differin vs. retin-a micro

[jennymc41]

thanx for the replies

[eatnow]

I tried retin-a or the generic brand version, (samething really besides price) and that thing beat the living ***** out of my face. IT was completely red and hurts (not sure if i want to blame the retin-a for teh scar marks though). After like 5 weeks, it slowly started to get use to it, but even then my face still was dry and hurts. Bascially it was red a lot. I'm currently on Benzamycin in the morning sinceit wokred well for me back when i was in high school (but then i had very mild acne) and stayed on it for a while and never really had a break out but stopped using it and well ended up breaking out. Instead of going back on bezamycin i tried proactiv, that perpetuated the problem, so i went to my derm who prescribed me retin-a then i tried it with doxycyline 3 months later adn it still didn't work. So long story short 6 months on retin-a and along with 3 months of doxycyline (last 3 of the 6months i took doxycycline along with retin-a). Ya, lets just say, taking doxycycline along with retin-a makes your face even MORE red. But i'm currently back on benzamycin for aobut 4 months and it seems to be better than the retin-a/doxy combo but i'm still breaking out a bit (two pimple a week). Not big but ya, beats the pimples i was getting with ret/doxy combo. But now i'm on Differin at night (3rd day) and benzaymicin in the morning. Hopefully it'll work out.

[jenna1]

I went to the Dermatologist at the end of March and was prescribed Differin gel along with Benzaclin and I can't believe the results I've gotten in such a short time. My redness dissappeared and my breakouts are down to one pimple max a month.

[eatnow]

Originally Posted by jenna1

I went to the Dermatologist at the end of March and was prescribed Differin gel along with Benzaclin and I can't believe the results I've gotten in such a short time. My redness dissappeared and my breakouts are down to one pimple max a month.

When you say benzaclin is that benzamycin? And also do you think it was the cmbo of the two meds or just more to do with the differin or benzaclin (which i assume is a typo for benzamycin)? Also did you get the intial break out although i am aware everyone is different and some people may not get it at all, the intial break out. also, do you use differin at night and benzamycin in the morning or differin at night and benzymicin in the morning and night?
bascially:
method 1 ) differin @ night, benzamycin in the morning
method 2) differin @ night along with bezamycin and then benzamycin again in teh morning

[jenna1]

Well, I use method 2 and I feel the combo along with changing my face wash to cetaphil gentle clenser helped in improving my skin. My face was so inflamed and broken out when I went to the doctors that he prescribed minocycline, which my body couldn't tolerate so I just kept using this combo and even my doctor is amazed at how well my skin improved w/out the oral antibiotics. I never had an initial breakout - just improvement as the weeks went by.