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My Experience of Acne |
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17/10/03 (1160 review reads) |
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Advantages: none
Disadvantages: roccautante causes painful lips, gives u little confidence, can be very painful
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 shy anyway at school and the acne just gave me even less confidence. My face wasn't too bad it just had alittle patch on my chin and cheeks, but it was my back and chest that really got me down. Across my boobs looked minging! I couldn't look in the mirror at my body. I never told my Mum and Dad about my chest and back because I think it would of made me feel worse.I just wanted rid of them and quickly.
I went to the doctors at 16 after 2 years of building the confidence up and just being fed up of going in the loos to change for PE. I never went swimming or wore strappy tops in the summer., Or even sleeve less tops. It was a living nightmare for someone like me who tried to stay in with the cool group, and having 4 stunning older sisters didn't help either. I always had questions asked about why I never changed in front of my close friends I just said I was too shy and hoped they would believe me. The doctors was scary and I thought that she would say I needed to wash more even though I knew that I had a shower 2 times a day to try and get rid of it. She ended up giving me antibiotics and a nother appointment in 2 months.
I took the medication and nothing happened. I went back so many times in the space of the next year and was give more drugs and nothing worked. I wa
s even put on the pill ( dianette) and that didn't work either. Then the next time I visited the doctors my emotions got the better of me and I ended up crying, I just didn't know what to do I Had no support and nothing seemed to work for my skin. The doctor ended up sending me to a skin specialist at the hospital and thats when things got worse.
When I walked in to the hospital I was worried I had never been to hospital before and to go about my skin was horrible. The specialist sat me down and asked me to take my top off. I was abit nervous but if it would clear my skin up I just didn't care anymore. The doctor explained that because I didn't have a problem on my face she wasn't gong to give me roccautane and told me to leave it and let it go away naturally.
I was so upset when I worked out of the hospital, I had just been told to deal with it and I couldn't. I just went there for support and got nothing. I went back to my gp the next month and explained how upset I had been about the hosptial and she couldn't believe what had happen. She got me another appointment with another doctor (male, but at this point I didn't care.)I went and he had a trainee in the room with him (a very fit guy!!) I went really red, but he ended up putting me on Roccautane for 6 months.
By this time I was 18 and it took 3 months for my skin to clear and my confidence to go up. I could finally go out in little tops. Boys discovered I had a nice pair of boobs which they had never seen on show before!! It felt really nice. I did get really dry lips but it with worth it. I never got any other side effects.
However it was almost like a dream, and you have to wake up sometime. I did wake up, and that was when my 6 months were up. It took 4 months for my skin to go back to how it was. This time though I was gonna make sure I wasn't gonna go back to the way i was. The skin specialist said I could go on a course of roccuata
nte, but I decided against it. I had become happy and didn't wanna be on drugs anymore and i that was it.
I'm now 20 and my skin could be better (same as most people), but its getting there with natural treatment. I use clear complection at £3.49 from holland &barrent.(taken twice a day) and wash my skin with teatree products. I also find wilkinsons skinology works well, and its only 1.29 per product which is good.
This is the first time in my life i feel like i'm free from the worry of acne. There was a time I thought I'd never be like this, but I managed it. And to anyone reading with acne keep your chin up, thats what i did even when I thought there was nothing going for me. You will get over it and my advice is to try roccuatante if your skins very painful and looks bad, and if not just use clear complexion tablets from holland and barrent as they really work, but give them 3 weeks to start working. Just enjoy life and don't worry about your skin and when you do that life will seem so much better!!
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