Well I have been on Accutane. Low dose (10-20 mg for 7 months). I am now 2.5 years post I believe? However, I had an eating disorder that I fixed, I do no longer use makeup and use only Vaseline/Jojoba on my face. I did not get that kind of acne back. Yep I do get zits, but they don't grow like they used to. They are very small. I did get a couple a few months ago but they went away in a week or so. Mostly I get some acne if I pick.

So yes, sometimes you need help. Accutane did really help with that. However, it might have given me scarring.

The thing is, in a way we are lucky we will always attract real people because acne/scarring will filter out all the shallow ones. I'm actually quite sure I'll be fine. Yep when someone gets really close they might react, but oh well, not sure what I am suppose to do about that? I'll go get some treatments and that is that I suppose.

The only thing I have a hard time with is the fact that in the mornings/noon my scarring doesn't show so a lot of people hit on me and then when they start to show you see them change attitude. I had one guy I lived with that would do this everyday! Everyday! Whenever it looked bad he would ignore me. It was mentally challenging for sure. Haha. There are some real assholes out there. This is why I problems dating, I look differently every day, how am I suppose to date with that? Pretty day time, less so at night time. Urgh, oh well. I suppose it is nice to look nice half of the day at least. If I go to sleep for 3+ hours I can get the effect again but I mean who has time for that? Oh I really need to go home early so I can sleep for three hours before my date so he won't see my scarring? Haha can you imagine?

11 hours ago, il90 said:

Well I have been on Accutane. Low dose (10-20 mg for 7 months). I am now 2.5 years post I believe? However, I had an eating disorder that I fixed, I do no longer use makeup and use only Vaseline/Jojoba on my face. I did not get that kind of acne back. Yep I do get zits, but they don't grow like they used to. They are very small. I did get a couple a few months ago but they went away in a week or so. Mostly I get some acne if I pick.

So yes, sometimes you need help. Accutane did really help with that. However, it might have given me scarring.

The thing is, in a way we are lucky we will always attract real people because acne/scarring will filter out all the shallow ones. I'm actually quite sure I'll be fine. Yep when someone gets really close they might react, but oh well, not sure what I am suppose to do about that? I'll go get some treatments and that is that I suppose.

The only thing I have a hard time with is the fact that in the mornings/noon my scarring doesn't show so a lot of people hit on me and then when they start to show you see them change attitude. I had one guy I lived with that would do this everyday! Everyday! Whenever it looked bad he would ignore me. It was mentally challenging for sure. Haha. There are some real assholes out there. This is why I problems dating, I look differently every day, how am I suppose to date with that? Pretty day time, less so at night time. Urgh, oh well. I suppose it is nice to look nice half of the day at least. If I go to sleep for 3+ hours I can get the effect again but I mean who has time for that? Oh I really need to go home early so I can sleep for three hours before my date so he won't see my scarring? Haha can you imagine?

Do you have some success though?

11 hours ago, AlexanderJ86 said:

22 hours ago, il90 said:

Well I have been on Accutane. Low dose (10-20 mg for 7 months). I am now 2.5 years post I believe? However, I had an eating disorder that I fixed, I do no longer use makeup and use only Vaseline/Jojoba on my face. I did not get that kind of acne back. Yep I do get zits, but they don't grow like they used to. They are very small. I did get a couple a few months ago but they went away in a week or so. Mostly I get some acne if I pick.

So yes, sometimes you need help. Accutane did really help with that. However, it might have given me scarring.

The thing is, in a way we are lucky we will always attract real people because acne/scarring will filter out all the shallow ones. I'm actually quite sure I'll be fine. Yep when someone gets really close they might react, but oh well, not sure what I am suppose to do about that? I'll go get some treatments and that is that I suppose.

The only thing I have a hard time with is the fact that in the mornings/noon my scarring doesn't show so a lot of people hit on me and then when they start to show you see them change attitude. I had one guy I lived with that would do this everyday! Everyday! Whenever it looked bad he would ignore me. It was mentally challenging for sure. Haha. There are some real assholes out there. This is why I problems dating, I look differently every day, how am I suppose to date with that? Pretty day time, less so at night time. Urgh, oh well. I suppose it is nice to look nice half of the day at least. If I go to sleep for 3+ hours I can get the effect again but I mean who has time for that? Oh I really need to go home early so I can sleep for three hours before my date so he won't see my scarring? Haha can you imagine?

