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Terrible facial acne caused by proactive? Please help!

Terrible facial acne caused by proactive? Please help!

Hi there,
I'm 20 years old and I've never really had problems with acne after age 14 or 15 except during my period or when I'm stressed, and then only on my forhead or chin. I took Yasmin 21 as a birth control method for four years which cleared up what little puberty acne I had, but I had to discontinue taking them last year due to sexual complications and that caused a few breakouts here and there. A couple months ago I used proactive on a breakout near my temples and ended up using it religiously for a good couple of weeks. The breakouts on my forehead improved but the rest of my face EXPLODED in acne... Which meant I had to use proactive to clear THOSE breakouts out. The only thing that succeeded in doing was 'burning' the pimples into my face and leaving smooth red marks where the breakouts had been... Now I've stopped using proactive for a good month or so but I'm stuck with this terrible acne on the entire lower half of my face and it's very stressful, which causes more breakouts... I've never had acne this bad in my life and I work in direct customer relations so this is negatively impacting my career and personal life but more importantly my self esteem. I am in desperate need of finding a solution to end this viscious cycle.
If anyone has been in a similar situation, or knows of a solution, I would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks guys.
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Hey I'm using Proactive too but its clearing my acne n i get a few breakouts every now n then.
Try using lemon n ivory soap. Squeeze the lemon all over ur face rubbing the juice, afterwards wash ur face with the ivory soap.

For ur scars ull need a round plate n egg n half a lemon.
Crack the egg n pour the white juice from the egg into the round plate but don't let the yolk fall in.
Now squeeze lemon juice in the plate.
Mix it n then with ur fingers rub it all over ur face.
After 5-10 minutes wash it off with ivory soap.

This is ment to whiten ur face n remove bad scars. This really works!!!
Hope it helps gud luck keep me posted on whether it worked: )
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