{"id":2337,"date":"2011-04-20T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2011-06-20T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:22:41","slug":"i-have-special-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/20\/i-have-special-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Special Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very special skin<\/a>. It makes me want to kick Mother Nature in the nuts.<\/p>\n

As I’ve mentioned, in my teen years, I took meds and smeared creams all over my face. And it helped. Some.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t only break-outs, though. Just generally ickiness<\/a>. Remember those Saturday Night Live “Delta Delta Delta” sketches? In one, the sorority sisters meet a new rushee, and after she leaves, the girls are talking shit about her. Pretty sure it’s Roseanne Barr who says, “Could<\/em> her pores<\/em> have been any bigger<\/em>?” I can’t tell you how aware of my gigantic pores<\/em> I became in that moment.<\/p>\n

My skin got better as I got older. Never beautiful. But tolerable. Zits<\/a>, yes, but persistent acne? No. Painful blemishes<\/a>, yes, but eh, I could deal. Especially if it meant not giving up sugar, which those bastards Joe and Terry Graedon<\/a> told me to do.<\/p>\n

Then a few months ago, I started breaking out worse than ever. Like, pimples in the crease of my neck. On my jawline. On that bone behind my ears? On my eyelids<\/strong>areyoufuckingkiddingme?<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought, Maybe it’s my face wash, so I tried different ones. No change. Detergent? Went back to Arm & Hammer. No dice. My shampoo or conditioner? Nope.<\/p>\n

I finally asked Facebook for dermatologist recommendations. As soon as I booked an appointment with one, I got to thinking. What had I been doing for the last few months that was different from before?<\/p>\n

Well, I had been taking fish oil capsules…? Googled ‘fish oil and acne’, and while a lot of the reviews said fish oil could help get rid<\/em> of acne, a few people said it made things worse.<\/p>\n

I stopped taking fish oil, and my skin indeed started looking better.<\/p>\n

I decided to keep my appointment to see the dermatologist anyway because my skin was never perfect, and maybe this could help.<\/p>\n

Let me ask you, how long after your appointment do you consider it reasonable to be seen by a doctor? Because 20 minutes, I can tolerate, but 45 minutes makes me want to kick somebody in the nuts.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the doc started telling me what we were going to do before she even looked at my skin, and then only for—seriously—less than a second. Two topical prescription medications. $25 for one, $30 the other. Copay: $60.<\/p>\n

I’m telling you, if I don’t look like Cate Blanchett after this, somebody’s nuts are getting kicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very special skin. It makes me want to kick Mother Nature in the nuts. As I’ve mentioned, in my teen years, I took meds and smeared creams all over my face. And it helped. Some. It wasn’t only break-outs, though. Just generally ickiness. Remember those Saturday Night Live “Delta Delta Delta” sketches? In one, the … Continue reading I Have Special Skin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-world-problems","category-t-m-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}