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The large ones in the bottom left picture look like they have the potential to become scars. Fingers crossed that they won't, though!

I was on marvelon for years and it didn't help my acne, but it didn't make it worse either.

Carrie2013 - thank you! I have calmed down a lot since I started this thread! RoseOrALilly - those bunch of small, shallow scars in my photos look slightly better now, a few months later. I don't t...

Hey, I know how annoying it is to almost always be dealing with some sort of a break out. I break out in that same area but with cysts and nodules. You should be happy, though, that the rest of your...

Something that helps me is remembering that no one cares what I look like even a tiny fraction of the amount that I do. Even if people do notice acne or scars, they might think about it for 10 second...

Two weeks seems like a short amount of time but it's possible it'll help clear you up. Of course, whatever caused you to break out in the first place might cause you to break out again after the cour...

You might just be getting to an age where you are beginning to scar, unfortunately. Or it could be because you keep getting cysts in that same area and it's doing damage to the skin, making it prone ...

I'm talking about indented scarring and I know that tracy is too.

I don't think you should mention them to him. He might not have even noticed them and if he has, he probably thought about them for about 2 seconds and hasn't thought about them since. In most cases...

Warm compresses work quite well for me. I also do the aspirin thing as mentioned above. Usually big, inflamed spots like that will last at least a week and sometimes a lot longer. The fact that it ...

I don't think anyone is arguing that we can turn our genes on and off "like a light switch" by making lifestyle changes. I was simply stating that gene expression and environment are not independent.

It will most likely return in full force once you go off Diane. Many people who didn't even have acne before starting Diane have a massive breakout a few weeks or even months after stopping the pill....

Yeah, that sounds like what I get. I've never been able to figure out if they are cysts or nodules, to be honest. That's good that you aren't scarring much. I also have red marks that stick around ...

lifelong confusion, are you scarring from your cysts? If not, as much as it absolutely sucks to endure relentless breakouts, I don't think you'll really know if yaz is capable of working for you unle...

Your scarring is really minimal. Don't risk doing anything even remotely harsh! My boyfriend has skin like that and before I knew anything about acne scars, I had never noticed a single thing about ...

Don't squeeze it, or even really touch it! Icing works for many as Tracy said and others have success with warm compresses. Take some advil or aleve. If you can't get it injected, all you can do is...

I'm sorry you're going through this.... it's so hard to know what to do. I can't remember if you mentioned anything about antibiotics in your other posts. Have you tried any? I wonder if you could ...

It seems like an initial breakout is common. I've never had an IB from any birth control, but I did have one with spiro. I'd never had that many or that size of cysts before and I couldn't handle it...

I have a biology degree and I'm about to finish my masters in genetics but yeah, I'm sure you know better than I do.

Bubbles, if you knew anything about genetics, you would know that many genes can be and are turned on and off by external factors.

Go back and read the responses you got on the other ten or so topics you've started. The more you post the same thing, the fewer helpful answers you'll get since people are starting to get annoyed.

I get the sense this post was created just to get a rise out of people.

I don't believe for a second that you didn't know exactly what kind of responses you would get. Also, you already stated above why you do it. You hate yourself.

I'm sure that girl would rather have acne than be like you.

Hey megtree, I've been checking in on your log now and again because I, too, am in my mid-20's with persistent (hormonal?) cystic acne and I've recently been considering Accutane. I still haven't mad...