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I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside.
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I don't even know how to begin this post. I'm reaching out at this point because im at the end of the road with this condition. I'm 21, and have had acne over half my life. My acne problems started at around age 10-12, and like most people, had an issue with a zit here or there.

But progressively my acne has just gotten worse over the years. I have tried every product under the sun, I have been to the dermatologist who has prescribed pills ranging from antibiotics to acutane. I have tried creams ranging from benzoyl peroxide to tea tree oil. The last few years of my life I have been at the point where I shower twice daily, I am OCD about cleaning my skin, I exercise, eat a healthy diet, and drink a gallon of water a day. Yet, my acne worsens. 

The picture below is of my back, I cropped to hide my identity.



My back is the worse, but my chest is about as bad. I also have acne throughout my face, but not nearly as bad as my back. However, my neck is now becoming what my back is, and I can't stop it from spreading. My fear in life is not being able to assimilate. While at the end of the day it is just acne, you know if an employer got one look at it they would likely be shallow and not hire me. For years I have just been avoiding going places where I take my shirt off; however, with it spreading to my neck and arms, this is becoming impossible. The pain is pretty excruciating, I can't hardly sit back against chairs, and it generally hurts to move.

Anyways, I made the thread to mainly rant, but also ask if anyone can relate, or has had success with any products?

tl;dr- terrible acne, woe was me, any products work for you?

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Anonymous #2]
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I do agree with 2 about the meditation thing your stress about the acne could be making it worse so meditation might help some. My suggestion for you is hit up all the pharmaceutical companies out there that deal with acne treatments your like a gold mine for new or experimental products. Write them all letters if emails attach pics and maybe you'll get a response. Couldn't hurt right? Plus I would probably go see another dermatoligist just for a second opinion. You could also look up some top skin doctors in the us and see about seeing one of them which may involve an out of state trip but if I were you that's something I would be willing to put up with considering the situation.


Good luck man.


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Edited by Rewindicus (11/28/11 09:26 PM)

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Anonymous #1]
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i've never had acne problems to be honest but i just did a quick search for you(God i love the internet)... you've already been to a doctor about this already and got nowhere... you're still considered young enough for androgens to play a role in this believe it or not so you can't rule out hormones completely... but i found something very interesting, that didn't surprise me... the holy, God be all AMA claims there's no relationship between diet and acne, which i find completely preposterous... i also found progressive healers who claim diet or moreso food allergies play a direct role in it... i thought hmmmm, interesting because moments earlier i came across a post where a girl's doctor prescribed her antihistamines and her acne rapidly cleared up... histamines are produced by the body in response to an allergic reaction to something among other things... i'm not telling you to get tested for allergies... but if you did i'd probably get tested for IgE and also IgG... the standard test is usually only IgE but i discovered quite recently that IgG can turn up quite abit that IgE missed... be aware though, this test can produce a false negative result just as easily as it can produce a false positive result... many people grab the bull by the horns and deal with it themselves and save $200.00-400.00 per test which seems to be the average for IgE and IgG... ohhh, by the way, stop taking two showers a day, it seems that can aggravate your acne... it's not a surface issue, your problem is occurring below the surface of your skin... 

i'm going to give you my standard lecture... i'm a vegan, but i'm not pushing that on you... what i am pushing is a completely whole foods diet... completely cutout or eliminate as much as possible processed foods... eliminate all sugar because it can be an irritant among other things... you can use honey and stevia instead... eliminate all dairy, i discovered dairy is one of the top food allergens... a significant number off people are allergic to eggs too so use them in moderation if at all... you can get your proteins from meat and you can get your calcium from vegetables, especially raw spinach... you can use rice milk in its place, it's delicious shit, you'll love it... i'd recommend soy milk but you might be allergic to it since there seems to be so correlation of allergic reaction to soy in some people... if your acne clears up you could try it because there's nothing better then chocolate soy milk and it's very healthy for you... if you start to redevelop problems then just stop using it... along with vegetables eat plenty of fresh fruit, fruit is very important and try to mix it up if you can...

start to do aerobic exercise everyday, do at least 20-30 minutes of it...

consider using supplements... a good high quality, high potency vitamin/mineral multi taken twice a day... once in the morning and one before dinner... also consider vitamin c 1000mg, fish oil capsules, omega3 fatty acids capsules and vitamin d 1000IU's capsule...

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yeah, it's either hormones or serious food allergies... when your acne disappears send me a PM to let me know how you made out...

