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The acne on my jawline is literally so bad it hurts to open my mouth and chew food and I just want my skin back
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Anonymous 2w

Dude, if you have like - literally debilitating acne - go get a corticosteroid injection. That’ll treat the inflammation and ease the pain in the short term, after that talk to your derm about long term treatment.

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Anonymous 1w

For reference, the left is around when I posted this originally and the right is from January. It’s been flaring back up a little lately but it’s still nothing compared to what it was 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> greggrulzok 1w

I had a ton of insurance issues so I ended up just having to wait it out 😭😭 I think a lot of it was hormonal imbalance from going off my birth control since it’s been better the longer I’ve been off it. I do finally have a referral for a dermatologist though (for a different issue lowkey but I’m gonna throw this in) so I’m gonna call on Monday to schedule an appt

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