so much more healthy now. hopefully in 2 weeks my new regimen kicks in! if it does i will let you guys in on my secret! have a good day!
I've been crying consistently for the whole day today.Right now all I feel like doing is just ending my life because my skin is never going to clear up and i can not live the rest of my life with my skin looking the way it does, I just can not. I think i should go to l.a. and pay some people to shoot me in the head over and over to make sure i die.
Pissed off, thought my new regime was working but I've broken out again 
worse though is that I tried to prevent a pimple that I thought was forming by frequently (2x daily or so) using a really strong pimple treatment on that area... which is now bright red and burned and sore even worse looking than a pimple!
I'm just really fed up with my skin. I feel like it's holding me back from so much. I have senior prom and graduation later this year but I feel like I'm not going to have any fun because of it. I mean I realize that there are much worse things to worry about but I just can't help feeling down about my acne.
Ehh, cheeks have still managed to stay clear. I have aproximately 4 active pimples, 2 healings. On my forehead. Theyre good size I guess, NOT HUGE, but not pinheads. Theyre not super irritated either. Theres one thats butsing my nerves at the top thats the biggest one. Two by my eyebrow, ughhh. Theyre pinkish, not red, luckily, but still bumps, might even be three, Idk, its a cluster sorta. I've been out and around for two weeks with tihs foreverchanging, but never going forehead breakout and I've looked grea,t acutally. It's really not severe, at all. But annoying. And I look around and everyone around me has some pimples too, so I'll survive. But blah, it''s getting a little bit frustrating. Ah well, let them take their course, I can deal. They'll be gone soon enough. Anyways, overall I'm feeling: Okay, a little impatient, but pretty good. Love you all, and remember we all get little breakouts now and then, and youre beautiful anyways, have nice days <3
that sucks! im so glad i idnt have acne during those events but what sucks is i got it after i turned 21 when i was going out to clubs meeting new people all over the states and i haventbeen out of my house for 3 months now because of acne... at lest you have it now and hopefully it will be gone when you turn 21 because trust me 21 is alot more fun than snior highschool year! i can literally go to different colleges everywhere and party and meet new people its so much fun to meet new people that love to drink and have a good time lol but now i dont drink or anything since i got acne i quit everything and became alot more religious. i know i can still have fun without drinking and smoking though. i just cant have fun with acne!!!!! thats whats still stopping me!!!
today im feeling better about acne even though i have 2 really inflammed ones at the moment im hoping they calm down after tonight..
hey i also wanted to help some people out with an exercise that would help you with emotional depression and stress also about your bad acne.
no matter what just try to stay completely positive and tell yourself that in a few more days these ones i have right now are going to heal and go away and pray for no more new ones to occur! when youre doing everything right and still getting acne it might be because you are depressed and stressing about the acne and its prolonging and creating more acne everytime that happens whether you think it does or not it is! and it doesnt help at all to put yourself down like that! if thats not enough to motivate you into having a better day which i know it doesnt help for most of us everyday.. but if youre having a completely terrible day and think you are so ugly then take a look at youtube.. (not making fun of anyone at all that has to go through with this painful process so please dont take offense) but look at people that post accutane diaries. i cant believe how bad some people have it compared to us.. its so sad it really is.. once you look at some o the people on there and the struggles they had to live through you will be thanking God that your acne isnt that bad.. i pray for the people that have to go through that miserable experience of depression i asked God last night why he was making me so ugly i randomly was looking at a new soap for acne on youtube and came across a boy on accutane who had developed an allergic reaction to it and broke out EVERYWHERE on his face. not one piece o skin wheres noticable.. thats when i realized i have it better than some people, and so do you. not only should we be praying for our acne but for people like that young boy who had to experience probably the most horrifying time of his life.. just remember. everytime you feel bad.. other people have it WORSE.. start praying for others out there as i am praying for you right now.
Being upset about something you dont have is wasting the things you DO have.
im an inspiring talented musician. i thought acne was crushing my dreams to paly music but you know what.. im not letting anything overcome my gifts that God sent me.. he wants me to inspire people through music to get to know him whether i have acne or not.
just something for you guys to think about.. acne isnt everything! we can all defeat this plague!!!!! i promise you all it will not last forever!
have a good day 
Feeling much better after this weekend I think my acne is honestly starting to clear up and my marks are /beginning/ to fade. Gradually. I thought a lot about my face this weekend and realized I'm placing far too much importance on my skin when it's not even as worse as it could be. I still have all my other looks, I just have to wait for this temporary problem to pass. And in the mean time, I'm going to live my life and enjoy it--not surrender to acne.
In the shower today, I rubbed/massaged my cheeks a LOT (I get dry there, and then my makeup looks cakey on my blemishes) and saw a lot of dead skin being sloughed off or whatever....then after mosturizing with CeraVe, to my happiness my makeup looks a LOT better. I'm going to start doing this each time in the shower because honestly my makeup is my savior when it comes to my acne, and if it isn't caking then I feel a lot better about myself! My skin also feels a lot cleaner, and my acne wasn't irritated or anything from the massaging. All in all, a very good skin day.
now, if it could just stay like this, i'd be set!!! My forehead looks liek abosolute shit. Just honesty there. Cheeks still doing wonderful! but there are 7 bumps on my forehead, helaing or not. Some are, some are newer. I dont know. It looks like my acne has completley migrated of my cheeks to my forhead. Anyways, theyre ont SO bad with ocver up although i consider them medium sized ones papules? Maybe less than that, whatevs. my forhead is not doing gracefully lately. BUT, I have sexyyy bangs to cover them, lol jk haha. But i got ince bangs, and os that should conceal till they heal. Just not over frkeaing out, but yes, my forhead has def seen better days.
dreamingofclearskin, that is great perspective. There is always someone out there who has it worse.
