AI made acne worse!

[lukiss96]

How does it work, could you elaborate? Is it in connection with transitioning from blast to cruise?

Whenever I feel that acne breakouts are getting out of control. It used to be during transition, now it just happens randomly regardless of the dose few times per year, I would even say seasonally more so than hormone related, so that's why I need low dose roaccutane twice per year.

 

[ngolo28999]

Whenever I feel that acne breakouts are getting out of control. It used to be during transition, now it just happens randomly regardless of the dose few times per year, I would even say seasonally more so than hormone related, so that's why I need low dose roaccutane twice per year.

I thought accutane had to be build up in the system, to work optimally. Don’t you get the purge before it getting better? What doses do you run?

 

[lukiss96]

What doses do you run?

Isotretinoin 20mg/day for 3 weeks twice per year

 

[mrdarkley]

I have had the same issue, im stable with my blasts and cruises but once i come of a blast i get heavy outbreaks on my shoulders, my back for some reason stays clear, its always my shoulders and like 2 on the back or something.

Currently im on a blast and i had to take Aromasin and you guessed it i got a heavy outbreak from it so it messed up with my test obviously.

Currently im taking 20mg of accutane per day and its drying out my skin a but but i hopen it gets rit of the acne. I also stopped the Aromasin since i see in the bloodwork everything is stable again after taking it for 5 weeks now. The Aromasin had some negative effects on me and i hope by not taking it i will get some more energy again and that the acne also reduses (also with the help of accutane)

 

[Liter O' Test]

I have had the same issue, im stable with my blasts and cruises but once i come of a blast i get heavy outbreaks on my shoulders, my back for some reason stays clear, its always my shoulders and like 2 on the back or something.

Currently im on a blast and i had to take Aromasin and you guessed it i got a heavy outbreak from it so it messed up with my test obviously.

Currently im taking 20mg of accutane per day and its drying out my skin a but but i hopen it gets rit of the acne. I also stopped the Aromasin since i see in the bloodwork everything is stable again after taking it for 5 weeks now. The Aromasin had some negative effects on me and i hope by not taking it i will get some more energy again and that the acne also reduses (also with the help of accutane)

i think everyone should try adex, asin caught on a few years ago and everyone started using it cause its the latest gen but i dont think its ideal

 

[ngolo28999]

My acne has significantly improved since I started taking Arimidex. I've been consistent with the treatment since the outbreak, and now my skin has cleared up.

 

[mrdarkley]

My acne has significantly improved since I started taking Arimidex. I've been consistent with the treatment since the outbreak, and now my skin has cleared up.

Nice how long did it take untill it cleared up?

 

[mrdarkley]

i think everyone should try adex, asin caught on a few years ago and everyone started using it cause its the latest gen but i dont think its ideal

Actually gonna give that a go if i need to grab an AI again. Thanks for the tip ^^

 

[ngolo28999]

took about 2 weeks for the outbreak to subside, been smooth ever since, apart from a few zits.

 

[Toadie45]

It's because changes in Testosterone levels cause acne.

Sebaceous glands produce skin oils and waxes (sebum). Sebum collects inside sebacytes(specialized cells) within your pores. As new cells are produced, they push existing oil filled sebacytes to the surface of your skin(called "turnover") where they break open and spill their contents, moisturizing skin.

A sudden increase in Testosterone stimulates sebaceous glands to produce more sebum, but cell turnover doesn't immediately speed up, so pores become clogged with oil filed cells, they break open and decompose within the pore, causing an infection.

When Testosterone levels drop, cell turnover slows before oil production does, so the same problem happens.

The way to minimize this is to keep things stable. Eventually cell turnover speeds up enough to match increased oil production.

Knowing you're prone to this, whenever doing anything that can impact your hormone levels, be extra diligent cleansing your skin with salicylic acid body wash for the first couple of weeks. If it's really bad, 100mg doxycycline taken daily for a couple weeks at the same time you make the change can prevent it.

That’s an awesome post, thank you lots of good info packed in there!

 

[Toadie45]

Indeed it's the titration steps usually or the change of hormone that seems to trigger it.

I like chase irons thoughts/approach to blast/cruising. You start at trt dose to shut down hpta and get your body used to exogenous AAS. While traing and clean bulking or recomping you titrate up 50mg/wk when you stall or every 6 weeks or so. Your body multiplies androgen receptors and gets used to the current dose and you step up very incrementally over a long period of time. This keeps the large jump or titrations from shocking the system downstream as it aromatizes. I think if a person has heavy sides using this method at a given test dose then they're taking too much for their body to properly use for muscle protein synthesis and instead too much is aromatized into non ideal metabolites.

Is this this the best strategy for starting a first cycle? Doing 50mg to start?