TMI thread. Discussion of sensitive ADULT issues/triggers. Enter with awareness!

HomerMcvie · #1 12-18-2010, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

Or, every 28 days maybe?

This thread is so absolutely gross!

We guys have hormonal cycles, too. And it's usually almost exactly a month apart. It was the same when I was 15. I've always been a once a month, single zit guy! I feel very lucky to have never been plagued with real acne! Good skin is a blessing.

daniellaaarisen · #2 12-18-2010, 07:35 PM

Ugh, skin. Don't even get me started. My skin drives me CRAZY. Everyone tells me I have perfect skin but if you look up close, I really don't. I invest so much of my time and money into getting rid of tiny bumps and they just won't f*cking go away.

MissLadyLoki · #3 12-18-2010, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

Ugh, skin. Don't even get me started. My skin drives me CRAZY. Everyone tells me I have perfect skin but if you look up close, I really don't. I invest so much of my time and money into getting rid of tiny bumps and they just won't f*cking go away.

Me, I've generally have good skin, but my only issue is irritation from when I get my eyebrows waxed and for some reason beyond me, I get a huge pimple every time my period is about to start. Anyone here have any idea what causes that?

louielouie2000 · #4 12-18-2010, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

We guys have hormonal cycles, too. And it's usually almost exactly a month apart. It was the same when I was 15. I've always been a once a month, single zit guy! I feel very lucky to have never been plagued with real acne! Good skin is a blessing.

Interestingly enough, I still get one zit a month too, and I'm approaching 30. I thought I was supposed to be DONE with this crap by now!

Unfortunately I did have acne as a teen. I never thought I'd be able to clear it up, or erase the scarring. Luckily my first boyfriend's Mother owned a microdermabrasion clinic. Her treatments single handedly cleared up my acne and completely erased any scarring I had.

HomerMcvie · #5 12-18-2010, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Interestingly enough, I still get one zit a month too, and I'm approaching 30. I thought I was supposed to be DONE with this crap by now!

Unfortunately I did have acne as a teen. I never thought I'd be able to clear it up, or erase the scarring. Luckily my first boyfriend's Mother owned a microdermabrasion clinic. Her treatments single handedly cleared up my acne and completely erased any scarring I had.

Well I'm a few years older than you, and I still get em, too! My 65yo aunt says it never stops.
I hadn't even thought about this, though.... Always, always, always, in my younger years, they were either at the bottom corners of my nose, or at the corners of my mouth. Now, they're almost exclusively on the center of my chin. Thank god they're always tiny ones, that a quick needle prick solves.

Nikolaj · #6 12-19-2010, 02:57 AM

Louie and Homer, you sound very fortunate. Even as a teenager, I had no acne, never, all of my life. Then, at age 42 I developed acne on the right side of my face, where I shave, and it has never completely healed, for four long years now. It's terrible, tiny hairs growing upside down, sideways, and I always look like I have frostbite from the redness.
I'm a little fortunate in that I can hide much of it with a light coating of zinc oxide and a cover stick, but that inch of my face is in horrible condition. Tweezing it helps some, but also irritates it. For the first time in my life, I understand why some celebrities prefer to be photographed from one angle only and hide the other side.

Louie, I made so many typos in the 2nd PM I accidentally mailed you a rough draft of 20 minutes before also sending the final version. Both have so many errors you will lose count, or laugh til you have tears from it, at my illiteracy. Believe it or not, I meant well, even if it seemed rough, but it's an unholy trainwreck. Do yourself a favor and delete both copies of the 2nd PM, actually it would be doing me a favor, not that you should.

Hey, I can agree to disagree. At the time, I felt I had something worth sharing with you that might matter, but anyone who typed, as I did, 'white wing' when I meant to type 'right wing'- clearly deserves to be mocked and/or ignored.
What a day. Have definitely had better.

GypsySorcerer · #7 12-19-2010, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Interestingly enough, I still get one zit a month too, and I'm approaching 30. I thought I was supposed to be DONE with this crap by now!

Unfortunately I did have acne as a teen. I never thought I'd be able to clear it up, or erase the scarring. Luckily my first boyfriend's Mother owned a microdermabrasion clinic. Her treatments single handedly cleared up my acne and completely erased any scarring I had.

I had mild acne as a teen, and it mostly cleared up in college. But when I hit about 29, it came back with a vengeance. Worse than when I was a teen for a few months. I got my birth control switched, and started using DDF (Doctor's Dermatologic Formula) skincare....now my skin looks better than it probably ever has. (I'm 30 now)

David · #8 12-19-2010, 12:09 PM

I wrinkle paper & other foldable material in a very weird way--it can't be described. I've been doing this since I was a child. I used to practically destroy school textbooks, wrinkling each page. Doing so seems to calm me or something.

Let me try to describe the movement. I take the edge of the sheet of paper in my right hand, thumb atop it & middle finger below the thumb but on the underside of the sheet, & then I press the two fingers toward each other, carefully guiding the resultant switchback, or sharp bend, from one end of the scarp (or fault) to the other, until I am left with a sheet of paper with what looks like a single long scar running situationally along the center.

I do this compulsively, practically whenever I have any such material in hand.