Adult Acne
September 12th, 2009
Sometimes, I feel like I’m still going through puberty. I am definitely an adult. But especially right now, my chin area and under the chin, neck, etc, is always breaking out. Sometimes I get one by my nose. But that in general is usually just blackheads, which is still annoying, and there are times when I feel like it will go on forever. My mom is in her mid 50’s, and she still suffers from acne breakouts, so not a good sign. Granted my dad hasn’t suffered from acne in years, so that’s always a possibility, maybe I’ll get a halfway descent mix once I hit 30 or something!
But sometimes adult acne seems more difficult to treat. But quite frankly, the fact is it just seems more difficult because you have been suffering from it for longer and you had some expectation that it would magically go away at the point of adulthood. If you have a good acne treatment, and you actually bother using it, which I’ve been falling behind on lately, you will still be able to well control it. So don’t give up hope and don’t assume the myth is true about adult acne being so different from teen acne. It’s never as complicated as you sometimes like to think.