Pimples...everyones enemy
 

Ok just a quick question for you guys about pimples. I was wondering if there is a fast way to get rid of pimples, like minute/hour wise. I have the worst luck with them and it seems like everytime I go somewhere important one seems to pop up right before I leave the house. I just wanted to know if anyone knows of a fast way to get rid of em or even cover them in some way. Any suggestions or comments would be great, Thanks folks. :)

I don't think there's a surefire way to remove them quickly. However, there are commercial overnight patches that you can put on that reduce the redness and dry them out. So I guess you could put it on in the morning if you're goin out at night.

Apart from that, your best bet is probably trying to cover it up with makeup if you're secure enough. ;) But be careful, as it will clog your pores and will be worse long term wise.

Try taking 25-50mg zinc daily.

Once pimples show up, its about too late to remove them. Just let your body take care of it, and hope it will go away.You can try commercial products (Oxy, etc.), but from personal experience, I can say that they dont work as well as they should.
The best way is to avoid getting the pimples in the first place: Keep a constantly clean face, and dont let dirt accumulate in the pores.

dermatologist
 

Actually, I would say the key is to find a good dermatologist. Usually it'll be someone who's YOUNG (I went through a few older ones who seemed to think pimples weren't a big deal at all until I found a younger one who understood). The doctor I go to new opened my eyes to a bunch of treatments I hadn't known about -

1) an antibiotic, doxycycline, which I take in a daily pill and which has cut the number of pimples i get by about 30 percent

2) a topical cream, retin-A, which works by causing the outer layer of skin to slough off, meaning that the skin on my face is slightly thinner and thus much more permeable to oxygen. result: far fewer pimples, and blotchiness/scars from pimples go away much more quickly

3) when I start getting one of those monster zits (actually called cysts) that I know will be big and red and painful in a few days, I can come in for a quick 5-minute appointment where my doctor injects the cyst with cortisone. She doesn't charge me, and the zit gets killed before it even has a chance to grow up.

you need to find a doc that knows about all this stuff - if you're a college student, your school will often have excellent dermatologists as part of the university health plan (that's how I found mine).

Good luck!

Check out this thread here:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...971#post321971

Aloe helped me with my zits and I'm talking about from the aloe plant. You just break off a piece from the plant and squeeze the liquid out and apply it to the affected areas. Drinking more water is also a good way to prevent pimples...its slow but it works.

Drink lots of cranberry juice. It's not an instant fix, but it does a great job keeping them away.

For a quick fix: Just pop it and make sure you get the 'root' of it out. It should look much better within an hour, even though it won't be completely gone, and it will go away completely in about two days.

spacemanspiffmm's post is right on target. An injection of cortisone with quickly zap a zit. Also a new med called Benzaclin- its a combination of antibiotic(clindamycin) and high potency benzoil peroxide is available by prescription and works good for the smaller red lesions