In my experience they are no miracle. I've been on Yasmin and it helped a little, now I'm on Desogen. Ortho Tri Lo was awful for my skin.
All in all I've done much better with topicals and spironolactone.

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In my experience they are no miracle. I've been on Yasmin and it helped a little, now I'm on Desogen. Ortho Tri Lo was awful for my skin.
All in all I've done much better with topicals and spironolactone.

What topicals have you used and what is spironolactone? I've used tazorac which helped after I went through the redness and peeling stages. I still get flaky from those topical things but flakes are better than gross zits. It's funny that I have this problem so severely in my early 30's. My kids took my body, and my face!!!!! UGH!! Thanks for your help! Let me know if you found anything that had a big impact. I know I make things worse by picking and popping when I know I should just leave it alone. I'm working on that issue right now.