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 22, 2002
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
5:24 PM (Pacific)
Well, I started on Yasmin last Sunday, making it 3 pills thus far.
I'll have to say, there is a lot of improvement...much, much fewer clogged pores, and smaller clogs. Not 100% clear, but hey, I'd given up hope of that a long time ago.
I had some menstrual-like cramps yesterday pretty badly...which I'm guessing is from this pill. But nothing today. I'd still choose Ortho Tricyclen over this...O.T. made me gain only 3 lbs. It's hard to say but I feel more bloated with this pill than with O.T. ...as I say, it's hard to say. When you go through so many different pills, it's hard to say anymore which is doing what.
No PMS feelings...not much nausea either (less than with O.T.--I can go without breakfast without feeling sick). I'm not sure about the weight gain though.
Well...it's hard to keep jumping up and down with excitement...so many things...even birth control pills, from what I've read...start out working fine, then stop working, re acne.
Oh yeah, I heard back from the progesterone cream people...they said that using progesterone cream should *not* interfere with birth control pills. Makes sense. I'm waiting though...the cream is close to $20 a pop, and I'm just starting out using this pill. If the pill, Differin, and clindamycin phosphate work out fine, then I won't need the cream...I'm already fed up, using so many different things.
*whew* The thing with using Differin alone (without the right birth control pill), it doesn't work. Since it works only on the surface, you still need to do something to reduce the number of clogged pores to begin with. Half of the disfiguring aspect of acne, are the clogs *before* they come to the surface.
I was using more and more Differin...which, again, does not work. It merely destroys your skin, it can't reduce the number of clogged pores.
