AyeAye

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AmbitiousOne, if you say your brother opened up another account and posted on your thread to support you, then I'm sorry to say that the comment was unsupportive and understandably as moderators of this site we acted accordingly.  

Believe me, we are also sick of the negativity and  unsupportive nature of posts made by many in the last few days but we are (as I'm sure most are) hopeful that the boards will return to normal soon.  

I'm sorry to hear that you feel you need to stop contributing to these boards and I can assure you that you will missed.  

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Are you new to the regimen?  If you are within the first month, I would caution you to not use extra BP to the recommended dose.  As for moisturiser, just keep it at the two pumps unless you feel that your are getting too dry.  If that's the case, add a few drops of Jojoba oil and rather than applying more than two pumps, just add an additional half a pump through the day if you feel you're getting dry.

 

If you're not dry then stick to two pumps only.  Adding more moisturiser wont be doing you any harm but if you don't need it then you're just using up product unnecessarily.

Maybe you're going to be one of the famous but few "lucky ones" who don't break out!  We can only hope.  I have high hopes for all of you members of Team Regimen

Yes Team Regimen will never surrender!

haha it seems we're all breaking out at this point

 

Bahaha, I like that "Team Regimen".

 

Congrats on getting through week 1.  I think my experience (from memory) was similar to yours, started to get clear pretty quickly, no dryness or redness and then week 2 hit and OH MY GOD i nearly died.

 

Stick with it though even if you do break out this week and get red and dry.  If you are consistent and persistent you will reach the other side (and the other side is the GOOD side )

Sweating, hats and sunscreen will be a problem.  Welcome to the life of everyone who lives in hot countries!  But as far as using the regimen, it wont make much difference except for sweating.  You may find that shirt collars may become bleached.  You might also break out slightly more because of irritation from wearing a hat etc too.

 

But either way, I'm sure you will have a wonderful holiday - Egypt is an amazing place to visit.

Your gp should be able to remove it easily if its small. I've had a couple removed, took a couple of mins using a freezing method (like they use for warts) and another was snipped off resulting in one stitch. Neither method caused scarring

Thats so weird.  I see AKL's "like".

BP does cause an initial breakout in many people but not within 1 day (usually after 1-2 weeks of daily use).  I would say its just a coincidence.

I can see where you're coming from, as starting the regimen when you don't have to be seen out much in public would be ideal.

 

However as the above poster has said, if you stop you will be back to square one again when you re-start.  Your skin will have to re-adjust to the BP etc.  I know I used BP every day for a year and a half and then stopped using it for 4 weeks (an experiment which wasnt so successful) and when I started using it again it was like I had never used BP in the past.  I had to build up my tolerance all over again.

 

But whatever you decide to do, we all wish you the best of luck!

*Oxygenetix?

Always call your physician if you're experiencing any extreme reactions to medication.

And you shall be my favourite guinea pig and from this day forth youI shall be known to me as Basil Blake.

I just checked my profile and a review that I had forgotten I'd written was there (along with all the typos!)

It's so easy to get a little over excited and go full steam ahead, but patience truly is the name of the game. (can I get any more cliche's in a single sentence? )

 

Glad that the AHA is helping with dryness, and over time (especially when you start to increase the dose) it will help to unblock clogged pores.  I know it did with me (after an initial purge).

 

Let us know how you get on in a few weeks...always good to hear continued progress (or lack of, whichever the case).

Following the Regimen will help clear active acne and prevent future breakouts, but it does nothing for existing red marks.  All it will do is prevent you getting new marks because you won't have new acne to cause them.

 

Like the above two posters have said, both AHA and time will help to fade red marks.  You don't have to buy AHA from Acne.org, you can find products that have AHAs in them.

 

If you don't have (or ever get) acne breakouts, then you don't really need to be following the Regimen, you should follow an alternate regimen that addresses the hyper-pigmentation marks that you have.

 

Good luck!