[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Paul B. at 07 Mar 2002 08:44:53: Progress
As an answer to: Re: Progress written by Russell at 07 Mar 2002 05:42:15:
> Blackhead drive me nuts, infact anything under my skin that i cant get out drives me nuts its very annoying.
I think that you would be far, far better off to go to your local pharmacy (drugstore), get a Benzoyl Peroxide preparation designed for this purpose (5% to start with, after a couple of weeks when the skin gets used to it, go to the 10%) and use it on the nose and wherever else you have acne (note - do not get the smegma discussion confused with acne by any stretch of the imagination! ;-).
It's very much like the foreskin stretching we discuss elsewhere on this page. The main reason acne preparations do not work is quite simply that people do not use them, regularly, every day, for weeks and months. Acne frequently takes at least one to two months for a treatment to show results, whereas people tend to try a treatment for a week and then give up and say "it wasn't any good".
And of course, these are only some of the medical conditions that simply take time for a treatment to become fully effective.
I daresay this all-too-common problem is best called "laziness".