It doesn't seem like the most likely of topics, does it? But dealing with Acne has become an ongoing issue in my life and in that of my family, and I wanted to create somewhere that I could describe how I have attempted to cope, and which treatments seemed to do me the most good.
I first started to show symptoms of Acne when I was 13 years old. Of course everyone that age gets spots or pimples. But in my case the condition was much worse, and much more persistent. I found that I developed Acne symptoms in all the expected places. In my case there were:
i. on my face
ii. down my neck
iii. across my chest
iv. on my shoulders
v. on my upper back
If it had been a matter of just one or two pimples then I could have coped fine, but I found that my skin just seemed to erupt into an angry red attack of acne which left my skin very sore, ugly, and often infected.
I'll post later about how my acne symptoms affected me pscyhologically.
