Hey guys, first post here. The post will be pretty detailed and if you dont want to read all of it skip to the bottom of the post where my problem is explained.

Some background info to begin with. Im an 18 year old guy, and i have had acne the last 2 years. Back then and until this summer the acne was pretty light and mostly on my forhead. However, during the last year(started last spring) the acne on my cheeks slowly increased and so did the acne on my forhead. It was during this time i started feeling anxious about it and even though i refused to admit it for a long time, it started to hurt my confidence.

This october i felt i needed to do something about it so bought a cleanser and some moisturizer to wash my face with once a day. I tried to improve my hygiene in general but it had little to zero effect, and in december it actually started to get worse on my cheeks. Something i think might be a reason for this is that during the period it got worse on my cheeks, my facial hair has slowly started to increase.

Winter break came up and during that time i started reading alot on how to treat acne. I found some sites with general info and eventually ended up here on acne.org. I read about the regimen, too little im afraid, and decided that this is for me. Since i live in sweden, many of the products recommended around here are unavaible for me or very expensive to get.

I tried to find 2.5 % bp cream here but only found 5% or 10% in drug stores. I read somewhere (and for my sake i hope it wont end up biting me in the ass) that you could apply some mosturizer on 5 % bp cream and dilute it . Except that i also got a non perfumed cleanser and oil-free mostiurizer,

I started the regimen six days ago. I used the cleanser and waited 5 min for my skin to dry. After that i put some bp, about the volume of a pea, on my hand at mixed it with almost the same amount of moisturizer. Added to my skin and waited. 5 min later i put some moisturizer on. I only do it once a day for now

Now on to the problem that i have.

After six days on the regimen, my right cheek has some pretty bad red marks on it that wasnt here before. To clarify, my right side of my cheek has always been much worse than the left. The only possible reason i can think of is that i sleep on that side of the face but since 3 weeks ive tried to stop doing that. My left cheek is just like before the treatment, even though i applied the same amount of bp to both sides. Anothering thing is that the side with red marks and more acne is a lot more dry than the other side. In fear of it getting worse i havnt shaved my cheeks for 6 days now.

Is this normal? I feel it is strange that one side has these severe side effects while the other side and my forhead just got a little red the first days that cleared after time. I think the red marks has gotten a little better since last week but not by that much. What can i do to make it heal faster. I feel like everything i read about here takes alot of time to be effective, but is there anyway to speed up the healing of damage like this?

Im trying to think of what could have caused this. The first day i know i was a little too rough when applying the BP. After that i take much more time now. Other than that maybe the cause is that i took to much BP and since my skin isnt used to this it took some damage.

Since english isnt my native language tell me if you didnt understand a part and i will try to explain it better. Thanks!