[PSA] it’s not always acne.

Beauty Tips For Body Care
Hello fellow sca,After lurking on this sub for a while, I decided I should contribute.I had a pretty good routine a year ago and my face was finally finally clear. I was getting breakouts maybe once every month or so, and sometimes less. I was really dealing with Hyperpigmetation.Cue November of 2018, I started to get hormonal breakouts. Desperate to fix them, I scheduled a derm appointment early December.I had 2 small breakouts near my left cheek, and they weren’t really bothering me as they were small and had popped. This is where the trouble began.I don’t know how, but that small pimple near my cheek had gotten infected. I didn’t realize it at the time because it seemed like a cystic pimple. It was swollen. It was red. It was painful. And it was hard.So I left it alone because if I learned anything from this sub, cystic pimples don’t respond to anything except for TLC.The derm, thinking it was hormonal, put me on spironolactone and 40mg doxy.Fast forward to end of December, and it wasn’t getting better. The left cheek area was getting worse despite the medication. It was really swollen, painful, and the bumps were spreading out from the initial pimple.I knew something was wrong. My skin never reacts this way. And I never get cystic pimples near my cheeks. So I looked up other type of skin problems.This is where I found out I probably have Folliculitis caused by Staph.I went to urgent care and the doctor agreed with what I assumed. She put me on a week of keflex and topical antibiotics and took a culture.Long story short, it didn’t work. It cleared some of it. But I still had 1 giant spot that was painful. I went to a different derm and she said that keflex doesn’t work on MRSA.I was put on 2 weeks of 200mg of doxycycline.I am 1.5 weeks in and although it’s gotten better, it still hasn’t fully cleared. I am worried that because I was on such a low dose of doxy before, that some of the MRSA bacteria has also now become immune to doxy. My last option, if that is the case, is to use bactrim. And if bactrim doesn’t work, I don’t have another oral antibiotic to use.I will have insane scarring from this. I don’t know if it will ever fully heal. And now, I will always be a carrier of MRSA and will be at a higher risk of having recurring staph infections.Attached is a photo of how bad it got. This photo is not the infection at its worst.http://imgur.com/5yEck34Below shows how my skin is on the other side: http://imgur.com/VYb8xTXTLDR; be careful with antibiotics. Listen to your skin. Don’t always assume it’s acne.
Girls Blog 2015
Submitted by becauselifesux