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ok I am 21 years old and have had acne since around 16 yrs old. I tried everything from proactive to peels and lasers and even dermatologist recommended products and nothing really worked. right now im using epiduo on behalf of my dermatologist for about 4 months now and its ok I guess. my problem isn't really acne anymore ( I get a few breakouts on my cheeks and forehead every now and then but its the skin itself and my chin. a while back (about 1 year ago I was fed up with my acne) after trying so many different things that didn't work I went and did something I regret. (don't judge me please I was hopelss and dumb) I would fill up the sink with hot water like really hot and stick my face in it for a couple minutes a day and this went on for about a month. while doing this I also would use ice cubes after on my chin because that was my most problem area. now after about a month of doing this I started to notice my skin became raw and dead. as a result a year later my skin has this orange peel texture to it from the forehead down and where I used the ice on my chin it is even worse. I get these cystic pimples on there and the skin looks tight. also if I don't use any products like face wash for a day or two I get these white little hairs (I think its dead skin) coming out of my pores on my chin, nose forehead. the skin is really dry that after a shower or the pool the white stuff appears and my face gets tight and dry. also I cant go 20 minutes without my skin becoming really oily. I think I burnt my skin so bad that I don't know what to do anymore. I was wondering if anyone has ever seen something like this as I am out of options. going to go back to dermatoligists soon to see what else can be done. please any comments or suggestions is helpful.
When the skin is like leathery and starts to look like burnt skin , like it shrinks after you wash it , maybe there was a change in the skin collagen.
When there is damage to the skin , it's very hard for the treatments to penetrate anymore.
I have always had acne, but my problematic skin started after I used retin a , retin a gave me the worst cystic acne.
After 7 or 8 months of using it,I thought that my skin was purging, but it wasn't, it was forming collagen, but the collagen didn't know where to go , because I already had scars from past acne .
What I think it happened, it was that the collagen got trapped inside and clogged my pores forever.
I think that is what happens when we try to regenerate a skin that has been damaged then the skin backfires and behaves in a way that we can't understand, my face now turns red ,flaky ,formed black lines and big painful pimples that sometimes don't have a head and if they do , they can't be squeezed ,because they don't heal or take too long to heal .
Maybe ,you are becoming allergic to what you are using ,like a contact dermatitis,on my case ,dermatologist can't find why my skin is acting this way , they want me to go to the pros .
I know it's frustrating.