What is the best Anti-blackhead/acne/pimple medication?

[a64fxman]

Does anyone of you here know a really good brand?

I just dumped $30 on a tube of Avene anti-blackhead/acne/pimple medication and $25 on their facial wash.

Its made in france and supposedly, the skin care specialist said it was really good blah blah....

 

[etalns]

I can't stand when people say "it's made in x place. It must be good!"

 

[essasin]

have you tried proactive...it worked when i used it a couple years ago

 

[PcktRcktsAA]

i tried everything growing up, and nothing worked. i even tried that supposed miracle made for tv stuff 'proactive' but even that didnt work. fortunately i was able to return it and get my money back. so basically i just had to suffer and when i got out of my teens, my acne got infinitely better. change of diet can do wonders as well.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Emtarkanderundersgunderson, you need a longer username! 😛

 

[n0cmonkey]

Accutane is a miracle drug. Seriously.

 

[PcktRcktsAA]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Accutane is a miracle drug. Seriously.

too bad it can make you depressed enough to kill yourself..

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Emtarkanderundersgunderson

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Accutane is a miracle drug. Seriously.

too bad it can make you depressed enough to kill yourself..

I never had an issue like that, although I was pretty depressed already.

 

[a64fxman]

mine is not severe acne thou, i just want to get rid of those black head/whitehead on my nose.


they are teh gross

 

[PcktRcktsAA]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Emtarkanderundersgunderson

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Accutane is a miracle drug. Seriously.

too bad it can make you depressed enough to kill yourself..

I never had an issue like that, although I was pretty depressed already.

yeah, it has some pretty messed up side effects if you are unlucky enough to receive them.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: jayn
mine is not severe acne thou, i just want to get rid of those black head/whitehead on my nose.


they are teh gross

Try the Biore pore perfect strips (or whatever they're called).

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Emtarkanderundersgunderson

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Emtarkanderundersgunderson

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Accutane is a miracle drug. Seriously.

too bad it can make you depressed enough to kill yourself..

I never had an issue like that, although I was pretty depressed already.

yeah, it has some pretty messed up side effects if you are unlucky enough to receive them.

The regular side effects were bad enough, glad the others never affected me.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Emtarkanderundersgunderson

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Emtarkanderundersgunderson

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Accutane is a miracle drug. Seriously.

too bad it can make you depressed enough to kill yourself..

I never had an issue like that, although I was pretty depressed already.

yeah, it has some pretty messed up side effects if you are unlucky enough to receive them.

The regular side effects were bad enough, glad the others never affected me.

I was on acutane, the only side affect i had was dry lips 😛
It is a miracle drug 😀

 

[randomlinh]

plenty of folk used accutane... worst thing about it... having to go in monthly for blood tests. the only thing that worked for me though. Went through all the creams and meds.. nothin worked till accutane

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
plenty of folk used accutane... worst thing about it... having to go in monthly for blood tests. the only thing that worked for me though. Went through all the creams and meds.. nothin worked till accutane

That did suck.

 

[Injury]

scissors and a bottle of rubbing alcohol or witch hazel 😉 hehehe

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Injury
scissors and a bottle of rubbing alcohol or witch hazel 😉 hehehe

The manly option would be one of those old-fashioned barbers' blade razors.

Or maybe a chainsaw. A V8 chainsaw.

 

[marleymarl]

Accutane worked for me...cept I got the hairloss side effect...oh well....and btw....dont expect anything from France to 'fight' anything,

 

[StageLeft]

Only thing that worked for me at all was accutane. I took it, and it worked. I wish I never had. The side effects were quite severe, and now i wonder all these years later what possible damage I did to myself just in the name of a few zits (and in fact I had QUITE a few of them, but it doesn't change the fact that I should never have taken it). The zits will go away with time anyway. In my case I was 18 when I first took it on a low dosage. It worked, but six months later the zits came back. I went on a higher dosage and had to bail half the way through. Chapped lips, bleeding nose, EYE PAIN (the first two are fine; this one was not). I was young and dumb back then, but now I'm fvcking pissed I put my body through that for something so vain - something that would go away with time. And it has. I now get zero zits. Maybe one every 6 months. It took until my early 20's for the zits to finally subside, but they will.

Oh yeah, in all my years proactiv, soaps, cleaners, all total sh*t. Didn't do a thing, with the exception of the alcohol pads that used to be on sale. THEY worked. They also burned the christ out of my face, so it would be zit free, but red and dry and dying.

Think also about all the meds people are on for real problems. Many of these don't require a monthly blood test. Acutane does. It's a serious fvcking drug, for a comparitively unserious problem. Oh, I know zits sucked. I had far more than my friends. People say they'll go away. Yes, they do, but for me it took a long time. I still shouldn't have taken it. I look back at pictures and see I was pizza boy, and I know that it never affected my chances with the opposite sex. If a few zits are keeping you from getting laid you've got more problems (just address one concern about them).