Beauty Tips For Body Care
Just wanted to say thank you to a few random posts on this sub which gave attention to what some here call "fungal acne". For many years I thought what I had was acne, but it was really folliculitis. In my early 20's I did one round of accutane, various antibiotics and a number of other prescription acne meds. I'm currently in my early 30's and have for about 5 years, completely ditched the self care routines I used to be so obsessed with doing (I had more or less.. given up). I don't know how in my many hours, days, weeks, months of trying to figure out what was wrong with me, I had never considered folliculitis.I suffered up until recently from red itchy spots, nodules, occasional cysts and once in a while very very fine grainy sort of bumps around my hairline. There was never a medication that could prevent breakouts for me, but certainly could help repair the damage once it was done.My routine is a little more involved right now since I've started everything brand new, but it took all of 2 weeks to overcome something that has completely destroyed my life for the past 18 years. Years of hiding, no girlfriends, constant... CONSTANT lying in order to dodge any sort of social interaction which intersected with some of the bad breakouts that I just couldn't stomach even looking at myself. I don't say this lightly but it has actually changed everything about my life, from the job I have to my current hobbies, to social habits, it's informed everything.Because of this sub, I discovered the simpleskincarescience blog and once I dug in, I realized what was being described there... was literally exactly what I've always struggled with. No derm I've seen has ever even once mentioned Pityrosporum Folliculitis to me or ever hinted that what I had was not 'acne'. Anyhow fast forward a few days, I get on a simple probiotic, cut out every single source of refined food in grains, sugar, dairy to where my diet was essentially eating salad / turkey / chicken / black beans / eggs and nothing else (I've done this part many times before but it was in vein since I didn't know exactly how that was contributing to my condition, and would eventually just go back to eating regularly), buying a bag of disposable razors, buying a set of pillow covers to use fresh each night and finally... Nizoral. I can't believe it... but a damn shampoo was the final nail in the coffin for what has defeated me for almost the entirety of my life.Another unbelievable discovery was that... taking probiotics has eliminated my spring allergies. Allergies that have consistently been so bad, I think I've literally injured my eyes from scratching and rubbing at moments I didn't have an antihistamine with me. I feel like I've discovered a new life.Anyhow, this has all transpired over the past 3 months and now begins the process of trying to reverse some of the years of damage my face has taken. I'm finally confident enough to look into treatments for light scaring and healing some PIE.My life would have looked a lot different had I just found a solution growing up, but it never came until most of the big 'life things' that impact most people growing up had passed. I hope anyone still growing up might at least consider folliculitis as a potential cause to their "acne" if every single product never works, accutane doesn't actually make a significant impact and your acne seems to come and go in consistent 'waves / cycles' despite your routines / diet etc. There's always hope and this sub has given it to me for the first time in many years.
Girls Blog 2015
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