if drinking more water exercising more sleeping more reducing stress or generally the tips
that people give you on youtube didn't work for you then this video is for you
hi, guys, it's me Ruri today I'm back with another very requested video just because I'm Asian and
have clear skin a lot of people think that my clear skin is something genetic I struggled
with acne for over eight years I'm currently 20 now and I got my first acne when I was 12.
ever since then i struggled so freaking much with acne and now after eight years finally i cleared
my skin as you can see my skin is glowing. I mean I hope so today I'll split this video into four
parts we'll be talking about my acne background what did work what didn't work and how i did
clear my skin everything will be time stamped down in description below so check it out and
don't lose time so let's get started firstly let's talk about my acne background and let's
talk about the acne type that I had and the acne type that I had according to my dermatologist
was something hormonal plus caused by stressed if you don't know I'm a medical student and from my
childhood i always wanted to become a doctor in my middle school i was visiting private middle school
i had 50 to 75 percent off scholarship because i had so good grades and in high school i went to my
dream high school which is one of the best high schools in turkey I'm not saying these to brag
about my grades whatever but i from my childhood i was always stressed to get good grades i was
stressing myself so freaking much because i had so high expectations for myself and i was always
making myself stressed so it of course affected my skin as you can see my skin was so so freaking
bad and i tried so so so many things to cure this acne that we are about to talk about if you ever
searched on youtube about how to get clear skin you'll probably hear from youtubers who have
a glass skin they always say drink more water exercise more change your diet etc so let's talk
about those drinking more water i actually tried drinking more than two liters for six months and
now the only thing that changed was the frequency that i went to toilet and the second one is
changing diet i tried eating super healthy i went even vegetarian i also went vegan but those things
didn't clear my skin as well third one exercising more i was exercising 30 to 60 minutes five times
a week approximately doing cardio doing weight lifting and stretching yoga and a bunch of stuff
however it didn't clear my skin as well i tried going to bed every single day at 9 00 pm for six
months or so and i was waking up around 5 5 5 30 am ish i tried that as well but it didn't clear
my skin as well after trying these fancy stuff out there i said okay there was something wrong
with me i visited several dermatologists and i used their medication i use their creams i use
the stuff that they give to me but nothing worked like literally nothing worked for me i couldn't
find a dermatologist who was caring actually about my acne not the amount of the money i paid to them
i just said okay dermatologists are not caring about my acne the only thing that take care
is my money i stopped visiting my dermatologist and that day i become a skincare [ __ ] i tried
every single product that you can ever imagine on market and not only in the western market but
also in the Asian skincare market i found a lot of good products that worked for my skin
but those effects were not long term all of the effects that i had was very short term and my acne
came back every time my period came one day when i was scrolling through youtube i sold a video from
a japanese dermatologist tamori arata who is one of my favorite youtuber slash dermatologists out
there she was telling in one of her videos that skincare is something supplementary and you cannot
cure your skin problems with your skin care if you have acne you cannot completely clear it
with skin care you have to go to a dermatologist and whatever they prescribe to you okay so
now let's talk about how i cleared my skin is i found a super super nice dermatologist
and i went to his clinic and then he looked into my skin and i talked about my acne background
we decided to start a medication called accutane or isotretinoin as some people call
or accutane accutane is a serious drug prescribed by dermatologists you shouldn't be using accutane
if your dermatologist didn't prescribe to you you shouldn't you shouldn't because it's a very
very very serious drug accutane is intense here i'll put the side effects of the accutane however
let me read some of the scary side effects of the actin depression headaches hair loss neurological
symptoms vision problems nosebleed rapid breakdown of muscle tissue blood disease and a lot of
lot of scary side effects it's very scary drug and it's pretty intense but my dermatologist said
you tried everything but nothing worked for you so this is the last solution that you can use and let
us try and here is my accutane journey accutane has different milligrams on your situation of
your acne the milligram that you take differs so for me for example we started with 20 milligrams
and then we increased to 40 milligrams when we started to use 40 milligrams i literally was
feeling so depressed so if we decreased to 20 milligrams okay so first two months of the
accutane intake is over now we're moving to the third month i think my skin got much more clearer
but look at my skin like my lips are so crusty and they're all the time so freaking dry
that it hurts i put a lip balm on it but it still hurts especially when i
eat something spicy my lips so freaking hurts like look at those lips they look pretty weird
also whenever i apply a lipstick it looks horrible so i only apply lip gloss and yeah this is my skin
i think my skin looks much more better especially my acne scars i'm currently
using tamanu oil i'm continuing to use it every single day i think it really helps with the scars
yeah this is the end of the month to you look at this huge forehead let's talk about the mental and
physical side effects of this accutane so firstly my back pain is so freaking bad i mean my back is
always hurting like a grandma and i'm just like ah tired all the time i'm not really motivated
but i wouldn't recommend for somebody who is going to take like a very important exam during like the
exam season to take this medication because it's real like all the time like so drowsy you know
like i want to sleep so bad and i just missed my bed every single minute of the day so yeah that's
the effect i don't have any other side effects than the tiredness and the back pain and also
whenever i do a workout my muscles hurt so much the muscle pain is also like pretty intense
but you know at the end of the day your skin is getting clearer and clearer which really helps
with the intake of the medication so i'm really looking forward to finish accutane and have a
baby skin okay so i just entered the fourth month as you can see my skin got cleared so much but my
lips are super super super crusty the thing that i don't understand is that i knew the side effects
of accutane is like really crusty lips but why my upper lip especially here is getting this crusty
i just don't understand it i thought my lips are here not here as you can see my lips are bleeding
it hurts quite a lot and you can see my acne scars and overall i think my skin looks much more
brighter and when it comes to the side effects let me say that yes when you compare the other months
i'm more lethargic and i'm more sleepy but i kind of like stopped working out when you take accutane
after every single workout you've done you got so sore and you couldn't move like for a couple days
so i just kind of like quit running instead of that i'm walking and i'm also doing more low
impact workouts here and there but most of the time i just do like random squats and random
like leg lifts during my study sessions and yeah that's what i do right now i'm not really active
but i think my body kind of needs to rest a little bit generally i'm pretty lethargic
but you know i don't have motivation but i've never had motivation so i hope my acne scars
will disappear but overall i'm pretty satisfied so i'm currently on my sixth month and as you can see
i have still have like some acne scars and here i have a blemish my skin is definitely not perfect
but i think it looks decent and as a mental state i'm feeling okay my lips are kind of
dry a bit i mentally i don't have any problems with motivation or i don't feel depressed at all
i'm super energetic and i'm super positive towards life and yeah it's the sixth month of the accutane
i kinda got used to its like side effects like dry lips dry skin sensitive skin overall but
i'm feeling good and the only thing that i regret is not starting accutane earlier
i'm not encouraging you to start accutane i'm encouraging you to visit a dermatologist
accutane is a serious drug and you should definitely visit dermatologists in order
to use that don't ever start it by your own self you like visited couple dermatologists
and they weren't like really caring about your skin don't give up visit another dermatologist
don't like try weird methods that you sew on like youtube or on social media whatever just
visit a dermatologist and ask them what you can do about your skin i hope you guys enjoyed this video
i get a lot of dms about my skincare even though i said skincare will not cure your
skincare problems it's something supplementary you should supply your skin with a good proper
skincare if you like this video you'll probably like my skincare routine video which i'll put
here so that you can watch that video as well and if you enjoyed this video let me see my next video
bye