I was on differin for about 11 weeks before I finally decided to stop torturing my face. I just kept hanging in there because I read about the initial breakouts, "oh you just have to hang in there, it's just purging"...well the purge just kept getting worse and worse. I got flaky, dry patches on my forehead, temple and right around my nose and mouth. I had cystic pimples, and my face broke out, including my chin and under my eyebrows, into tiny bumps that I'm still dealing with after a week of quitting. the hyperpigmentation has even gotten worse over the course of treatment...

sure it might work on some, but not me. I used it as directed. I kept switching cleansers because I thought that was the problem, from cetaphil to neutrogena gentle, wrong. I switched to different moisturizers, from cetaphil with spf 50 to neutrogena oil free moisture, wrong still. now I'm terrified of anything that has a "purging" for nobody can say exactly when the purge is supposed to stop, when is it no longer an initial breakout but actually the product messing up your skin? I keep thinking I should've stopped earlier, maybe I wouldn't have destroyed my skin so...I swear I can't even stand looking at my face or going out even to the mailbox now because my face looks so bad. I'd gladly take back the acne I had before I started that crap.

I just wanted to know if I should start Dan's regime or do I have to wait some period of time to let the differin get it of my system? if so how long would I have to wait?