accutane

Okay, so I've had acne for like 3 years now, and it's very slowly getting worse. I'm on my third month of doxy, and differin and it's not clearing up my skin, but not making me break out. All in all im not happy with the results of this treatment at all. The side affects of the doxy weren't worth the little improvement that I gained. I go to the derm in like a few weeks, and I'm going to talk to him about using accutane. Believe me, I have read countless story's and experiences about people using this drug, and they all have one common ending; clear skin. I know the road isn't easy, and there are many side affects, but I think that a few months of my life not being so great will pay off tenfold in the long run. Acne itself doesn't bother me that much; it's the psychological and emotional tole that drives me nuts.
Also, I am starting to get pimples on my chest, and back, which is extremely scary because that would drive me nuts (I work on a beach with my shirt off all day, and am around girls constantly) Will accutane help this at all?Or only my face?


Thanks,
Adam

doxycycline

Ok, so i have moderate acne; and my dermatologist put me on doxycycline (100mg) twice a day, and differin .3% at night. Its been like 3 weeks and my skin was good for week, then started getting progressively worse. My skin is now probably in one of the worse states its ever been in. Is this one of those medications where it gets worse before it gets better? Please help

My acne story.....or life story for that matter

Hey guys, im a 16 year old male from upstate NY who is suffering from moderate acne. I have more than the occasional pimple, yet less than the hardcore sever acne. I've been a victum since age 14 and have tried many different products to fix my problem. To start off, on my physical for sports at age 14, i asked my doctor how i could get these pimples off my face. He responded by stating that I should use soap that does not have oil in it (cylcilic acid soap or what not) and don't touch my face that often. being an average boy, im always playing outside and getting dirty and such, so these were hard rules to follow; although I prevailed with the help of a new xbox. Yes, the xbox turned me into a video game freak, which led to other problems such as grades....never mind that subject. Anyways, all in all, this solved my dirty problem, but not my acne problem. By this time I had hit age 15, and was starting to really suffer from acne. Although this is true, now that i look back I think that smoking pot daily didnt help either emotionally or physically. I would smoke pot wiht my friends after school, and just get all depressed and go home and sleep; an unhealthy lifestyle non the less. So I made a pact to stop smoking, and start exercising. Mind you that I have always been the best soccer player in my school since i was like 14. Anyways, i still maintained my video game life, and had a girlfriend for a while. During this, my acne started to clear up since my doctor had put me on BenzaClin (its like a 5% benzol peroxide cream, nasty stuff if you ask me) It worked for a while, and my breakouts were under controll, yet my skin was left dry, red, and irritated (the cleche' aftermath) Well things werent going so well, and my honey self led me to cheat on this wonderful girl that loved me, so that ended on a not so good note. After this, my life was going downhill; my acne was coming back worse than ever, i didnt have a girlfriend anymore, all my friends and I did was play video games and eat Macdonald's. So....on my 16th birthday, I think I hit rock bottom. I never looked anyone in the eye at my party that I didnt even want, I just tried as hard as I could not to show anyone that I was probbaly the most insecure, low-self-esteemed, embarissed kid alive. I was so depressed, and all the crapy things that ever happened to me came back at once. My father died when I was 10, my step siblings thought of me as a creep cause all i did was play video games, and my friends were going out and getting high like I had once done. i just kept to myself, and listened to nirvana all day long and wrote poetry until one day I couldn't take it anymore, I went into the bathroom, opened the bottle of asprin, put them all in my mouth, and chugged a bunch of water. I fell down, questioning what the hell I had just done....started crying and getting irrational. After that, I dont know what happened, but I heard my dad talking to me, saying that Im not ready to die, and that one day this will all be over, and you can look back and see another day. I immediatly started throwing up projectilely for no aparent reason, and all those white pills that I had taken were in a big puddle of cloudy water. I cleaned up my mess, and made a promise that I would never again try to do something so stupid, ever. So after this episode, I emotionally was healing, I started skateboarding, and playing a new game that was called Halo 3....Im sure most of you have heard of this. Well it wasnt long before these 2 things became my life, I no longer cared about my math test, I cared about landing the 360 flip, or getting a 50 in Team Slayer without losing a game (I own by the way =}) While this was happening, I scheduled an appointment with my dermatologist. He put me on a pill called Doxycycline, and I was to take it twice a day, and use Differin .3% every night. So here I am now, 3 weeks from that appointment, with acne thats not going away, and pretty bad at the moment. I hope you liked my story, and I hope that you learned a thing or two.

By the way if you wanna play halo with me my gamertag is LG Mxblue