I had a clear face all my life, right up until Grade 11. Grade 11, 12 and even the beginning of college I had pretty bad acne.
I too had the mindset of "Oh, everyone goes threw this at some time, it'll go away eventually, I'll grow out of it, etc, etc.".
When the first year of College was over and I STILL had bad acne, I decided something need to be done. Went to the doc and he prescribed Clindoxyl, a cream with 5% Benzyl Oxyl (which, alone, is availble over the counter) and 1% anti-biotics. It worked like a charm, within three weeks my face was much clearer, and after several months it almost looks like I never had any acne.
Might want to give something like that a try before you go taking drugs that may or may not effect you mentally.
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Just deal with it untill you start getting some facial hair.
Usually when you start shaving, the acne goes away, since the act of shaving naturally opens up your pores.
Just make sure you keep your face clean. Zits form because of plugged pores, which are usually plugged by dirt or whatever.
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While this may be partially true some of the time, it really sounds like it's coming from somone who didn't have to deal with much acne in their life. This simply cannot be taken as the rule.
All throughout the time I had acne I washed my face AT LEAST twice a day, trying out all sorts of different "facial cleansers" but mostly sticking to plain old soap. And for a good 60% of the time I was shaving on a regular basis. These two things alone had very little impact on my acne.
However, I will admit that during the rare time that I didn't wash my wash or shave for a period time (four days camping or whatever) I did breakout a lot worse.
