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[quote=Anonymous]go to www.acne.org. Read. You don't need to buy the exact products he is selling, but take them as suggestions. His approach might work for your DD. I would try it before asking a doctor to pump drugs into her.

My history:
painful cystic acne on my back starting in middle school. Benzoyl peroxide helped some, but bleached out my shirts, towels, sheets.... The active ingredient in ProActive is benzoyl peroxide, so be careful with it.

Dermatologist put me on tetracycline, Retin-A, and Cleocin T liquid. Helped some, but didn't clear it up. Switched to minocycline. Still not clear. FWIW, he was the department head at a leading med school teaching hospital, so not exactly a quack.

In college I went on Accutane. Cleared it up for about five years. Then it came back with a vengeance.

Side effects of years of antibiotics? Ravaged my digestive tract. Twenty years later and I'm still trying to repair it.

Side effect of Accutane? Luckily no birth defects, but depression.

What has finally worked for me (and without nasty side effects):
Switched to Dove sensitive body wash, Neutrogena liquid soap on my face with a Clarisonic gentle/sensitive brush. Rinse really well. Use an alpha-hydroxy gel on face and back. Cetaphil lotion on my face during the day, coconut oil at night. Burts Bees acne cream where my sunglasses rest on my cheekbones and around my nose if I have a cold/allergies.
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