Name: happiness is waiting
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My Experience of Acne |
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14.04.08 (202 review reads) |
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Advantages: the future may well be brighter
Disadvantages: it takes patience to get there
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 and I think its because they see my skin and think that someone closing in on thirty couldn't possibly look like they've walked out of a computer convention...cliche's all round.
So after months of staggering changes in my skin I went to my doctor explained about the change in my skin and she kindly offered to prescribe dianette again....after ballooning when I was last on it I bit my lip and decided to go for it again, after bulging out of my bra and realising I'd gone up two sizes in less than a month I wondered whether it was really worth it. The skin hadn't cleared up and apart from rivaling Jordan i was still utterly depressed.
This continued, well not the Jordan bit, with other magical potions but nothing made a dent on my skin, it continued to get worse. went from having some unsightly blemishes to having large boil type spots covering my cheeks. They were extremely painful and took weeks to clear up,never coming to anything more than a large red lump.
Finally after months of steering clear of public places, not socializing with friends and having nights curled up crying my loving and patient boyfriend urged me to see a dermatologist. My doctor referred me and I was prescribed Roaccutane. Only been on it for less than a week but already having the horrid side effects; dry dry lips and skin that isn't my usual experience of dry, more extreme peeling from sunburn. I'm moisturizing like every 20 minutes with the least perfumed and gentle cream I can find. I don't want to write horror stories or for that matter read them, i just want what everyone else would like; clearer skin. I'm hoping this will be the answer, because in less 6 months I'm due to get married and for once I want to be ok with people looking at me. I'm going to write a blog cos it really helped me to read facts about how this tablet can affect you. I'm emotional anyway so crying isn't that alien to me, but bursting into tears at work is far from my norm. But then I look odd, I have skin peeling in April when its been a weekend of rain, my face looks sunburnt but I'm whiter than white everywhere else and my lips are so dry they're near bleeding if I dare to smile. I hope that my acne goes away because it really makes me unbearably sad. I have a loving boyfriend, family and friends but when you feel like you don't want to step out of the door that can sometimes be little solace. Not that I don't adore these people, but self-esteem is hard to come by and its definitely not allocated by those around you. Its something within you, and at the moment I'm just very sad.
Acne is pooey and I hate it. Here's keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't like me either and finally leaves me alone
Summary: Be open to things and discount horror stories
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