Beauty Tips For Body Care
Got a Mirena IUD at 16. Had pretty good skin, no major concerns.Got it taken out at 21, in December of 2015. It had caused moderate hormonal acne near my temples but I didn't care too much.As of February 2016, my skin was pretty okay. Light acne on my cheeks.Not sure what happened in April. I started to get more acne for seemingly no reason. No diet change, medication change, anything.One week after that last picture, my skin kept getting worse. It dried out like crazy for no reason.About a week later it chills out again, but I get my first few of a mountain of scars.In July, I still have light scarring but it's really easy to cover up....the calm before the storm. looking at this now i want to cry.I kept getting acne all summer but didn't really take pictures of it because I covered it easily. In September, it ramped up. I experienced a major personal trauma during the last week of August that has caused me major distress ever since then....could this all be related to stress? It started with this huge zit that stayed for weeks.October 5th, wtf is going on. My derm had prescribed me Aczone and Tretinoin for hormonal acne over the summer and so I started using that again, but saw no changes whatsoever. He told me that he wanted me to try birth control before any other serious oral meds, so I started taking birth control (Mononessa) on October 12.November 5th. I hate this picture so much. It was so so so painful and started to move down my neck. I was able to barely cover it up and I felt disgusting.Aaaand here we are now, December 22. I usually only take pix of one side of my face because that's where it's bad, but it's currently bad on both sides. I'd say 90% of this is just scarring. I have three active cysts right now but that's it. the neck stuff is clearing up.My current routine is below. I have experimented with just about every single cleanser, serum, cream, spot treatment, moisturizer, sunscreen, etc that is recommended here. BHAs seem to do nothing for me, Paula's Choice anything does nothing for me, Stridex in the red box does nothing for me.When I get scarring it takes forever to go away because I'm super pale but it does eventually go away. I'm not too concerned about that part, really. The birth control seems to be working, but my issue is that my skin clears up during the 3 weeks of hormones, but when I take the sugar pills, I get 3-5 huge cysts that take the rest of the month to heal, so I'm never making any real progress. To combat this, my gyno prescribed stacked pills, so I only get 4 periods a year. I start next week. I started birth control in October.Looking at this, I feel like my acne really got bad for no reason right before I started birth control, and I'm worried the birth control is exacerbating it .....? I started it for a reason though. But looking at these pictures, it got really bad when I started taking it. UGH. My derm prescribed a one month dose of antibiotics to take this month, along with stacking my pills, to see if anything helps. If it doesn't help, I start Accutane on January 26th. I've been considering trying Chasteberry supplements as lots of people I know have had success with that for hormonal acne. I drink a lot of water (maybe not enough), I eat pretty healthy, I change my pillowcases twice a week, I don't touch my face. I have 2-3 drinks a week.MORNINGWash with Low pH Good Morning Gel Cleanser by Cosrx. I like this stuff a lot.EltaMD SPF 41 sunscreenNars foundation + concealerNIGHTLow pH Good Morning Gel Cleanser by CosrxThayer's to make sure all makeup is removedTretinoin 3x a week. If I don't use this I use Mario Badescu Buffering Lotion which helps a LOT.Radha Beauty Miracle Retinol Moisturizer.TLDR my skin is awful and I don't know if there's anything else I'm not trying before I take Accutane.
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