Acne Magazine

Well, it’s on the verge of becoming a new reality, well, a new and improved reality since the first try was a flop due to too  many side effects, including inducing male acne in the men who took them, presumable due to hormone shock and imbalance, but a newer and better male birth control pill is supposedly on the near term horizon as an option in couple’s birth control endeavors.  Many women now take the pill, some for reasons other than birth control alone, but most for reasons that include birth control. 

As we’ve talked about before, many women use the birth control pill in part to help clear their face of acne, and some have had great success in clearing either adult or teen acne by taking specific types of birth control pills that allow the woman’s hormones to be a more controlled level at all times rather than go up and down constantly as they do in nature. 

One of the major complaints with the first male birth control pill was that the men who were taking them broke out a lot, and some got very severe acne, presumably a hormonal side effect of the pill.  The newer male contraceptive pill would be available in several different options, like the female birth control pill, including a daily pill, a gel that would be administered to the skin and utilized transdermally, and a patch.  Still, many men are leary of taking a pill and messing with their hormones, much like women understandably are.  In fact, many recommend women do not stay on the pill for more than ten years.

The reason that acne may have resulted in that the balance of the testosterone and the progestin released in to the man’s blood stream to help turn off sperm production was a little off kilter, and this in turn threw off their oil production, and resulted in hormonally induced acne, but men who have tried the newer versions have seen little side effect, aside from maybe a little bit of weight gain.