Acne in a T2

Hi all, I'm going through a prolonged period of quite bad acne on my face. My BG control was not so good for about 3 months but is now back to normal due to a change in my insulin regime. I was wondering if there was any relationship between fluctuating BG levels i.e. going from high BG levels to normal BG levels in terms of acne. I would expect acne with high BG levels but I was hoping that they would clear up once the levels normalised. Strangely, it's worse than it was when high so I'm confused.

Any thoughts would be welcome. Thanks.

Looks like I must be the only one with acne issues on this forum. Interesting.


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Loobles said:

I can imagine it would impact your skin flora. I have recurrent abscesses and what i'm reading suggests the higher blood sugar basically feeds the bacteria. I use Hibiscrub to prevent more abscesses and it generally works well. I buy it on Amazon...£5 for 500ml. Don't have acne since i got out of my 20s so no other help i'm afraid.

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Thanks for your reply - i'm seeing the doc tomorrow so will see what he says.