>3 hours later >ZERO response, be it shitpost and/or shit talking
Board is dead or I hit a nerve with janitors. >hint: we all know the board isn't dead]
also >inb4 /misc/tard
>he wasn’t raised to wash his bedding biweekly
Feel bad for you man
>biweekly
Disgusting. Weekly is mandatory.
never had acne in my life and i would sometimes go months without changing my bedding
though nowadays i do it fortnightly and the pillow case at least weekly
That's all there's really to it. It's just genetics. Some people get acne from anything and everything and some people never get acne no matter what. It sucks. People with normal skin can literally rub dirt on their faces as camo and never get any pimples from it.
Yes, for the most part. >quit dairy >quit fast food >quit processed sweets >2-3 liters of water per day >consistent 8 hours of sleep per day >daily pillow cover change >wash face with cerave blemish control cleanser >0,5% retinol cream at night (work your way up with weaker concentrations) >moisturizer with UV protection in the morning
Quitting dairy was by far the biggest thing for me. I was doing creams and pillow case changes for a long time before, still had acne. Your experience may be different, acne triggers vary greatly between people. It's best to do an elimination diet that includes food groups you're most suspicious of, quit them for 4 months, if you see an improvement, reintroduce one of the groups to see if the problem comes back, repeat. >inb4 dairy good
Dairy is the #1 acne trigger for most people. There are people who eat it and never have acne. But if you do have acne, it should be the first thing to be suspicious of. It sucks, I like dairy, i miss whey, cheese, skyr, getting enough calcium is harder, etc. But I've been dealing with acne since early teens and I am done looking like I'm still in puberty.
My nose has been blowing up with pimples for a couple years and the only thing that would get rid of it is antibiotics. Haven’t had any gluten for 3 days and haven’t had a single pimple since. Kind of a bummer if I can’t eat any bread ever again but if this works for good it’s a frickin relief
Dudes with mild acne will tell guys with hardcore adult cystic acne to just "get sunlight, change your pillowcase and drink more water" and think they're being helpful
Get on isotretinoin it's the only thing that worked for me. Use a smoothing cleanser in the shower everyday before moisturizing.
As a teenager I had cystic acne on my back and mildly on my face. I was also a turbo horny frickwit and nearly lost my mind while part of a cult so maybe there was something off in my endocrine system. But I'm all good now so
yes I had to go on accutane from cystic acne I had from 15-24yo. It's literally the only thing that worked. I spent my younger years as incel because of it, and now I'm a shut in. Wonder how things could have gone differently if I had parents that cared enough to get me to a derm for it.
This is straight up toxicity in your body, or really bad diet
without dealing with the root cause, no shit you put on your skin will fix it forever
it's a symptom of greater problems
It would be useful if our body could tell us what's causing it, unfortunately there are millions of things that could be causing it, you can't troubleshoot each thing for months on end, you wouldn't have enough with a lifetime to find what the issue is.
With all the shit that we ingest/inhale/come to contact with in society, if you don't have genetics to help your skin the only thing you can do is use isotretinoin and skin-care.
losing weight, exercise and eating clean improved most of it but it really went away when I started avoiding PUFA, not even just seed oils, nuts, fats from pork, fat from chicken, eggs and certain grains that are high in them included in this
Its always and will forever be a gut flora issue. Once I started eating real food and limited goyslop while introducing fermented foods all my skin problems started going away. No one seems to believe me though but their loss.
I don't think just regular store bought yogurt is enough unless its some local made shit. Seriously try eating heavily fermented foods daily or every other day. I'm at the point where I know I eat shitty food I'm gassy as hell from my gut going crazy from the awful shit in there fighting me. Also what's underrated and just as important as a healthy biome is not eating foods that nuke your gut bacteria as well. (See artificial sweetener)
No dice on local / homemade shit, I'm in an apartment block with messy ass animals. I'll do it in my own place though, gonna be making wine and cheese for a living if I can get away with it.
Yes, stop eating shit. Eat less carbs and eat more healthy fats to help balance your hormones. Drink more water or green tea. Make sure you're getting good sleep atleast 7-8 hours a night. Wash your face twice a day, use moisturizer and a topical ointment like AHA/BHA or azelaic acid.
