04-06-2007, 10:30 PM | #1 |
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Anyone here suffer (or has suffered) from adult acne?
I know zits are a fact of life, but being in my mid-20s, I find it downright embarassing. I've grown really self-conscious about my appearance, to the point where some days I don't like leaving the house. My skin was pretty normal through my teens - just the occasional pimple here and there, the usual growing pains. It became slightly worse after college, not so much in volume, but in frequency. Still, it was manageable and I didn't let it bother me. Then, when I landed in Taiwan last summer, my face just exploded. The areas along my jawbones are horrendous, my neck (the area between my chin and adam's apple) looks like a mogul run on a ski slope, and I can't remember a day without at least one fat bump on my eyebrow. The centers of my cheeks now have some moderate scarring from the whole affair. Truthfully my personality is such that I don't let my acne bother me too much. I get on with my life, working, dating and drinking, and fortunately I haven't had any bad encounters over my zit situation. What troubles me, however, is how sudden the outbreak was. Even more frustrating is how helpless I feel when I take every precaution possible, yet still wake up with a fresh batch of gleaming whiteheads across my face. Finally I got my hands on some medication that has helped tremendously. I went through several months of different cleansers and zit creams before a doctor prescribed liquid benzoyl-peroxide, which has cut back the severity and duration of infections. Nightly use of Differin has kept those little red warning bumps from erupting into full-blown catastrophes. Yesterday was the first day in about seven months - no exaggeration - that I didn't have at least one new zit upon waking up. Still, I've got a ways to go. My skin isn't nearly as bad as some that I have seen, but it's still splotchy and wretched-looking. There's still hope yet.
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04-06-2007, 11:40 PM | #2 |
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See you need to come back to the states , you are alergic to Taiwan !!
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04-06-2007, 11:56 PM | #3 |
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I never really had any breakouts as a teen...but now I get small ones sometimes, at age 40! It only happens when I don't drink enough water, though. Exfoliating regularly helps me a lot, too.
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04-07-2007, 02:24 AM | #4 |
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It seems fairly obvious it's a lifestyle thing that's causing the zits. Maybe you need to have a look at how your diet has changed etc and maybe try testing different things till you find the one that's causing the problem.
That's the best advice I have for you. Sorry it probably wont help too much.
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Actually I find diet really has no effect on my breakouts ... for about six weeks I paid attention to what I've been eating but the results were pretty marginal. Recently, when the acne situation has improved the most, I've been pretty loose about my diet (although I generally eat pretty healthy). I will say that I haven't been drinking as much lately, and last Thursday's binge didn't seem to cause any damage.
I will say the one direct link I have found is the amount of sleep I get. However, I wish I had more control over that aspect of my life ....
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04-07-2007, 04:22 AM | #6 |
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Is there any correlation with weather? I'd think dryer climes would be better than humid areas. Also, certain medications can cause it. When I started one there was about a month of zits. Pretty weird since I never had them before in my life. After that they went away again.
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04-07-2007, 02:45 PM | #10 |
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Stress also causes acne. A move to a far away place and starting a new school or job...smells like stress...
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04-07-2007, 05:59 PM | #11 |
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I was just putting it out there fresh. It's apparent that different doctors suggest different causes for things like acne, and also that there are different causes for different people.
With a move so large, and if the acne has only started since, I'd say it's obvious that something to do with the move is causing it. It's just a matter of what. Moving from the US to Asia would mean complete lifestyle change and therefor lots of different things could be the cause. Or maybe it's just a coincidence that genetics kicked in at the time of the move.
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04-07-2007, 07:52 PM | #12 |
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I have been blessed with good skin and hope that it stays that way, but I do have problems here and there. This is what I recommend:
Soak some cucumbers in cold water. Put the cucumbers on the more "red" areas just to soothe the skin. Save the cucumber water and wash your face in it - it really sooths sore, blotchy skin. Any product with tea tree oil in it is amazing. If you see a zit getting ready to rear its ugly head, right before you go to bed, put some toothpaste on it. Usually dries it up no problem. Good luck!!!
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04-08-2007, 01:42 AM | #13 |
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I vote for a change in cosmetics...soap, shampoo, shaving creme, after shave, cologne, toothpaste and maybe the water.
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04-08-2007, 02:03 AM | #14 |
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WHAT !!!!???? No PICS ??????
DUDE !!!! I thought we were FAMILY ( celler cousins or some such !!!)
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04-08-2007, 02:18 AM | #15 |
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