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terryclothI have acne. I've had it for as long as I can remember -- one of my earliest memories is of being held down squirming on a cold metal table while a pediatrician stabbed at my genitals with an acid-coated metal needle, as part of a scorched-scrotum campaign against a particular outbreak.
It didn't work, although nowadays I mostly get them on my face. I asked my so-called doctor at Group Health Cooperative about them, and he recommended I use clearasil or stridex or something. Which I've been doing for as long as I can remember.
Recently, though, as in the last month or so, the incidence of new pimples has been relatively light and sporadic, and more to the point, dramatically concentrated -- all the pimples I had last week appeared suddenly on the same day. The same day I had a mocha!
To test the theory (and as an excuse to get another of the really quite tasty oatmeal muffins the starbucks has) I had a latte today, and sure enough, before an hour had passed, BOOM, pimple.
So, is the culprit:
(a) coffee
(b) milk
(c) chocolate (I had some last night)
(d) oatmeal muffins
(e) coincidence?
Actually, my money's on (c). I know that when I used to eat entire boxes of thin mints during girl scout season, I'd get mint-flavored pimples for weeks afterwards...
It didn't work, although nowadays I mostly get them on my face. I asked my so-called doctor at Group Health Cooperative about them, and he recommended I use clearasil or stridex or something. Which I've been doing for as long as I can remember.
Recently, though, as in the last month or so, the incidence of new pimples has been relatively light and sporadic, and more to the point, dramatically concentrated -- all the pimples I had last week appeared suddenly on the same day. The same day I had a mocha!
To test the theory (and as an excuse to get another of the really quite tasty oatmeal muffins the starbucks has) I had a latte today, and sure enough, before an hour had passed, BOOM, pimple.
So, is the culprit:
(a) coffee
(b) milk
(c) chocolate (I had some last night)
(d) oatmeal muffins
(e) coincidence?
Actually, my money's on (c). I know that when I used to eat entire boxes of thin mints during girl scout season, I'd get mint-flavored pimples for weeks afterwards...
