Skin worse after using Dermatica

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I am in my early 30s and have been using Dermatica for just over a month. It has made my skin worse. I joined because I get hormonal acne cysts on my chin but the rest of my face was clear. They prescribed Adapalene with Niacinamide and at first it wasn’t too bad but after about 3 weeks, I had broken out on my forehead and cheeks with little red spots and redness. I’ve stopped using their cream now and have gone back to my old routine but my skin is still getting worse.

I told them at my review about the side effects and they said it was normal and I should moisturise more often to protect my skin barrier (I was already doing this.) Now I feel very disappointed and worried that my skin has been triggered by the cream and I’ll have these problems long term.

Does anyone have any advice?

@FormerlyPathologicallyHappy I had no idea, never ever had I heard that GPs have to pay for referrals. Talk about murking the waters! This alone explains a lot.

Have you been to a really good facialist/skin therapist? Mine has worked wonders on my sisters acne with mesoestetic products and micro needling.

Yep they pay a ref fee to hospitals & to other services like physio.

Whole system is bat-shit but the Dr's told Nye Bevan the NHS would not work as a business model and he ploughed on regardless.

It's the only profession where you can have so much training, be negligent, contribute to a patients death and then say "well any other dr would have done the same". That just means their phoning it in too. It's a race to the bottom.

I wish just one hospital dept would say right that's it, drs work 30hrs a week over 3 days and that's fixed. No long shifts day after day. Treat them like airline pilots or HGV drivers. Fixed periods of time off. The motorways would be death traps if hgv drivers worked the hours a hosp dr does. I bet the clinical outcomes would improve if they did.