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https://www.iheartdavids.com/blog/2006/12/03/acne-blows/ It helps me to say these things aloud, I think. Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.iheartdavids.com/blog/2006/12/03/acne-blows/comment-page-1/#comment-37 ]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:27:00 +0000 http://www.iheartdavids.com/blog/2006/12/03/acne-blows/#comment-37 And thus I stick with topical applications only. I also have polycystic ovaries, which tends to cause acne, too. How charming for me.

]]> https://www.iheartdavids.com/blog/2006/12/03/acne-blows/comment-page-1/#comment-36 ]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:09:00 +0000 http://www.iheartdavids.com/blog/2006/12/03/acne-blows/#comment-36 I inherited cystic acne from my Dadd. I had awful oil bumps on my forehead in 9th grade. Went to the derm and got Tetracyclen antibiotics to take morning and night, Cleocin topical for the morning (good moisturizer) and Novacet for the evening (sulfer, glob some of that one a big zit at night and I swear to you it’s gone in the morning). It took care of it for a while but I grew a tolerance to it. They weened me off of it in 11th grade and I stayed clear til college. Then the acne just moved down my face. Next it showed up on my cheeks in the form of oily cysts. I have small scarring whereas my poor Dadd has very pitted scarring. Then a year or so went by and it was all over my chin and lips. Time for action and I was tired of toying with it. I begged the derm for Accutane. It dries up the sebum which is what acne bacteria feeds on. Accutane targets everything and I mean everything. Side effects are VERY dry skin and lips (I’m addicted to chapstick to this day), sensitivity to the sun, some ppl say depression but not for me, and it has a pharamceutical rating of X which means it can cause birth defects so they take your blood every month to make sure you’re not pregnant and you have to sign a waiver that you’ll use 2 forms of birth control. I was on it for 7 months and I RARELY get a zit now. If I do it’s totally period induced. It’s $600 a month though so if you ever decide to try it, you better have a stellar insurance program.

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