i took minocycline for almost 5 years for moderate acne on face and moderately severe acne on my scalp(scalp folliculitis), everyone knows you are not supposed to take anitbiotics for this long, but since it was working while i was on it, my derm keep telling me to be patient, but came back within few days when dosage was reduced, so my derm would go back to the dosage that worked and wanted to try various different topicals(benzaclin/differin/tretinoin/clindamycin) while keeping the minocycline the same. During this long period, i also changed about 4 derms, and all of them seemed to be a big fan of this 'waste-of-time-and-money' drug, i dont know why. Now I changed my derm for the 5th time, the new derm said i shouldnt have taken any antibiotics for this long, and he immediately changed my oral to sulfamethoxazole/trimethaprim with benaclin in the AM, and tazorac(0.1%) before bed, its been my 3rd month on this combo, it is already working like a charm, my derm has already lowered the dosage of oral(after the first two months of two pills a day), i am on one pill a day now, so far so good, i did not get acne so far, which is good because this wasnt the case with minocycline, i feel like i finally found a break, lets see. Even if this doesnt work and if my acne seems to slowly come back in the future, then i will have no other option but to seek Isotretinoin.

Bottom line is that there are lots of medications (topical and oral) out there, also over the counter stuff, which only work on people with mild acne and non-oily skin type, even though they advertise it for oily skin.

if you have anything moderate acne or more with oily skin, please dont waste your time, money and dont push drugs into your system/body and become a testing ground for medical statistics, instead educate yourself at this wonderful website and similar ones, and ask your derm/doctor staright away for preffered ones, tell them straight away, you read these and you are confident in t

As an antibiotic it works well to kill off the acne bacteria from within your body. It virtually made my huge acne issues disappear.

I took Mino once in the morning with breakfast and once at night with tea. As a first step to stopping serious acne I recommend it.

Tgis product seems to work pretty well for me

BUT do not drink when on this medication, it lowers your tolerance. I had a real bad experience with it.

Took the drug for about 6 weeks, it didnt do squat for my acne.

I think it's a very effective pill, perhaps for short term use and it is not a pill for everyone.

For me personally, I don't think it's worth it. My skin started to clear up for a month or two, but then broke out shortly afterwards. I may have grown a resistance to it. If you have mild acne it would probably have stronger results.

I don't know how much it cost since my parents paid for it.

Not worth the side effects.

So I never really felt self conscious about my acne until my doctor said, have you thought about acne medications? Then I was like hmm maybe I should take some stuff. My acne was veryyyy light before my stupid doctor. Then after the first 3 treatments he gave me didn't work, my doctor gave me this medicine: minocycline. After about a month, my acne had turned to moderately severe. It also gave me these ugly raised bumps around my jaw. I do nottt recomend this. I have been on it for almost 2 and a half months now and it seems to just be getting worse. So basically this sucks. But everyone reacts differently to medicines blah blah blah but yeah.

You have to take a lot of vitamins while on this pill, and you won't get any side effects.