Kensho :psychsplit:

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: cateyes]
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GLUTEN!

Do you eat grains?

Grains (bread, pasta, etc) are a big culprit of acne.

Next, you should wash with DR.Bronner soap and rinse your skin with apple cider vinegar.

Finally, you are probably deficient in Omega-3s

This supplement is phenomenal for complexion (and every health issue imaginable)

http://www.greenpasture.org/public/Products/ButterCodLiverBlend/index.cfm

This supplement will give you ALL the vitamin A, D, K and omega-3s you need every day.  It is a whole food supplement that is extremely rich in good fats and fat soluble vitamins.  I eat it every day and notice it helps my complexion a lot.  I literally refer to it as the nectar of the gods.

Roman soldiers got a daily ration of fermented cod liver oil, and would refuse to march without it!  This is the healthiest food in the world imo.

Putting products on your skin will make it worse imo.  You need to go all natural and heal your skin.  Dr. Bronners soap, then rinse with apple cider vinegar (give a scrub with it too).  Then after the shower apply coconut oil to the skin.

But the biggest thing here will be eating too much gluten from grains and lack of omega-3s (which you should get from fish/pastured meat or the supplement I posted, and no other supplement)

Edited by Cannashroom (11/29/11 01:54 PM)

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Cannashroom]
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I had really severe acne on my face, i tried topical treatments with skin peels and it did not work. I tried antibiotics and still no help so i had to get on accutane. It was a horrible experience with tons of side effects for me, but 6 months later and my skin is clean. Don't know if you feel its worth it or not. My friend tried some natural cures from guides online, but i didn't use any of them because i don't believe in natural cures. He sent me to this review site though acne guides reviewed. It might be worth to check out, hope it helps man! I know how it feels to have severe acne, so good luck.

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: montreal]
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montreal said:
I tried antibiotics and still no help so i had to get on accutane. It was a horrible experience with tons of side effects for me, but 6 months later and my skin is clean.


he already tried accutane...

Kensho :psychsplit:

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. *DELETED* [Re: Cannashroom]
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Edited by Anonymous (11/30/11 07:17 AM)

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Anonymous #3]
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How's your hygiene? Not insinuating you're a slob, but showering with an oil reducing soap, or even a dry skin soap may help. Your body produces natural oils and they fight off bacteria, if you're using stuff that dries your skin it could be messing with it, or if you're not getting rid of the oils enough it could be the cause. You can also try slathering on toothpaste, or getting an emulsifier to remove all the dead skin and what not. There's about a million causes for acne (my gf has it pretty bad) and only a few treatments. Try the meditation, hit up a steam room to sweat out toxins, clean up your diet, and get the right soap for your skin.


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I challenge you to challenge yourself more! When you feel complacent and ready to hang it up, challenge yourself to get over it! If you fail, don't look at it as you didn't succeed, look at it as you would a rock face you're trying to climb. Stand back, wayyyy back, and look at it and plot another path. If you can't find one, shuffle down the way a little, a little change of scenery or a view from a different angle may give you the insight you need.

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: fngbronco] * 1
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Just a curious question OP....

When was the last time your skin has seen the sun? And I'm not talking about just your arms, or your face. I'm talking about having nothing but shorts or boxers on.. outside for over an hour.

When was it?

I'm just wondering. I use to have an acne problem myself (not as bad as you, but still bad), but as soon as I started swimming and going for runs with my shirt off and being outside without clothes along with cleaning up my diet, my acne cleared up, sometimes 1 or 2 zits but they are rare nowadays.. I try and be outside for over an hour a day but it doesn't always work out like that.

your skin complexion looks like it hasn't seen the sun in awhile. Maybe you should give it a try. People say the sun isn't good the skin and it causes cancer but... our bodies are use to the sun, we've been adapting to it for thousands of years :shrug:

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Uzziel]
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Thanks to everyone who has given me suggestions, some I have already tried others I am going to try. To those who suggested changing my diet, I like to think I eat a very balanced diet as far as  the food table is concerned; however, I never put any credence or thought into drastically changing it like cutting out dairy, glutten, or going vegan.

