Treatment for spot breakout

[DarkDarkNight]

My skin has been breaking out for the past couple of weeks - first painful under the skin bumps on my chin with no head, now clusters of spots with multiple whiteheads. I’m fed up. It’s really painful, unsightly, and despite loving skincare and using the right ingredients my late-30s skin is behaving as badly as it did when I was a teenager.

I’ve attached pics, but it’s even worse in real life. The bumps are huge and stick out in relief from my face, it is like a rash almost.

Can anyone recommend a miracle treatment that will shrink them fast as they hang around for ages. I’ve tried lots over the years: Dermalogica, Origins, Clinique, the French pharmacy brands like LRP, Mario Badescu, Eve Lom, Ren, everything from Boots and Superdrug that promises to shrink zits fast. I’ve tried spot stickers but didn’t get on with them. I’ve currently got the Acnecide 5% benzoyl peroxide gel, a Pixi spot treatment and another salicylic spot treatment, I think Garnier.

I've spent a fortune on products over the years and even used straight tea tree oil but the nothing beats wilkos skin therapy spot stuff. They've had a rebrand recently and now I'm not sure if it's the skin therapy blemish control or the wilkos spotless intense rapid treatment but both get great reviews.

I suffer from very similar breakouts and I'm similar age to you.
I got Duac from my GP (benzoyl peroxide) and I've also had to have antibiotics too (lymecycline).
Both of these get mine under control.

Thank you suzscat I will see if my local branch has either in.

rosiebl I feel like the only time my skin has really been spot free was when I was on the Dianette pill. I’ve had Dermatica skin treatment with clindamycin in the last and it was a bit more in control, I will look in to Duac.

You need a Gp for that, you’ll scar with spots that big.

Oh God, I ordered some 5% Duac last night through an online pharmacy consultation. I feel like I might need some actual medication/antibiotics though not just topical as I feel I’ve tried everything I can possibly put on my face. The Acnecide gel and salicylic gels aren’t having any impact.

That is hormonal (which is why the pill helped most) so there’ll be a limit to what topical treatments can do. I’d suggest the GP. Maybe ask for spironolactone if you don’t want the pill again and HRT seems a bit premature.

I’d get that checked by your GP in case it isn’t acne. It looks a bit like when I had perioral dermatitis which I thought was a bad acne breakout around my mouth and chin. The more things I put on it the worse it got. Especially as the first doctor I saw have me steroid cream which makes it worse! I got antibiotics from another GP and a topical gel on prescription (metro gel I think it’s called). It cleared up fairly quickly. I have had reoccurrences since, but now know what to do before it gets bad.