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Posted 8/28/2018 2:14 PM (GMT -5)
My face looks worse than when I was 13!! Can anyone please help with suggestions on how to clear this, it’s making me feel awful, do I need to up my detoxing or am I detoxing too much and hence the acne, I really don’t know anymore.

For detoxing I am currently doing Epsom baths once a week, drinking a lot of water and activated charcoal three times a week
Posted 8/28/2018 2:44 PM (GMT -5)
I have the same problem. At first I thought it was the andrographis, but then I stopped the andrographis and it didn't go away. Starting allicin and monolaurin helped at first, but then it came back again.

I have the most success from drinking tea I made out of dried boneset, nettle leaf, and ginger root. I'm just afraid that it will also stop helping.

I don't know what causes acne to come up all of a sudden, but it sure is annoying. For me, it usually seems to start with an itchy rash on my neck and move up my face.
Posted 8/28/2018 3:01 PM (GMT -5)
i would wash and change all your bedsheets. replace your show curtins and pillow, and case. replace your hair brush

try not to eat anything with carbs, or fast. carbs and fat.

if all else fails, ask your doctor for minocycline. which is a anti-acne antibiotic, that also has a method of action with lyme used in lyme treatment.

you could also do nothing and just wait, which is probably best.
part of treating lyme for me was getting weird bumps. not like acne, but like deep bumps that looked like skin acne. they would come and go in two week cycles. the first cycle I had hundreds of them all over my legs. they slowly went away in cycles.
Posted 8/28/2018 3:11 PM (GMT -5)
Per my llmd, this is not uncommon as you kill all the bacteria and the remaining is fighting for turf on your skin. Happened to me, now 100% clear 2.5 years later. It took one year post abx to clear.

For face get the nutragema 2% salic acid (?) liq face soap.google it. helped. the are generics at walmart too.
Posted 8/28/2018 6:54 PM (GMT -5)
cut ooo with coconut oil ...even chlorox baths , i had to rife for propionbactium acnes bacteria and bart was boils
Posted 8/28/2018 7:35 PM (GMT -5)
I will replace my shower curtain. It smells strange, and my face does get worse after I take a shower. I was on minocycline for a month last year, and while I think my acne improved, I don't think it went away completely (I really can't remember). My stomach was feeling so bad, I didn't care about what my face looked like.

Do you mean mix oregano oil with coconut oil?
Posted 8/28/2018 7:50 PM (GMT -5)
Sounds like you are not detoxing enough. I take epsom salt baths daily with 3 cups of epsom salt. I take binders 2-3 times per day - mixed between modified citrus pectin, MCP with alginate, and activated charcoal. I probably do too much. Sometimes I let up and give myself a break.

If you don't have amalgams or mercury toxicity, you could try adding chlorella. Try doing the baths 3x week. If it helps, work up to daily and take a day or two break now and then.

Post Edited (WalkingbyFaith) : 8/28/2018 6:54:02 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 8/28/2018 9:52 PM (GMT -5)
I've had periods of acne since lyme. Never had it even as a teenager then all of sudden after 30 I have an acne issue? No, it's lyme.

I'm in a period now of no acne, but give it enough months and it will come back, probably in the winter with the cold dry air.

What I do is coconut oil and sometimes switch it up with witch hazel.
Posted 8/29/2018 1:42 AM (GMT -5)
Thank you all so much, you guys are great.
So many suggestions here, I will try the face wash astroman, and maybe try to stay make up free ( when not at work) I will also try and increase my detoxing, it’s so hard to fit everything in! You all must be super organised!!

My diet can do with improving too, cheese used to break me out as a teenager, I tend to stay away from it but have got lazy recently.
Posted 8/29/2018 2:34 AM (GMT -5)
They called mine acne vulgaris ...cheese ,pork smoking seems to agitate but much resolved with addressing bart and and staph .

On breakouts the oregano mix would snuff em out..burns a bit tho..use a carrier
Posted 8/29/2018 2:37 AM (GMT -5)
I always found the Aveeno Clear Complexion Foaming Cleanser to be beneficial, then afterwards putting the Proactiv repairing lotion on my zits.

Aveeno foaming cleanser can be rather costly, as well as Proactiv repairing lotion, but they both seem to work well together.

I really don't get them anymore, but both of these helped me in my teens and twenties.

Slowing down on the chocolate, even dairy products in general, maybe improve your complexion. And replacing it with a probiotic pill instead, some say improves complexion as well. You should be on a no or low sugar diet too, if you have chronic lyme.

Post Edited (Charlie55) : 8/29/2018 1:40:13 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 8/29/2018 8:57 AM (GMT -5)
I’m terrible with my diet Charlie, this is one of the most difficult things for me, I have sweet tooth and love all things bad for me!! But yes I’m sure that would be a huge help, Im stopping it all as of today, Dairy, sugar, let’s see if it helps.
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