Today i feel 'blah' about my acne. My regimen is not doing what i hoped it would so i do feel down about it. Especially since i am approaching the 3 month mark where i have to decide to continue with it or move on. I sadly realise that I ALLOW my acne to dictate my life rather than have acne be a a small part of my life. That thought is hard to admit and i know i need to work on those self esteem issues because fact of the matter is that i may have acne for a long long time. You ask me how i feel about my acne today - truth of the matter is i feel STUCK in a never ending cycle.
Tomorrow will be a better day!
i'm just fed up with my acne, to be honest. I've been begging my mom and my derm to let me go on accutane, but they won't because, as of right now, my acne's pretty mild. BUT IT'S STILL THERE. and it won't budge. AND NOW IM TAKING 5 PILLS A DAY FOR IT. that's 35 pills a week.
1,825 pills a year. 4 antiobiotics, an 1 birth control pill each and every day. no thank you.
Not feeling too great today. I'm breaking out more than ever on my cheeks and I feel so fed up with it. I'm so tired of feeling self conscious about it and caking on the concealer to attempt to hide it. I just wish my medication would work as fast as it seems to do for everyone else...I don't know if I'm still in the "initial breakout" period but it's just so annoying. I just really, really want my old skin back. That's all I want. I guess I need to stick with this medication and see what happens.
Well I jinxed my cheeks, I have one not-to-big-and-bad sized pink lump on my cheek and thats pretty much it. But im sure itll be outta my hair in two days. Just some TTO. My forhead the smae 7 0r 8 bumps (probably like 6 super small ones after tohse 8 you cant even nitce idk i dont see much) But they are gettnig less red, and less HUGE, so I think theyre starting to hela whicih is good. Im sort of gettnig used to them. So prety much about 9 pimples....bahg. Well the one on my cheek I noticed this afternoon, but Im sure itll be outta my hiar soon enough. There is this clear bump between my eyebrows, but I always get those so im going ot leave it the hell alone. OTherwise, I think my forheads gonna begin to heal 
It has been doing pretty bad this month. And my cheeks have been doing great, but yeah I have gotten the odd lump for two days on them,l I hope tihs one is only a few days:) imsure it will be, it doesnt look half bad. Anyways, ugh I guess im daling, although my face has been better.
I feel not so great but I just joined so maybe that'll get better. I'm recovering from a particularly traumatic breakout, still forced to be presentable for all my classes which is probably just going to make it worse.
Woke up with an awful surprise. Really tiny white pimples all over my cheeks...can't even count them there are so many!! Makes me sick! I don't even feel like analyzing what caused this ugly reaction
I hate all of this!!!!!!! Why can't I have peace??
whenever this happens to me, I take one of those round cotton pads, wet it with warm water and put a small amount of tea tree oil on it. It should help clear up the infection especially if you don't use it regularly like I do. Anyway, I feel your pain =[ I hope it gets better soon!
Im feeling impatient and a little down today.. i've seen some progress since the beginning of the accutane treatment but i think i have to go through the 'worse before better' shit first, and i was thinking it's the way the organism gets out all the bad stuff that remained in my face from before but after its done it will prevent or destroy what is creating it. But the only thing i can do is to be patient, really :S
Well, jinxed ym cheeks agian, woke up with that same not os bad and big pnik lump under my right eye too. Ah well TTO for tohse too, and hopefully they wont bring another infection along. Im sure theyll be gone in a matter of days. MY forhead, although all the bumps are still there, the swelling and redness have gone down alot. So I'm happy about that, but jsut itching for them to finally full on DISSAPEAR. Patience, patience. It's getting there. But my cheeks have now joined the party iwth two guests of theire own, and I am not excited for hosting them. I know what knid they are, they last 3 days top. Theyre not really a bump or somewhat one at all, but theyre really red for some reason, and put osme TTO theyll get atiny microscopic wihte head at the top, the rest of the redness and bump will go away, and than that tiny prick falls off. I like these kinds those, ont that i like any zits, but these are easier to deal with. I'm still SO pissed my cheeks broke out too. And my forehead jsut needs to hurry the fuck up. Ah, whatever. Im feeling okay, but still frustrated today.
I feel not so great but I just joined so maybe that'll get better. I'm recovering from a particularly traumatic breakout, still forced to be presentable for all my classes which is probably just going to make it worse.
Woke up with an awful surprise. Really tiny white pimples all over my cheeks...can't even count them there are so many!! Makes me sick! I don't even feel like analyzing what caused this ugly reaction
I hate all of this!!!!!!! Why can't I have peace??
whenever this happens to me, I take one of those round cotton pads, wet it with warm water and put a small amount of tea tree oil on it. It should help clear up the infection especially if you don't use it regularly like I do. Anyway, I feel your pain =[ I hope it gets better soon!
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm worried because I have acne rosacea and I don't know if that would make my skin worse or not. What do you think? :S
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm worried because I have acne rosacea and I don't know if that would make my skin worse or not. What do you think? :S
well.. it might. Have you tried lotions with AHA+/lactic acid in them? They're really moisturizing and they help kill bacteria and exfoliate skin from the inside out. I know the website sells some, but you can buy AmLactin for about $10 at walmart. Tea tree oil, while being a great antibacterial agent, is a bit drying and irritating.
i feel absolutely terrible today. i finished accutane last may but my acne seems to be coming back with a vengeance. i'm calling my derm tomorrow to see what can be done because simply switching my products doesn't seem to be helping. i'm using tea tree oil products and for about a week, i thought they were doing me some good. but now, i am getting a new pimple on my chin/cheek every night. i'm so distraught. i don't want to leave my house. i absolutely don't want to see my friends or my boyfriend. i'm a mess.