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My better half of my life has been ruined by acne.

I was not always this shy. I remember as a kid, I used to be the class clown. Kids refered to me as the funny Asian kid. Then middleschool came and puberty crept up and hit me like a bitch. My face became filled with disgusting acne. My confidence became non existent. I could no longer talk normally with people because I became very self concious. I knew people were staring and judging. No one would give me a chance.

I entered highschool and things remained the same. I wasn't invited to any parties, I never kissed anyone, and I always got those stares. People simply wouldn't give me a chance. I wasn't a loner however; I still had friends and would hang out on weekends and such. However, even the friends I have now, first avoided me because how I looked. As the years went by, I became less and less sociable.

What is my status now?
I still have severe acne and I am attending college. I can not talk to attractive girls for the life of me. In fact, I can barely hold a conversation with a guy. I have become extremely self concious and almost despise myself. I stutter constantly, even with close friends. I always picture myself messing up when talking. It's become a burden I want to remove.

I hate how I was never given the chance to live a normal life. I hate how acne ruined what should be the best years of my life. I hate how people just look at me and refuse to give me a chance. I hate how I haven't kissed a girl. I hate what I have turned into.


Cliff notes: WAAH WAAH WAAH

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1. Dermatologist.
2. Psychologist.

Alternate weekly until cured.

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Go to a dermatologist and explain this and get prescribed accutane. It is nowhere near as bad as some people say, and it is gauranteed to cure you. Your life will never be the same.

When you go, do not hint at depression as they may not prescribe it.

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don't blame your acne

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Go to a dermatologist and explain this and get prescribed accutane. It is nowhere near as bad as some people say, and it is gauranteed to cure you. Your life will never be the same.

When you go, do not hint at depression as they may not prescribe it.

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good advice. 2 months later OP's subject

"Girls don't like me because I can't keep my dick hard because of these depression meds and its ruining the second half of my life"

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Go to a dermatologist. They work wonders. Over the counter stuff WILL NOT WORK in many cases.

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Accutane.

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Acne ruins lives? My mistake I always thought it was like being paralyzed or having your family die in a car wreck.

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you'd be amazed skeety. don't try to put things in perspective for me. it's difficult to converse with people when all they do is stare blankly at your acne. i'm sure you've never had to deal with it.

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Any answer that isnt " Go to a dermatologist" is retarded.

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you'd be amazed skeety. don't try to put things in perspective for me. it's difficult to converse with people when all they do is stare blankly at your acne. i'm sure you've never had to deal with it.

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when i was a freshman in high school i got into a car accident that left me with severe scars all over my face. i had over 300 stitches in my face, and had plastic surgery a few times. i had to wear bandages over half of my face and one of my eye for a month. i had no shot at getting laid in high school or earlier part of college. people called me scarface. there was no doubt that people were looking at my scars any time i talked to them.

i didn't cry nearly this much. strange thing was i always had a fairly positive outlook on life when this happend (barring 1 very angry year in high school) it wasn't until the scars faded that i became the depressed pathetic shell of a man i am now.

if you haven't been to a dermatologist and tried everything, then you really have no reason to bitch. if you have, and nothing is working for you, then i feel for you.

try everything... why wouldn't you if it effects you this much.

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Not to say that you shouldn't get your acne fixed, you should. However, I went through high school with very very very bad acne, my whole face and upper back were completly covered, and to be honest... I didn't even think it was weird or different I only know one kid who picked on me about it but he picked on everybody because he was a jerk, and I still had friends and kissed girls and stuff...

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Forget the proactive. Go get accutane if it's that big of an issue for you. But also realize that acne is not the problem.

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For all of those who just said "go to a dermatologist", you should realize that there is no real cure for acne.

Because it's not really dangerous, almost no funding has ever been put into trying to cure it.

Almost nothing works. The only effective drug, accutane, as some have mentioned has some -severe- side effects. In addition, many people still have relapses.

I've been to at least 3 different dermatologists, and 2 flat out refused to prescribe it for me because of this. It even requires monthly blood tests to make sure your liver is functioning properly. Other side effects include hair loss, internal bleeding, and other much more serious problems.

Any comments about cleaning your face, proactiv, etc don't realize that if you have it bad, those things do almost nothing.

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Any comments about cleaning your face, proactiv, etc don't realize that if you have it bad, those things do almost nothing.

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you obviously never saw jessica simpson or p diddy before they used proactive. it has preserved their sexy.

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As other people have said, you need to see a dermatologist. Clearasil obviously isn't doing it for you.

A guy I knew in high school was in much the same boat as you're describing. He had horrible acne until the day he graduated. However, I bumped into him at College a year later, and I didn't even recognize him. He'd gone on some heavy-duty (anti-acne) drugs over the summer, and his face totally cleared up. He had a little bit of scarring, but looked like a new man.

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Because it's not really dangerous, almost no funding has ever been put into trying to cure it.

This seems ludicrous. If you could cure acne you'd make a large amount of mint.

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Wow, I am going through/have been through the exact same thing. I had horrible acne during highschool and it left some deep scars on my face. I haven't had the best confidence in the world and I developed a stutter early in college. Its gotten to the point where I can't complete a friggen sentence. I dove into alcohol because being in an inebriated state was the only way I could carry on a conversation. These past two years have been absolutely miserable for me. I was supposed to graduate a year ago but I have been too depressed to go to class and I just dropped every class midway through the semester. I hated myself.

However just in these past few weeks I have had a bit of an epiphany. Its pretty simple really.

