MoonlitRiver

Thanks CWR24 that's encouraging!

Hi everyone,   I was just wondering what people's experiences have been like with Epiduo?   To cut a long story short I've had breakouts of severe cystic acne since about May this year bu...

Yeh exfoliating with proper exfoliators on the regimen is definitely a bad idea. I never exfoliate anyway because my skin's so sensitive. However I found that super gentle 'exfoliation' with just jojo...

I can't really advise you on the AHA+ as my skin was always too sensitive to use it when I was on the Regimen but I did find mixing a few drops of jojoba oil into my moisturiser really helped with the...

kimbea24 Thank you so much for your post! I was on such a low but getting such supportive words from you has really helped! I got my referral through the post this morning so have now booked an appoi...

kimbea24 It's awful isn't it?! I literally have no confidence either and I feel like we should have grown out of it by now, although I know a lot of people on here have got it into their 30s and 40s ...

Ok so I've had moderate acne for the past 8 or so years (started at 13, now 21) and during that time I've become increasingly introverted and nervous around people. I've always avoided big social situ...

I was in this exact same boat three years ago (just graduated yesterday in fact!) so I totally understand your worries. I was even allocated a shared room in my university halls so there was absolutel...

I feel like there is just no hope anymore. Hope is completely false. All it does is raise you up to a greater height from which to drop once again into that all-enveloping pit of disappointment and de...

Thanks for the Differin suggestion - very glad to hear it worked for you for a while! - but unfortunately I got prescribed it several years ago and although it didn't irritate my skin like benzoyl per...

Thanks for the replies guys! Having read some of the horror stories on here I'm really not up for trying Accutane but I'm definitely going to look into tea tree oil after all these recommendations! I'...

You could maybe try a hot compress - that can sometimes help drain cysts if there's a lot of fluid stuck deeper under the skin but it's hard for me to tell if that's what it is from the photo. If that...

Grubby456 my redness did look exactly like yours by the sounds of it, just really red, incredibly dry, flakey and generally irritated. Having stopped the BP I was able to clear the flakey redness in a...

It's so disheartening when something like this happens. I remember once having a big cyst on my forehead and I had so many people asking if I'd hit my head on a door or something. Made me feel so much...

Thanks so much for the advice! I will definitely give tea tree oil a try as I took against benzoyl peroxide quite a while ago when I realised that it was very obviously damaging my skin. It's only jus...

I've had two exactly like that on my chin recently and they're horrible things. You could try Freederm's treatment gel as it contains 4% nicotinamide which is an anti-inflamatory. It's always helped r...

Thanks, I might try that as well! (Although I've never heard of dermodex mites - they sound unpleasant!). I tried tea tree oil when I was in my teens with very little result but I probably wasn't pers...

Thank you so much for your suggestions I've never tried sulfur based products before so will definitely give them a go. Hopefully they will be gentle enough for my skin to deal with and actually give...

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone had found any successful or semi-successful alternatives to using benzoyl peroxide? I was on the regimen for a year and a half and although it cleared up much (bu...

Ultimate low. Nothing I do seems to work and every time I think my skin's really starting to improve it backtracks all over again. Also people who don't have this problem are so lacking in understandi...

There are so many big things I'd want to do if my skin ever cleared up (like actually creating a social life for myself, for example) but on the simplest level I would love to just be able to leave th...