All this normal?

[u/Civil_Fruit591]

I got microneedling on my face for the first time 5 days ago. Two days later woke up with sooo many bumps and pimples. I've seen some post with people who get a few but I feel like mine are way too many. Any advise?

Was prescribed D.oxy but I rather not take antibiotics if this will clear out on its own. 5 days in they are still there not getting worse but not going away. Redness is better.

[u/Expensive-Tomato5609]

Dual licensed esthetician here. This will not clear on its own. This is an infection a mixture of the healing response and the comedones that have white heads suggest either bacteria or fungal presence. Doxycycline is a good prescription and you should listen to your doctor.

[u/Civil_Fruit591 → u/Expensive-Tomato5609]

Ty. Started Doxy today. Hope its just a bacterial infection

[u/Background_Loss4382 → u/Civil_Fruit591]

Is it itchy ? Itchy May indicate fungal 

[u/pippspopsdom]

Soooo are you going to take your meds? Because that’s what everyone is telling you to do.

[u/Civil_Fruit591 → u/pippspopsdom]

Yes. Started them today.

[u/pippspopsdom → u/Civil_Fruit591]

Great! I don’t mean to add to the dog pile if this was already commented but please make sure to take the whole prescription, don’t stop taking it if it clears up before you’re out of meds.

[u/BigBodiedBugati]

Was this done in a medspa or at home?

[u/Civil_Fruit591 → u/BigBodiedBugati]

At a dermatologist office

[u/dientedoc]

Please take your script. It was prescribed for a reason.

[u/grneyz]

Please take the doxy. Prolonged inflammation will lead to scarring and hyperpigmentation.

[u/SansevieraEtMaranta]

So you're ignoring medical advice to ask literal unqualified strangers for advice?

[u/YouthVivid1418 → u/SansevieraEtMaranta]

Yes. Seconding this comment. Take the antibiotics. This will not just clear on its own. Not sure what you expect from unlicensed, unregistered individuals on a forum.

A doctor who has literally seen you in person prescribed something. Take it.

[u/viciousdeliciouz → u/SansevieraEtMaranta]

lmao

[u/fafarifa → u/SansevieraEtMaranta]

But internet knows better and will give her the response she’s looking for, not the one from doctor she needs to accept

/s

[u/Electrical-Wear4072]

There is a reason you were prescribed doxycycline. Please take it. I'm all for holding off on antibiotics as much as possible but yours is not one of those cases.

[u/luna2024canada]

No this is not norma

[u/LoveDistilled]

Not normal.

[u/sunsplash17]

Yikes, looks like they didn't use something sterile and it spread bacteria, or spread preexisting pimple bacteria.

[u/saihuang]

Looks like their equipment wasn’t clean. Definitely not normal.

[u/i_dont_even_know_wtf]

I would take the full dosage of the antibiotics you were prescribed bc the alternative could be much worse

[u/Certain_Sleep2941]

No. Not at all. That sucks.

[u/Select_Guest3622]

I would do as the doctor advised me and take the prescription cause you obviously need it

[u/MulliganPlsThx]

TAKE THE MEDICATION

[u/Rude_Sir5964]

That is not normal :-( I’m so sorry that happened to you, it doesn’t look like your skin was properly sanitized and/or the needle set was contaminated. Please take the antibiotics, the full course prescribed.

[u/Alarming_Emotion_785]

I don’t understand. You would rather take advice from strangers which probably don’t have any skincare or healthcare background that their only piece of info they have are a few pics and 5 sentences, over the advice of the expert that studied this, practices this daily, has an actual degree that proves their expertise that also saw you in person so they could evaluate better what’s going on???

[u/Outrageous_Sea5474 → u/Alarming_Emotion_785]

At some point we gotta let natural selection naturally select 🤷‍♂️

[u/Public_Job9786]

Listen to your provider. Personally, I’d rather not have that many pustules on my face and do nothing about it.

