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[brandonraywatson]

Hello! I'm new to this. But I have a few quick questions that I have came upon while doing my acne
regime. I have moderate acne, a couple of pimples, but a lot of facial redness due to previous acne.
My doctor prescribed me 100 mg of Doxcycline, Tretinoin gel & cream, and clindamycin phosphate benzoyl peroxide
gel. Right now I'm taking the Doxy 1x daily and applying the clindamycin and tretinoin gel together. Meaning I'm putting
on the clindamycin then waiting a good 30 minutes for it to asorb then applying the tretinoin gel. But I heard that these two
shouldn't be used at the same time? The reason why I'm not putting the clindamycin in the morning is because I do P90X in the afternoon
and I don't know if exercising with effect it at all.. any ideas?

[hans83]

I haven't heard and tertinoin and clyndimician having an adverse impact on eachother--but that tretinoin and benzoyl peroxide can't be used together. As long as you are waiting 30 mins or so between tretinoin and clyndamician I would think you'd be OK. Personally, I was told to use clyndimician and bp in the am and tretinoin in the pm. (Sorry for mispellings..on the phone).

[brandonraywatson]

Thanks for the reply! And yes I am waiting a good 45-1 hour to apply the tretinoin! So I don't think it will have a negative effective because I'm letting it asorb first! Thanks again for the information!!