Do you have some success though?

A little I suppose. You can't see it in every lighting and not from further than 1 meter away. But, it'll never be perfect though. It might have been easier to just accept. But, it is nice to know that you can achieve improvements.

However, as OP said, you are pretty damaged though by this stuff. Even if it all went away I could never go back to my old life. But, some good things come of it too. I appreciate life more and I am more empathetic towards other people. I am smarter too because I've spent so much time studying instead of partying haha.

You're all idiots. All any of us will be remembered for is 'the one with the spots'. I would rather die than spend the rest of my life with acne. I'm in my 30's and it's not going anywhere. If I could swap places with a terminal cancer patient I would. I literally can't wait for the only escape any of us will get from acne......death.

8 hours ago, Tyuchaf84 said:

You're all idiots. All any of us will be remembered for is 'the one with the spots'. I would rather die than spend the rest of my life with acne. I'm in my 30's and it's not going anywhere. If I could swap places with a terminal cancer patient I would. I literally can't wait for the only escape any of us will get from acne......death.

I am not gay, but I have to say that you look very attractive in that picture.

On 9/5/2016 at 5:22 AM, Tyuchaf84 said:

You're all idiots. All any of us will be remembered for is 'the one with the spots'. I would rather die than spend the rest of my life with acne. I'm in my 30's and it's not going anywhere. If I could swap places with a terminal cancer patient I would. I literally can't wait for the only escape any of us will get from acne......death.

You are the only idiot here. If you think that you will be remembered for that, what have you been achieving in your life? Yes pimples wow people get them, but what will you do? Just die? Or will you actually change what you think you're remembered for? In your age, you should know better than to think like a teenager

On 11/20/2015 at 10:46 PM, clive17 said:

.... I have no choice but to slowly start to accept myself, even love myself as I am..... I'm sure I'll fail a bunch of times, hell, i have a bad breakout right now and it's funny..... 20 years ago I was a kid, sitting in my moms car, crying because i had to go to school with cysts all over my face...... 20 years later, i'm just a bigger kid, sitting in my own place, crying because I have to go to work tomorrow..... it all just repeats.But, there's at least some hope in healing your inner-self.....the true road to recovery lies in the mental, not the physical.

 

Well said sir...well said. I had tears reading your post. TY for your raw honesty, I send u my brotherly love.

Thought I'd revive this thread for newbies or even veterans of the forum. Funny, I had a talk with a friend about being adults. He has family now with 5 little kids (last two are twins), but we agreed that being an adult is BS. We're just kids who are older.

Be kind to your soul no matter what life brings.

Thank God for hope. If the last thing you do before you die is to find a personal 'cure' for your acne, it would not have been a wasted life, because you could in turn share what worked for you with others still struggling.

With so many variables in play, in regards to the cause of your acne, it can be discouraging to have your hopes constantly shattered by the successful methods (shared by the community) not working for you.

How many have come and gone (lived and died) with perfect skin their entrie lives, only to live shallow/superficial and miserable lives?

And at the same time, how many have lost hope and given up a pursuit to conquer the science behind their own physical or emotional ailments?

Too many to count for either circumstance right?

Hope keeps you going. You truly never know what future revelations may reveal themselves to you that could potentially alter your physical and/or mental health.

Keep trying, despite failures. Until your last breath, continue to pursue a solution for you.

That is my 2 cents. That is how I discovered my own 'cure' for my acne, and how I coped with the lost time spent stressing over something so seemingly out of my control.

-goose

As a "veteran".....speaking.....

Do not EVER give up. Period. I don't care. About all the times you have tried and failed, because no one wants to hear about your pitty party. What is the next step you are taking that YOU HAVEN"T taken before to approach the problem of your acne. Log your success and or failures and grow from them. I am an A-Hole by nature and I apooogize, but I do not sympathize with thoughts of "I have tried EVERYTHING and nothing has worked".

Keep trying. Things may be revealed to you that you would have never even imagined were possible. Don't lose hope, and never accept your acne as something permanent.