u/Ornery-Violinist-689

differin has completely destroyed my face

can’t believe i’m even writing this, but i fell victim to differin propaganda.

I started differin on June 20th, so i’m over 3 months in. Around mid august it was purging, and never stopped. My left cheek is ruined and won’t heal. I’m getting breakout after breakout and it’s leaving a nasty splotch on my face. I have no idea what i’m doing wrong.

My right cheek is doing alright. Nowhere near as much damage, but still the occasional breakout. I originally started differin because my philtrum would get nasty pustules every other day that take forever to heal. I had used a SA acid routine for a year, then switched to panoxyl. Niether of which did anything for my skin.

I started with 3 nights, (monday, wednesday, friday) and i’ve just now bumped it up to 4. I never really had irration with differin, my face wouldn’t be red or peeling. But the breakouts have only gotten worse and won’t go away. The only thing I have been able to tell is that I have gotten far less deep cystic pimples. I get a new smaller pimple every single day though.

My routine is La roche purifying cleanser > adapalene .1% > la roche double repair moisturizer. I ofcourse use sunscreen, also la roche brand.

I’m gonna keep trying for a few months, but it’s seriously starting to take a toll on my mental health as my skin is only getting worse. If by December I don’t see any improvement i’m going to try to get to a derm to get prescribed accutane. I’m just sick and tired and it’s sending like my skin is only going to be getting worse.

The first photo is when I first started differin. Second photo is current day.

Anything advice would be appreciated

i see like more than half the books i pick being shitty ai garbage. it’s gotta be either old people or pro ai people, me personally i wouldn’t spend a dime on something that took no effort to make.

i didn’t even flip through this but i know for a fact all of the pages are also ai generated, what a waste of money

i’m guessing this is normal? i only do pick (robotics associate) and my rate is trash right now. what good am i gonna do?

And does 8-23 mean it’s gonna be on sunday? Or does it just means it’ll be sometime that week since the weeks start sunday? A-Z hasn’t updated yet.

edit: meant to say SET whoops

i’ve been having a really hard time finding out if this is a bad pimple or a cold sore. It’s been like this for FIVE days with no change. it looks and feels like just one bump, there is no cluster of blisters. however it hasn’t changed at all and really hurts. half of my lip has gone red and shriveled up, and hasn’t gone back to normal. i don’t know what to treat it as, i can’t tell if it’s a cold sore or not

it could still be a cold sore because i have hsv1. thing is, i’ve never had it on my lip before. i get cold sores inside my nose, literally in my nostril. but since it’s so close to my lip, and looks odd, i’m considering it could be a cold sore that won’t change because it’s constantly swollen. it also looks weird under the skin

excuse my yellow teeth

not asking for medical advice (don’t take this down please)

has anyone had a similar experience? my lip is half red and shriveled up. it’s been like this for five days with no end in sight

oh and it hurts A LOT

it’s been like this for three days. it is extremely painful and has made half of my upper lip red and shriveled. help pls

i’ve never had a cold sore on my lip before. i have only ever gotten them right under my nose, and this seems like one bump but i can’t say for sure. it is extremely painful rather being tingly.

yikes

crashed my car and the repair was gonna be 3180, then he has to add about 180 extra because my fan was also broken and now he’s saying i’m gonna have to pay OEM price for my radiator. Somehow the other two he tried didn’t fit or whatever. am i just getting scammed

First two slides are right now, last slide is about 3 or so weeks ago. I know it gets worse before it gets better so i’m not losing hope, but i wanna know if any of you think im purging right now, or if my skin is just getting worse. I have been on differin for about 4 or so weeks, i use the sandhwich method and i only use it on monday, wednesday, and friday.

I get lots of pustules around my mouth, and deep pimples on my chin. I just now had my cheek get like 3 deep pimples forming, and my chin is getting my bad again. I crashed my car 4 days ago, and i thought the stress was immediately breaking me out but now im starting to think im purging. That’s what I hope for atleast.