Beauty Tips For Body Care
My skin is my biggest insecurity, I’ve suffered with acne for a little over a decade of my life. I’m currently 24 and have struggled with acne on and off since the age of 12. People in my life always told me that it would get better with age, that’s somewhat true yet a bit false. For the past two years I was able to control my acne and cleared up my skin; however, I still got a few pimples here and there. I’ve never managed to get my skin perfectly clear because I would still get about 4 pimples per week. The pimples weren’t drastic but it bothered me knowing that it was there. Perhaps that’s me being a bit OCD but I yearned for clear skin so badly. So I decided to try out Curology because it seems like so many people had such successful stories with that product. I was like, hey what’s the worse that it can do? Well now I’m filled with so much regret. Let me tell you my journey with Curology for the past 5 days.I received my Curology medicine on Friday. The prescription that was given to me was azelaic acid 4%, clindamycin 1% and niacinamide 4%. That night I cleansed my face and applied two pumps of the product and applied it to my skin. I also applied moisturizer then went to bed. Saturday morning I noticed some bumps and thought that oh I’m probably just purging from the product. Usually my skin does purge if I’m using a product that has an exfoliant so I thought nothing much of it. The medical provider that was teamed with me told me that purging will be normal and would last up to 1-6 weeks. She also told me that I would begin to see positive results between 3-8 weeks. Later that Saturday night I noticed more bumps and redness. My skin was getting worse so I thought maybe it has to get worse before it gets better. This was happening way too fast in the past 24 hours and I was getting concerned.Over that weekend I was keeping in contact with my medical provider. She assured me that it was normal and that I will be okay. I started to have doubts and gave her the benefit of the doubt because she was a “medical provider,” she’s actually an RN, I thought when you sign up with Curology you’re suppose to get signed with a dermatologist or doctor or whatever. I wasn’t going to give her crap for being an RN because I thought she knew what she was talking about. I placed my trust in her thinking that she had the knowledge in what she was doing. Sunday night came and my skin was the worse. I wanted to cry because I’ve never broken out this badly in my life ever. On every surface of my skin there was a bump, my skin was so red that I didn’t know what to do. I sucked it up and told myself its just skin; my skin will get over this phase and rejuvenate itself later on. I thought positive thoughts just so I can make myself feel okay. But the positive thoughts only lasted until my skin began to itch like crazy. This was the point where I thought maybe I’m having an allergic reaction. My skin is sensitive but that extremely sensitive. I’ve never had an allergic reaction to any skin care product before so I didn’t know what the symptoms will be or look like. I know I could’ve easily googled it, which I did and it just made me think of the worse scenarios, but I wanted to hear it from my RN to see if what I was going through was normal. Once again she insisted that I was purging, she could see that my skin was getting more bumpy and red.I know if you ever have doubts you should always go with your gut feeling. I wish I had sought medical attention when my skin was first freaking out. On Monday morning I addressed my concerns to my RN again and she finally said just stop taking Curology because she thinks I was having a severe allergic reaction to what she prescribed me. This was happening to me after applying the medicated topical Curology had given me for only two days. I already stopped using it before the medical provider told me to. My face was at its worst, I felt ugly…I just didn’t want to even go out in public. Lets just say that my face was ready for Halloween as some creature. All day on Monday I took some Benadryl and prayed that it would get better. At this point I’ve already stopped applying make up since Saturday and cut out all harsh cleansers so I didn’t irritate my skin even more. I tried to sleep that Monday night but it was so hard because I was getting really itchy. My allergic reaction was getting more severe than I thought it would be.On Tuesday morning I had the nerve to actually go to the hospital. I knew I needed something for my itch and for my inflammation to go down. I hesitated on going because I was scared and embarrassed. I know you guys probably will think that I was stupid and should’ve sought help earlier but because of my insecurity I just couldn’t. I went in because I was dying from my itch that was slowly spreading all over my body. How did a topical that was meant for my face cause an all over body reaction?! Even the emergency doctor didn’t understand. Thank goodness I got some steroids and pepcid because it finally cleared up the hives all over my body and decrease the bumps and redness on my face. I had to miss a few days from school because of this. I can only learn from this experience and I hope no one has to go through what I went through. So the moral of the story is always patch test a new product! It didn’t cross my mind to patch test the medicated topical Curology sent me because I didn’t think I was allergic to anything.Overall, Curology has a good staff…they’re not all that bad because they do respond back to you with some good advice. Some of the advice wasn’t too pleasing to hear though. When the RN told me to stop using Curology she had the nerve to tell me, “A little bit of a silver lining here: if you had enough of a reaction, you may peel more in a few days—you can think of it as an inexpensive light chemical peel!” was she serious? Because at that point when she told me that I wanted to scream at her. I know she was just trying to make the incident lighter but that wasn’t something I wanted to hear. She even told me to apply hydrocortisone ointment to my face to help with the itchiness; that’s a really bad idea because that’s too strong for your face…it might calm down the itchiness but its way to harsh for the face. Would I recommend Curology to everyone? Nope, its not suited for everyone. I know it worked out for a handful of people but just be careful with what you put on your face. I decided to stop my subscription with Curology because I didn’t want to play around to see what might help. My medical provider told me she can find a different formula that would be suitable for my skin, no thanks but I rather not.At least I know better now…I’ve even came to the conclusion that my acne before I started Curology was okay. My skin before Curology was fine, even though it took me forever to find a skincare regime that worked for my skin but I shouldn’t have been so insecure. A few tiny pimples here and there are okay but because of my insecurities it made it worse. I shouldn’t have tried to fix something where it wasn’t broken to begin with.
Girls Blog 2015
Submitted by lyynnni
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