Don't touch your face/pick your face throughout the day. Wash your pillow cases and your phone screen, don't let dirty objects touch your face.
i had bad acne from 12-18 then it went away completely and i get maybe one small zit every year and that's it and i eat like shit and change my sheets once every 2 weeks or so
No. My plan now is to do this everyday: walk 10k steps, one meal a day with either steak or goat meat or ground beef rotation, 2 tbsp of both apple cider vinegar and santa cruz pure lemon juice. Washing with Dr Squatch soap instead of Herbal Essence Shampoo. If this combo don't work and I still got acne, I'll kill myself.
no
I still have some on chest/back/shoulders
it's not as bad as when I was a teenager though
tried different advice, diet changes, etc. for a few months off/on
no luck
I considered accutane but I chickened out after hearing about potential gut issues or something and gave up since I'm full of scars anyway
It does have some warnings, typically you should monitor your mood while you're taking it, and it might be best to avoid it if you have a history of depression, but being fugly is a well known cause of depression so it might just be better for your mental health to not have a giant zitstorm where your face should be
It can cause depression and some anxiety but bad acne can also cause both of those conditions. I was on Accutane and it completely cleared my cystic acne in 6 months and left no noticeable scars (don't pick your zits). It made my depression and anxiety worse for the duration but I'm glad I went through with it. Acne alone can really frick you up especially in your formative years when looks are a high priority for many.
> Acne alone can really frick you up especially in your formative years when looks are a high priority for many.
Can confirm. When went from a kid that got a lot of attention from girls to pizza faced freak. I got rejected all the time and it destroyed my confidence. Now that it's gone and I've lost weight I feel like an entirely different person.
I have the same exact experience. Had my first girlfriend at 15 who was smoking hot and next year my acne started to flare up and I became a anxiety ridden recluse with no friends. So glad I got through it somehow.
>6 months ago, still have acne at 27, realize it is never gonna go away on its own >start skincare routine, acne is now gone 6 months later but the red spots don't heal and I aged 5 years and have wrinkles now
Why even bother with life
how bad is it? for me scarring was so bad, people were accusing me of being a junkie, methhead lol. I guess wearing make up to hide it was less bad, idgaf if it's homosexualy. i'm just restoring it to what it was, nothing more
Idk, probably not the worst in the world. I just give up, I will never be happy, I went straight from ugly kid to ugly old man. My worst feature is my chinlet numale face structure so clear skin was a cope anyway.
it's not a bad cope. you just have to look palatable or tolerable to most normies, then they won't bother you. when i looked like a junkie, people were fricking mean to me for no reason. i look slightly nicer and life so much better
I did, unfortunately it took me until I was like 17 to figure it out, and by that time my skin was permanently fricked up (not a lot, but enough to annoy me when I look in the mirror). I basically had pizza for a face during middle school but my parents wouldn't take me to a dermatologist. >b-but Accutane fricks your shit up!
I am certain the lifelong social damage of spending two formative years looking like I was diseased was worse for my life than my hormones being more out of whack for a bit would have been.
by going through Polish second puberty
occasionally I'll get one or two cystic pimples on my back or ass, but my face has been clear for like six years
the tradeoff is that I look old and my head is fricking huge so I have the head to body proportions of someone who's 5'7 at 6'0 but I don't really care because I perpetually look like an OMOH cop when my hair's short anyway
Cost $80 to buy 25g of accutane from China. 0 acne in 6 years. Absurd and insane that anyone ever tries anything else. Frick doctors. I mean it. Line up every single one and rape them in an industrial rape machine custom built for maximum agony.
I don't really have acne but struggle with folliculitis and shitty skin overall.
What I have noticed actually making a difference is >minimize (eliminate to the extent possible) sugar intake >drink ~3 liters water daily >clindamycin lotion from derm >DO NOT touch face
Came here to say this brother. Folliculitis is a fricking nightmare. Sometimes it flares up sometimes its not a problem at all. Literally can't figure it out. It affects my scalp and back more than anything. The best thing I've learned to do is just NOT EVER TOUCH IT. It always spreads when I feel around for them. No idea how I got it, but it's been fricking years. Luckily it's not nearly as bad as people I've seen online. Still sucks ass though. When you get a haircut make sure it's never skin tight. Tell the barber to keep some length.
my grandpa had told me a spell where you should steal (emphasis on the stealing) a little bit of salt from someone when the moon that night would be near its fullness, then you have to wait for half a month and when there's a new moon you must go outside at night and say "holy mary make my pimples go away like the moon goes away" and rub the stolen salt on them and then they leave and it works so idk
Every Friday or Saturday night. Followed by the 0.3% concentration gel on the subsequent night. Completely clears the face, as if there was no breakout.
