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22/02/2010 by Einstein719.
December 2009: Whilst my mother was trying to get me a private derm, my father was also spending money to try and solve this for me. It was really damaging my self esteem and I had no motivation to do anything other than watch tv and escape reality through computer games, such as Runescape.
At the time I was also doing my GCSE mocks, which didn’t help by adding to my stress. Anyway my dad bought an acne lamp, which effectively is just a blue lamp. You hold this to your skin and it activates some chemical in the bateria causing them to fry themselves. I`ve heard that if you have this treatment done prefessionally it hurts quite a lot, but I personally have noticed no side effects.
Within about three weeks the skin on my face was looking so much better I no longer had huge cysts and nodules and had fewer pimples. The change was incredible. However it would be unfair to attribute all this improvement to the blue lamp. I was still taking Lymacycline (although this is clearly not the reason for the improvement since I still have sever acne on my back and chest) and I was still using benzoyl peroxide. Together it seems BP and the acne lamp have cleared up my face considerably, to the point were I have no more acne than most people in my year at school (Year 11) and I was so much happier with my life, come new year.
2010 had started on a positive.
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