Is Acne just a lot of pimples ??

@patootie (3592)
December 31, 2006 10:18am CST
I know, daft title for a topic .. but I managed to avoid the dreaded acne all the way through my teens ... had quite a few 'breakouts' while pregnant both times .. then have rarely seen a spot since .. All of a sudden here I am past middle age and suddenly I seem to be having a 'plague' of spots or pimples one after another ... If it's acne maybe I should get it seen to .. but if it's 'just' a few pimples is it better to leave it all alone ??
2 responses
sunita64
@sunita64 (6468)
• India
15 Jan 07
The more you take care of acne more they increase so it is better to leave them alone they are due to some hormonal changes and vanish in their own time if left untouched.
Brian
@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
15 Jan 07
They always used to promote biactol for acne, I dunno if you still get biactol now. Thankfully I never suffered at all with acne as a teenager or adult, I was bullied enough through being fat and a bit of a loner, if I had acne too then I would have been slaughtered! I do find that I do get a few pimples if I eat too many Pringles for some reason, just shows how greasy they are! There was a guy at school who had really really bad acne and he was really badly teased about it, constantly and kids can be so nasty, the names they came out with. Horrid. Hard not to be self-conscious.