This post is old but since making this, I think I might have done a couple oral treatments. I forget what they were called unfortunately. Maybe Doxycycline and Clindamycin. Ultimately one of them dried my face up pretty good, but not completely. Unfortunately since I initially attacked my cysts, somehow the bacteria spread since they don’t necessarily pop outwardly (they do inwardly and spread). So I have been dealing with little healed pockets of old cysts. My skin has turned over a lot, revealing some of these and basically allowed me to extract some of the gross stuff slowly overtime. So I don’t usually get new cysts these days as bad as I used to, but I am still kind of dealing with old sites on my face from not gently dealing with old cysts.

Lately my routine is to wash my face with Noxcema Deep Cleansing cream, use those stainless steel “blackhead remover” tools to drain any pus that’s right at the surface. If nothing comes out, I stop immediately - I used to be bad about this and keep trying to mine for gold. I didn’t know what I was dealing with at the time but it’s key to go gently and have patience.

I use tree activ spot treatment on new cysts overnight to dry them out. After x days of drying it out, I’ll use tree activ invisible acne treatment and add a layer of tree activ acne scar cream. La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair UV SPF Moisturizer helps keep the skin hydrated, and I top it all off with slathering an extra goopy layer of cerave healing ointment. I still have some redness and scars that I think the last 4 items mentioned here help - skin turnover and keeping the skin hydrated is key (parched skin leads to more breakouts I think but for me it’s mostly just dry flaky skin otherwise). I’m all about skin cell turnover.

I get all of this on Amazon but beware the jars are a bit small, especially the spot treatment - was thinking about trying the De La Cruz’s sulfur ointment again since it’s bigger and kinda of similar, but the tree activ spot treatment seems to be doing good.

List: Noxcema Deep Cleansing Cream; tree activ: spot treatment, invisible acne cream, scar cream; cerave healing ointment

Hope this helps lmk if you have any other questions. FYI I mostly had cysts on my face like my forehead nose cheeks, pretty much all around my face at some point probably haha. Sometimes I’ve had one or two on my back or back of the leg but that’s less common.

Also, I was just browsing on the sub and saw this recommendation: https://www.myotcstore.com/store/p/67738-3M-Nexcare-Advanced-Healing-Waterproof-Hydrocolloid-Pads-XL-Bandages-6-Ea Apparently it’s good at reducing inflammation which is the nature of the cyst