Mum felt 'like a monster' and hid her face from daughter when struck with cystic acne after Covid

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A mum says she felt “like a monster” - even hiding her face from her daughter - when an attack of cystic acne refused to respond to antibiotics. Now she is finally able to leave the house after her mother treated her to an £85 “miracle cure".

Suffering with cystic acne for 10 years, legal PA Jaime Graves, 42, had always been able to clear her complexion with antibiotics. Jamie believes the pus-filled pimples that form deep under the skin were first triggered by hormonal changes in her early 30s.

But when a break out covered her face in January 2022, after she had tested positive for Covid, the single mum says her usual prescription had no effect.

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Even hiding her face under make up from her 13-year-old daughter Freya, it was not until her mum, Susan, 68, bought her a skin care bundle after reading about its properties, that Jaime says her spots started to disappear. Jamie said: “My mental health was so low earlier in the year.

“I hated my face to the point where I didn’t want anyone else to see it. I can’t believe I’m now freely leaving the house whenever I want to and I even joined a work video call the other day completely make up free, which is something I never would have done before.”

Jaime’s first acne attack happened in puberty, when she was 13.

Jamie, who lives in Bedfordshire, said: “I had acne as a teenager, like loads of people do at that age. It didn’t really bother me and I grew out of it. Throughout my adult life, I’ve been quite prone to getting spots here and there, but it was always manageable and nothing that a bit of foundation couldn’t hide.”

But in 2012, Jaime’s skin began to get worse.