[Advice][Serious] To those who are looking to improve their skin and acnes

This is decent advice. It's what I did about a year ago when I set out to treat my mild acne. But I ran into some problems. I initially bought a bunch of basic products, a lot of the ones you mentioned. And they did kind of work. For a little while. I noticed that after a while the products weren't really doing anything for me anymore, and my progess had stagnated. I eventually even started breaking out again, despite my use of the prodcuts. So in a panic I started buying tons of different topical products over the course of the next six or so months in hopes that I would find something that would help. All the same result. They would help very little, then they wouldn't help at all. My breaking point was sometime over this past summer. I was breaking out again worse than ever for some reason. It didn't make any sense, and I felt like such shit. But in August I finally found my solution. I went in to see my mom's dermatologist, and he prescribed something for me an antibiotic called doxycycline hyclate. I was to take 200mg a day, 100mg in the morning with food and 100mg in the night with food. He also got me on some topicals that actually worked: Aczone and an adapalene cream. Now, about five months later, I'm no longer on the pills, but I'm still doing the topicals, and I've had so much progress. I haven't broke out in five months, and I'm looking so much better. In another few months, I feel like I'll finally be free of acne.

So I guess the point of it all is this: if you've got acne and find that the products you can buy in a store aren't working for you, go see a dermatologist if you can. They're so helpful, and mine pretty much saved my life. It'll be one of the best decisions you've ever made.

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