Hi everyone! Thank you for reading my post. I would like to share my experience with prescription retinoids and hear yours as well. I have been using adapalene 0.3% (Differin highest strength) for about a year. It helps to reduce the number and severity of my breakouts, but not as well as I would like it to. My dermatologist is switching me to tretinoin 0.025% (Retin-A lowest strength). If anyone has tried both, would you please kindly share your experience, comparing and contrasting the two? I am a pharmacist and understand the mechanisms of the drugs, potency (i.e. tretinoin is "stronger"), and have read studies comparing the two. However, controlled clinical research and scientific knowledge do not always translate 100% to actual clinical practice. I would love to hear your PERSONAL experiences on the two Thanks in advance guys!
hi, when you were on adapalene or tretinoin did you eperience any dryness/flaking or only oilliness?
i was on adapalene 0.1% for 1 month, it didnt give me any effect or changes, no dryness/flaking, only increase in oilliness.
then i switch to retin a micro, now end of week2. also no changes yet. only oilliness. i just feel that retinoids don;t work for me. cause i have read in other ppl posts where they experience only oilliness it didnt work for them in the end.