Don't listen to this moron and the other morons that shill cosmetic products. Go see a dermatologist, they can prescribe things you can't buy which work much better
bunch of things that can have an effect, just have to figure out which ones work for you
- cut out shitty oils (the good ones are olive, flaxseed, coconut and hemp)
- moar water
- take vitamin A
- drop dairy products for a while and see if anything changes
- buy better quality food (especially veggies & meat), not the cheapest shit you can find.
cutting stuff out is too much of a hassle
if you take yourself seriously, do a 3-day water and salt fast then start by eating only quality beef from your local butcher. already acne should stop. then slowly add other foods starting with eggs and butter, then maybe leaves and roots, etc.. you eat something new and get acne then you never eat it again.
Fasting and washing my pillow sheets regularly cleared my face.
Dropping seed oils, clean bedsheets, clean diet, reduce stress.
>clean bedsheets
This is a big one
More than people might think
I changed my pillow cases and it made a world of difference
>he wasn’t raised to wash his bedding biweekly
Feel bad for you man
>biweekly
Disgusting. Weekly is mandatory.
>tfw 40 and wash my bedding quarter annually
>3 hours later
>ZERO response, be it shitpost and/or shit talking
Board is dead or I hit a nerve with janitors.
>hint: we all know the board isn't dead]
also
>inb4 /misc/tard
I change my cases daily, plus wash my face once or twice a day, and I don't think I've seen any kind of improvement
never had acne in my life and i would sometimes go months without changing my bedding
though nowadays i do it fortnightly and the pillow case at least weekly
That's all there's really to it. It's just genetics. Some people get acne from anything and everything and some people never get acne no matter what. It sucks. People with normal skin can literally rub dirt on their faces as camo and never get any pimples from it.
I use cum as skincare and it saved my skin
Vitamin a, its all you need.
I eat kale in smoothies every day. Is that enough?
NO
No, take vitamin a pills.
Never had a problem with acne
Yes, for the most part.
>quit dairy
>quit fast food
>quit processed sweets
>2-3 liters of water per day
>consistent 8 hours of sleep per day
>daily pillow cover change
>wash face with cerave blemish control cleanser
>0,5% retinol cream at night (work your way up with weaker concentrations)
>moisturizer with UV protection in the morning
Quitting dairy was by far the biggest thing for me. I was doing creams and pillow case changes for a long time before, still had acne. Your experience may be different, acne triggers vary greatly between people. It's best to do an elimination diet that includes food groups you're most suspicious of, quit them for 4 months, if you see an improvement, reintroduce one of the groups to see if the problem comes back, repeat.
>inb4 dairy good
Dairy is the #1 acne trigger for most people. There are people who eat it and never have acne. But if you do have acne, it should be the first thing to be suspicious of. It sucks, I like dairy, i miss whey, cheese, skyr, getting enough calcium is harder, etc. But I've been dealing with acne since early teens and I am done looking like I'm still in puberty.
My nose has been blowing up with pimples for a couple years and the only thing that would get rid of it is antibiotics. Haven’t had any gluten for 3 days and haven’t had a single pimple since. Kind of a bummer if I can’t eat any bread ever again but if this works for good it’s a frickin relief
Heard niacin helps. Dont go to crazy tho. Also clean your face with some acne scrub and moisturize it with aloe vera
I shower twice a day and don't use roids.
I'm also not in high school.
I stopped eating anything that contains milk
Dudes with mild acne will tell guys with hardcore adult cystic acne to just "get sunlight, change your pillowcase and drink more water" and think they're being helpful
Get on isotretinoin it's the only thing that worked for me. Use a smoothing cleanser in the shower everyday before moisturizing.
As a teenager I had cystic acne on my back and mildly on my face. I was also a turbo horny frickwit and nearly lost my mind while part of a cult so maybe there was something off in my endocrine system. But I'm all good now so
yes I had to go on accutane from cystic acne I had from 15-24yo. It's literally the only thing that worked. I spent my younger years as incel because of it, and now I'm a shut in. Wonder how things could have gone differently if I had parents that cared enough to get me to a derm for it.
truth, just do get it over with.
This is straight up toxicity in your body, or really bad diet
without dealing with the root cause, no shit you put on your skin will fix it forever
it's a symptom of greater problems
It would be useful if our body could tell us what's causing it, unfortunately there are millions of things that could be causing it, you can't troubleshoot each thing for months on end, you wouldn't have enough with a lifetime to find what the issue is.
With all the shit that we ingest/inhale/come to contact with in society, if you don't have genetics to help your skin the only thing you can do is use isotretinoin and skin-care.
