My Dr’s Secret Skin Care Experience

Like I wrote in my post, that I have had a massive outbreak. WAIT! Before you jump to any conclusions of possible Hormones imbalance or stress related theory. Let me explain by telling my story. When you’re done reading it, then you are free to make any judgement or assumptions.

Here’s a Story of my struggle with my deepest and darkest fears. ACNE!!! Acne’s been plaguing me since my early twenties. And I hope to rid of it one day. I pray for that very day to come soon…..

I will begin with the Present, and then move to the past, and then back to the present and followup with the most current.

Present Day

The product that I am currently using is call Dr’s Secret. My mum, she swears by it, she’s been using this for ages, and I’ve seen the things it had done for her, and many other ladies ranging from as young as those in their teens to mid twenties to woman in their late 40′s. Basically, its for woman of all ages. And this product is currently the cause of my sudden MONSTEROUS BREAKOUT….

In the Past

I never had problems with pimple during my puberty, so back then I had nothing to worry about. Up till I was probably 20 years old, when I had a sudden outbreak. It was horrible. I didn’t know what to do. I was desperate, and was ready to try anything. I tried OXY – didn’t work. I tried Clearasil – didn’t work. I tried T3 – Nothing but more Zits.

I gave up all topical treatment. And went to get myself check, because people are telling me that I probably had harmonal imbalance. So I went on an Antibiotic prescription, and it forced out whatever dirt that was under my skin – detox – in hope to create some balance in my hormones. However, there wasn’t a proper cleanser or system that came along with my antibiotic prescription, you can imagine, how its like when all the dirt under your face is being forced out at once, but after that there is no proper cleansing system to help maintain ur skin or to help clean up the mess it’d created. My acne scars were simply left to heal on its own. Can you imagine how hard it was, how I had to live with all that reddish potholes, and obviously there were alot that needed healing.

By then, I had to wait patiently for the scars to heal up one by one, so I resorted to using other products that claim they could heal acne scars, minimise pores, cover and conceal – FAST!. I tried Fancl – absolutely no use. I tried Clinique – nar..didn’t work at all. Then my mum got me to use her “MIRACLE” product – Dr’s Secret. I was skeptical at first. During the initial stages, I experience redness, peeling, I probably had no more dirt under my skin, thus I didn’t experience any purging at all.

After only one month of using, most the top layers of my skin were peeled away, revealing newer and fresher skin, and most of my acne scars had lighten and even out. However, by the 2nd month, I experience red blotches around the rest of the area where the deeper and more stubborn scars remains, the blotches were itching too. I had to stop using, and almost immediately the blotches subsided, I suppose I was experiencing some side effect and irritation from either washing too vigourously or rubbing the lotions to roughly.

Since I stopped, I went on to try other products that claimes they are gentle enough for acne prone skin, e.g. Ettusais. All went well, but it didnt help to overcome the little pimples or comedones that will form aggressively during my menstrual cycle.

I went on using Ettusais Acne System, until 2.5years ago when I went to Australia to pursue my degree. To my dismay, I had an outbreak again. This time, most probably due to the stress of being in a different country. I felt so harrassed!!! Why wouldn’t it just leave me for good? Why did it had to come back. This acne problem continues to plague me after so many years. Something must be really wrong with my body. And to make things worse, I was in a place so unfamiliar to me, all other facial products I see in the stalls just seemed so foreign to me.

Then after a couple of late night tv, and some really good advertising, I decide to give Proactiv a shot. To my relieve, I really saw differences within a week, and results in a probably a month! I was delighted, I seriously heaved a sigh of relieve man. My pimples subsided and it helped renew my skin, leaving it pimple free for 2.5 years, even those premenstrual breakouts were controlled and minimise, those irritating bumps that would appear, did not show for 2.5 years!!!! I was the happiest person alive. I regained my confidence. I was able to apply make up. Except that, my t-zone would get oily, BUT I could live with that!!! Besides, the weather in Australia made it an unlikely problem.

All good things had to come to an end. And it ended here, now, 2.5years later. In Singapore, the weather condition, the climate, the humidity and the activities I have here, has brought back pimples after pimples, though I continued to be loyal to Proactiv, it wasn’t as effective as it was in Australia. I’d get a premenstrual pimple every month, and when it finally heals after my cycle, my skin would be left clean for only a week, and then the whole frustrating process repeats itself like a vicious cycle. Not only does the pimple plague me, my face was exaggeratingly OILY. I totally couldn’t control the oil, who knows, its probably the cause of my monthly breakout. And it was really very frustrating.

Desperate to make a change. I believed that my diet had a thing to do with it all, hormonal imbalance or not. I might have an extremely “HEATY” body, or poor blood circulation. Whatever the reason I can think of, I’d try to adjust to make things better. I stopped fried foods and even coffee. My water consumption was normal, at least 800 ml a day. Then I ate less seafood cos its known for its toxicity, drank herbal drinks, detox drinks, collagen drink. You name it, I’ve tried it. Nothing work. Instead, my pores got pretty clogged by the time I realised, and I was using more makeup, more concealer, and more added products to minimise oil production.

I officially gave up on Dec 2 2008 after seeing how my skin had suffered. I made up my mind to go back to the one product that everyone swears by – The “MIRACLE” Skincare Regime – Dr’s Secret.

Back to Present Day

So here I am today, using it, had it on since this morning. I’m currently at my 1st month, my face is purging (everyone calls it detox), yes! my face is plagued with pimples again, and this time its as bad as my very first breakout. Its forcing out all those clogged pores, those evil dirt hiding underneath my skin surface. Its absolutely awful to look at, and one can imagine how my confidence has suffered a great fall. Right now, looking at my face takes a tremendous effort. I look like a monster. There is no point for me to dress up cos I look like Hell. No use for concealers, cos there’s just too much to cover, besides it wouldn’t do much good anyway.

Boyfriend is worried with what I am doing to my face, as it didn’t seem as bad as it is now, everyones’ got their take on whats gng on, and I refuse to go back to on antibiotics prescription. Was so quite discouraged, I was at the verge of giving up, and going back to Proactiv, until I received a comment, telling me to be patient. I also received a reply that explained about the process I am experiencing, and that its normal, and like all sad love stories would say it, “time will heal all wounds”.

With those small little encouragements, I’ve decided to continue with the program and wait patiently to see what happens. I also want to blog it down, as a record of my personal experience and review on this product. Since there are so many different views, it might also help to clarify and win over skeptics who are as desperate as I am to achieve a problem free skin.

To keep it “REAL” and “LIVE”, I’ll be posting reports with pictures to show the stages of “healing”, in hope that it’ll relate to people out there who are constantly plagued by HIDEOUS ACNE like me, may it end their misery and help find their very own “Miracle” product, that’ll work.

And if it doesn’t work for me, I’d still post it, at least we’ll all know, that it may not be suitable for some people.

So stay tune for more updates……