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Originally posted by Freezin
Stop drinking milk & look into activated charcoal & aztec healing clay
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This was a big one for me.
I've always heard guys should not be drinking milk (for acne issues) because of the hormones. And since we break out because of our hormones, adding milk is not helping it.
I stopped drinking milk and my acne was still appearing, so I didn't think it was the milk. Then I realized it was because I eat one cup of yogurt every morning. Once I stopped eating yogurt, I stopped breaking out.
However, my skin was bad. I had so much acne scars it was terrible, that's when I turned into
accutane. I know in the states you must go through a family doctor to referral you to a dermatologist to get this, however in Canada we can get it straight from our family doctor. There's a lot of side effects with this medication - the most common ones is super dry skin (like, ashy dry. I never get dry and in the summer my upperlip was so dry when I wore black I could see so many flakes on my shirt). And another one is depression. Also, you can't be in the sun when taking this medication and you must take a blood test every x months.
The medication is known to work 100%, since it is people's "last resort" to go to when they cannot find anything. Accutane is only used for like, REALLY bad acne. Not "pimples" but my WHOLE entire face was covered in acne.
I was on it for seven months and it did nothing for me and I was getting worried because it was making it worse (they say it goes worst before it gets better), and then on the eighth month it just all happened at once and my skin cleared 100%.
I was around 21 at the time and was battling acne since I was 18. Once my acne was all gone, all I had on my skin was those indents/small holes from me popping my acne (don't ever do that to your skin! My skin looks weird now, it's ALL cleared up and there's like indents).
And I also think the age does factor into it. When I use to eat fast food and junk food all the time I would break out so much. At 24 today, I don't break out anymore and I eat fast food all the time (due to my career). So I think age does play a factor into it (however, the only food that will still break me out is dairy to this day).