Differin/Adapalene is making me breakout

[ibetucnt]

1 week using Differin/Adapalene 0.1% every night

I'm starting to break out

Is this fucking normal ?

 

[Jones]

Sound like you might be 'purging'. Plenty of anecdotal evidence of this when people starting using retinoids.

"Tretinoin works by increasing the rate at which your body produces new skin by speeding up the skin cell turnover process. When you use tretinoin, new skin cells travel from the inner layers of epidermis up to the surface at a faster rate, giving your skin a fresher appearance.

Over the long term, this is a good thing -- a faster skin cell turnover rate means fresher skin and fewer blemishes, as well as a reduction in acne. However, in the short term it can lead to acne breakouts, dryness, skin peeling and a range of other frustrating temporary effects.

These unwanted effects -- particularly skin dryness and acne breakouts -- are widely referred to as a “purge.” While they don’t affect everyone, many tretinoin users experience some degree of purge effects during the first few weeks of treatment."

 

[ibetucnt]

My pimples leave scares, so I can't afford to break out a lot

I guess I'll have to stop using it and go back to benzoyle peroxide which worked very good on my acne

 

[Deleted member 2933]

U r going to ascend op

 

[Slayercel]

Purge

 

[Peachy]

I've been using .3% adapalene for 7 weeks now. I had the worst breakouts ever. Just like you, my acne leaves scars. In my case it's red PIE scars, but after the pimple is completely gone, the scar slowly fades away if you keep applying adapalene there. My issue is that most of my acne is caused by tiny microscopic closed comedones getting inflamed and blowing up in size, turning into small cysts. In the long run it will be a great investment into your face. It made me feel really depressed, and still does sometimes.