The Truth About Adult Acne: Expert Advice for Clear Skin | This Morning 

She is legend I have absolute admiration for her. I am 35 and suffer really badly and its only recently my confidents is at a high. I have keep taking tablets and cream just to keep it in check, Good luck for the future

3:01 Calling it bad skin maybe wasn't the nicest thing to say Cat, and then make her feel worse by telling her how gross you felt when you had it.

Roaccutane is not a nice drug and can have some nasty side effects, but its the only thing that works for severe acne.

Come on This Morning help someone out who was brave enough to come on your show and talk. Pay for her to get a private consultation in London right away and just get her the drug. Stop making it so hard.

It’s horrific that she is being made to wait so long for a referral when her acne is so severe. The mental anguish this causes is no joke! I took a course Roaccutane in my late 20s and unfortunately my acne did return, although not as bad and has been managed since with Dianette. However I am due to come off it as I’ve been on it a long time. Looks like I’ll be going private if I need to see a dermatologist again!

My own acne problems disappeared within a year of leaving school, but that was a miserable time in itself because kids as we know can be (and were) very cruel. I geniunely feel sorry for people that suffer from it in adulthood though.

Roaccutane is the answer, It's a miracle for the treatment of acne. I spent a lifetime trying everything under the sun and that was the only thing that shifted my adult acne.

Acne destroyed my confidence in HS and early university. Acne is hard to deal with.

I started getting acne at age 11. I’m 31 now and still get spots. I started using Epiduo gel from the doctors about 3 years ago. It has helped a lot. I don’t have big breakouts anymore. It’s a very strong cream though so it does dry your skin out, and if you use too much it will burn your skin and leave you red and peeling. So I’m careful to only use it when necessary. All those years I never went to the doctors assuming it would just go away eventually. My mum never took me as a teenager either. It massively affected how I am now as an adult. I am very very introverted. My teen years I had friends. But I avoided at all costs talking to anybody new because I didn’t want anybody to look directly at me. Now, although I’ve got better over the years, I’m quite shy and not the chattiest in the room. So I believe it had a massive effect on the way I am today. Those important years developing my personality were hindered by me just wanting the ground to swallow me up.

Let food be thy medicine

elimination diet + red light therapy machine changed my life

Sometimes its hormonal.

Looks so painful 😢

I am very lucky in that I never really got it on my face at all even as a teen, but now at 36 I did get it on my shoulders, chest, upper arms and back quite a bit. I got a soap bar from Boots which has tea tree and witch hazel in it and it has cleared up all of these areas so well, it’s like night and day.

I had horrendous cystic acne at 26. Roaccutane completely got rid of it and side effects were worth it.

I had bad skin when I was 15 and treated it with benzac 10 and the other old method calamine lotion over skin at night. Came out with picture perfect skin . My son got it bad from 17 and we used Differin it was amazing cream but on twice a day. My son had it on his arms back and face . He is now 30 and acne came back he is back on Roacctine. Perfect skin and no scars . The Differin cream was great but the other one is a game changer .

2% BHA salicylic acid and 14% glycolic acid = amazing results

Thought the girl in the thumbnail was Jess from Love Island 😅

look like Jess from love island ❤😂

I know both Roaccutane (or Accutane, as we call it in the US) and Spironolactone are very good medicines for Acne patients! She can look into this, if she wants to do that! She was very lucky to have clear skin as a teen-ager!

could be dietary. for many it's dairy

I’ve dealt with moderate-severe acne since I was 9. I’m almost 31 and it’s under control with spironolactone, orthotricyclen, and tretinoin.

I had excruciating acne, it hurt so much. It was swollen. Nothing anyone said worked. Dr said it was cystic acne or hormone related. If this sounds like you, try and have a baby and breastfeed haha been clear ever since! This acne didn't happen until adulthood but i did stop the combined pill after having since i was 13. No GP has ever given me roaccutane

What you wash your hair and conditioner s you use effects your skin a cold tar shampoo helps (polytar) excellent

This drug nearly killed me both physically and mentally.! Its so dangerous….

also in my 30s and also suffering! well, suffering much less cause i started using tretinoin and so far thats the only thing that works

i see people talking about Roaccutane the one thing that worked for me and you cant be on it long term it works as basically a big vitamin A tablet caused my hair , lips and nose to become very dry but as someone who constantly suffered with oily hair and skin it actually did me a favour

Does roaccutane also clears up acne marks?

Lexi is very pretty regardless

I went on roaccutane, for only 2 months. It did work, my hair didnt get greasy it was bliss! But then i got joint pain (potential side effect) and got taken off it. My acne slowly came back, but im not willing to try roaccutane again.

Ive been on accutane twice, am currently on Dianette, spironolactone and using topical antibiotics and i STILL dont have perfect skin. So annoying 😢

Zineryt was a game changer for me

I get rid of my acnes and skin infection with fruit fasting no joke my body odor and acnes all gone

I took minocin for bad acne and it worked and a roll stick called dalicin which burns when you put it on but it works 👍

Well they didn't really give much advice and detail there

I don't agree with how much they are promoting roaccutane in this video. It is not the only answer and its side effects should not be underestimated.

My acne cured when I stopped consuming dairy and I also use sudacrem

Same thing happened to me in my 20’s I couldn’t tolerate the pill and my skin flared up in acne just like this ! Swapped my pill to dianette cleared my acne up . Some pills contain too much male hormone

Please do hormonal blood tests and investigate gynaecological causes if you are a woman who suddenly develops acne in your twenties. There is a cause, the medical profession doesn’t bother to investigate. Easier to slap on creams and stick someone on drugs.

I would prescribe Androcur.

I have acne on my ballz. what do i do?

This is acne. It's so insulting when people with spots and the odd bolder say they have acne. Poor girl. So unfair

See a nutritionist

I went on three trials of roaccutance before my acne was finally gone. It was a horrendous time of my life however I feel so grateful that I was able to access NHS treatment considering how difficult it is to get an appointment now. We need more dermatologists working for the NHS - the issue is so many of them go private because it’s more money for them.

09:30 ... 09/07 wed

Sad fact acne.

Same thing happened to me. I didn’t have it at a teenager. My contraception changed my skin forever. It’s been almost 10 years and 2 rounds of rouaccutane I have semi-clear skin, but lots of acne and scars ☹️ Doctors need to stop prescribing birth control.

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So she messed up her hormones by going on hormone based birth control.

Accutane has no bad effects at all at very low dosage. Not over - dryness or suicidal thoughts

Mate just shush

TRETINOIN

Same thing happened to me in my 20’s I couldn’t tolerate the pill and my skin flared up in acne just like this ! Swapped my pill to dianette cleared my acne up . Some pills contain too much male hormone