u/Hannie_Ji

▲ 6 r/acne

Hey guys so I’m new here but I’m desperate and need to rant, I’ve had these bumps on my forehead (picture attached) since I was roughly 15, I’m almost 24 now, I’ve tried everything, I’ve been to derms and doctors, I’ve been put on tazorac, that worked for a few months then stopped, I was put on birth control and spironolactone and that worked for a good maybe two years then stopped. I’ve been prescribed tretinoin and that worked for a bit then stopped, I’ve tried just about every over the counter face wash, skin cream, exfoliator, retinoid, everything. I saw a derm about 2 years ago she was really no help just “use this otc and get facials” greattt, didn’t work, I’ve started seeing this new derm about a year ago, she’s nice, at first she gave me this whole long list of things to try like washes or whatever but I have sensitive skin so I couldn’t use one of the things without it burning, i think it was cabtreo, so then she moved me onto a new med I’ve never heard of, she said it was this new thing that’s similar to tret but not as strong so it won’t harm my skin, it’s called arazlo, it worked on my lower face a bit where I get more red inflamed acne possibly hormonal idk but that’s just sometimes that it works, but still nothing has touched the bumps on my forehead and I refuse to go back on birth control to see if that’ll help again, I’m not doing that to my body anymore. My face is my biggest insecurity because of these bumps and I’m over it atp. Also I have like black heads on my forehead rn for some reason even though I’ve not changed how often I wash my face (2x every time I take a shower) so that’s new, some of them refuse to do anything but I can get some other ones, I’ve just decided that my face hates me, and no one can help me because I get different answers every time I talk to someone, oh it’s just normal acne, oh it’s comodones, oh it’s bacterial, and everything I get for each of those is the complete opposite of what I would need to use for the other so if it is one and I get prescribed something for another then I mess my skin up, and no facials don’t work either.

u/Hannie_Ji — 24 days ago