Hello, I'm new here, and so I hope I'm posting this in the right place!

So, to introduce myself:

I am a 20yr old boy in Australia who has suffered from acne since about the age of 13. In the first year I broke out, I pretty much tried all over the counter stuff. So I tried things like facial washes, concealers, benzoyl peroxide (which REALLY irritated my skin). They didn't really work...

so a year after I started I went (my mother really wanted me to) to see my GP who prescribed me erythromycin (this was a few years ago, so I can't remember the dose!) and I was on it for about 5 months. It didn't really help, the acne didn't get worse, but it didn't get better.

I then went back to my GP who prescribed me septrin, I was on that for about 6-7 months, and my acne didn't get better in fact it got worse. So it was decided I would see a skin specialist, who decided that even though my acne is not severe, (only moderate) it just wasn't responding and so at the age of 15 I was prescribed roaccutane. (20mg/day for the first 6 weeks, increasing to 40mg/day thereafter). It took a while, but roaccutane did great things. My skin wasn't perfect after I finished, and I still had break outs but I wasable to control it with face washes like physohex.

Fast forward to 2014/2015, and my acne became harder to control again, and yesterday (29th jan) I went back to see my GP, who decided to refer me back to a specialist (for the acne, and a few dodgy looking moles), and in the interim I was prescribed doxycyline 50mg/day

so day 1 of doxy I guess! No side effects to note except a bit of stomach troubles, though I have other digestion issues so that's probably neither here nor there. my acne has started to dry out a bit (it's not my imagination!) and so hopefully I can avoid going on roaccutane again (I did not like the side effects)

Sorry about the long post, and maybe if I pluck up the courage to post pictures, I'll do so.

oh, and while I've had acne on my back and chest, it mostly affects my face.