At therisk of sounding crazy (I promise I'm not a religious nut...)
My acne is currently the worst it has ever been. I've dealt with bad breakouts in the past and my skin hasn't been completely clear in years (maybe a couple times a year it will be clear for a day or two, otherwise there's always a few blemishes, but usually nothing major). But nothing like this. My wedding is in less than 3 weeks, so I assume I'm breaking out from stress (started breaking out in April and it has only gotten worse). OTC topicals just irritate and dry out my skin (the acne remains). I believe I started reacting to my makeup and Cetaphil because of dimethicone (I'd prayed for God to show me what I was reacting to and that was what kept coming up online and was a consistent ingredient in most of my skincare/makeup products). As of last week, I stopped using anything with dimethicone on my face, but I'm still breaking out (could be partly hormonal, too, because it's that time. I don't think the breakout has a dietary correlation because I've become dairy-free, gluten-free, and eat little sugar, no fried foods, etc. to try to improve it, but the changes have made no difference). It's too close to my wedding to go to a dermatologist and get medication; I've heard with medication, acne gets worse before it gets better.
Since I don't react well to the OTC stuff I've tried, I literally have no other option but to pray and trust God to heal my skin in time for my wedding. I've seen a lot of posts online about not worrying, but trusting God instead, and about faith healing you (I haven't gone out of my way to look them up; they just show up on social media and my Bible apps). On Sunday I felt like I needed to go to church for some reason (haven't gone to church in a while because my depression and anxiety, combined with my acne make me want to isolate myself), and the Scripture reading ended up being about Jesus healing a woman of a chronic bleeding condition (she had tried everything but nothing helped until Jesus healed her) and raising a girl from the dead (Mark 5:21-43). I feel like God is telling me to stop worrying and trying to solve the issue on my own; I just need to trust Him because He has the power to heal anything.
If you pray, please pray for me. Thanks!
Well, it worked! God made my skin clear for my wedding. I didn't see much of an improvement until about a week and a half/two weeks before the wedding. I'd been getting new white heads every day, but the week of the wedding, I had a few days with no new marks, so my skin had a chance to improve. The day of the wedding I just had two tiny pimples on my jawline and maybe a little one on my forehead. My makeup artist was able to cover my scars easily with makeup (most of my scars are flat reddish dots but I did have a couple slighty-raised ones). My skin looked better than it has in I don't know how long. Our photographer didn't even have to photoshop my skin. God is so good! Trust Him!
