Hello, I'm going to tell you the things I've done to that DIDN'T cure my moderately severe cystic acne. (skip this background story if you'd like): I started getting acne on my forehead when I was around 14 years old. They were big pimples on my forehead, but I skate so at this time I had long hair, so the my hair covered it. No big deal, but I was still depressed about it. I slowly started breaking out just like small ones, around my cheeks, but not too bad, still got my depressed. So for the next 3 years, I was just breaking out, but nothing too severe, but still got me depressed about it. When I reached around 17ish, I noticed I started getting pimples on my cheeks, small ones. Where the hardcore depression started to come in. I noticed that my forehead cleared up, but they came out on my cheeks. I tried lots of things on my cheeks, and nothing worked. My acne on my cheeks turned into cystic acne. It was so bad, people just stared, thats how big they were. From here, I started getting regular acne on my butt ALL the way up to my shoulder plates, down my shoulders, on my whole chest, and sides of my ribs was covered in acne. I was so very very very depressed. I felt disgusting, unattractive (I'm not saying I want to be super handsome, but at least I wanted to be average), felt extremely embarrased, etc. Everyday I thought I dont wanna go to school looking like this. So at this age, I'm 17. Went to the clinic and they prescribed antibiotics doxycycline/tetracycline. all these face creams, like ritin-a, benzoil-peroxide. They told me it was gonna go away in 2 months max, they did work, but it didnt take 7 months to see that it was WAY better. I still had the deep scars, which still made me depressed. I was still breaking out, but it was more under control. I was still trying to find cures because maybe in a month I'd get like 2 cystic pimples. After a couple of months I stopped taking and using all of these prescriptions. So back to really finding the cure. So throughout the months, I was slowly getting worse again, so trying all these regimens. So I hit around 18 when I was getting cysic acne a little more requent with regular acne. Slowly getting worse on cheeks again, but this time it was spreading where places I didnt have ance. My jawline/under and big pimples on my neck. SO, still getting worse/spreading after all this time. (that was my background story) I was 19 almost 20. Hardcore cystic acne came back, but like I said. I getting it on places that I've never had acne before. What I've tried through the years as topicals: -Soap -Olive oil -aloe vera -rubbing alcohol -apple cider "the mother" -antibiotics -eating healthier - asepxia -vaparub -toothpaste -ritin-a -benzoil peroxide -proactiv -hibiclens -tea tree oil (from these I assumed others wouldnt work because I categorized them by chemicals,naturals,oral, etc.) Didn't put anything for a while. -dr. bronners majic soaps works on body, but not face/neck. ----At this point, I was so extremely depressed so I decided to go hardcore. I thought maybe IT IS on the inside. I'm going to try everything to clear my inside. >>>>>>>TURNED 20 which I am now. Started on December 2014: -4 day apple juice, vegetable juice from the store fast. Nothing. (junk food rest becasuse of depression) -9 day only apple juice fast. Nothing. (junk food rest because of depression) >read about water fasting and its benefits -Went more hardcore. 4 day water fast. -thought it wasnt enough. 14 day water fast. I quit it because I was getting extreme anxiety, chest discomfort NOTHING. Still getting big cystic acne. Stumbled on this thread: [removed] followed it ,80% except about changing my shower head, I was eating a lot of seeds and nuts. So a whole month raw, followed by 6 liver cleanses. NOTHING. so, I thought after all of this i should of gotten better for sure for sure for sure for sure AND NOTHING. FEB. 2015- MARCH 2015 Went into a hude depression, started eating hardcore junkfood, started drinking. KEPT BREAKING OUT AS USUAL. APRIL- early MAY- Eating healtheir, breaking out as usual, no improvement after all this. I started reading about raw food taking out all grains/food fats. MID MAY. I ate broccoli/cauliflower/other greens for about a month taking probiotics, water kefir, and flora supplements and after a month I did see tiny bit improvements, but nothing big. I felt extremely fatique so I added good fats, and some gluten-free brown rice pasta and eating some white rice and I started breaking out again. So I feel like i should stop eating all these good fats. I feel extremely exausted when I only eat greens and not much else. HITTING IT FROM THE INSIDE WHAT DIDN'T WORK: Probiotics 2 months , fix leaky gut supplements, Water Kefir 2 months, fruit and Plant based diet 2 months. all these together 2 months. YOUR THOUGHTS? (sorry for the disorganization, I had a better thought and detail about this) it's late. (dont know why it might post as a whole paragraph) Thanks for reading.