I’ve suffered from acne for the past few years, this year it was espesically bad. But, over the past month or two its gotten a lot better, so much better that I was about 95% clear and i had confidence and could look at people in the eyes without lowering my head. Still, my mom made me visit a medical cosmetologist, and it turns out that even though i’m clear, i still have some severe infection, and a lot of invisible cysts n eveyrhting, and if i dun take them out right now i’ll still break out and i’ll get scarring. So now i’m doing this treatment, to get rid of all the acne and cysts, and its going to take 20 treatments, or 5 months. And basically this treatment is i go, they open all my cysts n everything, and so the next day my face is a bit swollen and cuts everywhere, as well as I break out a lot which is supposed to happen. This process is i think called drainage. Now, my confidence is all time low, i’ve started keeping to myself, looking down when talking, its horrible. What do

I get THE WORST breakouts right before my period. I had to stay home from school the other day because my face was in so much pain because of the swelling and irritation. You can just imagine what it does for my confidence… anyway. Are there any ways to stop these hormones from affecting me!? I’ve been thinking about asking my mom for birth control, because my boyfriend and I have been together for three months and I just want to be prepared and responsible if anything does happen. But I also hear that it helps your skin by regulating your hormones. Is there any other way I can regulate them though?!

I get THE WORST breakouts right before my period. I had to stay home from school the other day because my face was in so much pain because of the swelling and irritation. You can just imagine what it does for my confidence… anyway. Are there any ways to stop these hormones from affecting me!? I’ve been thinking about asking my mom for birth control, because my boyfriend and I have been together for three months and I just want to be prepared and responsible if anything does happen. But I also hear that it helps your skin by regulating your hormones. Is there any other way I can regulate them though?!

I’ve had this severe acne for a month or two now, I had minor to mediocre acne before that. I’ve tried everything, commercial products, home treatments, eating better, eating peanut butter [omega 3/6], and all sorts of other things. I’m really tired of it now, it’s completely making me go into an emo type of person. I’ve lost my friends because I don’t go outside anymore and I had a job interview yesterday but I was so self conscious about it that I told them I had to cancel it. My doctor [not a dermatologist] gave me some pills called "Doxycycline hyclate." Girls use them for stomach problems and he told me if I took them it’d probably help with my acne. I haven’t tried them yet because back when I had minor acne I never saw a difference in it. I’m going to start taking it again but I really don’t think it’s going to work. I looked up something online and it said that I should took showers daily and when I’m taking the shower, to face my face into the water and just let the water run on my face for about a minute, I did that yesterday and today and all it seems to do is dry out my face and leave a bad layer of dead[?] skin everywhere, I can only feel it on the good skin though [the skin without acne.] My mom bought me this bar of soap that is 10% benzoil[spell check] peroxide and that just REALLY dries out my skin. Someone please help me out, by the way, I get that cyst acne every now and then which is REALLY bad because it leaves serious scars that I know are never going to go away.
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I’ve got acne and my doctor says its because of the imbalance of hormones. Is there any way I can cure my acne, not make them disappear because I know its impossible but atleast stop from breakouts and have a much clearer skin from now with any home made remedy cuz my mom’s not ready to buy me anything even if I insist because my doctor said that its gonna go by any of the products and Im really sick of my acne, its annoying. I used to apply the mixture of baking soda and water before and it did stop from breakouts for a long time, so I stopped using it after that. But now that, Im having a lot of new breakouts, I’ve started applying it again but I’m not seeing alot of results. Immediate help would be appreciated. Thanks