For chrissakes. I’m 44. I get to contend with the usual maladies at this age, some particularly evil aches and pains, this bizarre sore spot under my nose from the goddamned CPAP machine- and now I get zits. STILL???
I’ll make a little deal with you, Satan. You want me to have the skin of a 15 year old, give me the prostate gland to match. Then we’ll have a deal. Until that occurs, ease up of the erruptions, m’kay???
Fuck !
Cartooniverse
Take some small comfort that what may be causing your acne is an excess of testosterone. They are manly zits!
It’s either zits or wrinkles…why both?
So that’s where the saying, ‘He just oozes manliness’ comes from!!
Edited to add a space and italics.
As someone who used to have bad acne until I was put on meds for it in high school, this is totally rant-worthy IMHO. I don’t know the extent to which you are suffering but have you considered medication? When it works, it reeeeally works.
Unless Cartooniverse is in a REALLY ‘Special Needs’ class, I doubt he is still in high-school at the age of 44. 
Don’t panic CV. Last year I got a couple of bewdies, and I’m a 46yr old sheila, well past the acne-ridden phase of me’ youth, or so I thought.
What was cool though, was comparing size, and potential ‘pussibility’ with my teenage son who was sporting a couple of his own mineable deposits at the same time.
He won.
I am familiar with the situation you describe, and that is not what is going on. It’s a few random painful whiteheads. I just…I mean, c’mon.
OTOH, if it is an excess of testosterone, why thank you. Thankyouverrumush.
Well I wasn’t aware if you were talking about a severe problem or just you now, everyday annoyances. Either way, you have my condolences.
If you didn’t masturbate fifteen to twenty times per day, you would not have such a zit problem. Be glad that you are not blind and hairy handed. Go eat some corn flakes.
Stop watching me through the bedroom curtains.
And lay off the Green M&Ms.
Oh god. You went to my High School too ?
Did I mention the incessantly painful sore from my CPAP machine? It is like the escort on a prom date. My zit does not have to leave the house alone- it has company. Fine red irritated company. A friend, with a face.
Lawdy. I am guessing that with my Dremel Tool and the proper grade of steel wool, I could create my own Ron Popeil Home Pocket Dermabrasion Kit.
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I was lucky that I didn’t get many zits in high school (I got them, but not very many). I spent my 20’s and 30’s mostly zit free.
Now I’m 40, and peri menopausal–and I’m getting ZITS! It ain’t fair! If I’m going to get zits like a 15 year old, I want my 15 year old body back!
Why is it that the only thing that associates me with any persono of a younger age is that we can share zit popping stories?
36 and popping zits sucks.
-Tcat
Exactly !! I want your 15 year old body back !
Well. It stinks. This mid-40’s thing is just for the birds. Do men go through menopause? Is this what this is? I have no hankering for an anorexic 22 year old administrative assistant ( not that, if you are one and reading this, that’s a bad thing to be, cause it ain’t. ), no need for a hot sports car or sudden craving to take up brandy and cigar collecting.
I. Just. Hate. These. Fucking. Zits.
Zits are God’s way of telling you that you masturbate too much in private and not enough in public. Find George Michael.
Cartooniverse, there is a possibility that your zits are rosacea . Mine were. Now I use a prescription cream daily, and no more zits. Also, no chance that my nose will end up looking like a potato. A visit to a dermatologist may be in order.
Preach it. I started puberty at ~ 11-yrs. old, and now at almost 40, am still apparently going through it. At least those decades of skincare and having to stay out of the sun because of zit medicine have kept my skin looking younger.
Well, the zits make me look younger, too, but not in as good a way as no-wrinkles.
Hey, the prostate is “use or lose,” of the two options…
My favorite piece of advice for dealing with acne/eruptions: “Well, if you’d just wash with a little soap and hot water every now and then, and lay off looking at the Ladies section of the Sears catalog…”
In my mid-teens, my homeopathic-crazed father put me on a regimen of Brewer’s Yeast tablets to clear up my acne, and I must honestly admit that it helped for a while. In my later teens, I had to get meds from the dermatologist (tetracycliene?).
And FWIW, I’m rapidly sneaking up on 40 and still deal with the damned things every now and again. You have my sympaties, CV.
Now your nose, on the other hand…you just have to deal with that by hiding your face from public.
I’m 31 and still get them, although it’s much better. I had them extraordinarily bad in my teens and what was beautifully soft skin was just ruined. And they went on and on throughout my 20’s. I was on that stuff for a while, what do you call it, the four-part medication? That you order through the mail? Starts with a ‘P’? Dammit, I can’t remember. But my dermatologist used to be just surprised and surprised.
Now it’s way better but I still get it about once a month, around my period time, and now it’s only 1-2 but they are big motherfuckers and hurt like hell.
Such is life I guess.