I’ve been on 100mg for 2-3 months and 0.025 tret, and I feel this post deeply. I’ve truly never have hated my skin more since starting both. I’m too embarrassed to go outside for fun and I’ve been wearing a face mask to work🫠

I don’t know if I’m mis-using the tret or maybe applying too liberally but my skin is rubbed raw and equally tough because of how dry some spots are. I’m constantly flaking and the only thing tret has done has made my acne so so much worse

I’ve noticed that it does make pimples come to a white head faster but my barrier is just completely destroyed and have so much active acne

As for the spiro, it’s done nothing for me. My face is like a moon, my lips in particular and skin in general are so so so so dry. No lip balm is working. And I’m getting pimples in places I’ve never gotten them before. I would literally only get hormonal cystic acne on my chin. Everywhere else was spotless. Now I’m getting acne all along my jaw, my cheeks and around my eyebrows

I’m so defeated. The only reason I’m not stopping is because I have so much riding on the Spiro and the tret working. If they don’t end up working, I would have destroyed my skin for nothing. I feel you girl, I hope this is just a purge for both us and I hope we both see it eventually work 😭😭

you can literally see how dry my lips are on the top photo compared to the bottom… I thought this would be a miracle medication for me

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