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I had bad acne issues as a teen. If I would give one simple advice to myself then I would say "just go to the doctor and get the tetracycline already. You don't have to live with it no matter if you are bullied or your parents give you alternative remedies. Just go to a doctor and it will get better!"
The worst part of acne was that it bought severe depression, and not necessarily the kind that is easy to recognize as a teen.
Okay, tell me more. Is this like accutane in that it will impact, e.g. gut health?
Tetracycline is an antibiotic, so it kills stuff in your gut. Not all of it, but it is best to take probiotics if you're taking any kind of antibiotic just to keep your gut flora a little happier. It also kills the bugs that tend to be the reason there's pus in acne, which are what cause acne to be red and bumpy
Accutane is like a roided-out version of vitamin A and works like vitamin A in your skin, just even more vita-tastically, or whatever scientific term is appropriate. This means that it clears up some of the causes of acne (makes your skin produce less oil, shrinks pores so they can't clog as easily, etc.), but it's so freakin' vitastic that it goes too far. All my friends on Accutane in high school needed lip balm 24/7 and a few of them had frequent nosebleeds, especially while playing sports. One of them had to go off it very soon after he started because it made his acne much worse and he ended up with a pustule 2.5 inches across on his back that needed to be drained and packed.
Inflammatory bowel disease is another thing that seems to pop up down the line for some accutane users, but AFAIK no formal causal link had been established, or perhaps heads are just in the sand. For what it's worth, one of the folks I know from high school that took accutane has been dealing with inflammatory bowel problems since shortly after she took it, which was around 20 years ago.
Very different drugs that work on acne from entirely different angles. Tetracycline won't cause long term gut health problems all on its own unless you take it for far too long, or at unsafe dosages.
Okay, this is actually really insightful, I will definitely follow up on this. Thank you so much!
Please follow up with a doctor! I am not a medical professional and what I have written is entirely anectodal and unverified.
I blame Brexit. Having proof that your parent's generation are gullible idiots cannot be good for anyone's skin health.
I don't know why DIM doesn't get recommended by doctors! Should I put my tinfoil hat on?
What's DIM ? It's not mentioned in the article
diindolylmethane
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DIM+Acne+treatment&ia=web
It's a supplement being hawked to help with hormonal acne. I make no claims, just wanted to know what it was for myself.
Not only that, it helps with prostates swelling that comes from the production of DHT in a lot of males, like myself. Which causes baldness, too. DIM is a miracle from whatever god is up there. I used to piss every five minutes until I started using DIM. Life is back to normal.
You had me at "used to piss every 5 minutes" you glorious bastard.
Lol. I hope that you don't have that issue, too. If you do, then this is your savior. It'll normalize. It was fucking miserable.
It's not that bad, and usually only when drinking a lot of coffee. The urgency is what kills me. Like not a thing, nothing and then from nowhere: YOU MUST GO NOW.
It kind of males sense. Coffee is a diuretic. You'd know the issue from how many times you have to use the bathroom at night. Once of twice is normal. More than that and you have an issue.