Comments on: Home Remedies for Cystic Acne

By: Brady Angelica87

Brady Angelica87 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:20:00 +0000

I’m going to agree with you, Kristen. Accutane is a horrible drug. I am 24 now, but have battled with cystic acne since 19 and then was finally put on Accutane for 5-6 months after I was 21. It worked…barely. My skin was thin and fragile, I was depressed all the time, I was extremely sensative to the sunlight, my high blood pressure sky-rocketed. Promtly before renewing my next Accutane batch, I stopped cold turkey. And not just Accutance…all drugs/medications. I find it easier to eat healthy and let my skin do its own healing. I wish you fortune and peace.

By: bell

bell — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:20:00 +0000

Hello everyone,

I am 45 years old and for some reason this past year, I have had an annoying big cyst like bump come up on the right side of my chin/lower jaw line. I guess it is a cyst, but it looks like a hard knot just protruding from my face. I’ve been reading alot of yalls comments and suggestions. I look forward to trying some of them. But, just wandering, what in the world is causing that one spot to consistently breakout?

By: jake

jake — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:39:09 +0000

I’m 17 and I got my first cyst when I was 13. I have one cyst on my chin right now. I think the primary reason I get them is because I touch oil or grease on a car then touch my skin and it developes a cyst. Its really big and stresses me out even more because I m self counsious. Now that I have it I feel like their is nithing I can do and its driving me nuts. I am on doxycylin which works farely well. Typically that is the only medicatio I use. Hopefully lemon juice will help clear it up for christmas ;(

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:18:49 +0000

I have had cystic acne and boils for years I am now 30 at 14 I had a cyst in the back of my throat that I had went to the Er for strep by the time it was diagnose wasn’t able to breath effectivly and almost had to be intibated it was very scary. With cysts they are in a pocket in a casing under your skin so they have to make sure not to break that sake or it is very likely to come back. I have tried every treatment under the sun for them. Solydyn worked really well but I also got roseaca and age spots so with the antibiotics definetly no sun but my dermatologists also said you cant be on antibiotics for a long period of time so she referred me to a cosmetic dermatologists for laser therapy and chemical peels. Good luck to everyone it’s a long never ending road

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:07:32 +0000

APPLE CIDER VINGER!!!!NATURAL ANTI BACTERIAL, BALANCES THE pH LEVELS(RUB WITH A BIG COTTON BALL)
ONLY COOK WITH EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL (HYDRATES THE SKIN INSIDE OUT)
WATER WATER WATER
AND I USE CLEARSAIL MARKS AND SCARES WASSH AND MASK(MESSAGE YOUR FACE BLOOD CIRCULATION IS GREAT!!!)
but really everyone i read your tip and I know exactly what your talking about & how feel and this works.and i read that TURMERIC IS THE NEXT THING IF THIS DOESN’T WORK.
ITS WILL WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!~*~*~*~*~.::TRY ME::.~*~*~.;:TRY ME::.~*~*~

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:02:02 +0000

I’m 16yrs old and i’ve had cystic acne since I was about 7. I’ve always been a little overweight. My acne has never ever been on my face. It’s only appeared in hidden areas that sweat more. This, as you can imagine, makes it all the more painful. Under my arms and between my inner thighs. I’ve noticed that whenever I lost some weight it wasn’t nearly as bad. Anyway, my point is, I went to a dermatologist and he said it could take years with his all of 7 different pills, cremes and alcohol bath water. I want something that won’t interfere so much in my daily life and take over every spare minute I have that will still be effective and fast. I’m sick of it adding on to my basic teen depression and insecurities.
Help?

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:15:01 +0000

Elise, thank you for notifying us of the ingredient in makeup that may cause static acne. Last year I walked into Sephora and asked the first associate I saw to help me with a good makeup for acne. She immediately took me to cover fx. It is pretty pricy but I was desperate. Within a matter of weeks I was getting compliments on my skin. It is the acne face primer by cover fx that offers natural ingredients that both calm and fight acne. Also, I only use Cetaphil facewash. My mother also suffered from acne (including cystic) in the seventies and Cetaphil was her facewash of choice. And yes, water water water! I also believe a good collection of clean washcloths are very important. Wash the washcloths ALONE (I.e. not with socks, etc.). Good luck to everyone. I know this is difficult, but you will make it.

By: Voltron

Voltron — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:45:07 +0000

I would like to add something to my post above. Before my last breakout, I had just finished a day of hard work loading Christmas tree on a truck. At the end of the day my muscles were very sore from all the work and I was hungry so I ate two large cheeseburgers and drank a pop. The next day I had the acne outbreak on my forehead. I have read that diet does not affect acne but I do not believe this. When I eat certain foods, my skin is affected. Greasy foods seems to make my skin oily for a couple of days after I eat it. I think the food I eat can cause acne and the sore muscles cause more hormones in my body while the muscles are healing. Combined, these two things caused the outbreak.

By: voltron

voltron — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:33:53 +0000

I am 40 years old and have had acne since I was 13. I always thought that it was a teenager problem and would go away when I got older and was not that severe at first and I only got it on my face. When I turned 19, it got worse. I started to get acne on my back, chest and upper arms as well as my face. I never got really bad on my face but on my back it got severe because it was they cystic acne and left scars. These scars will heal but could take months or even a year or more to completely disappear. The problem is that before the old scars are gone, I have a new breakout so the cycle never ends and I always have old scars with some new acne. It goes in cycles. It will let up a bit and start to clear. Then I will have another breakout. I recently had a breakout on my back area but not as bad as in the past. For the past few years my face area has not been to bad of a problem but two days ago I had a big breakout on my forehead and some acne behind my ears. Some of it is the cystic type but I find my facial acne will heal much faster than acne on my back area. I expect to have acne for the rest of my life now. I always thought that my acne would go away when I got older but as each decade passes I am disappointed that it just won’t go away.

For treatments I use three things. In the shower I use a acne facial cleaner. After the shower I use a disinfectant acne cleaner that is applied with a cotton ball and last I apply an acne cream medication. I have been using the Proactive system because it has these three items in their system. Seems to speed up the recovery time.

By: nigsy

nigsy — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:04:44 +0000

Following my last post about apple cider OMG it works!!!!! my littlr lumps under my jaw have vanished my lumps on tje back of my head are narly gone and i had a huge cyst on my throat area. it has nearly gone! it amazing.. i have discovered apple cider vinegar is…cider vinegar same thing. u can buy it is asda for 79p for 350ml or online a 1ltr tub for a fiver p&p 3 quid. so dont be stupid like me who bought online buy from asda……. the tip take it 3 times a day.. 2 big tablespoons with water or sime kind of juice I.E apple, raspberry & cranberry etc…i have been drinking in shot glass with juice…cant hack water. the taste is mingin but just neck it!!! then get a tiny bit and dab it on with an ear bud to infected area.. skin will go a bit red so dont do it before going out. only done this for 4 days and results are amazing. im so happy i may of finally found the cure!!! oh and i have been told it makes acne scars dissapear. so dab on. if u have very sensitive skin add a drop of water… hope it works for you all!!!!!!