You, and you alone have the ability to change things. All it takes is the will and follow through to do it. You want to get rid of your acne? Get a daily regimen where you are washing your face and using the strongest acne creams. You want to talk to women. Talk to them. If she doesn't like you. [censored] HER. Move on to the next one. Its a numbers game.

NOTHING WILL CHANGE UNLESS YOU MAKE IT CHANGE. I connot stress how inportant of a concept that is. If you do not embrace it and make it part of your daily life your life will waste away and you will amount to nothing.

Yeah, I hope that made sense.

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Because it's not really dangerous, almost no funding has ever been put into trying to cure it.

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Just like impotence and hair loss, right?

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You should do accutane, its the EV desition. You should be willing to accept the risks.

edit: this reply is to the OP

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Because it's not really dangerous, almost no funding has ever been put into trying to cure it.

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Just like impotence and hair loss, right?

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I realize this, I'm just citing something I had read online when I was wondering why very little medical innovations had been made for acne.

Also though, realize that for a large majority of the population, acne clears up after a few years. Impotence and hair loss are problems that people will deal with for their entire lives once it happens.

Is there money to be made in it still? Of course. But as of today, there's nothing that good out for it.

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Why the hell haven't you been to a dermatologist? That's just stupid. In fact, it makes such little sense that it indicates that you have much deeper issues - like not wanting to take responsibility for anything. Acne was/is the easy way out - you can whine and blame it your whole life.

Man up and do something about it, don't be a little whiny bitch.



PS that image is AWESOME!

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Start taking the birth control pill. That should clear ya up.

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For all of those who just said "go to a dermatologist", you should realize that there is no real cure for acne.

Because it's not really dangerous, almost no funding has ever been put into trying to cure it.

Almost nothing works. The only effective drug, accutane, as some have mentioned has some -severe- side effects. In addition, many people still have relapses.

I've been to at least 3 different dermatologists, and 2 flat out refused to prescribe it for me because of this. It even requires monthly blood tests to make sure your liver is functioning properly. Other side effects include hair loss, internal bleeding, and other much more serious problems.

Any comments about cleaning your face, proactiv, etc don't realize that if you have it bad, those things do almost nothing.

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I took Accutane back in the early 90s and have no recollection of doing blood tests or anything that serious being associated with it. Maybe they know stuff about it now that they didn't then.

At any rate, I had horrendous, pizza-face, black plague style acne for about five years, tried all the other remedies like Retin-A, etc., and Accutane totally cleared me up in about two months. It is the only acne treatment I'm aware of that really works, and I would recommend it to OP despite the side-effects, since it sounds like his quality of life is really suffering.

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Yeah, I always stare at acne-littered faces. Lmfao.

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I find it sad how many peoples lives spiral into the shitter over things that could be fixed so easily. Do they just not realize that there are solutions or are they just afraid to find them?

OP, like everyone else has said, go to a dermotologist. And like Bison said, get some therapy, for the depression you have now, and for the bitterness you are gunna have towards yourself when 6 months from now your acne is gone and you hate yourself for not having gone to the doctor 7 years ago.

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My better half of my life has been ruined by acne.


Cliff notes: WAAH WAAH WAAH

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LOL Im an idiot.. I really thought this thread was about a vent..

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go to BBV. they love threads about acne. bonus points for 4bet pushing with AQ.

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There are people that don't care if someone has acne. There are girls with acne waiting to be kissed. There are people with acne that hate acne so much they won't kiss a girl with acne!?

I had/have acne. I am 35 still got it. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Makes girls think I am much younger. lol Find a girl with acne and kiss her!

I took accutane once it worked for about 2 years then the acne came back. Accutane sucks don't take it I wish I never had.

Edit: I read the other replies. Someone find a drug that makes a person less ugly on the inside please.

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As others have said, see the dermatologist. I took Accutane, but had to stop early b/c of liver issues. However, the stuff worked very well.

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For all of those who just said "go to a dermatologist", you should realize that there is no real cure for acne.

Because it's not really dangerous, almost no funding has ever been put into trying to cure it.

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Utterly false on both counts.


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Almost nothing works. The only effective drug, accutane, as some have mentioned has some -severe- side effects. In addition, many people still have relapses.

I've been to at least 3 different dermatologists, and 2 flat out refused to prescribe it for me because of this.

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This is part of the unseen burden of tort law and trial lawyers. The refusal to prescirbe to you does not make sense based on real risk -- unless there's more you haven't told us.

Cite meaningful stats on your severe side effects please. Hint: You can't, provided you divide by the 13 million people who've taken it.

The public is flat-out bat-[censored] crazy on this subject.

For example, in the last four major studies done in over 10,000 patients total, the rates of depression and new-onset use of antidepressants was singificantly lower than that in the general same-age population. But everyone thinks the drug causes depression.


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It even requires monthly blood tests to make sure your liver is functioning properly.

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True. But liver failure isn't the side effect to fear. Minor elevations in liver enzymes are common and functionally meaningless. Major liver failure is very rare.

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Other side effects include hair loss, internal bleeding, and other much more serious problems.

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Temporary hair loss yes. The real -- and unrecognized -- issue from a game theory / risk perpsective (once you subtract the bullsh!t and do the math) is night vision loss, which can be permanent and is underecognized.


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Any comments about cleaning your face, proactiv, etc don't realize that

if you have it bad, those things do almost nothing.

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In part true.


Frankly if your assessment of your acne is correct and you don't have some medical history that precludes your use of Accutane, you need another dermatologist.

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My better half of my life has been ruined by acne.

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Have faith in bisonbison and in yourself.

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i used accutane, it was excellent.

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Don't worry about the past, there's something you can do now and that's go to a dermatologist.