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My dermatologist prescribed Ziana at bedtime and Duac gel in the morning for my neck, saying i got folliculitis from improper shaving technique. it seemed to work in the beginning and got rid of the raised pimples, but then about a week into therapy my skin got really really red and it hurts like hell. It looks like a burn. I stopped the duac and continued with ziana, with no improvement. Im going to the dermatologist again, since it doesnt seem to heal, it sucks :(

Been using this every night for the past 5 weeks. In the morning i would use a prescribed benzoyl peroxide faace wash..I believe 10%. and cetaphil and ziana at night. This combination of remedies did nothing for my skin. I find it to be worse then proactiv..which clears my skin somewhat..bu never 100%. This stuff did absolutely nothing for my skin, it gave me so many new pimples, my face has never been worse. I've had better results not washing my face for a week. ...seriously.

going back to the dermatologist this week to talk things over...hopefully she will give me something that actually works...cause the ziana stuff isn't cheap

I am using Ziana now going on week 2... All I can say is that my face is in such bad shape now since I have been using it... I know that getting worse before better is true and I dont mind that it is bringing all the ence out of my skin even more.. I want to get rid of it.. but my skin is pealing really really bad.. it is just coming off in sheets and it burns.. I am an aerobics instructor so everytime I teach and sweat it burns even more.. I am going to try using it every OTHER night and see if it helps because it is bad! :(

I've been using ziana for almost 3 months now and my skin is spotless! It hasnt been clear like this in over four years! I have to admit i was discouraged at first because i was impatient to see results. But it does work when used properly. Apply it EVERYNIGHT for at least 3 months before you can critisize this product. It has worked wonders for me!

I have been using ziana off and on for about three weeks now. I can't say iam in love with it, yet i realize what it is doing in regards to my skin. At first Ziana brought out alot of my pimples that were below the surface of my skin, yet at the same time it quickly healed the existing ones that i previously had. The thing that im hitting my self about is that i stopped using it for about 6 days because it was making me really red ( which i found out was my moisturizer in combination with ziana) and scale bu now i know that you have to keep using every night, even if your red or flaky because the weeks end results are really good. Iam aloso taking doxycycline and duac gel in the morning so my results may be different to yours, but i do reccomend this.

my dermatologist recently prescribed me ZIANA, a combination gel of clindamycin phosphate and tretinoin. I have been on it for 5 weeks, as well as benzol peroxide pads in the morning and Solodyn pills. I know these kinds of things take up to 8 weeks to see results, and when i was previously on Retin-A-micro, it took about 10 weeks to see results. (but then later it stopped working, prompting the switch to ZIANA). So far it is a little better, but i think i need to wait a few more weeks before i get discouraged. I think the incredible heat and humidity where i live might be making it hard for all the medicines to be successful. I will update on how it goes. ZIANA is a very new prescription just recently having been approved so i dont think many other people are using it yet.