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Best thing to do is relax, be confident and focus on giving the task at hand your attention so that you do well. After all, if you let your skin play on your mind and that impacts upon your ability to do the shoot as best you can, they'll be more likely to notice that than they would your skin. Still a few days to spare so with any luck the actives will have calmed down. Fingers crossed!
Follow this advice and you will be fine and remember your skin looks worse through your own eyes and no where near as bad compared to the eyes of others.
Your looking at it and examining it every single day and your mind always brings out your flaws. The people shooting it won't see what you see!
Best thing to do is relax, be confident and focus on giving the task at hand your attention so that you do well. After all, if you let your skin play on your mind and that impacts upon your ability to do the shoot as best you can, they'll be more likely to notice that than they would your skin. Still a few days to spare so with any luck the actives will have calmed down. Fingers crossed!
Follow this advice and you will be fine and remember your skin looks worse through your own eyes and no where near as bad compared to the eyes of others.
Your looking at it and examining it every single day and your mind always brings out your flaws. The people shooting it won't see what you see!
Ahh Thanks for the support guys... I'm pooping myself but we'll see 🙁
Hello,
Nice log, I've had a good read - started my 90mg/daily dose a day. Nice to know there are others out there! I'm in the UK too!
Hi fellow UK'er... nice to have another one out there... Seems a lot of the products talked about on acne.org are quite difficult to source over here... Wishing you good luck on your course!! Are you keeping a log too?
x x
Hi fellow UK'er... nice to have another one out there... Seems a lot of the products talked about on acne.org are quite difficult to source over here... Wishing you good luck on your course!! Are you keeping a log too?
x x
I am indeed, - http://www.acne.org/messageboard/index.php/topic/308678-well-here-goes-22m-weightlifter/ Hope the course is going well!
DAY 57 START OF MONTH 3!!!
Wooooop two months down!!
Had my derm appointment yesterday and apparently my cholesterol levels are up a bit....I don't find this surprising as I had my blood test done just after christmas/new year where the duck fat roast potatoes were flowing! Anyway....hopefully with my sensible eating p this month it will be fine....my pre-tane cholesterol levels were quite low so if it stabilises at this higher figure its fine... as long as it doesnt continue to rocket!
So i've eaten 2520mg so far.... thats 37% of my minimum cumulative doseage (6804mg) woophoop....
that leaves 4284mg left to chomp down on...divided by 60 if I stay on this doseage = 71.4 days...thats March 23rd... I calculated March 30th a few posts back but I was using my wrong weight (added 10 llbs haha) oops...
The 4 massive actives I had are **touch wood** calming down a bit and only had one new once since my PANIC..and its a quite a small one...PLEASE PLEASE JUST STAY OK UNTIL MONDAY!!!!! :/
x x x
Ok so maybe this is the saddest thing I've done in my life...well actually I've done some pretty un cool things in my time...but I did a chart of how many actives I've been getting since I started accutane (went back over my log to get the data)....just to see if there was a trend and to see whether I am making some progress or not.... and have a look...
The line of best fit goes DOWN woop! It's quite interesting to see... It really looks like I go through a sort of predictable 20 day cycle! It would make more sense if it was a 28 day cycle to correlate with the fluctuation of my hormones...maybe it is but I don't have enough data
If the chart does actually work, then at about 60 days (Saturday) I should have my next 'best day', then at about 70 days would be my next 'worst day'.... ohhh whatever it is pleasepleaseplease hold out till after Sunday
....we shall seee!!!
...bloody hell I'm such a boring scientist...
dont judge me...
Ok so maybe this is the saddest thing I've done in my life...well actually I've done some pretty un cool things in my time...but I did a chart of how many actives I've been getting since I started accutane (went back over my log to get the data)....just to see if there was a trend and to see whether I am making some progress or not.... and have a look...
The line of best fit goes DOWN woop! It's quite interesting to see... It really looks like I go through a sort of predictable 20 day cycle! It would make more sense if it was a 28 day cycle to correlate with the fluctuation of my hormones...maybe it is but I don't have enough data
If the chart does actually work, then at about 60 days (Saturday) I should have my next 'best day', then at about 70 days would be my next 'worst day'.... ohhh whatever it is pleasepleaseplease hold out till after Sunday
....we shall seee!!!
...bloody hell I'm such a boring scientist...
dont judge me...
that's quite funny! but an interesting find nonetheless....
good luck with the rest of ur course
Ok so maybe this is the saddest thing I've done in my life...well actually I've done some pretty un cool things in my time...but I did a chart of how many actives I've been getting since I started accutane (went back over my log to get the data)....just to see if there was a trend and to see whether I am making some progress or not.... and have a look...
The line of best fit goes DOWN woop! It's quite interesting to see... It really looks like I go through a sort of predictable 20 day cycle! It would make more sense if it was a 28 day cycle to correlate with the fluctuation of my hormones...maybe it is but I don't have enough data
If the chart does actually work, then at about 60 days (Saturday) I should have my next 'best day', then at about 70 days would be my next 'worst day'.... ohhh whatever it is pleasepleaseplease hold out till after Sunday
....we shall seee!!!
...bloody hell I'm such a boring scientist...
dont judge me...
Damn, that's actually pretty cool.
