Acne is a representation of life

[Curious0]

Everybody who has suffered from acne probably knows this order of events:
1.You look into the mirror and your face looks horrible because of acne. You feel very bad and you have the urge to rip off your skin since it seems like it's beyond saving.
2. You try to forget about this disease which openly shows the bad quality of your genes. After some days, it works and you forget about your acne since you avoid looking into the mirror.
3. Some time has passed. Your relatives tell you that your acne has improved a lot. You look into the mirror and notice this improvement. You're extremely happy because of that. You look forward to having a clear face.
4. The next day you wake up full of motivation and happiness. You get up, look into the mirror and notice that you had a severe breakout over night. Your face looks horrible again.

It has been like that for 5 years for me now. When my face gets better, I need to remind myself that being happy because of that is stupid since it will come back even worse. But it's hard. False hope sucks.

Life is like acne. It gets better. Then it gets worse again. But overall, life never was that good because you always had problems that just got disguised by false hopes.

 

[Deleted member 5861]

People always commemt on my acne but im so sure its nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[StaroRavager]

It seems like when I'm going to a new place where I'll be forced to socialize my acne does as much as it can to ruin my face on such short notice

 

[ColdLightOfDay]

have you cut out dairy?

 

[Deleted member 6101]

Doesn't this thing have some type of cure/treatment? I remember rubbing my face with some custom-made medicine and it would go down considerably (considering I had heavy acne between 13 and 18 yo.).
Also, this. I actually did a practical experiment on myself over several months and regular diary consumption flaired my acne by 50% at least.

have you cut out dairy?

 

[lastchancel]

I used prescription stuff from a doctor I went to for my acne, and it genuinely cleared it up. I'm still left with scars and marks from acne that I picked and scrapped which does make me look like a meth head, but it's 100x better than before.

Doesn't this thing have some type of cure/treatment? I remember rubbing my face with some custom-made medicine and it would go down considerably (considering I had heavy acne between 13 and 18 yo.).

 

[Curious0]

have you cut out dairy?

Yes, I've been on a vegan diet for about half a year and on a vegetarian diet for 3 years now. Eating dairy products would actually aggravate my acne tremendously, but my acne is not merely present because of diet. It's in my genes.
I've been taking accutane for more than two months now. In the first few weeks it got worse, which is normal. My skin does not get oily at all anymore which is great. I believe accutane will help me but I still get breakouts. Every breakout causes scarring. My entire fucking face is already full of scars already.

 

[ColdLightOfDay]

Yes, I've been on a vegan diet for about half a year and on a vegetarian diet for 3 years now. Eating dairy products would actually aggravate my acne tremendously, but my acne is not merely present because of diet. It's in my genes.
I've been taking accutane for more than two months now. In the first few weeks it got worse, which is normal. My skin does not get oily at all anymore which is great. I believe accutane will help me but I still get breakouts. Every breakout causes scarring. My entire fucking face is already full of scars already.

Fuck, I feel for you man. Try to cut out wheat products and sugar, the combination of cutting all those things cured my acne but maybe the case wasn’t as extreme.

 

[NorthWesterncel]

Yes, I've been on a vegan diet for about half a year and on a vegetarian diet for 3 years now. Eating dairy products would actually aggravate my acne tremendously, but my acne is not merely present because of diet. It's in my genes.
I've been taking accutane for more than two months now. In the first few weeks it got worse, which is normal. My skin does not get oily at all anymore which is great. I believe accutane will help me but I still get breakouts. Every breakout causes scarring. My entire fucking face is already full of scars already.

Boy keep taking that medication, i had a grotesque acne back in my 16s and After 1 or 1 and a half years taking it, my acne completely disappeared with no turning back, now my face is clean (with some scars ofc)
Gotta say that during the process my visage was truly fucked and dry.

 

[Curious0]

Boy keep taking that medication, i had a grotesque acne back in my 16s and After 1 or 1 and a half years taking it, my acne completely disappeared with no turning back, now my face is clean (with some scars ofc)
Gotta say that during the process my visage was truly fucked and dry.

I'd be really motivated to keep taking this drug (I have to take it for 18 months) if acne was my only problem and if I would therefore look fine afterwards. The problem is that acne is only one of a thousand things that's wrong with my body. Even if my acne is gone, I'll still look like complete shit. So I'd be acne free but still painfully ugly. That's so discouraging.

 

[NorthWesterncel]

I'd be really motivated to keep taking this drug (I have to take it for 18 months) if acne was my only problem and if I would therefore look fine afterwards. The problem is that acne is only one of a thousand things that's wrong with my body. Even if my acne is gone, I'll still look like complete shit. So I'd be acne free but still painfully ugly. That's so discouraging.

Can relate to that, but still better than nothing i guess.
I chose being ugly over being ugly with acne

 

[DarkLizardLuck]

Yes, I've been on a vegan diet for about half a year and on a vegetarian diet for 3 years now. Eating dairy products would actually aggravate my acne tremendously, but my acne is not merely present because of diet. It's in my genes.
I've been taking accutane for more than two months now. In the first few weeks it got worse, which is normal. My skin does not get oily at all anymore which is great. I believe accutane will help me but I still get breakouts. Every breakout causes scarring. My entire fucking face is already full of scars already.

Accutane is a miracle drug for resistant/ cycstic acne. Can take multiple courses but the results are often excellent. Scaring is rough. Have you asked your dermatologist about ways to reduce the appearance of scarring once the acne clears up? Depending on the type and severity of the scarring there are options to reduce it’s appearance. My derm really likes to recommend them but they are costly and I have shit insurance.

 

[BlackVoid12]

It fucking sucks

 

[Hoez4life]

I’m 29 and I still have acne lol. Fuck my parents for not taking me the doctor since I was young. I went to 3 doctors myself and none of them faggots will prescribe me the good stuff until it’s too late and my face is forever scarred. When I was 27 my acne started coming back but I didn’t bother fixing it since it’s over and there is no point.