Despite the title of this post, I have had a rather shitty afternoon :-/
In terms of dryness, I haven’t really had any! Which I’m rather happy about. This could be because I am slathering my face with E45 morning, noon, and night, and my lips with carmex every hour of the day. Both of the products seem to be working excellently, although I do feel a little slimey sometimes! My lips actually feel incredibly soft right now, but we shall see if I have that to say this time next week!
Actually, I did feel a bit strange the other day when I was washing my face, because it just didn’t feel like MY face that I was washing, if you know what I mean? It felt sort of..tighter than it should. Oh well.
So..SPOT UPDATE!
I, like many others, have began to undergo the strange phenomenom that is symmetrical spots! It seems whenever I break out recently it will be on the same opposite sides of face (oh well, at least I match heh). I currently have a few on either side of my neck just below my jaw line, two which are almost gone now at the corners of my lips and two that have just come up on either cheek! Which is most annoying as I never get spot on my cheeks, they are almost always around my T zone and clear skin everywhere else.
Alcohol…
Being the lazy, scruffy, poor student that I am, I like to participate in a spot of, er, drinking every now and then…The idea of me giving up alcohol completely was never looking likely really. I’ve tried to research into this as much as possible, my derm didn’t say “Mind what you drink” when he prescribed me the Roac last week, it doesn’t say anything about not drinking on the information leaflet! I went out on Friday, 3 days after starting the treatment and drank the same amount as usual. I didn’t feel any more drunker that I would normally but I’m guessing this is because I am only on 20mg a day for the first 2 weeks. I will continue to experiment.
Today I fell into a bit of a bad mood after I left the office I’m at this week for work experience. Ended up having an argument with my mum on the phone about pjyamas of all things (she caught me at a bad time!). Then when I got back I went to bed for what was meant to be a half an hour nap - i woke up an hour and a half later to my cat having what I can only describe as an epiliptic fit! She was making a sneezing sound over and over and breathing fast, jolting everywhere. I started to panic because I thought she was dying and I ran downstairs to grab my brother. Turns out she had a piece of bloody grass stuck up her nose and was trying to get it out! Stupid cat.
I just KNOW i’m going to be overly emotional these next 15 weeks. I’m a crier anyway, and I think these drugs are just going to push me over the edge over the smallest and silliest of things.
Phew that was long! Feels so good to get it all out even if it’s so long that nobody reads! I am looking forward to seeing week 2 roll on and hopefully seeing some more side effects. Good luck everyone!
Ali x
