Adult Acne Blog - thebroadroom.net: It's been a while!
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nurse, nutritionist, herbalist, or otherwise medically trained person.
I am an ordinary person who has suffered from adult acne since 1995 and have found no solution to my acne through conventional medicine.
It's been a while!
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
at 1:05 PM (Pacific)
Okay! This is not a new blog. I started an Adult Acne Page in early 2001, had a couple of blogs...2002 and 2003...all detailing my (incredibly lengthy) experience with various conventional forms of adult acne treatment.
I didn't post anything in 2004...probably I did elsewhere...anyhow, I would still like to have an adult acne blog. Still waiting for that miracle cure :)
Oh yeah, and I don't write under the name "Josephine Green" anymore; I use my real name, which is Colleen Shirazi.
Today's adult acne observation: mainstream milk companies are now printing on their labels, that the milk comes from cows untreated by growth hormone.
I just noticed that today; it might have been like that for some time.
This rather mirrors the (quiet) dispensing with of hormones in chicken.
Anyhow--it's great news! What, we need more hormones in our food?
Hmmm...looking back on my 2003 blog, I see I was still experimenting with brewer's yeast. I've long given up the yeast...I now take just the same TwinLab Daily One Caps with Iron mentioned in early April 2003.
A few companies (Oil of Olay, Murad) market multi-vitamins specifically for skin, but I did some searching around on the Net to decide which one to take.
If you are of child-bearing age, I heartily recommend you consult your doctor before starting any vitamin regimen. I don't plan on having more kids so that's not a consideration for me.
I'm also still taking the Yasmin birth control pills I started in May 2002.
I'm also still avoiding added hormones in food, particularly in beef.
Recently, I stopped drinking soda. I've also started drinking white tea...Celestial Seasonings White Tea with Peach (I forget the exact name but you'll recognize it on the shelf, it has a white tiger on it).
Now, the former was fairly easy. I don't want my kids drinking a lot of soda...I've long wondered if the "high fructose corn syrup" that's suddenly in everything we eat doesn't have something to do with all this adult acne we're suddenly suffering from...so I stopped buying it. I'll drink it once in a while, but it's no longer a staple in the house.
I'm not that nuts about tea anymore though, I've rather become a coffee addict, so that's an extra step...still...I'm on my placebo week of Yasmin now, so I'll make a point of drinking it to see if there's anything to it.
That's about it! My skin has stabilized a lot, with the diet changes, multi-vitamin, and Yasmin. The jojoba butter helps a little bit too.
