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[Oneoftheguys]

I'm almost clear! I feel so good! It's crazy. I was at such a low point just a little while ago, and my skin was a mess. My doc told me that the new treatment I want on would cause an initial breakout. It was so bad! I didn't want to go to school or anything. Then, two weeks later, I have one or two tiny red spots that are healing and nothing else.

The confidence boost is insane. I feel like I glow. Seriously, I can see it in the people around me too. I think its cause I went from so sad and insecure to feeling great really quickly. I'm gonna ask my crush out tonight, and I'd bet fifty bucks she'll say yes.

My regimen is:

Antibiotic pill (2 per day)
B5 (3-4 grams per day, 1 gram at a time)
A little diluted anti-biotic gel.

I don't post this to make people jealous or rub my good fortune in, its just that I always post feeling sad and I want to say that I feel good for once. I know that a little acne will come back, but the confidence will stay because I know that I look fine without acne.

[miss.crash]

I'm almost clear!  I feel so good!  It's crazy.  I was at such a low point just a little while ago, and my skin was a mess.  My doc told me that the new treatment I want on would cause an initial breakout.  It was so bad!  I didn't want to go to school or anything.  Then, two weeks later, I have one or two tiny red spots that are healing and nothing else. 

The confidence boost is insane.  I feel like I glow.  Seriously, I can see it in the people around me too.  I think its cause I went from so sad and insecure to feeling great really quickly.  I'm gonna ask my crush out tonight, and I'd bet fifty bucks she'll say yes. 

My regimen is:

Antibiotic pill (2 per day)
B5 (3-4 grams per day, 1 gram at a time)
A little diluted anti-biotic gel.

I don't post this to make people jealous or rub my good fortune in, its just that I always post feeling sad and I want to say that I feel good for once.  I know that a little acne will come back, but the confidence will stay because I know that I look fine without acne.

I am happy for you,sweetie.Keep smiling!!!

[ThatGuy16]

woo hoo!!!

[-Misfits-]

Great job...I felt so good when i got clear.


Watch, when you get clear, you will like a brand new person!

[MattN]

I know how you feel. I felt it a few times on my current regimen, after the first week I was looking great, then I broke out. Then it kind of went off and on, then a week and a half with no new breakouts, I felt like I finally had it and was looking great, then....letdown again.

Here's hoping that next time it will be for good. Congrats to you.

[Graphite]

speaking of clear, tetracycline is working almost perfect for me. I have only 3-4 active pimples on my face and NO NODULES OR CYSTS, but red scars but I am happy. feels so smooth

[izelemontea]

Nodules in caps look like noodles to me =. = Sorry for the irrelevance

[Red_Butterfly]

^noodles! mmm yummy!


that's how i felt last week - then i broke out again.

[Kelly1212]

Good luck to you!!!!!!!

[nextbigthing]

I know how you feel, I've been on accutane for 2 weeks and I'm nearly clear already. People are complimenting me on how good I look. I feel so happy and confident. And now I look at people when they speak to me!!

[Cyrano]

Well done to the dudes and dudettes who are doing well. I guess we posters here take a vicarious delight at seeing our fellow acne sufferers gaining esteem and some measure of happiness from their clearing skin

[stantheman9]

stay clear. You can take antibiotics and b5 at the same time? j/w how safe this is?

[InfiniteQuestions]

I hate you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heh, just kidding. Congrats, man. Im in a down period right now, but hopefully Ill be where you are in a month or two.

[Oneoftheguys]

You can take antibiotics and b5 at the same time? j/w how safe this is?

You can take them, at least according to my doc. Anti-biotics affect the bacteria, while B5 just changes oil production and regulates hormones. They actually work really well together.

Im in a down period right now, but hopefully Ill be where you are in a month or two.

Good luck bro, I hope you feel better.

I just hope it stays this way. I feel like one slip and I'm back where I started. Hopefully that won't turn out true.