Beauty Tips For Body Care
(I hope this post isn't breaking any rules and I apologize in advance if it is) Hey guys, I just discovered this subreddit and thought I'd take the opportunity to make a sort of vent post, and share my interesting set of experiences over the last year and a half. I'd mostly been a semi active member of the ance forums community but found little to no responses to my posts.Starting freshmen year of HS my moderate middle school acne began to take on a more aggressive form. Going from moderate to severe cystic acne in the span of a few weeks. Before this I had been taking relatively good care of my skin but this really turned me into a product junky, frantic to find anything that would fix my issue. After trying natural remedies and everything the Dermo wanted we finally went onto Accutane. I was extremely hesitant but finally took the plunge.Before I continue I want to make a huge disclaimer that this is a really unique set of circumstances and I don't want to scare anyone out of Accutane as it could definitely fix many peoples severe acne.Well it seemed that this awoke the beast. Anywhere I had inflammation it was dialed up a notch and was followed by an insane itchiness. I took this as "it'd get worse before it bets better" but it only got worse, and worse and worse... My skin began to break open everywhere. My jowls were swollen to the size of a slightly flattened golf ball and oozed. The most unsettling part was the ever expanding hole on my shoulder. Started out about the size of a dime and expanded the half dollar size, and was easily deep enough to fit the tip of my pinky into.I was sent to an infectious disease specialist because my derm at the time and urgent care clinics were afraid to even touch me (literally was told that by a doctor) I was put on doxycycline, a double dose of clindamycin, Bactrim beforehand and instructed to take dilluted bleach baths due to fear I had widespread MRSA and as a preventative. Skin didn't seem to get worse. Joints did. My bones were hurting and my joints were sore. (I had been off Accutane since I started the large doses of anti biotics at this point)Fast forward months and I was at this point. Much much much better. (kinda gross warning) https://m.imgur.com/a/xmJbZFast forward again and I'm meeting my current dermo working with the University of MO. Immediately recognized my case as Acne fulminans and started me down the right path. He believes that the Accutane was somewhat of a trigger for a type of auto immune condition. Meloxicam and doxycycline kept the symptoms at bay. I was actually healing.At this time I've been further diagnosed with sapho syndrome, an inflammatory bone disease and auto immune disorder and started infliximab a few months ago. I still have moderate cystic acne and crazy bad scarring, joints are calmed down and I'm relatively happy. I have a gf that cares about me and has helped tremendously. I have had to go the path of alternative schooling (currently a junior sort of?) and that's fine. I wouldn't change anything that's happened, it's made me who I am.Anyways, I'm sorry for this wall of text. I made this post in an attempt to leave a possible resource for those in need and partly because talking about this sort of thing makes me feel better.Also I greatly appreciate any discussion on the subject and thank anyone that took the time to read this. Feel free to ask any questions.
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