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Well I put on too much leave on stuff one time a few months back I went to the store and bought this stuff and it works really well if your skin is flakey or even peeling. I have not gone off it though to see if it causes me to break out. But its called cerave facial moisterizer PM
hmm ok, well my face clogs up so easily so i am using a sort of water moisturiser, its actually amazing! 2-3 drops covers the entire face lol! never heard anything like it.
SV how you getting on?
Update of my face, its odd how spots come up, then go away.. very strange. The most annoying thing is a big spot that has come up on my left cheek. its in the center of my face when you look at me profile on.. great! i can almost feel it there!
does anyone else feel this way about spots, as in, you know your own skin so well that when you see a red patch/mark you just know that a spot is trying to get out.. i 'spotted' this one a few days ago and then boom it just came to the surface.. without this here my skin is doing ok-ish. Still red blotchy hyper pigmentation from the outbreaks over the last few weeks. Differin certainly has brought the gunk to the surface, no question of a doubt in my mind.
just hope i am the same as SV where by the IB was mostly in the first week !
hmm what is this cerave stuff? everyone always mentions it!
SV I am going to start using the Tetralysal anti biotics tomorrow evening - want to reduce the amount of flare ups as possible, what do you think?
Sounds like a good shout tbh, hope the antibiotics work for you!
hmm ok, well my face clogs up so easily so i am using a sort of water moisturiser, its actually amazing! 2-3 drops covers the entire face lol! never heard anything like it.
SV how you getting on?
Update of my face, its odd how spots come up, then go away.. very strange. The most annoying thing is a big spot that has come up on my left cheek. its in the center of my face when you look at me profile on.. great! i can almost feel it there!
does anyone else feel this way about spots, as in, you know your own skin so well that when you see a red patch/mark you just know that a spot is trying to get out.. i 'spotted' this one a few days ago and then boom it just came to the surface.. without this here my skin is doing ok-ish. Still red blotchy hyper pigmentation from the outbreaks over the last few weeks. Differin certainly has brought the gunk to the surface, no question of a doubt in my mind.
just hope i am the same as SV where by the IB was mostly in the first week !
The rest of my bumps are purging now, but not in the form of spots. The seeds are literally just surfacing so I can pull 'em out with no damage. Smoother skin, hyperpigmentation's calmed to a point where I don't even need full-on foundation anymore, just tinted moisturiser and a bit of concealer. This is day 43 (7th week) for reference. I can expect it to just get better from now on tbh 
Yes, I do, there's normally that tell-tale ache when I know there's going to be a larger-than-usual one. Sounds like it's going well for you, Jack! And yeah, I was lucky in that sense I know most of the people's experience that I have read it that they have it during weeks 4-6? Nightmare
Hey SV I love hearing from you. it keeps me calm haha!
that sounds great, really sounds like your skin is calm and purging the hard grains whilst not giving you white heads, did you get white heads in the first week? how did you deal with them? and how do you pull out a seed lol
I haven't taken the anti-biotics although i am tempted... i think i want to see how it goes for a couple of weeks 😕 not sure if thats wise or?
i bet the time flies doesnt it? it will be a whole week 1 for me this friday coming! (using differin every other day). when shall i use it nightly? Its all exciting stuff!
My skin has broken out from it though which has left the marks hope those will clear soon in conjunction with that phyto corrective gel !
I wonder why they experienced a break out in those weeks :/ maybe they had really deep spots, that does concern me, although as i say my skin has deffinately been breaking out more than usual since I started it. I have a beast on my cheek that I mentioned but I dont want it to scar so i've left it and plan to leave it, not even gently squeeze it. i want nothing to do with it.
whats tempting me to use the drugs (anti biotics) is that i have spots on my upper back about 12, and also oddly on the inside and outside of my thighs 😕 could this be folliculitus? as a result of too much anti biotics going years back?
basically as much as i would like to take them, i dont want the break out that comes when you come off them, i know they are a temporary measure to stop you breaking out as much or at least reducing them (surely differin would bring them out anyway?) if not, am i being stupid? as in, by not taking them, I am being more open for the spots to leave scars, pigmentation or atrophic-ally speaking?
in between a rock and a hard place catch 22. Maybe see how the diff goes with the routine for a while and if it improves then no need, if it gets worse take them :/
no this is true, its what the derm said when she said it would be good to take them with it. she said by the time you come off them (3-months time) the differin will be working well, so you shouldn't break out by that point in time.
i am scared as shit to take them though, i sort of promised myself i'd never take them again for spots when i stopped them last time all those years ago- but at that time i wasnt using prescription retinoids
Hey, nice to hear my ramblings are comforting *someone* haha
Yup, it's pretty much calm, no actual spots or anything now. Yeah, they did appear as whiteheads at first but now they're just coming out like grains. I just extracted them And when you lightly run your fingers over your skin, if you can feel something that feels like you can 'scratch' it off on the surface, just take a clean pair of tweezers and pull it out (sorry if that didn't make sense - I'm absolutely shattered).
