I had moderate acne when I was 14 years old and it continued through high school. I had breakouts here & there but nothing severe. Eventually my skin would hardly break out at all & it seemed to be reaching a peak. Then at 19 years old, my skin began to break out horribly. Most of the pimples occurred beneath the skin on my cheeks. I tried using the same cleansing routine I had been using but it only got worse so i switched to proactiv. About half a year later, it is finally clearing up & I am left with countless scars. Is there a particular reason that my skin began to break out again? Could it be linked to a hormonal disease?

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so i know this question has been asked like a billion times but please help!
i’m 16 yrs old and have been suffering from acne since i was 11. i have super oily skin and like moderate acne - no cysts or painful nodules but it refuses to go away which is very frustrating!
i’ve tried irtually ever over the counter medication like proactiv and acne free but nothing works. i’ve even gone to doctor and gotten retinoids and benzaclin but those didn’t work either - benzaclin made skin worse
i want to go to dermatologist and since my skin won’t work w/ topical they might suggest oral contraceptives (birth control) but my mom has said no because she thinks once my skin clears i’ll start sleeping aroun w/ guys (she’s never had zits by the way)
my slef-esteem’s pretty low - i’m ugly and sometimes i cry because i’ll never get a boyfriend if my skin looks like crap
i shy away from mirrors and pics and my friends don’t understand because they get like one or two zits that always disappear.
i try wearing makeup but that doesn’t work and i hate wearing caked on makeup. i tried going w/o but it still didn’t clear up.
girls that have gone through this or are going through this please, i’m desperate for help!
* by the way sry for spelling mistakes * i forgot to mention i’ve already tried home and natural remedies and clean and clear products. but thanks anyway girls

I have moderate acne with oily skin, and my skin has been pretty fine this year except now that summer is over and school has started, these past few weeks (especially) I’ve had really severe acne (large cysts) all over my forehead and a few on my chin (I realized I break out like crazy during this time of year for some reason). I’ve had bad acne since 5 years ago and I’ve been using the 3-step Proactiv system ever since about 3 years ago…but I’ve minimized the use because my bad acne has mostly cleared up since about 2 years ago so I just used mild cleansers like St Ive’s Apricot Scrub or other drugstore brand cleansers with Salicylic Acid in it instead of Proactiv’s Benzoyl Peroxide, and its been working fine. I’ve had pretty clear skin as far as I can remember until around this year mid-August and my face started breaking out, and especially now its really bad. So I went back to using the 3-step Proactiv system morning/night everyday now for about 2 weeks. And the thing is, it has been helping my cysts and acne…but my skin is terrible! After I wash my face with the cleanser (1st step in Proactiv), my skin is SO dry, especially my forehead! It seriously looks like after a severe earthquake and the ground has cracked into a thousand pieces…that is how my skin looks on my forehead! It is so dry and flaky. I can’t help but use my tweezer and pick out all the flaking skin off. And of course I can’t pick out every single little piece so I just use the toner (2nd step of Proactiv) to smooth it out…but after my forehead if you look closely, can see lines of where I peeled the skin off (the skin is paler)…and it looks horrible! Also when I raise my eyebrows and my forehead wrinkles, I can see that there’s like this whole layer of what looks and seems like dead, tanned skin on top of my (healthy skin?) on my forehead. Some additional information, I tanned and went out in the sun a lot over the summer (only using a SPF 8 on my face..So bad I know) so I guess its also the tanned skin on my forehead that’s peeling? Plus with the use of the drying out effects of Proactiv…I don’t know what to do. I’m paranoid that if I don’t peel the flaking/cracking skin off, it will go into my pores and clog them up and cause more acne. But I don’t like doing that either because 1. It takes up a lot of time and 2. The tweezers are probably unsanitary. But I don’t want to discontinue using Proactiv because I need it to help cure my acne. Also I don’t remember it drying out my skin this bad when I used it in the past. I am suffering…PLEASE HELP!!!!
*severe…typo on the question -_-;
ALSO I have not put any type of make-up on ever since I started breaking out with the numerous cysts, in hopes it would not worsen or agitate my breakout.