First-time post here; kinda seeking solidarity in a breakout-addled moment of madness. I've been on Spiro for about two and a half months (100mg from the beginning), and it seemed to be working. Very very slowly, but working. I had an initial bad breakout which I've read is quite typical, but after the first six weeks or so, there seemed to be slow but definite improvement.

However, I've still been getting flare-ups for the week before and during my period (big, deep, nasty jaw/chin-spots that leave dreadful pigmentation scars - not many, but nasty nonetheless), so I asked my GP about it last week. He suggested increasing my dose to 150mg a day for the week before and then the week of my period, and then continuing on the usual 100mg for the rest of the month. "Won't the dose increase make me break out in a major way?" I asked, having read that it certainly could. "Oh, no," he said.

Lo and behold - I've been taking the extra dose since last Friday, and now, almost a week in, I'm getting the nastiest breakout I've had since that initial early-Spiro one, and I'm assuming that the extra 50mg must be the reason. And while this must be temporary (surely!), I feel a little like I'm back at square one, waiting out the eruption, and it's not a particularly nice feeling. Dramatic, I know, but it's like all of that very slow-but-ultimately-rewarding time has been rewound. Is this menstrual dose-uppage a failed experiment? How long until my skin normalises itself again? Should I actually be going back to the usual 100mg ASAP, or will that mess up my skin more? Anyone experienced something similar?