I'm sure you wouldn't break out if you were using them in conjunction with the Differin tbh, like what thechase78 said: It does makes sense. But you might break out again if you stop using both of them. Don't quote me on that though because I know nothing about the antibiotics :/
Time does fly, yeah: I can't believe I'm on my 7th week already! But that's probably because my skin's not too bad that I have to keep worrying about it: I just put the Differin on and sleep, then go about my business the next day without thinking about it until the night again. And I have a shitload of work and revision for Year 13 so that occupies me and makes the days go faster. Use it nightly when your skin has gotten less flaky and irritated.
It should go away fairly quick: I notice a difference in my hyperpigmentation too, especially as I don't go to town on my face every night anymore. I'm getting good at this 'no-touching-my-face' thing tbh
Yeah, don't touch it! I remember when I could feel deep ones under my skin and the area was red. I just put Differin on and they were gone the next day? It's amazing
I think I had my IB pretty much in the first week because my bumps were already really close to the surface. I never suffer from cysts or inflamed acne or anything so I wasn't expecting a really bad IB anyway.
I have no idea about that, sorry :/ Breaking out after you come off antibiotics doesn't happen for everyone so you might not get one. Differin would bring everything to the surface but the antibiotics I guess prevent the bacteria from being spread and prevent them from causing more spots from previous ones.
That sounds good: do whatever your body is telling you Have you thought more about that blood test yet?
h yeah i get what you mean, i sometimes get those its a rare occasion, most of the time before you would have to squeeze to get them out.
What Im feeling depressed about/ concerned about is the red marks and sort of minor surface skin damage. when i stretch the skin with my tongue and look super close at the skin, you can see that its not all the same texture and that it has scars (as in scars that are red marks) - i wonder if these will ever go away it effects me in a big way because i keep thinking to myself i just wish I didn't pick my face to the extent i ever did, and for the amount of years.
Think i'll ride out the differin for a few weeks before tucking into anti-biotics, its got to be healthier not to use them I would imagine.
I am busy but i constantly think about my skin, even now i guess hence writing this. i come home and straight away go to the mirror. its depressing. Think its going down, but would rather the spot have not reared its head in the first place. hopefully it will go after tonight as tonight is differin night.
yeah so in terms of using it nightly as you put, well my skin is dry in the mornings and some noticeable flaky surface, but not red. my skin goes dry from just using water and in general in the morning my skin will be dry :/ why is this? the oil comes back to an acceptable level during the day though. (does skin stop producing oil at night or something :/)
see i dont have any bumps left really.. they all got squeezed out before starting differin ... what i've noticed on this first week (tomorrow) is that its just made loads of little white heads come out of no where, they come and go. the marks are fading rapidly from the newer ones, bizzare.
my plan is to get clear and stay clear and then approach this clinic and get some dermpen needling done for scars which i don't like. I think for my face to be 'nice' i need lots of time, lots of new skin coming to the surface and then treatments to stimulate collagen
not thought more about the test but will probably enquire the next time i book a doctor appointment.
SV - when you got white heads coming up, did you pop them? or just leave them on the skin?
ive got PIH from the spots that have come up, some were gently removed, and the others i used a warm compress to release the content. Either way they have all left PIH.
so now i am thinking screw it and anything else that comes up will just be left well alone. I know you shouldn't interfere with them but god its so hard. this huge one on my cheek had been brewing all week, it finally came out today as in when i woke up it was hanging off my face.. fml when will this end.
SV - when you got white heads coming up, did you pop them? or just leave them on the skin?
ive got PIH from the spots that have come up, some were gently removed, and the others i used a warm compress to release the content. Either way they have all left PIH.
so now i am thinking screw it and anything else that comes up will just be left well alone. I know you shouldn't interfere with them but god its so hard. this huge one on my cheek had been brewing all week, it finally came out today as in when i woke up it was hanging off my face.. fml when will this end.
Hey, I pop them: I can't bear it to be left on my face. I had one of those dreaded lip spots coming up from yesterday and I refused to try and pop it: it would be too painful - those ones always are. Finally came to a proper head today so I got rid of it. The Differin will calm your PIH down, don't worry, as long as you leave your skin alone You've only been doing it for a week so you still have a long way to go, it'll be fine I've had a bit of a breakout actually, not a very big one mind. Always in time for an 18th (just came back from one). Luckily there was low lighting so I wasn't too bothered.
