My Experience of Acne

I have suffered with bad skin for years and have finally been labeled with acne in my late 20's. I have been prescribed numerous things by the doctors, dianette, oxytetracycline, dialycin and many other hard to spell miracle cures. Finally after over 18 months of the worst skin I've ever experienced I've been given Roaccutane...what led to this...lets see I look back at pictures of myself only 2 years ago and I truly don't recognise myself. Its so upsetting that I see this happy young-ish woman with skin that has the odd blemish cleverly hidden with concealer....and now...well now I am the high school cliche of a pizza faced teenager. People say I look younger ...

Hi, I have had acne since I was about 12 (I am 22 now) and had always hated it, back in my early teens I had tried various creams and a few anti-biotics (I forget the names) which hadn't ever had a significant effect. I then started to take Doxycycline when I was 19 which cleared up my skin very well and had no real side effects apart from the fact that it interferes with the pill at the beginning of using it. The problem was that if I stopped taking it then the acne would come back almost immediately, after 3 years of taking it I changed doctor and asked if there was a treatment that would clear up my acne for good so that I could stop taking tablets ...

Well where do I start? I surpose this is a really hard subjet for me, and I'm sure any other person who has had acne or still suffers from it would feel the same. It takes over your life. Well I found it did any way.Let me begin so you can understand. It all started at the age of about 14, I started to get afew spots here and there and I didn't really think anything of it, I just thought that every teenager gets then so I didn't have any hang ups about it. But it got worse. Mum and Dad said both their skins were spotty when they were younger and that I would grow out of them. They started to get worse and thats when the problems started. I was always ...