Long story short:
24, had acne and very oily skin since puberty. Was on tetracycline for seven years which kept it okay so it never bothered me too much. Decided to go off it past year and skin has been hell since. Have tried many different things:
Retain A (7 months, little effect)
metro gel (1 month, broke out wherever applied)
Panoxyl wash (worked great for six weeks then stopped completely)
finacea (3 months, little effect)
Dan's BP (on and off, no effect)
No gluten (5 months, no effect)
No dairy (over a year and still am, no effect)
plus many holistic treatments with no effect.
for the last few months I had been taking zinc and turmeric supplements and skin was best it has ever been for about two months, at which point I decided to drop from 150mg of zinc to 100mg. Instantly began getting my usual inflamed pimples around mouth, so went back to 150, but since then it has just gotten progressively worse. Its 90% clustered around my/nose/chin. Theres lots under facial hair as well. Second photo looks like one big one but its multiple medium sized ones close together. Forehead not great either. Nothing on sides of face really. They are very painful inflamed bumps which usually come to a head of puss. Some are itchy while they are forming.
I have no ides what it is. Seems like I fit the symptoms for everything. Most derms have just called it acne, but I can't believe that anymore. I've never met someone with skin similar to mine. Any ideas what this might be or how to fix it?
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Scratch it and smell your finger. If it smells like yeast you can confirm its a fungal infection. If so, 1% ketoconazole twice daily (its known as nizoral shampoo) may clear it up completely in a few weeks