Damn major thread resurrect. 

Before T I had gorgeous skin (sob) people on the street would stop me to compliment me.  Now it's pretty bad and I feel like I'm at war with it.  For a while it was managable, not perfect, but not horrible.  Now it's pretty bad.  Not pepperoni pizza bad but still noticeable.  I have so many little whiteheads and they have been getting worse ever since my beard really started to grow. 

I think I have infected hair follicles which is nasty.  I have an appointment with my dermotologist tomorrow to talk about it.  I'm going to get some Retin - A out of him if it's the last thing I do.   I'm a year and a month on T.  I started noticing the acne between months 2 and 3. 

 

Yeah, whoo thread res.

FWIW, the antibacterial face wash and benzoyl peroxide that I mentioned 2 years ago didn't really end up working out.  I had to go back to the Retin-A that I used to use when I was a teenager.  It worked then and it works now.  It does take a few months to strip your skin of all the stuff collected in pores.  Blackheads and whiteheads will surface, become a wicked all-at-once breakout, and then heal.

Squirrel, if you do get the Retin-A, try getting a script for the generic Tretinoin and go get it filled at healthwarehouse.com.  It is much, much cheaper if your insurance won't cover acne meds.

It took a few months for me for the acne to kick in. It's not horrible, but it does bother really bad. I guess it depends on the person. If it starts to bother you, ask your endo doctor to prescribe you something. 

Well this might help

http://www.steadyhealth.com/Masturbation_acne_in_males_does_exist__t119084.html






ROFLMAO      well now its your turn LMAO   guyz




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ok sorry about that here's a better one

http://www.epicbeautyguide.com/2011/04/3-simple-diet-changes-that-will-help-eliminate-acne/

Quote from: M2MtF2FtM on June 29, 2011, 03:52:20 PM
Well this might help

http://www.steadyhealth.com/Masturbation_acne_in_males_does_exist__t119084.html

Un-f-ing believable. Never heard this before. Don't have brothers, my father passed away many years ago, can't ask my uncles, male cousins are not of the pubertal age, and they never had acne anyway... Well, my nephew's just had his voice breaking last year, but he does not have any acne either. Un-again-f-ing believable, but HILARIOUS.





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Any sort of sudden hormonal shift will tend to cause acne to some degree, I've noticed.  I've taken workout supplements that boost T and gotten acne which eventually clears.  Then going off of them after taking them regularly can result in another outbreak.  I've also noticed it when I went on medication that limits certain male hormones or went off of it.  I imagine this can be a problem when your T comes in doses now and then.  I imagine it will probably be much less of a problem after you've been on T for a while.  Once they have an implant that releases it slowly into your system gradually, I imagine this will be even less of a problem.

Quote from: dalebert on July 01, 2011, 12:37:33 PM
Once they have an implant that releases it slowly into your system gradually, I imagine this will be even less of a problem.

well, i am actually on the slow-release T, Nebido... only a few more YEARS of this, my colleague keeps reassuring me.

Quote from: dalebert on July 01, 2011, 12:37:33 PM
Any sort of sudden hormonal shift will tend to cause acne to some degree, I've noticed.  I've taken workout supplements that boost T and gotten acne which eventually clears.  Then going off of them after taking them regularly can result in another outbreak.  I've also noticed it when I went on medication that limits certain male hormones or went off of it.  I imagine this can be a problem when your T comes in doses now and then.  I imagine it will probably be much less of a problem after you've been on T for a while.  Once they have an implant that releases it slowly into your system gradually, I imagine this will be even less of a problem.

This would seem to be the case with myself anyways.  My face has been pretty clear still, but my shoulders and upper back are a hot mess the past week.  I've started using Proactiv on those spots too, and it's working, but it's still a bit broken out.  It's much worse at the end of my shot cycle, even with moving the injections to every 12 days instead of 14.  I might end up switching to weekly injections if my doctor thinks it best when I see her at the end of July.   If that helps it's worth it to me, because I've been doing P90X and am building muscle pretty quickly, I don't want to have to go the summer without tank tops just because puberty 2.0 is kicking my ass.    My doctor's pretty cool, when I actually see her.  She said if the acne got bad we'd throw whatever at it we could, be it Retin A, or even Accutane.