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The fact that you can attribute/narrow your skin problems to hormones if definitely helpful! This person posted a helpful guide to BCP and notes that the type of progestin in the pill can have effect...

I mean if it isn't making your skin worse, (you would have known by now), then you may as well keep using it in the background to see if this is just a little speed bump. A blemish/cyst/whatever ya wa...

I remember using acv like 2 years ago in a desperate fail to help my skin, my acne has changed since then as I've gotten older and i've tried using it again for about 4-5 days now. Throughout the da...

So it's been a month since i last posted on here about my progress and if anyone's still interested on reading about my time on this drug i will probably leave this log up. I'm gonna go to my doctor w...

Halfway through pack 5     Skin is doing so so. I've decided to stop posting so religiously on this log because I feel its not helpful and essentially the same in terms of any progress, s...

H kath, Yeah I usually wait until it soaks in a bit When you say you use hydrocortisone cream on your cysts, did that help with the active ones or just the scars? I have about 3 on my face, one of wh...

  Hey SoulCandy, I sort of feel like my journey has been similar to yours, I had been using Benzoyl Peroxide and it pretty much solved most of my problems, apart from when I used too mu...

Hormones take up to 6 months to balance themselves, or so I was told. So while topical treatments should be done for at least 6 weeks, I think they generally advise trying a birth control for 4 months...

Hi everyone.   I've been on this bcp for about 4 months now and only did my first placebo week last week. My skin hadn't been improving or getting worse but now coming back on the active pills I...

Start of pack 5   What the heck people, i'm at a total loss of what to do. My skin was actually pretty good during the placebo week and now I'm back on the active pills (three days in) an my ski...

1 active pill left of pack 4   Despite healthy eating face is a mess. Last night I pilled on way too much BP onto a cluster of spots on my cheek and I now have the worst chemical burn from this ...

1 week of active pills left of pack 4   ughhh this is so frustrating, my skin has gone into break out mode again and pretty badly!! I've gotten about 4 deep nodules over the course of the past c...

Half way through pack 4   Sorry for the lack of updates for anyone who is following my progress, but the last week my skin got so good and stayed good for my ball that I didn't wanna jinx it! Fo...

1st day of 4th pack   Surprisingly, the last couple of days have been somewhat under control, apart from the dry skin which is still not getting any better. I'm quite excited for this month bec...

I've now finished my third pack of the birth control pill Diane (also known as Ginet 84 and Dianette), after about two weeks my skin became a lot less oily, but now it is as the point were it is super...

2 days until end of month three (active pills)   I don't know how much more I can handle of this uncertainty. I went to the docs yesterday to get the clear for my next three months of pills, she...

5 days from end of month 3   I'm starting to feel really discouraged, even though I've read most people don't start to see results until month 4 i'm feeling so depressed that my acne is still as...

Day 52   So i'm about 1/2 way through my third pack, because I've been skipping all the sugar pills I'm not sure whether to count this as month 3 or not. Weirdly, I've started breaking out over...

Day 47   I have literally been drinking green tea by the jug, and I don't know if it's because of the hormones starting to do what they should, but for the whole week so far my skin has been the...

  Hey SoulCandy, I sort of feel like my journey has been similar to yours, I had been using Benzoyl Peroxide and it pretty much solved most of my problems, apart from when I used too much it ...

Hey SoulCandy, I sort of feel like my journey has been similar to yours, I had been using Benzoyl Peroxide and it pretty much solved most of my problems, apart from when I used too much it made my s...

Day 43 So my third pack arrived today, which I wasn't expecting until the end of the week and so I had no choice to take the sugar pills; anyway I've been a bit naughty (and possibly stupid) but I've...

Day 41 (ish) So i'm on the 7 day break right now, the first since I've started, I'm a little apprehensive as to how it might go. Over the last week I've been on vacation overseas and to be honest my ...

Day 28 I'm breaking out badly, this sucks big time. I'm going on holiday next week I do suppose although i'm already 1/3 way through the second pack, it has only just been about a month now, so ther...