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Never an official diagnosis. After 4 rounds of chin peels (salicylic acid 20%) - 3 of which involved extractions - I am still working to stabilize things. I do think the peels helped, though I had a...

I'm trying to trust the derm... Another peel coming up this week, and I'm getting extractions this time. My skin looked okay for a few days before the peeling started post-peel last time, then the pe...

Thanks so much for sharing! I am 90% a hermit right now because I can't bear the way I look / can't go out in public without feeling horrible. Alternating Retin-A and Finacea every other night, but I'...

Saw the derm today. (Side note... She said that Clotrimazole makes people's skin look better because it's moisturizing and soothing, not because they necessarily have a yeast infection on their faces...

I don't know if anyone still follows this, but things are seriously worse than ever. Extractions and injections don't get rid of the bumps. They keep coming back in the same places, and then they sp...

So. The scabs healed, but guess what? All the pimples she extracted are now back, and I have way more pimples than I started with. I also have ugly red marks everywhere. I flipping give up. I wil...

Thank you!!! Seriously, I just need loads of positivity at this point. I hate that she didn't fully get at least one of these comedones, so it's still working it's way up to the surface. Ugh. I al...

I am on Minocycline already, so I'm sure that can't hurt. I went in to see the nurse (eh, LPN) at the derm's office this AM. She said everything looked normal, and the yellow-green discoloration was...

Although I appreciate the advice, WelcomeSmirk, it's a bit late for that now. Not very helpful.

I have huge, raised, green scabbing on some areas. Also have red/brown scabbing on other areas. I can't wait to call the derm's office as soon as I wake up. Thanks for the input and support because I'...

I'm going to try Elidel, and I'm calling the derm in the morning.  So many scabby wounds.  I'm hoping that someone can instill some hope here and say, "Hey!  My fac...

I had some annoying pimples and comedones that I wanted to get rid of quickly because Retin-A wasn't working fast enough (had to cut back on use this winter). The dermatologist recommended extractions...

I never got a diagnosis.  Things cleared up for about a month, and now I'm back to having worse skin than ever.  The season change prevented me from using Tazorac every night, ...

I am SO tired of this! I have gotten a cyst below my mouth / on my chin injected 5-6 times this summer. Yes, I've lost count. Within the past 2 weeks, I've had it injected on 2 separate occasions. ...

I don't think so. I did the research on that when it first started happening, too. Haha. I looked up EVERYTHING! It's just a gross Tazorac purge, I think. Elidel suppresses the immune response, so...

Exactly. Neverending clogged pores coming to the surface and becoming giant whiteheads or whitehead-covered cysts that don't go away. I never, never had problems like this before this year. Just a ...

Derm still thinks that it's just purging of clogged pores. I can't pinpoint a cause except that I was using Elidel all those months that I had stopped Retin-A, then going off the antibiotics made the...

Got the third cyst injected a week ago. It started to decrease, but now it has been replaced by a triple-whitehead cyst right above it. Made the mistake of trying to extract two of the whiteheads beca...

There it is. Another cyst.

Unbelievable. More zits today between brows and even on my cheeks. And, of course, at least one new cyst coming below the injected cysts. It's huge.

1.5 weeks after the injections, which were diluted too much. I'm getting at least one major cyst above the original lesions. More stuff happening elsewhere. I see the derm again on Wednesday. This has...

It's now been over a week since I got the shots. The bumps have gone down a bit, but she diluted the Kenalog too much. The bumps are still very red and bulbous. Meanwhile, I'm breaking out with blood-...

I wish I had an answer! Still no diagnosis! Retin-A 0.025% every other night, Tazorac 0.5% on the off nights, Elidel every night, Minocycline 150 mg, Spironolactone 75 mg, and Yaz. What a long list...

Hate to say it. I think my cortisone shots were diluted too much. This pic was taken almost 80 hours post-injections. More widespread redness. Still bulbous. More zits forming around the area. I feel ...

Look worse to you? Does to me. Not as painful. About 27 hours post-injections.  The redness is more widespread, and the other skin just seems more irritated.  More zits surfaci...