I recently attended a High School sports event at my nephew’s school. There were many high school students there. I went with my sister to the event, since it was her son playing. We always go early so we can get a good place to sit, without having to climb high up on the bleachers and sit as low as possible to the floor. While watching all the teenagers walking in, we both noticed there were several of them that had acne, and was obvious they weren’t receiving any acne treatments for it. It was unbelievable how many of them had it and some cases were severe. A friend of my sister’s sat down beside us, as her son was playing also. Her son was one of the teens that had the acne. Without us saying a word about it, she asked us if we had noticed. We, of course didn’t want to hurt her feelings, or her son’s, so we acted as though we hadn’t noticed. She began telling us how she thought he just was getting some pimples and in treating them unknowingly that it would go into acne, that in only a few months the pimples and blemishes had turned into acne. She took him to the doctor and he told her about an over the counter drug to try first that was one of the least expensive in cost, so she did. It was in the form of a cream, which he applied daily. Within another several months, it was not helping his problem, so she went back to the same doctor. He first told her there are acne treatment procedures that can be done if it gets bad enough or the patient wants faster results or could also use prescriptions to treat the patient at home. He advised her to take him to a dermatologist to determine if it was acne. She then did this. He told her that he did for sure have acne and that is where the scarring has originated from in some of the places on his face. The dermatologist wrote her two prescriptions that were classified as being acne treatments. One was a cream and another was in pill form. That is when he told her it was acne and explained there were many acne treatments on the market today. Depending on the severity of the problem determined which medications, or acne treatments, were necessary. After a long battle of trying many different acne treatments, his complexion on his face has begun to clear up and looks so much better. Until then, I was also unaware that there were so many different acne treatments to try. She said she is now keeping a closer eye on her son’s and also her younger daughter’s face before it becomes as bad as his was.