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7 Nov 2009
I'm 20 years old. I have been on accutane twice and I have been off of it for 2 years now. I've been holding off acne pretty well except that I only get these milia things on my cheeks by my nose, below the bags of my eyes and right under my lower lip. These things have been there forever and they don't go away. Every once in awhile about 2 at a time will start to get infected for no apparent reason and come to a head after about 3 days of being an ugly red, painful spot. i squeeze the bacteria out, and also try to get the hard oil out. Sometimes all of it comes out, but other times it just won't, even with an extractor. then it just heals over that and there's a scar with the hard oil still stuck under and it probably ends up going through the same process months later.

my derm has used the electric needle cauterizer thing to poke holes in them and that helps somewhat for a little bit, but they come back.

I wash my face every day and put on epi-duo which is differin/bp. i do this morning and night. I also use neutrogena lotion- The lotion does not cause the milia because i have changed lotions since and both were non oily. I spot treat infected ones with 10% bp. I also put AHA on the milia, but it doesnt do anything... maybe just causes them to get infected sooner.

Last week I ran out of epi duo for the week and alot of the milia started to get infected. =/. pretty much all on the right side of my face too. i got mad and tried to extract the dormant ones with the loop extractor and just ended up making more of them irritated... eusa_wall.gif

Does anyone have or ever had the same problem as me? Accutane gets rid of one type of acne and caused another for me!

What do i dooo?

Edit: Just in case this matters I also take 400mg niacin, 2 green tea pills, 400mcg chromium, 100mg zinc, and 1200mg fish oil per day. i dont really eat too good cuz im allergic to alot of food
29 Sep 2009
Hello all, I am having a little trouble in deciding what to do with my regimen.

I have taken 2 trials off accutane, one for a year in 06, and one for a year in 08, both which have worked well, except the acne came back after the first one, but now i've been mostly clear since the second.

After coming off the second trial of accutane I just used a moisturizer every day twice a day and when I started to break out again after about 6 months, I started to use differin/bp, one in the morning and one at night. about 2 months after I started to use epi duo twice a day, once in the morning with a moisturizer and once at night with AHA lotion and I have been doing this for about 5 months

The accutane causes these bumps called milia as a side affect, and that is my only acne. They stay dormant for a while, but every couple weeks or so some turn into large or small cysts of which i spot treat with more BP.

The region right under my eyes is almost always red, and wasnt until i started using the BP/Differin, but I heavily moisturize it now with lotion and vitamin E oil, but it still won't go away. My face skin is also pretty pale from all the BP/Differin/AHA exfoliation while the rest of my body is tanned from the summer.

My question is: Am I doing too much? If so, how do I tone it down a little because I am scared that if i do the milia whitehead things will start to become cysts. how do I make my complexion normal again without going on accutane yet again? I have tried so many things and just want it to stop

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