Isotrexin : Erythromycin (2%) and Tretinoin (.05%) Gel

different people dfferent pros and cons. for me its worth using because i have painful infected pustules, i went on roaccutane tablets and i went through DEPRESSION and my eyes are always dry now, plus my problem is hormonal so im gettin spots again!

i've been on loads of different perscribed acne medications over the past 3 years and isotrexin is by far the best, but only when used with a tablet (in my case doxycycline) when i got my isotrexin a few months back i had been on doxycycline for a couple of months, which had brought out all the rubbish from my pores and made my face look like a warzone combined with the isotrexin, it calmed down the spots, whilst the tablet cleaned up i'm still on it and only getting no new spots cropping up

I've been looking into using isotrexin. I don't know anyone that has used it. Does any one know if it is available in Canada? And if drug plans cove it?

so, indeed it really works( at least for me)...but it takes time and patience (like most of us mentioned)...and it's hard when you see at first noo results and after a month still no results and you kind of start to doubt...personally i saw the first results in like 6 weeks and more than 2 months for the greatest results i've had with any other product!

I'm using it for a week and three days. Too early to come to a conclusion, since my dermatologist told me I won't see any results before 6 weeks. My case is maybe a little different. I've no acne all over my face. I have a single cyst on my right cheek. This thing appeared out of the blue and has been there for almost two months really messing with my nerves. The doctor told me it was a acne cyst. Ok, so far, a week after initializing the treatment, the area is reddish and started to peel. I'll be persistent and I'll use this at least for 3 months. Lets hope it works!! I'll be back to share my experience. Until that, good luck to you all.

Great product but you need to be dedicated to completely cleaning your skin in the morning otherwise the skin it has peeled away will just clog your pores even more. I was prescribed it in combination with an anti-biotic so improvements in my skin may not have been totally up to the gel!

One of the better treatments used, the gel is good and unlike creams does not block the pores thus causing more spots. The tube of 30ml perscribed at £7 (NHS) does not last long, and red patches on the skin seem to occur. I think it's best to take the odd day off using isotrexin as it works better over the following days. Without doing this I have found it does not work so well and seems like the skin builds up resistance to it. The peeling is not good and it cannot be worn with make up so forget using it in the morning when you go to work! Overall seems like a good product but again as with ALL acne treatments I have used there is possibility it will stop working in 3/4 months. Compared to other treatments used I find this has the least amount of side effects i.e headaches etc. but everyone is different so this may not be the case for others.

Reccomended with use of antibiotics which shange every few months as the bacteria become resistant to it, this combination worked ok for me but accutane is the real answer for acne if this dosent work

I cant comment on the pros of this treatment too much as I have only been on it for 3 1/2 weeks now, but at first it seemed to work almost immediately and no new spots were developing. However over the last few days my skin has got worse but im hoping that if I give it time it will clear up, as many other people have said on this site. I've been on many antibiotic tablets before and tried zineryt and freederm gels and they all seem to work for a small amount of time but my GP told me that this one should clear them up and maintain them so fingers crossed!

definitely receommned as overall very good