Purges really are different for everyone, but just gonna share my experience. Used stridex for the first time August 10th so about 3 weeks ago. My life has been hell since. My cheeks are a war zone and it’s so hard to see an end in sight as I wake up with 3 new pimples every morning. The only thing keeping me going is that my cheeks are where I usually break out and all other parts of my face have been clear, so this supports everything I’ve read about purging. But it’s getting really hard to look in the mirror nowadays and I really wish I never started as there really isn’t a 100% way of knowing if/when this will stop, as well as the PIH I have to deal with now.