New here...Doxy and more

[ash8752]

Hey Bella- I hope your skin clears up. It is so stressful especially when we sit here and put all these pills in out bodies! I am hoping that with the wash, gel and retin-a my skin might not have an innitial bad break out. Hopefully it will just get better ya know! Are you using anything else besides the Doxy and bc?

[BellaPc]

K this is what I am currently doing Taking doxycycline 100mg twice a day washing morning and night with Ovace face wash perscribed by my derm it is a 10% Sodium Sulfacetamide wash and finally twice a day applying benzaclin. Then on top of that taking desogen (bcp) but I just finished my last pill back of desogen and I am getting yasmin today and starting it sunday and he said the yasmin should help? I hope soo I go back to school monday and i'm in my jr year of college and my face looks worse then it has ever been and I am forced to wear makeup for the first time in my life and I dread it :-( I'm soo not a makeup girl never in my life I have ever needed cover up foundation the breakouts I would get would be mild but persistant I've been seeing the derm since 8th grade on and off due to all the breakouts then this past june my face went crazy! So I am just going to continue counting down the days until I get my first perscription of accutane :-) cover up can only do soo much...

[ash8752]

I am the same way. I dont wear makeup. BUT if you have to i recommend something like bare minerals or whatever it is called. I guess it works wonders and is so light and unnoticable. My friend uses it and she will never go back to liquid or anything else. It's the stuff on the infomercials.

I am currently on Doxycycline 100mg 2x a day, then he prescribed a wash for me to use in the morning and after work, then a gel for the morning (to apply to active areas) and retin-a at night. So far they all seem gentle on my skin which is good. I HOPE IT WORKS!!! I am 24 and find this all so embarassing!!!

I hope the bc switch helps you, but be aware, that if it is for sex protection too it will weaken the effects.

I am on the depoprovera shot. Love it!

[BellaPc]

Yea I am 20 soon to be turning 21 and everything has been downhill for me so I start Yasmin this sunday sooo I will let you know how it goes.... and how the doxy is working... Good Luck with everything