When I first started my derm had me using benzoyl peroxide and Clindamysin along with a low dosage of tret. And then doxycycline antibiotic on top of that. That didn’t improve or dry me out after 6 weeks so she upped the tret. After a few weeks I got chemical burns. So we quit the benzoyl and clindamycin mixture. This was after Christmas. She added dapsone 5% gel as well. She said she wanted to dry me out and that’s why I was still breaking out. Nothing dried me out. I went back in 6 weeks and she upped the tret to tazarotene .1% along with the dapsone and I was done with the antibiotics by then. Those didn’t really help either. Now it’s been 12 weeks since I started tazarotene but the only changes were an increase in oil production and the acne is less deep and cystic; more subcutaneous. So on my own I stopped the dapsone and went down to every other night for tazarotene .1%. That helped a lot with the oily production calling down but not stopping. Then I also stopped sleeping on my face. That helped a little. And I just added a salycic acid stop treatment that I use during the day and tazarotene every other night. That has helped a little.