Can anyone help me with this?
I am 21 years old. I had been suffering from acne since I was 15, but with a roacutan treatment, the acne was gone. So, I started to develop this type of white swelling on my skin a year ago. They started very little and focused, but now they are bigger and more spreaded.
I went to several dermatologists, and they said that this is a type of acne scar because it developed exactly where I had acne.
The development of the bumps was very fast, i don't know if there its because of a problem with skin hydration, the medicine I used (roacutan) has a strong side effect of drying the skin.
I am in my second CO2 laser treatment session and I think it is very soon to say if you are getting any improvement with that.
i always get a lot of complements and flerting of girls that i am really interested in, but this skin condiction gets me depressed and i just cant take a girl looking at my back and chest like this. I know, iknow, people will say ''oh you shouldnt give this that much of attention, if a girl really likes you she will do not care about it'', i hope you are right, but i cant controll my insecurity about it.
(English is not my mother lenguage, i'm brazilian, so im sorry if i wrote somenthing wrong)
@Scas any update?
It would be great if we can share our experience trying to deal with type of scars.
Ive asked different dermatologist and visited a few aesthetic clinics and here are the answers:
- Get a tattoo, whether a medical one or not
- I tried micro-needling -> no improvement or a very little one
- retirides (tretinoil) treatment to recover about 10-15% pigmentation and it takes +4 months -> working on it
- Laser and dermabrasion don't treat it and makes things worse
- hyfrecator does not treat it