Absorica Day 22

My chin is revolting and a lot of other little pimples are popping up. My chin is finally starting to heal though so I feel better about it. My hair is still doing pretty great. My lips hurt like crazy though. It's gotten better since like last Thursday or so but geeze! I have all of this now: aquaphor, Dr. Dan’s, Blistex medicated balm, Blistex medicated ointment (this kinda burns), Blistex cold & allergy (I found it in my makeup bag lol), Rosebud salve, Bag Balm (this stinks but I kinda like it), Vaseline Lip Therapy, Carmex (OW holy hell this hurt!), Olive lips, Chapstick 8 hour moisture, just plain neosporin and triple antibiotic ointment. I'm a wee bit desperate. I will say that Dr Dan's and aquaphor are still the best combo but they work best together for me.

Oh and I switched from using cetaphil to wash my face to using Innisfree Green Tea Cleansing Oil. I washed my face and it did NOT feel tight right after I dried it off. It was amazing and I'm in love. Oil cleansing is the way to go on accutane for sure! Anyway enough of my rambling here are my updated photos.

Absorica Day 15

     Hello initial breakout! feel free to leave my face any time now. I think breaking out around your nose and mouth are the worst places and that's exactly where I'm so so broke out right now. I woke up this morning with a huge under the skin cyst that's just a hard knot on my chin. I can't even see it just feel it. Also-swelling. Oh em gee this morning was the first time I woke up swollen and it is not pretty. You can see that in the pictures:( 
   
    The corners of my mouth can't get enough moisture even with cortibalm and aquaphor and are cracked right now and my lips look like they want to peel. I've went from washing my hair every day to every other day now and it's still a bit itchy and flaky. I'm using a keratin shampoo and conditioner along with Moroccan oil. I'd never used the oil on my scalp before but i did today and it seems to be helping.

   My eyes have gotten pretty dry too. I wear my contacts every other day now to give them a bit of a break. Eye drops and eye gel drops help a lot at night. But anyway here's my progress photos. Yikes.

Absorica Day 9

     So today I am on Day 9 of my treatment and I'm pretty impressed with the improvements. I had a few break outs pop up on my cheeks, one cyst on my chin and one really aggravating on the small part of the bottom of my nostril. The ones on my cheeks were gone in about 3 days. Yes I popped them when they got a white head and I've had no scarring. The cyst on my chin came up Saturday night and by Sunday night I was able to extract it which never happens with a cyst. I've got a little bump left there now but it's most healed. Yesterday I could feel a painful one coming up just by my upper lip :( Not as painful today though.

     I've noticed around 3 pm I'll start to get dry around my break outs and my face will feel a little itchy. I have a rose water and aloe spray I'll use and it helps a little. If it's a really dry area like my chin I'll tap aquaphor on in it and it feels much better. After I take off my makeup and wash my face though-holy moly is my face dry. I'm taking a huge dollop of cerave and 3 or 4 drops of jojoba oil and moisturizing with that. I usually re-apply cerave at night before I go to bed. I'm showering at night now so I don't have to wash my face in the morning, it's just too dry after that. The deep moisturizing from the night before leaves my skin perfect in the morning.

   Right now I'm not having to use my dermablend just Tarte's tinted moisturizer. I'm so happy about this, it's been so long since I didn't need major coverage. 

   My hands are usually a bit dry so I haven't noticed any differences there but oh my goodness my feet are crazy dry-but soft at the same time? so weird. I've started putting aquaphor on them at night under socks and they're doing much better.

  The sun sensitivity is no joke. Saturday around 10:30/11 I went out and washed my car in partial shade and full sunlight. No sunscreen. Ha I was out for 30-45 minutes and my face was pink when I came back in. I had an outdoor wedding later that day to attend and used SPF 70 on all exposed skin and had no issues. At said wedding I learned why alcohol and this don't mix. I took my pill when I got home around 12. I had one beer at 6:30 pm, another at 8 pm and lots of water. I felt perfectly fine but the next day when I woke up I had all the yuck feelings of a hangover for about 2 hours but I was never drunk. So I do believe my love of beer will be taking the back burner for the next 6 months. Good bye dos xx I love and miss you.

  Now for some update pictures. I took these last night after taking off my makeup and I'm pretty happy with the way things are progressing.

Left side

Front

Right Side