HKguy1234

Week 75 wrap-up: I was washing my face yesterday night when I realized that all of the post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation is finally gone. At this point, I look like I've never had any acne issues at...

Week 60 wrap-up: I am now more than a year into my tretinoin regimen, and my skin has been great! The hyperpigmentation has faded to the point where it is almost unnoticeable, and my pores seem to be ...

Week 50 wrap-up: It's been four months since my last post, and approximately 1 year since I started using tretinoin. I'm happy to note that everything remains pretty much the same. My skin is still ge...

Week 34 wrap-up: Just a quick update: no significant changes to my skin in the past two months. I still get the occasional inflamed spot or clogged pore, but nothing serious and it usually lasts a fe...

Week 27 wrap-up: I'm just past the six month mark. I haven't been diligent about posting here because my skin has continued to remain the same. Still a few hyperpigmentation spots, but overall, my s...

Week 23 wrap-up: I am just a few weeks shy of the six month mark, and my skin remains roughly the same since my last update. The dark spots of hyperpigmentation are still the same, but I don't have a...

Week 20 wrap-up: Now that my skin has largely settled down, I don't feel the need to post as often.  In the past two weeks, I haven't had serious acne concerns.  I had two bump...

Week 18 wrap-up: My skin continues to look pretty good. I stopped the oral doxycyline last week and have continued to be lax with my diet, i.e., consuming moderate quantities of dairy, gluten, etc. ...

Week 16 wrap-up: My skin remains about the same since my last update. I have generally clear skin except for one small whitehead near my eye brow, a handful of clogged pores, and discoloration that i...

Week 14 wrap-up: This was an okay week for my skin. No huge cystic pimples, but I had a whitehead form just below my nose and an inflamed clogged pore at my upper lip that has left a small dark spot...

Week 13 wrap-up: Great week for my skin. I have absolutely no active breakouts at the moment. I did have a very, very small whitehead that emerged on my cheek two days ago, but it dried up and flak...

Week 12 wrap-up: This is finally the three-month mark, and I can definitely see improvement from weeks 2-8. I still have some breakouts this week, but overall my skin continues to look okay. I had ...

Week 11 wrap-up: A third good week in a row for my skin. This week, I got three very small whiteheads around my chin/mouth, one of which quickly came to a head and two of which just sort of flaked o...

Week 10 wrap-up: This was another good week for my skin. My two remaining cystic pimples came to a head, flattening out and leaving just dark spots. My only other new pimple was a whitehead on my c...

Week 9 wrap-up: This was a relatively good week for my skin. A lot of my pimples came to a head, including five cysts, two whiteheads and one clogged pore. I popped them, extracting lots of pore pl...

Week 8 wrap-up: Back to another bad week for my acne. That potentially nodular pimple from my last post has since developed into a full blown cyst, and four other cysts emerged: one on my left cheekb...

Week 7 wrap-up: This was a relatively good week for my skin, although I am still breaking out. Most of the cystic/nodular pimples from the past few weeks are finally flattening; I only have one linge...

Week 6 wrap-up: There is still no end in sight for my breakouts. One of the big cystic pimples from last week finally subsided, leaving a very dark spot. The rest of the cysts have persisted, and I...

Week 5 wrap-up: This was a so-so week for my acne. Of the two cystic pimples on my left cheekbone, one still hasn't emerged (although it appears to have shrunk a bit) and the other came to a head and...

When I first started applying Ziana, I would wake up with an incredibly sticky face. The tretinoin gel made my skin feel sticky and tacky, almost as if it were covered in a thin layer of pancake syru...

Week 4 wrap-up: My skin seems to be alternating between good and bad weeks, and this is one of the bad weeks. Since my last post, the two pimples on my left cheek became cystic, although they haven’...

Just when I thought the initial breakout might be subsiding, another wave of breakouts is emerging. I woke up this morning to discover that two clogged pores on my left cheekbone are red, swollen and...

Week 3 wrap-up: This is my third week of using Ziana daily after moisturizing. No new breakouts this week, and in fact, I have no active acne at the moment. The two cysts from my last post are now ...

@ Convinceme: Thanks. I guess how we feel about our skin is all relative; I am thankful that I don't have severe or even moderate acne, but my breakouts and the dark hyperpigmentation spots are still...

@ Convinceme: Yes, my acne has gotten noticeably worse since early September. It's still mild, but I do have two small clusters of breakouts: one on the lower part of each cheek, just above the jawli...