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[ariesgirl55]

Hey everyone, so I thought I'd never do this, but I'm feeling like I need to share my journey on this website because I'm honestly so distraught and I need to track progress somehow. This is going to be tough for me because I know that some of the pictures might be gruesome and not show much improvement. But I'm planning on showing pictures of my journey on Differin (at night), Duac (mornings) and Bactrim (once daily antibiotic. While I have used Differin inconsisently for a little over two months (I had a bit of a different regimen, I used erythromycin + BP and Doxy instead of Duac and Bactrim) today marks the 36th of consistent use of this regimen (Bactrim-Duac-Differin).

I plan on continuing this regimen for at LEAST two more weeks (that's when I go back to visit my derm), and hopefully she can evaluate my success. I apologize for not starting this log as soon as I started treatment, but I couldn't get around to taking pictures of myself. I basically just sucked it up and decided this would be the best way to show any signs of improvement, because I honestly can't tell.

Below are the three angles of my face (the right side is the worst ) but as you can tell, I have a few pustules, MANY MANY MANY marks of PIH and some whiteheads that may or may not be visible. I think it's definitely worse than before I started any treatment AND THAT IS SO FRUSTRATING. My skin has never ever ever looked worse.

I'll update this log next week, same time, same lighting and we'll see how things go.

Feel free to leave any comments/suggestions/questions/etc!! I would really really appreciate it. Actually, PLEASE PLEASE DO!!!

Anyways, here it goes:

DAY 36.

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Edited by ariesgirl55, Today, 06:37 PM.