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Hello everyone. I am not new to this site at all. I need some help with this: Whenever I have a breakout of acne, I almost always pick at it. Right now I have about 4 open sores all over my forehead from picking. After I pick them, I am scared to leave the house, and try and hide from the world until they improve. I feel like I should just cover it the best I can and be a part of the world while its healing, but it is extememly hard for me. I cry whenever I see what I do to myself. My boyfriend is supportive, but he still wants me to come over his house, ect. Obviously with my fear of leaving my house, this causes fights. I get hot flashes, throw up sometimes, all because of how upset I get about these wounRAB. It is very hard for me to get out of bed, nevertheless ignore the sores and act "normal" because I dont feel normal. Someone please try and feed me some advice.
 
I probably can't help you, but just wanted to let you know my story and that you aren't alone. I started getting acne at the age of about 19, a weird age I know, but there it is, I think I got them late as I had children when I was 16 and 18 and think it possibly had something to do with the late onset. I also would spend hours tearing my face apart trying to get rid of them, I tried everything on the market and would cake my face in make-up whenever I had to leave the house in the hopes it would hide it, my partner was very supportive of me too, but it didn't help the way I felt about myself. I tried antibiotics from doctors and everything you can imagine and nothing worked for me. The funny thing is that I am now 33 and around the age of 31 is when I grew out of it all. I still get a few pimples at 'that time of the month' but it's nothing. You sound young so I guess you don't want to hear that. From all the popping and squeezing and tearing at my face, I now have a lot of scarring, and really huge skin pores, I just wrote to ask you to try not to pop and tear at them, because I now regret it so much, because I am now stuck with all this scarring and wish I could turn the clock back. I wish you the best of luck and hope you find something that helps you.

Bella
 
Thank you for posting back. I am 21, and have a three year old daughter so I started young also. I was sure that the amount of damage I did to my face would scar, but it didnt (thank goodnes). It feels better to know that there is someone out there that understanRAB how I am feeling. I try not to pick, but I feel like if I dont do something, they wont go away on their own. I am using the same topical that I have been using since I was ten, and it always worked for me, but over the past 6 months I feel that is has had its times when it doesnt work as good and I get pimples. The topical kept me from getting any new pimples for eleven years. I belive that this may be hormonal, but I am already on the pill (ortho cyclen) which is indicated for acne. I just hope that these huge red sores heal up so that I can feel normal again :(
 
I understand the urge to pick,I really do.But picking too soon can make them last sooo much longer and actually turn them into bigger zits.
I too have wounded myself and had the open sores and could not leave the house (if I had to I resorted to covering them with small bandaiRAB)

Now I leave it alone and wait until it gets a whitehead on it.
Sometimes this takes a little while (but not too long because I apply Bp on it like crazy to bring it to the surface)
Once they form that head,they are ready and heal faster once popped.
There is also this tool you can get...
I got mine at walmart a long time ago,and I haven't seen them there in a while,but I know you can order them online.

Anyways,it looks like a pair of tweezers, it's a small metal stick that has a circle on both enRAB.It is meant specifically for popping zits.It goes around the pimple and puts the right amount of pressure around it and pops it without damaging the skin as bad as fingers and finger nails (and has less bacteria on it too)
I believe it is called a pimple extractor.
 
Sorry been ill and haven't replied sooner, but another thing that I wanted to tell you (and this is worse case scenario stuff) I picked at a pimple on my nose and ended up with an infection called staphylococcal cellulitis, I didn't think anything was wrong, and it kept getting worse and eventually I went to the doctor, who called an arabulance and I ended up in hospital hooked up to drips. Turned out the infection had spread all through my sinus and into my eye socket and was a step from going inter cranial. This is worse case remeraber! I also work in a hospital so probably picked the infection up there, but if I hadn't been picking at my face it would never have happened. I was just lucky that I only have a large chicken pock like scar because it was necratising and they had to scrape it out. Just be careful of infection, this episode scared the daylights out of me stopped me picking at them too lol. The doctors told me really warm salty water on a clean face washer and spread over the face is a really great and cheap way to help with acne and pimples, the warmth opens the pores and the salt is a natural way of killing the bacteria in the pores.

Hope you are doing well.

Bella
 
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