Anonymous said:
i'd really hit the sauna too. bring lots of purified water. drink deep and sweat like it's my job. (skin condition may get slightly worse at first, but once you really get sweating the toxins and acids out it, should improve quite a bit.

sunshine. i'd definitely want to get some sun on my back!
i'd even try out swimming in the ocean if thats available. but i've actally noticed that even chlorine pools seem to help skin conditions. :shrug:



Sauna and swimming are two things i'd definitely like to try out. Chlorine seems to irritate my skin; however, I do live only a 30 minute drive from the beach. Thanks for the suggestions.

fngbronco said:
How's your hygiene? Not insinuating you're a slob, but showering with an oil reducing soap, or even a dry skin soap may help. Your body produces natural oils and they fight off bacteria, if you're using stuff that dries your skin it could be messing with it, or if you're not getting rid of the oils enough it could be the cause. You can also try slathering on toothpaste, or getting an emulsifier to remove all the dead skin and what not. There's about a million causes for acne (my gf has it pretty bad) and only a few treatments. Try the meditation, hit up a steam room to sweat out toxins, clean up your diet, and get the right soap for your skin.


Like I said in the OP, I shower twice daily and people often consider me a clean freak. I wasn't always like this, but my skin condition has made me rather obsessive about staying clean. However, I see some of you have pointed out that showering twice a day may actually be doing more harm then good. So i am going to take this into consideration as well. Thanks for the tips.

Uzziel said:
When was the last time your skin has seen the sun? And I'm not talking about just your arms, or your face. I'm talking about having nothing but shorts or boxers on.. outside for over an hour.



Very rarely, its not the most comfortable thing in the world walking around without a shirt on when you are tattered with cystic acne. I never really contemplated this, I will try to get some more sun on my body, thanks for the tip.

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Anonymous #1]
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Yeah man I know it's embarrassing. It was awful for me to take off my shirt and go outside and run... it was very unpleasant. The sun did wonders for my skin though..

This is just my experience though so I can't say the same for you.

Good luck man and I hope it gets better, I really do... having acne really sucks.

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Uzziel]
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I had terrible acne for a long time, but accutane cleared it right up in 3 months.  I still get some zits here and there, but for the most part it was amazing.

I don't know what to suggest if you've already tried that :feelsbadman:

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: pwnasaurus]
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Have you ut your showering down yet? Has it helped?


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I challenge you to challenge yourself more! When you feel complacent and ready to hang it up, challenge yourself to get over it! If you fail, don't look at it as you didn't succeed, look at it as you would a rock face you're trying to climb. Stand back, wayyyy back, and look at it and plot another path. If you can't find one, shuffle down the way a little, a little change of scenery or a view from a different angle may give you the insight you need.

Anything I state is relayed information from a friend of a friend and should be viewed as completely fictitious. I do not partake in any illegal or grey-area-of-the-law activities, but do have lots of friends who may or may not.    -fngbronco

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: fngbronco]
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pwnasaurus said:
I had terrible acne for a long time, but accutane cleared it right up in 3 months.  I still get some zits here and there, but for the most part it was amazing.

I don't know what to suggest if you've already tried that :feelsbadman:


yeah accutane was straight out toxic to my body. Gave me the most extreme migraines.

fngbronco said:
Have you ut your showering down yet? Has it helped?


Believe it or not it has. I still wash my face/neck at night; however, I cut the shower at night out. Obviously its not gone or anything, but it does feel less sore and broken out after not doubling up on the shower these last few days.

Ill keep everyone informed, I plan to give all the suggestions a try.

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Anonymous #1]
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What kind of showers do you take?

If you're taking hot showers, it's not good for the skin, especially 2 hot showers.

Dehydrates the skin and the skin tries to overcompensate by producing more oil (and thus, more acne)

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Uzziel]
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Holy shit thats bad.

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Anonymous #1]
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Some people need to take accuatane multiple times but it does work (with sideeffects)
DONT DRINK A GALLON OF MILK. MILK has hormones that can aggravate acne

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: i like cow poo]
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Uzziel said:
What kind of showers do you take?

If you're taking hot showers, it's not good for the skin, especially 2 hot showers.

Dehydrates the skin and the skin tries to overcompensate by producing more oil (and thus, more acne)


hot showers, yeah...

Anonymous said:
Holy shit thats bad.


yeah...

i like cow poo said:
Some people need to take accuatane multiple times but it does work (with sideeffects)
DONT DRINK A GALLON OF MILK. MILK has hormones that can aggravate acne


the only milk I drink is a glass in the morning with my breakfast normally. I do eat quite a bit of cheese though, which im trying to cut back on.

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Re: I have the most severe acne you have ever seen, pictures inside. [Re: Anonymous #1]
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I recommend cutting out dairy products and implementing cranberry juice. does ur family have a history of acne?

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