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24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

Update on progesterone - went to a women's wellness NP, she wasn't sure what to do for me besides spiro, but she also gave me the requested script for progesterone and some fancied up chromium supplem...

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8 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

Update, I've pretty much been doing all the same things I just haven't had the money or the energy to try out new products/routine. My regimen is something like AM wash face with Acure cleanser (fac...

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8 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

I'm so annoyed and feeling like skin care is pointless because since I posted last my cycle messed up a couple times - since I started working in October I've been a little less regular, then in Febru...

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8 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

Huh it's been four months since I posted in here! I've made some changes to the stuff that I'm making and tweaked my routine. Here's what I'm currently doing: AM: Rinse face with water, Cosrx BHA Blac...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

Howdy,,,,,,,, I've figured out a way of doing the vitamin C serum that I'm going to use for the time being. I don't know of a reliable and simple way to stabilize vitamin C in a water phase-only formu...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

My face has cleared up over the course of the month. It might be that before, when I was breaking out so bad, it's because I'd started getting lazy about getting my face nice and clean before applying...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

I needled the scars on my forearm with a single needle, I think 1.5mm? Doing regularish applications of 5% lugol's and putting a glob of cerave moisturizer under the bandage. I'm also doing vit c appl...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

On 7/28/2016 at 6:11 AM, SkinDeeply said: You very well may have had an iodine deficiency in that case. According to Dr. Mercola, tons of people do. It just seems that for those who don't (and ...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

On 7/25/2016 at 7:53 PM, SkinDeeply said: It's because Folliculitis is a fungal infection, and it needs to be treated as such. A few questions about the supplements you're taking as well.....

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

I'm getting way ahead of myself with my current skin/scar treatment plans because I'm not acne-free and I don't know if or when the improvement is going to plateau or if something will cause it to reg...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

I finally had my appointment with the dermatologist. She basically told me that I can't do anything about the scarring, like laser treatments and peels could help but it's not worth it if I'm gonna ke...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

uhhhhhh so I think stuff is getting better? I'm planning to wait maybe 6 more weeks, til august before I say 'alright it's been three months with 0.04% micro gel and it's working/not working' But I ca...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

Soooooo it is May now. I finally got my Retin-A scrip. I ordered a bottle from canadadrugs, which is a legit pharmacy as far as I could tell through some research. I can't believe a tube is a thousand...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

3/22: My shoulders are healing up, no new cysts. Sometimes I just don't get any new cysts for a while though, so I'll see how that goes. This week I have two new cysts, upper back :/ I'm mostly just i...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

3/16: I don't wanna update a lot in a short span of time because I am expecting things to kind of shift back and forth and I'm trying not to make too much out of every new thing that pops up but anywa...

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9 years ago
24/F - acne/hormones/picking - treating with progesterone, retin-a, otc products

Hey ppl, I've found myself lurking around these forums a lot lately, so I figured I'd start a log here instead of continuing to ramble about my skin on my tumblr account. Hopefully this will help me b...

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9 years ago