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Do acne sufferers get enough support?

Either if you suffer from acne or know someone who does, do you think that they got/ or either get enough support? Currently I am trying to set up a charity/organisation to help acne suffers! As personally I don't believe there is enough support, especially as I've been through it myself! I would like to know people opinions on if you think more support is needed? Or how you were treated as an acne sufferer? I am currently in contact with leading dermatologists and finding out new treatments constantly! Please let me know your thoughts and feelings on the issue! Any information will be more than helpful, thanks

Reply 1

username1169005

Anyone suffering from acne should look to going on Roaccutane, it's the only thing that's ever worked for me and other people too. It's completely cleared my skin. It's just people are either skeptical about going on it or have never heard of it.

I think it would help most people if they were made aware of the medication instead of wasting time and money on useless of the shelf products.

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Reply 2

PunkyFish-x

Having acne is tough. I suffered with bad acne for a few years in my late teens. I went to the GP a few times until he referred me to a dermatologist. Luckily my face is now completely clear but I didn't get much in the way of support by my GP. A really good website for acne suffers is acne.org. It has a forum for acne suffers with treatments tips, make up advice and support for acne suffers. This website helped me a lot.

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Reply 3

aspirinpharmacist

I have fairly mild acne but I've had serious issues with picking at spots since I was about 13 so although I'm on antibiotics now which have helped immensely, I'm left with spot scars all over the shop and I hate them. I don't think people with clear skin realise sometimes how rubbish acne makes you feel, and mine wasn't even that bad. It's all very well telling people to love their bodies but there is no way you can make spots sexy, there just isn't. And then people say girls wear too much make-up, I just...eugh. Sometimes I just feel so much irrational hatred for people with clear skin, it's quite scary. But yeah, I think schools should put more focus on it because it can totally wreck your confidence, people shouldn't have to just put up with it as part of growing up. People should be discouraged from all the crappy rip-off things you can buy off the shelf, I've wasted so much money on things that didn't work when I could've spent it on fun stuff.

I hate spots.

Reply 4

rachel.h

No, they don't.

I was fobbed off for more than 10 years by my GP. I had endless amounts of tablets and lotions and facewashes and it was all completely pointless.My GP was off sick one day and I ended up with an appointment with another doctor - thank goodness. She didn't hesitate in referring me to a dermatologist and I'm now on Roaccutane with the best skin I've had since I can ever remember. I have PCOS and my acne is hormonal; petty benzoyl peroxide facewashes would never have worked.

Ultimately, patients won't have access to Roaccutane until they have jumped through all the hoops and tried 'everything', but in cases like mine, it clearly just delays proper treatment. My first appointment at the hospital was with a specialist nurse, not a doctor, so she sent me away with some antibiotics whilst I waited a few weeks for another appointment - she said "Of course these won't work but I don't want to leave you with nothing."

I guess when you don't have acne, it's not a big deal. It's completely different when it is you.

Reply 5

snydercharles425

This is very interesting.

Reply 6

abusername

I wish they would throw you pizza faced kids in some sort of internment camp where society wouldnt have to look upon your disgusting facial lesions. While we are at it throw the fat people in there as well.

Reply 7

Monkey.Man

so you're essentially saying "do conditionally ugly people get enough support"?
how much constitutes "enough" support for something like this? and what is meant by "support"?
are they entitled to more support that ordinary people? why?