Aballarina

Soooo today I took my first dosage of accutane! I am on 40mg a day on roaccutane.
I have had mild/ moderate acne since I was 13 or 14. Took antibiotics multiple times,only to come off of them and my skin would go back to the way it was.
I've tried
Doxycycline
Tetracycline
Mini cyclone (most recent)
Erythromycin
Retin a
Benzoyl peroxide from many diff brands or company's
Clindoyxl
Sulfur
Spiro
Different bcps. (Alesse,Yasmin,ortho tri cycline low and for the last 2 years regular ortho
Tea tree oil
Egg whites and probably other things I just can't remember at this moment

Proactive gave me peri oral dermatitis which I finally got rid of! So when I went to my derm she recommended accutane, as I am now starting to get scars.
I have oily skin as well.
I will be keeping a log and updating with pics weekly!
Currently that's what my face looks like after being on monocycline since September.
Sorry, I do have some metro gel on my face , just to make sure my dermatitis doesn't come alive again!

I will also add that I have tried "dieting" and eating healthy etc for about a year and it didn't do anything to my skin.

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So today I have been diagnosed with perioral dermatitis. I used to have moderate acne now it's very mild, so I am on tri cyclin and I was using clindoyxl for my pimples. I got a small rash in may and wen I went to my family doc, she told me it was "contact dermatitis" and
Prescribed me betaderm. Which is a cortisone cream (steroid) I used it and it went away almost right away which seemed like a miracle. Over the next months I developed a small rash here and there and just used my cream. Last week I got one as well and put the cream on. It didn't seem to help it do when I went back to m doctor she told me to keep using the cream. I did for a few days only to realize something's wrong. It spread to te whole bottom half of my face. I stopped and went to another doc who gave me minocycline and thought they where pimples. It spread to almost my entire face in a week. I went to a dermatologist because I knew what this was. She gave me more minocycline and metrogel. I also have been toning with apple cidar vinegar as I heard this helps. I will write to let everyone know my progress hoping
This will help someone else in the future!

Hi I'm new the boards although I've been following them for about a year. Ive have mild to moderate acne for 8 years although it's calmed a bit. My derm wants to put me on accutane because I've tried everything and nothing works. Last year I tried proactive after my friends told me to give it a try. It worked for a while (just the mask) but I developed dermatitis from it! Now everything I use to combat pimples gives it to me. Anyway it went away fr a few months and last few weeks I had a cold, so I used prescription stereo nose drops. Last week I got this weird rash, , and I have no clue what it is! I went to two different doctors, one who told me its acne and one said contact dermatitis. I was given betaderm to cure it but it hasn't gone down much. Any ideas what this could be? Thanks! http://i131.photobuc...DE00E7824DE.jpg