SKIN DILEMMA!!!

I feel your pain! And I'm also looking for a solution- however I don't suffer from breakouts but more excess sebum and milea, which are notoriously hard to treat yourself. And, like you, when I was in SA my skin was fine. But nevertheless it makes me feel unhappy too! I'm looking for a good dermatologist who will a) do a proper diagnosis; b) actually listen to what I'm saying and c) give me proper treatment plan without trying to make a quick buck. Hey! However different our problems are I can imagine just how unhappy it makes u :( . I am no professional but I did a little research of my own.... from what I can tell adult milea often becomes present after the skin is in some way "burned".. or exposed to overly high intensive skin treatments or temperatures... eg.. sum ppls skin reacts by having milea breakouts after laser or even microdermabrasia... i guess it all just depends on the sensitivity of one's skin... ur skin is obv reacting to the heat and intense humidity that we are not used to here. Your pores are also getting blocked because they are producing too much oil.. so where my skin breaks out urs reacts in this way - equally yucky! I would def go to a derm. if i were you...im sure there are easily accessible treatments for this problem... as for your sebum problem - I am guessing you are meaning that you are sweating a lot... you get special roll ons prescribed by dermis for this problem which apparently do wonders... sum ppl hav chronic problems in this regard and actually hav to have operations to block the pores and prevent the sebaceous glands from producing so much sweat - however I doubt this will be the case with you since the problem only started when u moved here... go to a derm, get sum medical roll on, creams and or pills for the milea and I'm sure in a few months youll feel and look like new ;) I will let you know how my dermi appt. today goes and whether or not the dr is good.. I'm goin to the Gulf Diagnostic Clinic, which I hear is very good... chat soon and chin up!! P.s As naive and annoying optimistic as it may sound ... positive thinking does wonders... i told myself every day that my skin was fine and that and tried not to think about break outs and negative thoughts surrounding this and i really believe that it helped alot... if u focus all ur energy on how bad it is.... and how its only gonna get worse and worse here.. it probably will.. jus focus on getting it better and try not to think about it too much...

Hey guys, just thought I would give a quick update since I started the thread... my skin was hideous in the first month, but in the past 2 weeks it has improved quite a bit... I havent even used anything yet that was suggested... its still not what it was when I was in SA but it seems to slowly but surely be sorting itself out... I think it just went through a big initial shock and needed (still needs) some time to properly acclimatize. I am going to buy teetree oil tho from the body shop and apply some of this twice a day under a moisturizer because friends of mine that have been living here for a while swear by this! It apparently dries out the over active oil that is produced as a result of the heat and prevents the pores from developing into clogged white heads/black heads or pimples... i might also buy the Thursdays Plantation facial wash, which is also teetree based and which my friends also swear by... I made a dermi appt. a while back and am actually going today... even though my skin is getting better on its own I still want to go and get a proper opinion and recommendation of how to maintain it looking good in this weird climate. So will let you know how that goes.... Just to state the obvious tho as well... the pill really helps with skin problems, I am not on it at the moment but am going to go on it again I think really soon as this fixed my problems in the past (earlier teenage years) if you worried about weight gain, YAZ is the way forward. Now - can someone please tell me about this microdermabraison... what is it and how much does it cost??

what will a dermi suggest? was thinking maybe i should take the pill, as I know this helps with skin problems! what about washing one's face with mineral/ purified water too ?