You can be very happy while having ACNES! :D Some people that read this for the first time, and maybe don't want to follow the therapy (yet) that I did won't maybe agree with this. But it is true. You only have to make your life better. Yes you have pain, but you are not the pain. You have ACNES, but you are not the ACNES. So go to therapy, try to find another solution for your pain with a doctor at a hospital and otherwise with a physical therapist. I still go to college, have a job, will get married next year, we will start our own company and the ACNES will not stop us in that. I have accepted that the pain will be there and maybe it will be gone one day because of a treatment that has the effect that is wished for, but maybe is reduction of my pain the jackpot and that is ok for me too.