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Took Birth Control for 4 days and now have terrible breakouts

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(@nicolepsramos)

Posted : 12/04/2016 9:34 pm

Hey everyone!
This is my first post on here, I took Tricyclin for only 4 days (which is a birth control pill). I've suffered from acne ever since high school and I've taken minocycline 2 years ago to tone down my breakouts. It's helped me with my acne, and after going off of minocycline I guess you could say my breakouts weren't as frequent and as bad as before. I'm now 21 yrs old and before taking the BC pill my skin was close to being clear but I had 1-2 zits here and there. I decided to take the BC pill to see if it would help clear my skin fully (and also as a contraceptive of course), but after 4 days of taking it I had THE WORST breakout of my entire life and so I stopped. It's been a month now after stopping the BC pill, I already got my period and my cycle is normal but my skin is exploding with cystic acne everywhere! I need help on what to do to get my skin back to its normal phase.

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(@alyleiii)

Posted : 12/05/2016 11:47 am

Ouch I'm sorry that happened. :( I had a similar experience with spironolactone. 

Can you get back on antibiotics? Or possibly get cortisone shots for any big cysts? Maybe this pill just wasn't right for you. I felt the same frustration with Spiro. I hated how it made me break out 10 times worse while others said it cleared them amazingly.

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