# What the FUCK is with these zits ??? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-with-these-zits/390737 "2007-02-04T03:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-with-these-zits/390737/21 "2007-02-05T16:33:14Z")
[QUOTE=ExTank] 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…” [/QUOTE] My great-grandma is convinced that my deep cystic acne would go away if I’d “just quit putting all that medicine on it!” Other days, she recommends that I dab it with a bit of apple cider vinegar. :rolleyes: I’m taking minocyline now and it works well, but dang. I’ve been taking antibiotics daily for a couple of years now. I ask the dermatologist if I can ever stop, and he says, “Just as soon as your skin decides to stop having acne.” Um, doctor? I’m thirty-six! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-with-these-zits/390737/22 "2007-02-05T17:38:36Z")
I’m fifty and I believe I’m going through peri-menopause. For the last few months, I’ve had annoying zits along my chinline and below and behind my ears. Also sprinkling on the back of my neck and shoulders. It’s _gross_ to be dealing with this at this time. Is this due to the hormonal changes, I wonder? And ditto on the wrinkles and zits comment. One or the other I can deal with, but both at once is not fair at all. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-with-these-zits/390737/23 "2007-02-05T17:53:25Z")
[QUOTE=ExTank] 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. [/QUOTE] Topical, oral or anal? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-with-these-zits/390737/24 "2007-02-05T18:32:27Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Topical, oral or anal? [/QUOTE] 😛 I forget the dosage, but I’d make a brewer’s yeast “milk shake” with about 4 tablets, three times a day. It took about a month or so for results to be seen, but it did work, for a while at least (about a year-and-a-half). I don’t know if my body built an immunity to the yeast, or my acne severity increased beyond the ability of whatever the yeast was doing to cope with. In any case, I wound up at the dermatologist’s office around 17-18 y/o, and went through several regimens before the asswipe (I mean Doctor) brought out the big guns. And I didn’t have a little sprinkling of small zits; I’d get the huge, red, swollen pustules that made me look like I was budding or something. They wouldn’t subside, either; they’d just sit there on my face like an angry, red mini-me pushing itself out of the side of my face (or worse, out the end of my nose!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-with-these-zits/390737.md?page=1)