Okay, I'm 20 years old and have had Acne for my whole teenage life. Admittedly, I used to eat nothing but bad food, up until about 3 years ago. I also used to do a lot of drugs (yes recreational, like pills, weed, ecstasy, yada yada) and I used to drink lots. Just being a kid, you know. I also got on DIane 35, a contraceptive, which made my skin considerably clearer. Anyway I slowly became vegetarian, and I read the Body Ecology Diet and tried to cut out all the "bad" food.

Eventually my skin got better. Around this time I was really skinny due to lack of proper nutrition (like, 97 pounds at 5'7"! Cripes). I found the diet to be too extreme, I was constantly craving and such. I took on an odd yellow tinge, which I retain a bit til now. I'm still skinny and tall, and I look kind of boyish.

Anyway. I still have acne, it returned when I stopped Diane (last April, and I took it 3 years almost). I haven't gotten my period since! I'm undergoing accupuncture and am taking TCM formulations, which are helping my digestion and stuff. I miss my period! I'm morphing into an androgynous being, meanwhile. It's quite strange.

My Blood type is B. My Dosha is not consistent in tests-- sometimes I"m Pitta, sometimes, Vata. One time Pitta was even the lowest scoring!

ABout digestion. I seem to be making my way through a digestive problems checklist. About two weeks ago, I pigged out and ate (at a gathering) large salads with sugary dressing, dubious pasta, tons of homemade bread, flan, apple strudel, durian (yes! I love it). You get the picture. The PAIN popped up to the left of my bellybutton. Now over the years I"ve come to believe that I have diverticulosis or whatever, because it feels like it has a bruise sometimes. About this time, I get gassy. Enemas seem to make it worse. I break out like a freak, like something I haven't experienced since high school. Eventually it subsides, along with my skin. My stools this whole time have this strange slime-like thing that isn't shiny. It looks like something a sea creature would spew out. Or it looks like the webbing of a duck's feet. It's terribly hard to take a dump then.

ANyway about less than a week later it pops up again, this time right below my bellybutton and to the right of it. The right side of my face breaks out super bad (it is usually the right that breaks out by the way). I start doing the ayurvedic diet, suited to Pitta. It subsides, but I get gassy. I realize that I am low on stomach acids, switch to Vata (sort of go middle way) and it got better. Was on such a good healing track until the day before I ordered a vegetarian dish at a birthday dinner and was shocked to receive it deep fried but too polite to send it back. And yesterday I ate like a *%#&¤?§*load of cookies I baked out of an Arrowhead Mills cookie mix box. Now my face has non-cystic Acne with pus in the center. It's terribly frustrating. My stomach stilll always sounds like it's got bubbles in it (always been like that yeah)

I've been drinking Fenugreek, Coriander, and such. CInnamon, etc.

What I find very very confusing is--

1) Do I have Candidiasis? I don't react with mucousy throats when I spice milk and fruit (but I do otherwise). I stopepd having yeast infections. Can I still take milk? I'm trying to fatten up you see.

2) Obviously my liver is messed up right. Can I still use ghee? Is it okay if I drink coconut oil?

3) How do I know for sure what my Dosha is? If I take a middle way diet, can it generally balance itself out? Is there such a thing as some diet that just balances itself out after time?

4) What is that weird pain in my tummy?? It's strange.

Thanks. i know this is long. Sorry.