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mbr1978 , 01 Sep 2017

Share/ recap please your best tips & products that "definitely cured" your acne...?

Hi everyone!
I am new here, just started my treatment...
Picked for over 25 ys (I am 37)... had trichotillomania as a child, and my skd was triggered by my "perfectionism" (or ocd/ocpd).
I have always had acne... as an adult, they now usually come as small bumps that ruin the texture of my skin (I pick them... and make it worse/ inflame). I became quite a good surgeon with my needles and pointy tweezers... these ones "hurt" a bit when I touch then, and when I squeeze them (using the needle if the channel does not seem open/clear enough), a hard rice-shaped thing comes out of it. Sometimes the same spot develops a rigid white ball, that also hurts... even more when squeezed. They pop and I can amost here the noise...
I think the first ones could be Demodex, and these last ones, small cysts, not sure.
Throughout the years I took multiple rounds of roaccutan (I loved it - made my skin so smooth there was nothing for me to pick on!) and would still take it from time to time - except that for now I am tired of it and am trying to get pregnant - so retinoids/oral antibiotics are out of the question.
My sister shared a similar skin type (and same or even more acne vs mine) growing up... and she also had a mild (healthier) picking habit... but my big pores and scarred skin (result from my constant "intervention") show nowadays who actually had a problem from the 2. She is a year older and her skin today looks perfect... though she is still complaining (...runs is the family). She is a reminder of what my skin could have been (sad, right?).
I am reading many great tips but it is so hard to hunt for them (...so many posts)!
Can you please tell me which products and alternate solutions / new stuff you have been using REALLY worth sharing? Real life definitive savers?
I am mainly interested in reducing the oil excess from inside out... (vitamins, suplements etc) and how to reduce reappearance with the best topical stuff - as long as it does not interfere with me being (sooner or later) pregnant :).
I got all the notes already on how to "treat after picked skin".
Will keep you all posted on my own tips and next steps.
All the best!
Thanks in advance.
Mbr

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