March 1st photos, just started accutane

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Week 1

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So i have ingested 4 pills now. I feel fine..no internal crazy side affects. Yesterday I started feeling outward stuff. Lips are starting to get dry, skin feels a bit tight on my face and felt warm and flushed last nite. AND...body itch...random itchiness in diff spots all over my body. Really only 2 new pimples, when I took my first pill i was virtually acne free...the one I got on my chin ITCHES!!

day two

Yesterday was my first day on accutane....here we go!!!

retin a and pills

I forgot to date these photos, but Ive been pretty consistently taking the antibiotic, and the topical benzoyl, I added the low dose retin a little over a week a go or so.  Ive done the retin a before, without much luck. I think this antibiotic might be helping the usual "intial breakout" that the retin a usually causes.

as the photos show, not much progress and a new cyst, on opposite cheek...right now as I type, isnt looking to horribly bad..I think this was like day one on retin a..

HOW?

How do I hide a post from public view?

stupid thing

I tried to comment about the acne history question..

It does run in my family, my mom has large pores and not so great skin, she has suffered from a few cysts here and there, and zits, but nothing like mine.  My half brother also has pretty bad acne...and I guess my biological dad did too, its hard to say where it came from?!

Ive basically been told by doctors that it is genentic and hormonal..and that I will prob never see relief until at least menopause.

I am also going to make my journal entries private to public for now as I want to be able to share my progress to others that I may or may not want reading my shit!!

48 hours on oral and consistent topical ..
I wanted to take some more photos with ZERO make up, in big hopes of a breath taking aha moment while on accutane..

I took pics of the dent in my face as well from the cortisone shot, I guess it could take several months to regenerate