37 minutes ago, nicole8808 said:

I'm starting my third pack of Yaz now, and so far my back and chest are almost completely clear, which is unheard of. However, my face is much worse - lots of acne along my chin and jaw, a lot of it cystic. I read somewhere that sometimes BC clears back and chest first, then face - is this true? I haven't hit that "three month mark" yet, so should I take the fact that Yaz cleared my back and chest as a sign that it will eventually work on all my acne, specifically facial?

hi, I think for most of us our face is last to clear cause its the most oily. I had similar and my face cleared around 5 months. You could also ask your Dr if you can add spironolactone to yaz for better results.

21 minutes ago, snarkygirl said:

1 hour ago, nicole8808 said:

I'm starting my third pack of Yaz now, and so far my back and chest are almost completely clear, which is unheard of. However, my face is much worse - lots of acne along my chin and jaw, a lot of it cystic. I read somewhere that sometimes BC clears back and chest first, then face - is this true? I haven't hit that "three month mark" yet, so should I take the fact that Yaz cleared my back and chest as a sign that it will eventually work on all my acne, specifically facial?

hi, I think for most of us our face is last to clear cause its the most oily. I had similar and my face cleared around 5 months. You could also ask your Dr if you can add spironolactone to yaz for better results.

I'm already on Spiro, so maybe that will make it clear a little sooner and end this very annoying breakout. I'm glad to hear you had a similar experience - I wasn't even sure my acne was hormonal at all, to be honest, but I think the fact that my back and chest cleared is a good indicator that it is.

I think the same happened to me. My back was first to clear. It seems when you get bad back/shoulders acne besides face it's a sign your hormones are really fucked up. So Yaz might work slowly by making it less and less worse. I didn't use to get initial breakouts in my teenage years but this time when I was dealing with a horrible one that lasted for like 2 years, Yaz, Diane, AND Spiro made it worse in the beginning. I stopped taking Spiro and Diane because they gave me weird scary side effects. I tried Inositol instead and that stuff is amazing, and seems way safer than Spiro. If you're interested you can check out my log it's called Yaz (Loryna) Log.

24 minutes ago, lifelong confusion said:

I think the same happened to me. My back was first to clear. It seems when you get bad back/shoulders acne besides face it's a sign your hormones are really fucked up. So Yaz might work slowly by making it less and less worse. I didn't use to get initial breakouts in my teenage years but this time when I was dealing with a horrible one that lasted for like 2 years, Yaz, Diane, AND Spiro made it worse in the beginning. I stopped taking Spiro and Diane because they gave me weird scary side effects. I tried Inositol instead and that stuff is amazing, and seems way safer than Spiro. If you're interested you can check out my log it's called Yaz (Loryna) Log.

how is your skin doing these days with that?

24 minutes ago, lifelong confusion said:

I think the same happened to me. My back was first to clear. It seems when you get bad back/shoulders acne besides face it's a sign your hormones are really fucked up. So Yaz might work slowly by making it less and less worse. I didn't use to get initial breakouts in my teenage years but this time when I was dealing with a horrible one that lasted for like 2 years, Yaz, Diane, AND Spiro made it worse in the beginning. I stopped taking Spiro and Diane because they gave me weird scary side effects. I tried Inositol instead and that stuff is amazing, and seems way safer than Spiro. If you're interested you can check out my log it's called Yaz (Loryna) Log.

how is your skin doing these days with that?

30 minutes ago, snarkygirl said:

how is your skin doing these days with that? how is your skin doing these days with that?

Actually my acne has been getting worse again since mid May or so, I'm guessing it's either because I stopped working out in like December, my diet got worse, or my body is building tolerance to Inositol (which I know it does with Yaz, it stops working as well at about 8 month mark or so for me). So I got on a better diet again a month ago, also started exercising and my skin only now seems to be getting better again. So I think those things definitely affect it to some extent. I was about to increase my Inositol dosage again from 1.8g to 2.4, but now that I see some improvement with better lifestyle finally maybe I can get it back to fully clear. I'll keep my log updated.

On July 7, 2016 at 9:52 AM, snarkygirl said:

On July 7, 2016 at 9:13 AM, nicole8808 said:

I'm starting my third pack of Yaz now, and so far my back and chest are almost completely clear, which is unheard of. However, my face is much worse - lots of acne along my chin and jaw, a lot of it cystic. I read somewhere that sometimes BC clears back and chest first, then face - is this true? I haven't hit that "three month mark" yet, so should I take the fact that Yaz cleared my back and chest as a sign that it will eventually work on all my acne, specifically facial?

hi, I think for most of us our face is last to clear cause its the most oily. I had similar and my face cleared around 5 months. You could also ask your Dr if you can add spironolactone to yaz for better results.

Actually, do you think it would help to up my dose of Spiro? I'm on 50 mg once a day and from what I've read most people who see good results take more than that.

11 hours ago, lifelong confusion said:

12 hours ago, snarkygirl said:

how is your skin doing these days with that? how is your skin doing these days with that?

Actually my acne has been getting worse again since mid May or so, I'm guessing it's either because I stopped working out in like December, my diet got worse, or my body is building tolerance to Inositol (which I know it does with Yaz, it stops working as well at about 8 month mark or so for me). So I got on a better diet again a month ago, also started exercising and my skin only now seems to be getting better again. So I think those things definitely affect it to some extent. I was about to increase my Inositol dosage again from 1.8g to 2.4, but now that I see some improvement with better lifestyle finally maybe I can get it back to fully clear. I'll keep my log updated.

ill check it out.