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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
too old for acne!
I'm so tired of breaking out! I look like a "before" picture these days! (...and yes, I do pick, and yes, I know I shouldn't, but I do it anyway when I'm stressed out.)
For heaven's sake, you'd think at 30 it might clear up. Plus I wanted to start using an anti-wrinkle product for the forwn lines, but guess what makes me break out more? anti-wrinkle products! yay!
Any suggestions? Proactive and Patricia Wexler, Retin A and Accutane were a bust....
TIA
Re: too old for acne!
Blair is how old...you're only 5-6 months out. IMHO your body is still trying to regulate itself. At about 9 mo pp with Nat, I went to see a dermatologist. Who prescribed me with stuff and gave me sample of even stronger stuff. Some of it was too harsh and I only use it (still today) for big break outs, just to reduce the "ugly time" and get it over with. I have something I could use, light and gentle enough to use everyday, but I still don't. It's nice to have tho and I'll use it if I remember to 2-3 x week.
In summary, give yourself and your skin more time to adjust. And if you want, go see a derm. Not sure about the anti-wrinkle stuff. I just use OTC Neutrogena moisturizers. HTH
I had perfectly clear skin growing up and up until about my 7th month of pregnancy. It continued until I gave birth and then went away. Guess what? it came back about 6 weeks postpartum. It FINALLY started to clear up aroun 5.5 months pp.
Give it time. My doctor keeps saying this(and I totally agree), 9 months up and 9 months down. Meaning that it took your body 9(10) months to do all the things it needed to do to complete the pregnancy, so I should give it at least 9(10) months to get back to normal. Just a thought....
I like that 9 months up, 9 months down idea.
But I might be doomed, my skin was the clearest during PG, even the arm bumps went away! I'm sooo looking forward to going back on my regular bcp, b/c the minipill is ridiculous. My skin is icky to begin with, but I blame the minipill for exacerbating the problem.