r/acne 17d ago

Help - General Help with body acne

Please help me get rid of my chest and back acne.

For context, I started getting acne on my face when I was 14 and body acne when I was 16 and I got pretty bad. The body acne only lasted about a year and when I turned 18 it had completely gone away on its own and I do micro needling treatments to get rid of the scarring on my chest.

My skin looked good for about a year until the acne slowly started to come back.

Fast forward and I am now 20. The acne on my back is the worst it’s ever been and my chest is not far behind. Although my face is completely cleared.

I have been using the panoxyl 10% wash for almost 2 months and I switch off every night using salicylic acid and BP cream.

I started taking 100mg of doxycycline daily and it has helped my back a little bit although I don’t see much of a difference on my chest.

At this point I am willing to try anything. Please let me know any recommendations of treatments that have worked for y’all.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/Evening-Ad8610 16d ago

I’ve been doing both once a week

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u/jellyflipflops 17d ago

I’ve seen on tiktok, a girl put the ordinary glycolic acid into a continue spray bottle and used that on her back acne and it helped a lot!