What happened to her eyebrow?
she's a woman and cuts herself for attention
losing weight, exercise and eating clean improved most of it but it really went away when I started avoiding PUFA, not even just seed oils, nuts, fats from pork, fat from chicken, eggs and certain grains that are high in them included in this
>eggs
frick you homie
Its always and will forever be a gut flora issue. Once I started eating real food and limited goyslop while introducing fermented foods all my skin problems started going away. No one seems to believe me though but their loss.
I spam yogurt and that's probably helped, alongside limiting grains intake (could be a gluten issue for me).
I don't think just regular store bought yogurt is enough unless its some local made shit. Seriously try eating heavily fermented foods daily or every other day. I'm at the point where I know I eat shitty food I'm gassy as hell from my gut going crazy from the awful shit in there fighting me. Also what's underrated and just as important as a healthy biome is not eating foods that nuke your gut bacteria as well. (See artificial sweetener)
No dice on local / homemade shit, I'm in an apartment block with messy ass animals. I'll do it in my own place though, gonna be making wine and cheese for a living if I can get away with it.
For me, it's kefir
Yes, stop eating shit. Eat less carbs and eat more healthy fats to help balance your hormones. Drink more water or green tea. Make sure you're getting good sleep atleast 7-8 hours a night. Wash your face twice a day, use moisturizer and a topical ointment like AHA/BHA or azelaic acid.
Don't touch your face/pick your face throughout the day. Wash your pillow cases and your phone screen, don't let dirty objects touch your face.
eat beef liver. you lack vitamins and minerals, specifically vit A . beef liver gie you a shit load and is very io available
i had bad acne from 12-18 then it went away completely and i get maybe one small zit every year and that's it and i eat like shit and change my sheets once every 2 weeks or so
No. My plan now is to do this everyday: walk 10k steps, one meal a day with either steak or goat meat or ground beef rotation, 2 tbsp of both apple cider vinegar and santa cruz pure lemon juice. Washing with Dr Squatch soap instead of Herbal Essence Shampoo. If this combo don't work and I still got acne, I'll kill myself.
tea tree oil body wash, clean bed sheets, and nutragena acne body spray cleared my back and shoulders up.
no
I still have some on chest/back/shoulders
it's not as bad as when I was a teenager though
tried different advice, diet changes, etc. for a few months off/on
no luck
I considered accutane but I chickened out after hearing about potential gut issues or something and gave up since I'm full of scars anyway
Does accutane have change in personality as a side effect or am I mixing it up with some other med?
It does have some warnings, typically you should monitor your mood while you're taking it, and it might be best to avoid it if you have a history of depression, but being fugly is a well known cause of depression so it might just be better for your mental health to not have a giant zitstorm where your face should be
It can cause depression and some anxiety but bad acne can also cause both of those conditions. I was on Accutane and it completely cleared my cystic acne in 6 months and left no noticeable scars (don't pick your zits). It made my depression and anxiety worse for the duration but I'm glad I went through with it. Acne alone can really frick you up especially in your formative years when looks are a high priority for many.
> Acne alone can really frick you up especially in your formative years when looks are a high priority for many.
Can confirm. When went from a kid that got a lot of attention from girls to pizza faced freak. I got rejected all the time and it destroyed my confidence. Now that it's gone and I've lost weight I feel like an entirely different person.
I have the same exact experience. Had my first girlfriend at 15 who was smoking hot and next year my acne started to flare up and I became a anxiety ridden recluse with no friends. So glad I got through it somehow.
Yeah, I got old.
Started having sex and my acne cleared right up
>6 months ago, still have acne at 27, realize it is never gonna go away on its own
>start skincare routine, acne is now gone 6 months later but the red spots don't heal and I aged 5 years and have wrinkles now
Why even bother with life
just own it and look scruff or
if it's that bad and you look like a pizza, you earned the right to use make up
I still cant grow facial hair actually
how bad is it? for me scarring was so bad, people were accusing me of being a junkie, methhead lol. I guess wearing make up to hide it was less bad, idgaf if it's homosexualy. i'm just restoring it to what it was, nothing more
Idk, probably not the worst in the world. I just give up, I will never be happy, I went straight from ugly kid to ugly old man. My worst feature is my chinlet numale face structure so clear skin was a cope anyway.
it's not a bad cope. you just have to look palatable or tolerable to most normies, then they won't bother you. when i looked like a junkie, people were fricking mean to me for no reason. i look slightly nicer and life so much better
you're such a fricking b***h dude. I mean seriously just stop being such a homosexual and your life will improve dramatically
I did, unfortunately it took me until I was like 17 to figure it out, and by that time my skin was permanently fricked up (not a lot, but enough to annoy me when I look in the mirror). I basically had pizza for a face during middle school but my parents wouldn't take me to a dermatologist.