So I'm on report, basically? No sweat, wouldn't be the first time. I'll happily discuss it, as long as we can present the results in a presentation with visual aids and a pointer thingy. I think it would deserve a pie chart, they're a bit friendlier than the spiky wotsit you created. Hmmm... pie. Hmmm... Wotsits.
You were so close to being my 300th "like" just then. Unlucky! Whoever gets it will have loads of streamers and balloons and stuff fall from the ceiling above them. Probably be a bit awkward if they're in the office or the library at the time, I never considered that. I thought it would be a nice gesture but I guess I didn't quite cover all the possibilities.
Ok so maybe this is the saddest thing I've done in my life...well actually I've done some pretty un cool things in my time...but I did a chart of how many actives I've been getting since I started accutane (went back over my log to get the data)....just to see if there was a trend and to see whether I am making some progress or not.... and have a look...
The line of best fit goes DOWN woop! It's quite interesting to see... It really looks like I go through a sort of predictable 20 day cycle! It would make more sense if it was a 28 day cycle to correlate with the fluctuation of my hormones...maybe it is but I don't have enough data
If the chart does actually work, then at about 60 days (Saturday) I should have my next 'best day', then at about 70 days would be my next 'worst day'.... ohhh whatever it is pleasepleaseplease hold out till after Sunday
....we shall seee!!!
...bloody hell I'm such a boring scientist...
dont judge me...
Haha that is so cool! We will all come to you for predicting our next break outs
Its amazing what you can do when you're procrastinating from doing uni work... If only i put as much effort into my dissertation as doing acne charts...
So true eh? I graduated last year but when I was trying to write or study - suddenly the most boring, mundane things were incredibly interesting! Oh - and my bedroom was always spotless and my laundry clean. Ahh priorities 🙂
You'll be fabulous girl - don't stress! It's just one day and your beautiful regardless of what this damn drug is doing to you right now. Just drink lots of water, get lots of sleep this weekend and pile on the antibiotic cream (I use neosporin - do you have that over there?) when you go to bed and your actives will calm down a ton! I sleep with bandaids on my face every night lol.
Good luck!
DAY 59
Sooo just been to the pre shoot meeting and nobody recoiled in horror at the sight of my face so thats a good sign!! The director guy said my make up looked nice and to have it like that tomorrow (i.e red lipstick etc) but it was indoors and dark though...hmmm maybe they'll feel different in the morning under natural light :/
Touching all the wood posible I still have about 4 actives but they are quite small and not too inflamed or weird... please stay like this pleeeease!!!! I have to be thankful at least my face doesnt look like it did on day 1!! I did a comparison pic but my upload quota has shrunk back down again mysteriously...sigh... x x
DAY 62
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
The music vid is over! Its overrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! And it went fine SO HAPPY!!! I did had to do a bit of sneaky facewashing / remoisturising/ re make-uping halfway through the day of filming on Saturday but I think I got away with it haha.. ..I've seen most of the shots they took and you cant really tell too badly that I'm an acne patient!
I only have ONE ACTIVE at the moment... and one large raised bump that has been there aaaages...its not painful at all...I think it may have been a spot ages ago..its just skin coloured now and I'm a bit worried its a new permanent fixture? Does anyone have any of these?
Now let me consult the chart...ah yes...I should start to get worse again for the next 10 days then better again teehee... but we shall see PIH is defo getting a bit better from having less actives at least...
Still drinking lemon water when I can...like the taste better than squash anyway!...Oh yes I've started taking probiotics too as my naturopath friend said sometimes they help with acne (helping to eliminate toxins better from your digestive system meaning they come out of your face less!) and I guess they're pretty good for your digestion anyway so wont hurt....anyone else take them? I cant seem to find an answer to whether its best to take with food or not...?
Eaten precisely 3000mg today...yum yum yum... that 44% through the minimum dose! it going quick!!
love love yayyyyyy x x x x x x
and pile on the antibiotic cream (I use neosporin - do you have that over there?) when you go to bed and your actives will calm down a ton! I sleep with bandaids on my face every night lol.Good luck!
I've heard good things about neosporin on here but can't seem to find it in the UK...hmmmmm x x x
Here's that comparion pic for you... Please tell me you see the difference!! :/
The 'after' shots are 4 days ago and its a bit better since then... those actives you see on my right have cleared too just scabs now...
Ha you can see a little bloody nose and lips on day 58.... was a bit lazy with the lypsil/cetaphil that day...
I'm sure a whole new load of actives are around the corner but for now I'm happy
Thank youuuu! Yeah just starting month 3....I'm sure another huge breakout is round the corner though...
Maybe! Maybe not!! But it's totally worth it 🙂 Your skin heals really fast, mine doesn't at allll. I can see it in your pictures; a lot of the acne that you have healed from would still leave red marks on me for months 😛
DAY 63
Continuing to improve (for now!) Can't say I'm clear yet but only one activeish...Can't believe how smooth my face feels, cant stop touching it! Had couple of drinks last night and forgot to take my make up off...a cardinal sin for us pimplehead girls...and I can't believe that I didn't breakout today from doing that!!...we shall see...
Looking at my nose I finally realise what everyones talking about blackheads clearing..I didnt even think i had a problem with blackheads...but my nose is SO SMOOTH...its like its made out of wax... cant see a pore!!
Really hoping this is the home straight now...something tells me it's a trick!!!
x x x