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Week 17 – 2 and a half weeks to go

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Sorry I’ve not be writing very much! I missed another week I think. This is mainly because I don’t have too much to say to be honest and I’m also snowed under with Uni work. I had my 4 month check up with my derm about 10 days ago and she prescribed me another month of [...]

Week 15 – It’s finally working!!!

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Well….it has taken 15 1/2 weeks but Roac is FINALLY working for me and I couldn’t be happier. I only have one spot – the rest are just red marks whcih are taking what seems like an age to disappear but I don’t care as long as I don’t get any more spots in the [...]

Week 14 – Plodding on

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Sorry I’ve not posted in about 2 weeks! I’ve been a bit busy with uni work and the like. Well, my skin is still improving I think, at the moment I have 2 spots but my face is just covered in red scars…it’s so annoying! My skin looks flawless when I’m wearing makeup though, usually [...]

Week 12 – 3 month mark

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Can’t believe I’ve been on Roac for 3 months now! It’s amazing how fast it’s flown :)
Went to see the derm today. I think she’s a bit rubbish to be honest. She never even looks at my skin properly, all she does is ask me how it’s going and jots some stuff down in my [...]

Week 11 – Bloods gone wrong!!!

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Well, this week has been a bit of a palava to say the least! Had a bit of a drama getting my bloods sorted too haha. My derm told me at my last appointment that I would need to have another blood test to check everything was okay, so on Tuesday night I came how [...]

Week 10 – Felt like giving up

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

I’ve felt so much like throwing the towel in this week :( My skin is still worse than when I began on Roac and I have spots on my cheeks which is a place I never used to get spots. I used to mainly get them on my chin and round my mouth but I [...]

Week 9 – Here already??

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I can’t believe the time has passed so quickly I am now past the half way mark! Well…I say halfway mark but the derm said last week I am to be on it for another 2/3 months so I’m ALMOST half way. Well, I had a momentary freak out last week as the corner of [...]

Week 8 – Breakout

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

My skin is worse than it has been for the entire 2 months that I’ve been on roac. I seem to be getting a new spot everyday which never seemed to happen even before I went on roacc. Before roacc I would go through phases of bad skin followed by clear skin, but now it [...]

Week 7 – Relapse?

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Well…my skin is not very good at the moment – it’s probably the worst it’s been since I’ve been on the Roacc. Having read other people’s diaries I think most people tend to have a relapse of sorts between weeks 6-12 and then clear skin in the final weeks of treatment and I guess that’s [...]

Week 6 – “Where’s your acne?”

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Hello boys and girls, well not much to report on really. My nose has been really sore inside for about the past 2 weeks, and I have my fingers crossed that this doesn’t result in nosebleeds in the future…..as that would be really embarassing right in the middle of a lecture…
Things aren’t too bad on [...]