>b-but Accutane fricks your shit up!
I am certain the lifelong social damage of spending two formative years looking like I was diseased was worse for my life than my hormones being more out of whack for a bit would have been.
It's a diet thing.
Jesus, people with acne are so greasy and repulsive
It's like your own body telling people around you "STAY AWAY, I'M A DISEASED RUNT"
I don't eat plants
Magnesium cleared my acne.
Yeah I did accutane, it was easy.
Got prescribed these a year ago by my GP (uk), and within 3 months I've never seen more than one pimple on my face.
I just got prescribed antibiotics for my acne 2 days ago
did it take long to see results?
my acne wasn't too awful in the first place, but probably about around 1-2months for me? gl anon
Accutane
by going through Polish second puberty
occasionally I'll get one or two cystic pimples on my back or ass, but my face has been clear for like six years
the tradeoff is that I look old and my head is fricking huge so I have the head to body proportions of someone who's 5'7 at 6'0 but I don't really care because I perpetually look like an OMOH cop when my hair's short anyway
Tretinoin + Retinol
It literally just werks
Cost $80 to buy 25g of accutane from China. 0 acne in 6 years. Absurd and insane that anyone ever tries anything else. Frick doctors. I mean it. Line up every single one and rape them in an industrial rape machine custom built for maximum agony.
>accutane
gives you depression
I don't really have acne but struggle with folliculitis and shitty skin overall.
What I have noticed actually making a difference is
>minimize (eliminate to the extent possible) sugar intake
>drink ~3 liters water daily
>clindamycin lotion from derm
>DO NOT touch face
also cutting fast food, but that goes hand in hand with eliminating sugar
Came here to say this brother. Folliculitis is a fricking nightmare. Sometimes it flares up sometimes its not a problem at all. Literally can't figure it out. It affects my scalp and back more than anything. The best thing I've learned to do is just NOT EVER TOUCH IT. It always spreads when I feel around for them. No idea how I got it, but it's been fricking years. Luckily it's not nearly as bad as people I've seen online. Still sucks ass though. When you get a haircut make sure it's never skin tight. Tell the barber to keep some length.
drinking more water, washing my face when waking up and before bed, change pillow sheets often and swallow a garlic every night (dont chew it)
>swallow garlic, don't chew
Elaborate
You can cut/chew the garlic. You need only remove the germ first. As an added bonus, digestion will be much easier. Yw
my grandpa had told me a spell where you should steal (emphasis on the stealing) a little bit of salt from someone when the moon that night would be near its fullness, then you have to wait for half a month and when there's a new moon you must go outside at night and say "holy mary make my pimples go away like the moon goes away" and rub the stolen salt on them and then they leave and it works so idk
Thanks /x/.
I can't get my stress down.
all the scientific literature will disagree with me but the best and fastest way to stop acne is done by 2 steps
1-hand sanitizer(on your face)
2-don't touch your face
I don't think skin experts would disagree, but a study can't really monitor people 24/7 to see if they touch their skin.
I had really bad ance which I tried everything to get rid of. Then I got to a certain age, and it just stopped for some reason.
testosterone. you started producing less of it
Theyre just pimples, squeeze them when theyre small and startinf and there wont be scars.
unironically the only thing after 28 years of living that worked for me is cleaning my face with micellar water every morning and before bed
Fasting, changing my cleaning products, organ meats and cutting out sugar and sneed oils fixed it for me.
Every Friday or Saturday night. Followed by the 0.3% concentration gel on the subsequent night. Completely clears the face, as if there was no breakout.
Don't listen to this moron and the other morons that shill cosmetic products. Go see a dermatologist, they can prescribe things you can't buy which work much better
just stop eating carbs and it fixes it.
idgaf
bunch of things that can have an effect, just have to figure out which ones work for you
- cut out shitty oils (the good ones are olive, flaxseed, coconut and hemp)
- moar water
- take vitamin A
- drop dairy products for a while and see if anything changes
- buy better quality food (especially veggies & meat), not the cheapest shit you can find.
cutting stuff out is too much of a hassle
if you take yourself seriously, do a 3-day water and salt fast then start by eating only quality beef from your local butcher. already acne should stop. then slowly add other foods starting with eggs and butter, then maybe leaves and roots, etc.. you eat something new and get acne then you never eat it again.
I started showering every day in middle school. Turning 17 also helped. Let me know when you achieve either of those things.
yeah, stop eating grains