katie789

OKAY SO I have revamped my routine. I now (again) think that my clogged pores are fungal. Apparently I had a fungus problem around my mouth/chin when I was a baby according to my parents - I'm wonderi...

My skin is still super crappy. But it means the Taz is working! More and more comedones are becoming inflamed, mostly on my chin (and some between my eyes). It's been about 1.5 months so hopefully I'm...

My skin is majorly purging! Which is definitely good, but it looks terrible. Every day comedones become inflamed and turn into pimples. Some are small pimples with white heads, and the others are more...

So I've been using the Taz for about 2 weeks (still just every other night) and I think my purge is starting. I have a few cysts and pustules on my chin and between my eyes. My skin looks gross and te...

My skin was kind of red and irritated last night after using Finacea. I think it's too much right away with the Taz, so I've decided to hold off until my skin gets used to the Taz in a month or two.

So, I've been using Taz 2 out of every 3 nights in order to decrease irritation. There doesn't seem to be dryness or irritation so far. I've been buffering it with moisturizer (putting Taz over my Der...

I went to another derm. She said that I don't have fungal acne (she just looked at my face) and I am going back on Taz and Finacea. I'm started off with Taz 0.05 cream because I don't want to irritate...

Since adding the rosehip oil into my routine, my chin has gotten way more closed comedones. I think it may be clogging my pores. I'm feeling super frustrated because I felt like my skin was actually g...

So, my experience with mild periroal dermatitis has caused me to completely revamp my skincare. I went to my derm to fix the rash, and she told me to cut out all actives (Taz, AHA, BHA) and just use a...

So, I think I have mild perioral dermatitis - a rash around my nose and mouth. I think it was caused by using a La Roche Posay sunscreen/moisturizer. But even though I stopped using it a few weeks ago...

I used the PC gels too many days in a row and my skin got super red, irritated, and bumpy, like with an allergic reaction. I think I started using the gels almost every day without giving my skin a br...

Okay, so, even though my skin was irritated, I took a risk and put the Paula's Choice AHA/BHA (8% and 2%, respectively) gels on this week to see how I would react. (I mix them together and apply.) Wow...

My skin is very irritated right now. I began using La Roche Posay products this summer (their Double Repair Moisturizer UV as a light, everyday sunscreen and their Purifying Foaming Cleanser) and my s...

My skin very much went downhill since my last post in March. I think a couple of things happened: 1. I stopped using Tazorac every night because I was using the gel, which was horribly drying for me. ...

I'm halfway through my second pack of Ortho Cyclen. My skin is slowly improving I think! I haven't had any cysts that randomly pop up, just comedones already in my skin purging. So I'm still getting p...

Finished my first pack of Ortho Cyclen. So far, so good - no negative side effects to note. My skin went through a pretty bad breakout during week 2 of this pack. It has cleared up (probably just my b...

I've been on Ortho Cyclen for 2 weeks now. So far, I haven't had any negative side effects. I feel the same as I did prior to starting it. The rest of my routine is: AM: Cera Ve Foaming Cleanser Nip a...

I was on Loryna (Yaz generic) for a week and I hated it. I had to pee all of the time (it's a diuretic) and I would wake up multiple times at night to use the bathroom. I also starting getting pain in...

My doctor gave me a prescription for Loryna, the generic of Yaz. I'm a little worried because I've read bad reviews of Yaz and health warnings, but if it regulates my mood swings and acne, it might be...

So Finacea has helped somewhat, it seems to have eradicated some clogged pores. However, there are still so many clogs, and I keep getting cystic pimples, especially on my chin. I currently have 6 cys...

Currently, my skin is not doing great. It's the worst it's been in a couple of years. I went off my birth control (Loestrin) in early June, and by the end of September, my skin was a mess. I have clog...

Hi, it's been a while.  Stridex pads did not end up working for me - I felt like they made my face get greasy very quickly and didn't do much for my skin. I went back to my PC AHA and BHA...

End of Week 13: Wow, I'm past the 12 week mark. My skin is doing great. I have about 5 comedones left on my chin - which is crazy - because I started with so many. It's nice to be able to count the on...

End of Week 10! I'm almost to the 12 week mark. My skin continues to improve! My chin is clearing up nicely, I only have about 10 comedones left. In the past couple of days, 4 surfaced and I extracte...

Almost done with Week 9. But I still see a bunch of closed comedones on my chin - no clogged pores anywhere else, really. Between my eyes is clear, as in the creases of my nose and on my upper lip. My...