Should I continue or should I stop? You can see some smooth surfaces on my faces but the rest is like flaky dead skin and I don’t want to rub it off to cause irritation.. am I still purging ?
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Retin A can be very helpful for sebaceous hyperplasia. Retin A help "calm down" and shrink the sebaceous glands but it does not eliminate them. Therefor, once the retin A is stopped the sebaceous glands will probably return to their pre-treatment size.
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Continue to use the product. What is happening is the tretinoin is bringing the damage closer to the surface, so it is becoming more visible to the naked eye. Eventually, the pigment will fade as the skin exfoliates. Your damage was light to begin with, which means it was deeper in the...
John Philip Connors III, MD - Account Suspended says:
Hi! Thank you for your question. You are definitely on the right track to great skin using a Retin-A every day! It can, as you mentioned, be a bit drying causing the need for a good moisturizer. There are a couple that we recommend to our patients at our Practice. Depending on the type of m...
