0.1% Tretinoin Fucks me up

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I have shit acne scarring and I’ve been consistent with tretinoin but it just makes my face more inflamed and dry. Would accutane be a better substitution or anything else? I don’t eat sugar or processed foods and I can’t get anything crazy since I live w strict parents.
 
I have shit acne scarring and I’ve been consistent with tretinoin but it just makes my face more inflamed and dry. Would accutane be a better substitution or anything else? I don’t eat sugar or processed foods and I can’t get anything crazy since I live w strict parents.
Just cut the coped bro. Accutane is THE WAY, it will literally change ur life so stop wasting time and hop on trust me brah
 
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Just cut the coped bro. Accutane is THE WAY, it will literally change ur life so stop wasting time and hop on trust me brah
Ty, I know there are side effects tho, how bad are they?
 
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Ty, I know there are side effects tho, how bad are they?
I am currently on 20mg and I only got dry lips and a little dry skin. It depends from person to person but don’t let urself get brainwashed from the fearmongering on accutane. It is so fucking worth it. I nearly wrote the exact same thread as u a few months ago lmao, so I can really feel what ur going through
 
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I am currently on 20mg and I only got dry lips and a little dry skin. It depends from person to person but don’t let urself get brainwashed from the fearmongering on accutane. It is so fucking worth it. I nearly wrote the exact same thread as u a few months ago lmao, so I can really feel what ur going through
Dude thank you so much I’ll try to get on accutane asap
 
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fix ur gut health itll fix ur skin
 
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lower % of tret, but yeah accutane is better
 
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All the people saying accutane is better are retarded it doesnt do anything for acne scars its great for acne though.

Also how tf does tret make your face inflamed? Are you burning yourself with the tret lol. How many times do you use tret?

For dryness just use moisturizer

And like the other guy said lower the tret %
 
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I am currently on 20mg and I only got dry lips and a little dry skin. It depends from person to person but don’t let urself get brainwashed from the fearmongering on accutane. It is so fucking worth it. I nearly wrote the exact same thread as u a few months ago lmao, so I can really feel what ur going through
notice any changes on your nose?
 
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I have shit acne scarring and I’ve been consistent with tretinoin but it just makes my face more inflamed and dry. Would accutane be a better substitution or anything else? I don’t eat sugar or processed foods and I can’t get anything crazy since I live w strict parents.
Holy dose
 
All the people saying accutane is better are retarded it doesnt do anything for acne scars its great for acne though.

Also how tf does tret make your face inflamed? Are you burning yourself with the tret lol. How many times do you use tret?

For dryness just use moisturizer

And like the other guy said lower the tret %

I usually put tret before bed every night but my face got so dry and red I started doing every other day but it still continued so I started using it much less. Every morning I wake up dry asl and even after moisturizer, an hour later my face starts to peel again.

I think I have 0.25% at my house so I’ll start to use that instead of the 0.1%. Is there anything I could do for my black heads as well?
 
Diet plus tret mogs Jew-cutane to the grave cause of the less sides
 
I usually put tret before bed every night but my face got so dry and red I started doing every other day but it still continued so I started using it much less.
Yea bro you used it way too much using it everyday at 0.1% you def burned your skin, you're supposed to only use it once a week when you first start and you shouldn't start at 0.1%

Every morning I wake up dry asl and even after moisturizer, an hour later my face starts to peel again.
Your moisturizer is probably bad if you moisturize at night you shouldn't wake up dry try to get a really thick moisturizer and if you're using tret gel I would switch to the cream version, i switched from gel to cream and now I don't need to use moisturizer anymore.

anything I could do for my black heads as well?
Get one of those pimple popping tools on amazon with the circular tip and put hot water on your nose to loosen the blackheads then just pop all the blackheads with the tool. don't worry about damaging the skin since popping black heads isnt the same as acne and its the only way to get rid of them since they are pretty much just hardened dead skin and sebum in your nose pores and then just cleanse your nose everyday and apply tret to nose. The cleanser will make sure sebum and deadskin cells wont build up in the pores anymore and tret stops the production of sebum
 
Diet plus tret mogs Jew-cutane to the grave cause of the less sides
in terms of diet, I eat organic foods and whole wheat stuff in hopes of my acne scars being less inflamed. No fast food or school lunch I try to eat as healthy as possible.
 
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You can do both (stay low on accu). I doubt you were prescribed the .1% but if you want id recommend buy a lower %. Shit gets easier w time.
 
Tazarotene 0.1 is better and people tipically tolerate it much better but if u alr dont tolerate it well i would start at 0.5
 
I have shit acne scarring and I’ve been consistent with tretinoin but it just makes my face more inflamed and dry. Would accutane be a better substitution or anything else? I don’t eat sugar or processed foods and I can’t get anything crazy since I live w strict parents.
accutane is the bst thing to get rid of acne, i would hop on if i was u
 

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