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This journal is really old, but i was just remembering that it even existed and thought I'd update, hopefully as inspiration to others who are just starting out. In any case, at the end of the day,...

Jan 27th -- when was the last time I had any kind of blemish? Maybe September? And even that wasn't a cyst. Last one of those was in June with NuvaRing I think. Awesome.

Apologies to those of you who have asked questions to which I have yet to respond. The answer is, yes, I did get less oily when I upped my %age. Also, I am using the cream these days, rather than the ...

Just wanted to make a quick note that apparently my insurance doesn't cover RAM (brand name) anymore, so I've switched to 0.1% generic tretinoin -- made the switch maybe 2 weeks ago? 3 wks? Anyway, de...

Still clear and my skin is starting to look, like GOOD. Definitely better than my skin even before I started having major acne problems. It is smooth and has a nice pinkish glow. Yay Retin-A!   ...

Skin is doing great without hormones. Barely even a blackhead to pick at. Hooray!

I decided to ditch NuvaRing. i got a few cysts last month with it and I was just like, forget it. My skin+progesterone=trouble. i took the thing out and so far my skin is back to normal/clear.  ...

My Nuvaring experience is so far so good, I guess, after a few small (non-cyst) pimples at first. I have had this spot on my chin for the last month that was never really anything but has kept peeling...

No new anything since those four cysts, thank god. But mostly I am posting to add that I've started NuvaRing for purposes totally unrelated to acne. I thought about asking for Yaz to see if it would d...

Well, I definitely had some setbacks this month. In the form of FOUR cysts around my chin during ovulation. They are mostly winding down now, and nothing else has come up (thank god), but it wasn't fu...

Still clear with the exception of a tiny whitehead I got around the time of my period. No kidding, a tiny whitehead, and that was it. My face is all of a sudden not red anymore either, which might be ...

Just wanted to update here because my face is actually, finally CLEAR. Which is a word I've been hesitating to use until it was actually true. This of course does not mean that I won't still get pimpl...

Wow, have I really not written anything here since Feb 11? Crazy. Well, the good news is that that is because I have barely had any pimples since then. In fact, in my last menstrual cycle, I have had ...

FYI for anyone reading this who uses RAM: if you are getting a cold, I highly suggest investing in some premium tissues. Otherwise, wow, ow, my nose hurts!

Just popping in to say that my skin is still clear and back to totally normal. I actually can't even remember the horror of this fall that well -- feels like a distant memory.   As an added bonu...

It's been forever. One of those painful spots on my nose turned into a full blown pimple -- along the lines of what I got when I had my horrible nose IB last August. It's basically gone now. Aside fro...

Still clear. Well, one small thing in the corner of my nose that is barely visible. I can go out without even concealer these days (though my face would still be a little splotchy.) This is amazing/I ...

Well, two of those painful blackhead things developed into what turned out to be prematurely aborted cysts. Right next to each other. Luckily, this was on maybe Sunday, and now almost all evidence is ...

Well, sometime this week I got one pimple that was pretty noticeable, right by my eyebrow. It was kind of between a cyst and a regular pimple -- like a cyst in that it was under the skin and never cam...

Well folks, I think I have entered my longest non-complaining, not hating my skin, very low maintenance period since I've started RAM. It is seriously amazing -- like, oh right, NOW I remember what it...

Guess what? My skin is pretty much the best it has looked since last summer! In these last six months, I've been very hesitant to even say that I was moving towards success, but I think that for the f...

Amazing. Here is how you get rid of redness: complain, get super upset, go to bed, and wake up the next morning and it's gone.   Okay, not true, my face still looks icky, but somehow it is way b...

OMG, I HATE RETIN-A.   Seriously, this is ridiculous. I mean, maybe this is a second IB but I think it is ABSURD for my skin to be worse six months into this than it was when I started. I hate my...

So, Christmas day will be the end of my TWENTY FOURTH WEEK on retin-a. Insane.   The higher strength RAM is definitely doing something...my skin feels smoother, and it is definitely more peely, ...

No, I'm not "clear." I still have red marks, and I'm definitely not convinced that just because I have a pause in cysts, I won't get anymore. I feel like I will be "clear" when I go a month or so wit...