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Brief update- I was a liiiitle bit aggressive with the Differin gel and jumped right into it, using it every day for about a week instead of starting slowly. As a result, my skin is a bit irritated. I...

Hey all! Just figured I've give a little update since there have been some changes in my regimen! I have now been on Spiro for *over a year*! Thirteen months in fact.   So, the last time I post...

Almost 8 months on Spiro/4 months on Ortho Tri Cyclen-Lo Hey everyone! Not sure if anyone actually reads this, but sometimes it's just therapeutic to write in here. I'm a little bit frustrated beca...

7 months on Spiro Oh hey ya'll. I haven't posted on here in a while because I really have nothing to write about. My skin is just about perfect. No more horrible cysts. No more carrying concealer in...

Still going strong with no major breakouts! All I really get anymore are [occasional] tiny, noninflamed pimples which are more like clogged pores. Right now, my focus is just on improving the texture ...

UPDATE: All of the tiny little bumps/blackheads/whiteheads that have plagued my face for 8 months or so (see picture on previous page) are disappearing! Now that my inflamed acne is gone, I switched m...

It's been about 7 months since I started Spironolactone. I can't believe it's been that long! My skin is doing awesome. I hardly ever get pimples! When I actually do get one, it's surprising and not d...

It has been about five months since I started Spiro (about 2.5 months since I went up to 100 mgs), and a couple weeks since I switched to Ortho Tri Cyclen-Lo. My skin is doing great! This is the best ...

Day 139   Not many new changes. I always have at least a couple pimples on my face, although they are smaller and go away much faster than they used to. Right now I have a healing pimple on my te...

Spiro made me break out on my forehead, too (and I never break out on my forehead). I noticed that a bunch of other people on here said that as well. Hmm.   As for hair... I haven't noticed any h...

Day 133   Still doing pretty well! I kind of broke out after working night shift at the hospital last night- I've noticed that my skin does get worse when I work nights. I have a few small-ih pim...

Sooo, this would be Day 127 on 100 mg Spiro   My skin is CLEAR. Clear, clear. Except for a tiny pimple on my forehead (more like a clogged pore), and one sort of below my ear. And those tiny bump...

Sooo, my skin has been basically clear ever since I started using the facewash with BP (previous post). I have zero hormonal, cystic pimples right now. I'm on the placebo pills of my pack of Lo-Loestr...

Day 121:   Visited the gyno on Friday- will switch to Ortho Tri Cyclen-Lo once my current pack of BC finishes (in a week). Then I have an appt with my derm on August 9th. I'm interested to see wh...

Day 115   Still feeling super down about my skin. I've got a huge cyst on my right cheek that will likely be there for at least two weeks, three nodules on my right jaw, a cyst on my left cheek, ...

Day 114:   SO FRUSTRATED! I'm sure that most of you who have gone on Spiro have experienced exactly what I'm going through. My skin starts to get really clear, and I think the medicine is actuall...

Day 101   Just finished having my period yesterday and had NO breakouts during my period. Right now, I just have one pimple on my skin that's pretty big and under the skin. I'm not going to touch...

Currently NO inflamed/hormonal acne on my face. And I'm about to get my period, too! I had a couple pimples on my jawline earlier this week but they went away within two days. So I'd say my hormonal a...

Salicylic acid washes aren't on your skin long enough to penetrate into your pores. I've had much better results with a 2% cream I leave on overnight. I like Clearasil Acne + Marks 2% salicyic acid lo...

Yeah, definitely keep taking it. From the reviews other people have done on Spiro in here, it seems like it takes several months before it actually starts working really well. Four months seems to be ...

Yeah I've been using Neutrogena Deep Clean Gentle Scrub in the morning and a salicylic acid face wash at night (my derm recommended salicylic acid) and nothing has helped. They've been there for like...

I totally know how you feel! When I started getting acne again this year (I hadn't had bad acne since high school), I had to go to a new derm because I had moved to a new city. Like your derm, he was ...

  Okay so this is what is going on with my forehead. (Sorry the photo is sideways. I'm dumb and I don't know how to change it.) Those are the tiny bumps that I had mentioned. What the hell are th...

So I went on vacation last week, and my skin got a bit worse on my trip. I blame this in part on my forgetting to pack my treatment topicals, so all I had for the week was my face wash and moisturizer...

Day.... Whatever!   Still no new hormonal acne. Nothing along my jawline/chin. The only new acne I've gotten has been on my forehead and cheeks ( like closer to my nose) where I don't normally br...