i've been using tazorac for about a month

and i'm still getting 1-2 pimples every night

how long does it take to start working?! i'm getting these really hard nodules on my jawline every now and then, too. i hate it when does it start getting better?! my brother's wedding is in 2.5 months and i don't want my face to be covered with spots...

something is helping my acne...

i don't exactly have a regimen, because i'm one of those people who just freaks out and does a lot of things...but currently i'm using/taking

nature's cure
solodyn (minocycline)
vitamin e oil (5-10 drops internally...whatever drips out of the bottle...)
fewer sweets
less dairy
tazorac
cetaphil antibacterial bar cleanser
random masks here and there (mud pack, mint julep, moisturizing...all by queen helene)
walgreens alpha hydroxy cream
diluted tea tree oil (5%)

so my acne has gone down a lot thank goddd BUT the first day or two that i took tazorac, my skin peeled like crazy and i feel like my dark marks went down by 50% in those two days...new pimples have come and gone since then, and they left me with more marks...but the tazorac doesn't seem to be doing anything anymore...and it's only week 2 or so. this is 0.1% taz...shouldn't something be happening? shouldn't i be peeling? anyway, the point is...something is working. or maybe nothing's working, and my hormones are balancing (i went from 100% perfect skin to ridiculous moderate acne in about 2 months...it was horrible). anyway, this post seems pretty pointless, but i'm kinda happy about all this.

edit: i don't know how this got posted in this forum...i thought i was in the mild/mod forum...

for those of you who feel strongly about your acne...

have you ever shared these feelings with a friend? because i just spilled to my best friend exactly how i feel about it...i feel like i keep bringing it up in convos with her lately (did it for the 3rd time today). not sure why, but i feel like talking about it because it's new to me and it's really depressing/annoying/pissing me off. i feel like she should know exactly why my mood has changed over the past few months. i don't think she understands and may even be weirded out...but she's really receptive to whatever i say, and it's nice. she asked what i've been doing lately other than work, and i said "listening to lectures and trying to find ways to fix my face" haha...and she was like "uhh...okay" haha. i love her though, she's been really great about all of this.

i want to try a vitamin

should i go for zinc or fish oil? obviously, nobody knows which'll be better for me, but what would you suggest? i have trouble making these kinds of decisions, haha

i very much want to stick a needle in this cyst-like thing and squeeze it like there's no tomorrow

the pressure building up is just too much (and i just started getting these deeper red pimples...nodules?...so i'm not used to tender spots on my face and it SUCKS). i was clear for like a week, too. lame.

anyway, i'll hold back. i know i'll hate myself if i do it.