Acne Relief

I know I’m not the only one but when you have suffered from acne as long as I have you tend to get the feeling that it is only you.  Being a grown man and a big boy growing up nothing ever compared in intensity as did acne.  I mean this affliction brought me to my knees, made me depressed and had me in constant pain.  I mean there were times I never slept because of the pain.  I do know now that this is a very wide spread affliction.

Acne occurs when your pores in your skin get plugged from dead skin, dirt bacteria and the oily fluid that your body produces.  This results in a bump forming on the skin.  Usually on top of the skin a black or whitehead will appear.  The black head is simply a discoloration reaction from the bacteria and the air.  When the black head or white head becomes infected this results in the forming of a pimple which can be very painful.

It’s important, no matter what anyone says that you don’t pop a pimple.  Doing this spreads the bacteria resulting in more pimples.  It is also what develops the scars that are related to pimples.  The trick is to find ways to avoid acne the best you can and to let already formed pimples heal or break on their own.  So please avoid these actions no matter what others tell you.  I have a life of scars to prove I shouldn’t have being doing this with my acne.

It took me a lot of years to wise up and realize that medications alone were not a way to go about cureing acne.  They are definitely a help but the big thing is lifestyle change.  Now when I say lifestyle change it can be drastic but very worth it.  I mean things like a total change of your diet, how much you exercise, what you drink, how much you wash and take care of yourself.  Everyone will need to experiment because everyone’s bodies are different. 

At the end of the day the decision is up to you.  You may not be interested in changing your lifestyle and I guess that’s up to you.  However one last thing you need to know is this isn’t an overnight thing either.  Don’t just try it for a week and think it’s not working.  In many cases if you are serious it will take upwards of 90 days before seeing results.