I have been backwards and forwards with teen DD to the GP for well over a year now with her skin-she was given a cream for several months which didn’t do much, oral antibiotics which cleared it up well but then the GP stopped them as her skin was clear. After 6 months of just using the cream, the acne came back, so they gave her the oral antibiotics again which haven’t worked. She’s now trying those and a different cream-it’s still bad.
Throughout all this, the GP has said that she may ultimately need the pill-this is no great surprise as is pretty much what happened to me as a teen.
Over lockdown, her periods have been getting heavy and long and obviously skin worse, so she has a phone consultation last week to ask if she could try the pill. The GP (not the one from before) agreed, we had to phone in her blood pressure and they sent the prescription to the pharmacy. On collecting it, I see they’ve prescribed the progesterone only pill? I had this in my twenties and it made my skin worse! On googling it, it seems to be the oestrogen in the combined pill that helps with acne, so why would they prescribe this one??
We are now waiting for yet another callback from the GP, but I wondered if anyone had experienced this before?