Alright, started differin tonight I diluted it with lotion in hope of minimal peeling I almost got cold feet when I told my mom im going to start it and she read me every horror story about differin but I think its worth it. I have a big event in exactly 3 months... fingers crossed haha
Alright, started differin tonight I diluted it with lotion in hope of minimal peeling I almost got cold feet when I told my mom im going to start it and she read me every horror story about differin but I think its worth it. I have a big event in exactly 3 months... fingers crossed haha
Nah, go for it: your skin should be better in 3 months, I'm sure of it
why would she do that thechase? end of the day, its science and it must work. From reading and looking into various peoples blogs, it looks like it does a great job, and often users go onto retin A and see further results.
end of the day nothing product wise nor drug pill wise will stop oil production other than roaccutane.
thanks for the reply SV. I think my skin is clearing up better now, however i do notice when up close in the mirror etc that its damaged from the skin picking, shallow shallow surface scars which i don't think will go away. I guess once I rarely break out anymore (or at all) that the next step would be a chemical skin peel? or perhaps dermapen to certain areas.
sad time
why would she do that thechase? end of the day, its science and it must work. From reading and looking into various peoples blogs, it looks like it does a great job, and often users go onto retin A and see further results.
end of the day nothing product wise nor drug pill wise will stop oil production other than roaccutane.
thanks for the reply SV. I think my skin is clearing up better now, however i do notice when up close in the mirror etc that its damaged from the skin picking, shallow shallow surface scars which i don't think will go away. I guess once I rarely break out anymore (or at all) that the next step would be a chemical skin peel? or perhaps dermapen to certain areas.
sad time
That's good that your skin is clearing up To be honest, if you have to look right up close to the mirror to see your surface scars then chances are they're not noticeable from normal range. See if the Differin helps them, don't know about a chemical skin peel or dermapen but if you feel like you'd benefit from those treatments then go for it It get better, don't worry
yeah SV, the problem is... its a lot of slight damage, so its not Bleedingly obvious scarring, but from range it does look blotchy and patchy, and then when you focus up close on a blotch, its because of the minor surface damage i do wonder if it will get better.
if not i really dont know what i'll do.
She nor my dad ever really had acne so she doesn't understand why I would take such measures against it so yeah. Today not much difference really I'm not gonna dilute it tonight because I barely had any dryness. Is it okay to put on lotion before I use differin? Otherwise I think it might destroy my skin haha
yeah SV, the problem is... its a lot of slight damage, so its not Bleedingly obvious scarring, but from range it does look blotchy and patchy, and then when you focus up close on a blotch, its because of the minor surface damage i do wonder if it will get better.
if not i really dont know what i'll do.
Still using the phytocorrective serum? That and the Differin should sort it out, just give it time
She nor my dad ever really had acne so she doesn't understand why I would take such measures against it so yeah. Today not much difference really I'm not gonna dilute it tonight because I barely had any dryness. Is it okay to put on lotion before I use differin? Otherwise I think it might destroy my skin haha
Yeah both of my brothers had acne but it all went when they hit 18-19 so fingers crossed mine will be properly going this year. I think you should put the lotion on about 15 minutes after you put the Differin on
Yeah I am going to put it on first I think if I didn't it wouldn't be good haha. So is your skin clearing up from the ib or all together jack?
kool. no man, not yet, its still breaking out. Its still purging all the shit out.. Its getting smoother, etc but its horrible seeing the spots come up.
Like its how it works i guess, my forehead in places looked clear before but is now spotty i.e temple area. but again, its just bringing it all out. some are white heads, some are the hard rice grain type sebum particles.
might start using the diff every night now 😕
Day 50 | 8th week
Have been in a kind of plateau period recently: there are still bumps and they don't seem to be budging at the moment. Will see how long this lasts, although I'm getting into the 8-12 week period now so can expect all my bumps to be going soon? On the plus side, hyperpigmentation is reduced more and makeup and Differin spreads onto my face much smoother now. Left side seems to be better than the right side, which is a surprise seeing as the left side took longer to see initial results. No more major active spots.
maybe switch to gel version SV? or move to 0.3%?
Well I've read that some other people have this kind of stage during Differin, so I'm going to keep using it for the whole 3 months, maybe a bit longer and if there has been no other significant improvement then I shall switch
Today will bet week 2 ! Time flies huh. SV good idea I'd stick with it too tbh.
How long did it take until your white heads stopped coming up ? I seem to be getting then like crazy on my forehead it's super depressing.
Some are just small red lumps/bumps that don't have a head! Whyyy