Beauty Tips For Body Care
So I'm currently so pleased with the results of my latest skin experimentation that I decided to create an account just for this in case anyone else has suffered like I did:About me: ~30 year old female, natural blonde with very pale skin, very easily sunburned/prone to redness, incredibly sensitive skin (never met anyone with more sensitive skin than me - eg. I can have contact dermatitis from a bandaid that last for weeks-to-months after it's been removed). Struggled with acne for most of my life.Backstory: Back in middle school, I started to get mild acne, which I treated with benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid, causing dryness and irritation around the creases of my nose. My acne progressed to severe acne in high school, so add more topical prescriptions, oral meds, and other remedies, causing the skin around my nose became even more irritated, white-head filled, and prone to breaking out. By the time I finished college/mid-20s, I had figured out how to get my skin mostly under control (including differin gel, clindamycin lotion, birth control pills, spironolactone, no dairy, very careful with pillow cases/sheets/towels, lots of water and exercise, etc etc), but the skin around my nose was never happy/still as bad as it was since middle school. I had resigned myself to the fate of having bad skin around my nose for life (nothing I did ever made it better (including trying nothing to let my skin be less irritated) and no dermatologist ever suggested anything that helped).Cue to now: I started swimming laps in a local pool for exercise but had to stop after a couple months because my skin was reacting so poorly to the water, breaking out in places and ways that I had never experienced and was resistant to all my usual acne treatments. I was pretty devastated as I had worked so, so hard to have clear skin and now I had lost all control. It's been a couple months since I stopped swimming and the little bumps all over my arms and neck have gone away but the skin on my face is still very unhappy. Half of my face was breaking out in a way that looked very weird to me and nothing I did helped (topical acne Rx, OTC acne meds, etc). Seemed like some sort of rash or infection maybe?The possible cause and remedy: I started to suspect maybe I had a fungal infection and read that fungal infections can look like bacterial acne. So I decided to try anti-fungal shampoos on my face (which was a giant leap for a person with such sensitive skin, but I was desperate and the time to see a dermatologist will be forever with my health insurance), trying Head and Shoulders (Pyrithione Zinc) and Nizoral (ketoconazole). Within 2 days, the skin around my nose looks like it did before I ever got acne! It looks like a normal person's skin around their nose. So now I'm thinking I had some sort of fungal infection around my nose all this time and just needed an anti-fungal to clear it up. The rest of my skin is improving but hasn't been long enough to come to any conclusions yet (but I am thinking the rest of my face might be fungal too).TL/DR: Had red/irritated/white-heads-filled-pores/acne prone skin around the creases of my nose for 15+ years, none of my acne treatments ever worked. Tried Head and Shoulders (Pyrithione Zinc) and Nizoral (ketoconazole) and magically my skin around my nose looks amazing. Perhaps I had fungal infection there all along.
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