Sometimes I wish I could go back to the beginning of when my acne got bad and do it all over again. But this time would be different because I’d be armed with the knowledge that I have now. I have made some of the dumbest mistakes with my treatment …even things that people told me not to do but I didn’t listen to them because they didn’t have acne so I thought they didn’t know what they were talking about. Sounds stupid I know.
Here is one of the biggest mistakes I made:
Thanks for watching.
Fran
Fran Kerr is the founding editor of High on Health. To cure your acne, sign up to Fran's FREE acne cure mini-course or download her latest how to guide, Eat Away Your Acne.
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i also have cosmetic acne tooo!!!
huhuhuhuhu i dried my face too. im too dried up now… what do you suggest i do??
Well, for starters stop using anything that dries your skin out. And start using a very gentle cleanser and moisturizer. For prention, regularly exfoliate your skin. And you can use a spot treatment on your inflammations.
uhm.. im on treatmetn with a topic ointment with BP the Duac, do you know it and also tretinoin… Retin A. have you gone to a derm before? and what did he prescribed you? did it work?
Hi Erika, I’ve been to the dermatologist once and it didn’t work out so well, he gave me accutane which was overkill for my skin so I stopped taking it after 6 days.
All of those topicals you’re using a very drying to the skin so be careful with them. Keep your dermatologist updated on your side effects and progress and consult them straight away if your skin gets too dry.
Hi Fran,
I am a big fan of your website.. !! Can you please give me individual advice..??
I am Asian, living in New Zealand. Since 2002 I started to have few acnes and it build up gradually. I started treatment by going to see dermatologist and he prescribed me the roaccutane which gave me lots of side effect for 6 months and acne didn’t gone completely. After knowing that some people got liver damage from roaccutane then I quit. I tried BP and it irritated me a lot, I tried pro-activ recently and it super damage and cause me more acne. I am really hurt and suffer carrying acne on my face all the time. Why? I eat well, sleep well, exercise well. I am thinking of going to see skin institution. See the link
http://www.skininstitute.co.nz/Procedures/Non+Invasive/Intense+pulsed+light/Blue+Light+acne.html
What do you think of this??? Now I am using banalysta that you recommended and wash my face with cetaphil for oily skin. Using natural foundation and still can’t clear my acne. 7 years with acne isn’t fun and it makes my whole 20’s life under pressure and unhappy. Do you have any solution?
Hi kanyakit, I’m happy to help, but could you please post this into the forum so we can have a conversation in there (so it can benefit others and so we have more room to write :)) -
http://www.highonhealth.org/forums/
Hey Fran,
My acne is clearing up pretty well but not fully, but thats not my problem.
I had this huge problem picking and now I have black dots that wont go away… and theres a lot on my forehead..
They’re not blackheads, i think they’re just scars but it doesn’t go deep in the skin nor does it inflammate.
Any advice on how to get rid of them and please make it accurate, even if it takes a long time, because I don’t want to make it dissapear after one night because it will obviously have side effects…
I just want to fully get rid of my acne and make it look like I had none ever…
So… An advice?
Hi Jon, if they’re just acne pigmentation scars then they will go away with time. Unfortunately patience and leaving them alone is the best cure.
There are a lot of discussions about acne scars in the forum, so do a search in there if you want to find out more:
http://www.highonhealth.org/forums/
Hii,
I really enjoy ur video’s! I’m 14 and I don’t have bad acne but i do have some. I have very dry skin because I have tried acne treatments that left my acne worse and my skin very dry. I have been trying mostuizers but they just don’t seem to help. I would really luv it if u had some advice for me!
Thanks ♥♥
Hi Kerstain,
Sign up to the mini-course if you haven’t already. It’s a whole course on how you can heal your acne. Also keep checking back to the blog because I post new info a lot.
If you have any specific acne questions, you can ask them in the forums: http://www.highonhealth.org/forums/
By the way, I love those little hearts, so cute! ♥♥
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