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Adult Acne Blog - 2002: June 2002
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.
June 25, 2002
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
3:43 AM (Pacific)
Hummm....
Slowly, slowly...
Today, lessee, I had one major clogged pore. I define "major" as, a clog big/hard enough (sorry so explicit but hey, if you're reading this, you've already had it up to here with acne!) to pull out. Bleh. That is progress. ? Well, I'm lumbering into my second month of Yasmin, and my skin continues to improve at this monumentally slow rate. Still have small bumps, small clogs...
Read this casual snippet in Allure magazine..."half of all women have acne, and some have it until wrinkles set in"!!!!! Exactly what I've been saying all along, but without the most important question. What the hell is causing it??? It is not normal! In my own living memory, grown people did not have acne. I'm only 36 years old--I'm not 90. I'm not asking anyone to remember World War I.
Ever the optimist, I do feel better about my skin. Yes, it still has bumps, it is not "my" skin as of yet...but it has reached that point where, I can almost feel normal about my skin. It's possible it may continue to improve and I will reach that point where I do feel normal.
Hum. *Did* I mention that Trader Joe's now carries a full, reasonably priced line of hormone-free dairy products? The works...milk, yogurt, sour cream, etc. I'm too lazy to scroll down and figure out if I mentioned it before.
I'm sure I mentioned that now, with absolutely no announcement, it is illegal to use growth-promoting hormones in chicken. If I'm not mistaken, in all poultry...but you'll have to find the needle in the haystack on the FDA web site to confirm that.
I think the antibiotics pumped into our meats may also be an acne factor, not just the hormones. Logically, antibiotic abuse causes mutations in whatever you're trying to kill. Bacteria is a factor in acne...can the bacteria on our faces be mutated bacteria? something that normally would have been killed, or controlled, but no more? I have read that antibiotic acne treatments, topical and internal, can fail after repeated use, because the bacteria mutates and becomes immune to treatment.
That's about all for now...I wish I could say that I'm 100% happy with my skin, but I feel that isn't going to happen until whatever is causing this phenomenon finally gets banned.
June 3, 2002
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
4:28 PM (Pacific)
My face is clearing up. Sheesh. It takes three days to break out, and two months to clear up.
I shouldn't complain though, it is clearing up. The forehead is always the last to actually clear.
The more dramatic benefit of Yasmin is that it's like Ortho Tricyclen...it does *not* make me put on much weight. O.T. made me put on only 3 extra pounds, but Tri Levelen made up blow up like a freakin' balloon. So far, I can fit comfortably into two pairs of pants that I could barely get into, two weeks ago.
Well, I'll post more toward the end of the two months...that's when I expect to see more dramatic skin results.
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