You need to understand what acne is before you can address the problem, so please read on:

Acne is also called acne vulgaris and is not just a problem for teens, but for people between 10 and 40 years old. It is no discriminator of people…both males and women are equally affected. As a matter of fact, it is not uncommon for women to develop acne in their mid to late-20′s, even if they’ve never had it before.

Back Acne can show up as:  whiteheads, blackheads,pimples (affectionately knowns as zits), pustules, or cysts (really deep pimples, sometimes called boils).  They show up mostly on areas of the body where there are lots of “oily” glands, i.e. face, forehead, shoulders, back, chin, and chest. 

Everyone want the magic cure for these breakouts, unfortunately you can also spend a heck of a lot on magic creams that will never work. They address one factor, while neglecting the rest of them. Here are just a few of the contributing factors… prophylactic, adrenals, pressure, atmosphere, food plan, bacteria,inflammation, heredity, cosmetics, prescription drugs… When a doctor is trying to treat the acne it is so important that he or she consider the whole body and not just the area with the acne, for the whole body contributes to these factors.

I saw a “zit doctor” (dermatologist) when I was a teen because my mom felt so sorry for me.  I had no self-confidence, no girlfriends, was afraid to go to school everyday because of the teasing, cried when I was on your own, and I would come home from school with blood spots all over my face, from where I had been picking the zits all day long.   The “zit doctor” helped a bit, but I got loaded up on antibiotics to get that help.

 My parents felt sorry for me, I did see many doctors and things worked for a little while, however some had bad effects that left my skin all red and pealing…like that would make friends come a runnin…ha, no I was still a loser in my eyes. 

There are reports that say if you kill everything, the bacteria and your good cells you are doing as much if not more hard then as if you had done nothing to begin with. Great. Now, I read about these super bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics. There has to be another answer. There have to be acne treatments that work. Don’t worry, there is. I’ll get into that on my next post.

As you can tell this had been a horrible battle.  The face acne was tough because of what people saw, including what I saw when I looked in the mirror. But, this back acne stuff is tough because of not only how it looks, but how it feels. Boils are no fun. If you are reading this because you have back acne, and you’ve experienced the cysts/boils, you know what I am talking about. It isn’t so much about how it looks, but how it feels…and it can feel very painful.