Prescribed Jan 12 2009 for 3 months.

My skin - Mild Acne And pretty dry

Acne on Jawline neck cheeks chin... lol you get the story

Ill be updating every week...

Using - take 2 500 mg of tetracycline a day, Cetaphil face wash and neutrogena on the spot.



ALSO!! anyone else ever get prescribed tetracycline? howd it work out??

day 3

Ive gotten a few pimples on my lower neck... Waking up with more dry mouth every morning it seems. Nothing changed on face.

I'd be interested to know how you make out with it. I was too scared to try tetracycline because it can stain your teeth (it's mostly a problem with young kids whose teeth are still growing but can affect some adults too).

I am 17 and have all my adult teeth so idk how that works if i got outta that problem but my teeth are already f ^^ enough lol.

Day 5

Body seemed to pick up on it got a break out on the neck and just a couple pimples on the face. Hopefully this is the start to a bright world.

After shower at night my neck becomes extremely itchy... dont know why

week 1 summary
Jan 20

skin seem to *purge* all of the pimples (atleast I hope it was purging) skin didnt really change but this breakout is hopefully the last!!

i started taking tetracycline on jan 2, 2 500 mg pills a day/3 months. almost 3 weeks still havent seen a difference. i am also using retin-a. btw i had severe cystic acne like when i was 14 - 17 years old, now im 18 and its moderate severe. but now i have ALOT of hyperpigmentation and red marks. the retin-a is supposed to help fade this. i also have had a couple large pimples on my neck and back since beginning tetracycline. ill let you know how this works out.

^^ my doc said it takes about a month+ for actual results to come... but some people work different and he said if you dont see anything go on accutane. cheers

stop washing my face and just using pure water and sleeping with a humidifier- i think my skins problem is its sooo damaged from all the products and is just sooo dried out and stubborn. break outs slowlyyy going away but hopefully surely... also i soemone said i looked "pale" today in school - good news for less face redness i guess.

Hi JYH

I was prescribed tetracycline back in August and had a bad experience with it. I am only telling you this because you mentioned itching. I know there are many people out there for which this has worked wonders so It may work for you. I was taking (2) 500mg pills a day and only took them for a period of (4) days. Within in those days my neck broke out BAD (never had neck acne before this) but the weird thing was that I itched so bad. The itching was why I was told to stop taking it. My cheeks, neck and chest all itched so much by the 4th day that I was taking benadryl around the clock. Everything looked like acne (not hives). I broke out so bad. I was not prescribed this for acne but for a cyst behind my ear but the doc thought it would also help my moderate acne. Since stopping I am still broke out everywhere (pics in my photos). About 2 months ago the itching started getting better. In all these months I have seen Dr after DR because my skin is a wreck. If interested you can read in previouse posts what I have been going through since taking this and different things I was told from doctors. I am happy to stay that I feel much better now even though my appearance is not improved. If you have any questions, let me know. Just be aware of the itchiness. I plan to follow your progress. Maybe had I continued to take it, I would have cleared up. Maybe the itching was from it drying out my skin. Maybe it was yeast over growth from the med. I don't think I will ever know. Best of luck to you.

wow ever since i stopped with all the washes and BP my skin has improved... I can just hop outta the shower pat my face and be 'done'. Pimples are going away im guessing the remaining ones should be down in the upcoming week - no new pimples in 3 days!

new reg- sleep with humidifier, wake up take shower go to bed.

ughhhh i thought it was kicking in! very few pimples coming but they are still coming! also some is clearing up..... losing faith going to see the derm on monday though... i just want this shit to be gone im so depressed over it.

just started accutane today...

im a little nervous but a little happy and looking forward to the future. i hope one day im gunna come back to this post and be able to read this with a smile on my face.

face is drying out one of my cyst is going away dry lips a little dry skin not that much change yet.

the first thing i was prescribed was tetracycline and it did nothing for me in fact i had a bad reaction to it and stated getting really red lumps on my face they wernt even like cystic lumps just horrible red itchy lumps!!

i would not reccomend but thats just my experience it depends on the person

I don't mean to discourage you but I didn't like tetracycline. It didn't do much at all.

I was prescribed tetracycline and retin-a. Since I've had acne it worked better than anything I've ever used- I was just about completely clear 24/7. When I stopped taking it, however, my acne came back and I'm now resistent to antibiotics.

Hey
yep iv'e been here
i had mild acne when i was on tetracycline and it was very good for many months although after a while i got immune to it and im now on erythromycin however you spell it

It should be all good if you do not have very bad spots

good luck x


PS : as soon as you come off it your skin will probably have a raging fit like mine !

i was on this stuff for two years- needlessto say i got immune to it within the first 6 months

i only came off it a few weeks ago because it was doing nothing
im so horrifically depressed- i feel like no one can help me- u waited 2 months for a hospital appointment and they cancelled it this week- it was supposed to be tues-_-