36 and still suffering from zits....

[Bomper]

WHY?!!! It's not bloody fair.

Tell me about it ..... and I'm 41 !!!!

Can sympathise Bomper, I've been suffering from zits on my chin since being pg with DS2.

I have got a MEGA zit on my chin at the mo. Was almost too ashamed to be seen in public with it!!! I should be worrying about getting wrinkles at my ages not spots!!

I look like a pizza

I hate it but nothing seems to work.

I try and tell myself that having oily skin means I'll have fewer wrinkles. Mmmm...only problem is I have spots and wrinkles, which seems totally unfair.

I have just been moaning about this today - at the moment I have the skin of a teenager

Me too,I'm 37 & have more zits than I did years ago.My skin has never been great,but since having dd2,seems to have really gone to pot.

I've been religiously cleansing,toning & moisterizing,but it seems to be getting worse,not better.I don't understand it.

Mine has been worse since having children than it ever was when I was a teenager. I understand why it goes haywire in pregnancy/just afterwards as your hormones are all over the place - but my youngest is 4 now, surely it should have calmed down a bit?

I have spots and wrinkles too...disgusting! I won't let DH look at me face close-up after I've washed my make-up off....it looks like someone's left a plate of corned beef to dry out under a radiator

I use Proactiv. Worth every penny, too.

Is it for the zits or the wrinkles?

I started getting spots in my twenties (as a teenager at school people always complemented me on my good skin)

I had low dose antibiotics prescribed and they helped whilst taking them but they crept back.

The only product i have found that helped was some stuff called ProActiv - its brilliant. Mine had all but gone within 2 weeks.

x posts expat - i believe we've both had this discussion before too how are you feeling now btw?

Any idea why they happened in your twenties VVV? Same thing has happened to me and it's grim!!

Hiya Vicki! I'm not doing to well just now - bad PND. But that's another story . End hijack.

I NEVER had spots until I was 28 and went off the Pill after 10 years on it.

Then it was full on cystic acne.

Still had spots after going off the Pill again to conceive DD2, but not as bad - was using ProActiv the entire time.

Same story again postpartum from DD2.

I use Oil of Olay REgenerist for wrinkles and it's the business.

hello..i came off the pill a year ago and my skin just went crazy, i have so many spots and they are so big,my dd points them out to everyone,"oh mums got her hand on her chin to hide her spots,they're huge,go on mum show my teacher" im 35,i was expecting wrinkles not acne

I've had worse skin than I've ever had in my life. Hormones, stress, lack of sleep, or quinoa?

Where can I get proactive - is it expensive?

Not quinoa. Never touch the stuff

Surely quinoa can't give you spots as well as everything else?

I bet it would be great for exfoliating though

for anyone with cystic acne who thinks their family is complete or least is absolutely sure they won't want to conceive for a while - roaccutane is the business. magic cure - i do not exaggerate.

I was told by GP it was delayed teenage spots because of regular prescribing of antibiotics as a child for this and that.

the moment I put something suitably strong on my spots, it makes my skin go dry and flaky - which looks vile, along with the spots and the beginnings of wrinkles, and the freckles....also makes it very hard to put on the requisite amount of makeup to cover the whole damn mess up.
Will have to get pregnant again - after the first few months, my skin was fabulous, and most of the time I breastfed as well. As soon as my periods came back, so did the blinking spots

And, expat - i saw your PND thread hope you feel better soon.

So roaccutane - is this a prescription drug or is it available otc?