h0peful11

Thanks for the response. Yea I guess I will keep at the tretinoin and hopefully it wil get better over time

Hi h0peful11, there would certainly be no harm in NOT using the desonide. What I mean by that is that the desonide is prescribed mainly for short-term comfort, so if you can handle the clinda and tretinoin without any anti-inflammatory, then you can definitely skip the desonide without any harm.

And remember that you should only be using a pea-sized amount if the tretinoin at any time.

 Thank you for your response. I recently stopped using the clindamycin and am using the desonide only a few times a week. I feel it is not good to use sooo many products on my face. Hopefully I see some better results with the tretinoin. I am now on week 10. Still have some acne and new breakouts, mostly a ton of scarring. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will continue to get better over time.

Anyone? Im confused about whether its recommended to use clindamycin, retin a and desonide cream all at once? I thought that might be too much for my face to handle, but thats what my derm prescribed.

Usually you see improvement around 12 weeks, and it only gets better from there, Retin-a is a battle of endurance, and you're not alone! I'm on week 10 day 5 and I'm still in the initial breakout phase, and my chin and areas look like crap, but I haven't had acne on my forehead in like 3 weeks, which is nice. I know its tough now, but we gotta stick to it if we want results, nothing good comes easy!

If you have any questions at all feel free to message me whenever! Having support is the best thing for getting through the breakout phase. (:

Hey so i just wanted to give a quick update on my progress. So at the moment I felt like my skin was slightlyyyy getting better, I do have quite a few new breakouts and also a lot of dryness and flakiness (also due to the extremely cold weather), but I was feeling like I was doing better. That was until I went to the derm today. She looked at my face and said that although it may be clearing up a bit it is not where she wants it to be and added a desonide cream to my regimen. She said I have a lot of redness in my face from the tretinoin and clindamycin therefore I need to add this to the mix. I do not understand why a month into treatment she is adding yet another topical into the regimen when I am already applying two different meds, sunscreen multiple times a day and moisturizer. Dont all these diff topicals cancel each other out? I tried to ask her about this more but she just seem irritated by my questions so I left it alone. I do not understand how derms tell us to be patient with our treatments and yet they go on adding new meds themselves. Ugh just feeling really disheartened. hope maybe you or anyone else going through this can offer some insight

So I made a trip to the derm today and am feeling slightly discouraged. I thought that my skin was starting to get somewhat better, however,my derm added a desonide cream to my regimen due to the fact that I have a lot of redness and scarring. Ugh this is really a roller coaster ride, Feeling disheartened