Day 140 complete.
 I just started my last 10-day pack of month 5.
This was originally going to be my last 10 days on the medicine. My skin has improved, however not as quickly as the Derm. expected so I will be going on the medicine for another month.

I have a Derm. appt. on Thursday of this week to get the next months prescription. acording to my last visit, also looks like they are going to increase my dosage to 60mgs. but we'll see come Thursday.

Over the weekend, my family had a superbowl party and alot of friends and relative i do not see on a regular basis were there. I also had a lot of them come up to me shocked asking what i did to my face because it looks so nice.
so yes i guess it is working. but seeing my skin everyday, makes it hard to tell. I am still very red and kinda scared but hopefully all that fades in the next month.
im not breaking out much at all, right now I have a pimple on my forhead and one under my chin.. given my hair style, you cant even see it.. but i know its there! haha.
i hope within the next month to not have any (at least any that take this long to heal- still about 2 weeks)
and I hope my scaring fades even more.

all in all hearing my friends and family comment on how great my skin looks and looking back at the pictures i posted on here ( particularly the end of month 1) my skin came a long way and I am happy i decided on this treatment. I dont have to go to bed worrying about what my skin is going to look like in the morning, how many new cysts will i have how swollen my face will be etc.. its pretty consistant now and very minimum swelling. :)

still have dry patches but only using the tazorac cream (very small amount) once every other day and it seemed to help with how flakey and peeling my skin was.

next posting will have the end of month 5 pictures! and an update on my medicine dosage.