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Adult Acne Blog - 2002
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nurse, nutritionist, herbalist, or otherwise medically trained person.
I am an ordinary person who has suffered from adult acne since 1995 and have found no solution to my acne through conventional medicine.
May 10, 2002
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
6:39 PM (Pacific)
All righty...I get to try "Yasmin" birth control pills, starting the Sunday after next Sunday. As it turns out, "Yasmin" (by Berlex Laboratories) was introduced last year and hyped as a treatment for acne. Whoopee!
The progestin in Yasmin is not one of the three named on the Oprah Winfrey site, it's yet another...patented by Berlex Laboratories, I take it...well anything has got to be better than this Tri Levelen stuff.
Bleh...they made me finish out the month of Tri Levelen first. I'm starting to truly loathe this stuff, it's made me put on weight like crazy and also made me lethargic...which I hate, hate, hate. I need energy...I need to be always doing something. And yes my acne has come back...it's similar to say, the first five weeks of Differin under Ortho Tricyclen, before the Differin actually kicked in...lots and lots of clogged pores and pimples, but not as bad as with nothing at all.
*sigh*
I actually feel more positive about this new pill, because it finally makes some sense. You have to do something hormonal, to correct something hormonal. Otherwise all you're doing is treating on the surface...and there's nothing that perfectly treats on the surface, that is not possible. Combining a good Pill (like Ortho Tricyclen) with a good surface treatment (like Differin) is as close to perfection, I believe, as anything you'll find.
Bleh! the derm's office kept trying to push an internal antibiotic as the next treatment (they didn't suggest about the birth control pill...then, they might not be aware that the HMO has axed Ortho...but shouldn't they know? it seems to me the birth control pill is the first place to check). I don't want to take it. I mean, I've had this stupid acne since the last half of 1995, that's almost 7 years already, with no sign of quitting in sight. How long can you keep taking antibiotics? Plus, all the side effects. As I say, I don't want to do it.
After that it would be Accutane...that great last-ditch effort treatment. The only few things I've read about Accutane...it permanently shrinks your oil glands. You can't get pregnant while on the treatment (which is 3 months I think) because the fetus would be deformed. Yipe! Reviews of Accutane have been mixed; some love it, some are eh about it, some felt it caused them other problems like depression...a permanent problem with depression. I'm not jumping up and down to try Accutane.
Heh heh...my friend said that it would stop, suddenly...as suddenly as it appeared...and then I would get super dry skin. Like I care. Dry skin, all you do is get a good moisturizer and mix jojoba oil into it and slap it on.
Well anyway, nothing new to report until I start on Yasmin...so...signing off.
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