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[LiLy_89]

well, i havent been around here for ages now....i was wondering if you guys could help me out with something. See the thing is that like about two months ago i use to get these horrible cysts that would take whole months to get rid of and now i have been using cetaphil cleanser on my face for the past two months and i have seen a HUGE improvement .....i no longer get cysts, nor postules i only have a lot of tny bumps and white heads here and there, but honestly i that is nothing compared to what i use to wake up with...before there wouldnt be a day go by with out getting at least 8 to 15 new pimples and cysts daily, honelty i coulnt bare it......now i only get one or two small white heads and thats just during my period.....anywho, my problem now is that i have seen such good improvement that i am having to think twice if i want to go through taking tane....my acne is hormonal and i also have acne on my body and i know that wont just go away by itself....so i am wondering if i should just go ahead and take accutane and stop wasting time or i should just stick with what i am doing right now, but what if thats all that cetaphil can do to my skin....just make my severe cystic acne to a moderate acne....am i wasting time or should i just go through with it.....honestly guys i would appreciate any kind of advice and or comments....thanks a bunch!!

[Fireflygurl]

have you tried a short term treatment of any antibiotics? that might be the way to go first before acutane... what about any exfoliation with a complexion brush? That greatly reduced my acne, now I mainly have just red marks... I had about 3-4 cysts when I started exfoliating. And I came off tetracycline about 7 weeks ago, about the time I started exfoliating this way.

Give it some thought! check out my regimen below.

[jeskahoney]

I would just stick with what you're doing. Accutane doesn't always work, sometimes it even makes the skin WORSE. I, personally, have always been
just too scared to risk getting all those terrible side effects. And since NOTHING else worked completely for me, I have little hope that accutane would anyway.
I like to keep it natural as much as possible..

[spriorda]

Try my regimen and you will get clear skin. Check out my blog about it here:http://www.acne.org/messageboard/index.php/topic/309169-regimen-that-cleared-up-my-cystic-acne/page__fromsearch__1

Good luck!