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Day 27 Lol, skin is breaking out since my being quite a bit clearer (relatively) last week. What I have found though is that when I do get a blemish it has been disappearing quite fast, so hopefully ...

Day 25 I know I probably shouldn't get too excited at this point but I really feel as if my skin is improving! I'm still in my continuous cycle of breaking out, but those annoying cheek nodules are b...

Day 21 As I expect the clear(er) skin didn't last very long and I've been breaking out a little more over the past few days. Probably doesn't help I've started picking at my skin again.... ugh. I sti...

Day 17 Over the past week I feel as if my skin has really improved, but I also feel this will be very short lived... I've been trying to pick at my skin less which has really helped. Aside from the s...

So good to hear! I've just started my own log for Ginet which is another brand name for Diane, this made me feel more hopeful! I know you said you got clear after 4 months, but when did you notice you...

Hi all, I've decided to start this log (11 days into my first pack of Ginet 84, which is apparently pretty much the same thing as Diane) to keep myself hopeful during this roller coaster of a journey...

hI,it sounds hormonal to me.I would go to the doctor and have your hormone levels tested and go on spironolactone if need be.you can try just tylenol right at the beginning of outbreak.many females ga...

it may not be. try searching pityrosporum folliculitis on face in google images. i had a friend who had this and it looked a lot like acne but it was just folliculitis. its quite uncommon but it may b...

Apparently proactiv is super drying in itself, on top of its main active ingredient, benzoyl peroxide which is also quite drying. So in a way, it has the ability to make your skin produce more oil to ...

I can't seem to identify what type of acne I have, which is making me wonder if it is even acne... I've been using retin a 0.05% for 4 months now and i've experienced nothing, not even irritation or w...

I've been on retin A only for a week, yeah I get it "well what do you know?". The thing is I have very sensitive skin and moderate to very very slightly severe acne, and retin A cleared that up like m...

I'm no doctor, but to my knowledge, birth control will only 'control' your hormones while you're actually taking the medicine. It may take a couple months at most before your acne returns but there's ...

I'm now over the three month mark of retin a use and it's literally driving me up the walls. I will have maybe 5 days of 90% clear skin and then break out for a week and a half and recover to this 5 d...

You're so lucky that all you have is scarring, not like the majority of us still hanging round these forums trying to find something to get our skin on a leash 5 years counting... Anywho, how long ha...

From what I've read its not uncommon for retinoids to take longer to work. I'm on week 13 still breaking out and my skin looks worse than when I started but my skin texture is a lot smoother. I think ...

I'm at week 11 of Retin A, 0.05%, in a cream form. Absolutely nothing has happened, bar some light flakiness my skin has not improved and if anything, gotten worse. Three months is when people (appare...

How long exactly have you been on that regime? I've been using retin a 0.05% (I don't know how that differs to Tazorac) for 11 weeks now and have experienced absolutely nothing, just as you said no ...

This is almost a poll/survey, i've been using Retin A 0.05% for 6 weeks now for my moderate to severe acne. There's been no worsening or improvement and i've had no side affects bar some light flakyn...

Yes you can go to a derm just like you would go to the doctor, although I must say it wouldn't hurt contacting a doctor (preferably one like mine that actually has like a mini degree in dermatology al...

I know this thread is super old, but Lauriedp do you still get these kind of dormant nodules? That's exactly what I get. Are you still using BC to control them?

Is your water fluoridated? I've heard of people who have found an almost direct correlation between added fluoride in their tap water and acne.

Do you only get them around your nose? Also are they soft of hard like small grains of rice? If the problem is acne related then they just look like of clogged pores, when you run you sweat through yo...

If you're going to try a supplement, Zinc is the best for oily skin! What kind of acne are you getting on your forehead? Just lots of little whiteheads and blackheads, or larger more inflamed bumps? I...

"changed your pill" Do you mean birth control? If so what did you change to and what were you on previously?

I'm so over my stubborn skin... Does anyone else get deep nodules that appear, then go dormant, then flare up two or three times before actually going for good? It's not my diet, I have a relatively...