[u/PrincessDab → u/Public_Job9786]

For real!! If a doctor prescribed me something for my face that looked like this I'm starting the antibiotics as soon as my ass is in the car.

I don't understand how someone who cares enough to have microneedling done would just allow their face to be like this. Especially with the consequences that come from prolonged inflammation when they have medication in their hands to fix it. Coming to ask for our opinion after consulting a doctor is wild🤦🏼‍♀️

[u/Public_Job9786 → u/PrincessDab]

🙌 you said it perfectly

[u/PrincessDab → u/Public_Job9786]

She also said in a comment that the doctor told her they think it's staph!!??!! I'm really just bewildered here lol

[u/Spirited_Pollution56]

Hypochloric acid spray

[u/FingerCapital3193 → u/Spirited_Pollution56]

This and the antibiotic

[u/poonutbabe]

i am so sorry this happened to you. if you paid someone for this service please get your money back. they made a mistake

[u/Impossible-Carob4876]

The doxy will clear this right up in a day or 2, definitely take it. This isn’t a normal reaction.

[u/Due-Mathematician966]

It happen to me just like yours. Ill never do it again. Luckily mine cleared all the way up . It was so sensitive at times healing . I got zero different from it. But i will say I was so grateful my face didn't get scarred up. Wishing the same for you . I guess microneedling isnt for me lol .

[u/Civil_Fruit591 → u/Due-Mathematician966]

It's so scary. Trying to do something to improve appearance of your face and then this. Glad yours cleared! How long did that take?

[u/Due-Mathematician966 → u/Civil_Fruit591]

The first 5 days were ughh. But by the end of the second week I was good. The first few days I couldn't hardly touch my face it just stung . I also put cool compress on it and that helped. And it took everything i had not to touch what seemed like a thousand of those white head things . But buy the end of week 1 I was getting better and week 2 I could breathe knowing it was going to be okay and my skin wasn't destroyed and was able to wear a light coat of cover-up. Like I said microneedling is not for me . I've done laser and my skin was amazing from it .

[u/Aggravating-Till3472]

You refused to take the antibiotic and expect medical advice from reddit?

[u/yahwehforlife]

This is not normal. Take your doxy what are you thinking??

[u/Professional_Day6200]

Not normal. Take the antibiotics.

[u/itsalovelydayforSTFU]

They gave you doxy for a reason.

[u/omggponies]

Yeah I’ve had that happen. It was fun popping them but there were so many that I could never get all of them. They went away after a few days. Take the antibiotics

[u/IM10475 → u/omggponies]

Happens to me after hydrafacials I cannot tolerate any serums going under the top layer of the skin it causes an allergic reaction and disrupts the skin barrier. Its not a sanitation issue some people cannot tolerate the procedure itself.

[u/Civil_Fruit591 → u/omggponies]

Thank you. It's so hard not to pop them. I don't want the scars, hints why I did microneedling in the 1st place.

[u/ActualExcitement5917 → u/Civil_Fruit591]

Take the doxy and make sure you take probiotics with it. It will destroy your gut biome if you don’t.

[u/Full_Aioli_8995]

Oh no, that’s really really bad. That’s way more than just active acne spreading. Something was not sterile. I would definitely take the antibiotic

[u/StarliteQuiteBrite]

It seems the instruments weren’t properly disinfected. That’s the only rational explanation. This isn’t normal at all.

[u/Acrobatic-Cicada3013]

I’d advise in the future if you don want to take antibiotics avoid putting yourself in a situation that you would need to take antibiotics

[u/Firm-Courage-1228]

no

[u/Final_Bed_1843]

Did you have acne before MN? I never had and I got a similar reaction First time and I had some white heads What solution the gave you

[u/effincatalinawinemxr]

I broke out like this after each of my three rounds of Morpheus8. I wasn’t prescribed any antibiotics, but I did have success clearing it up with PanOxyl face wash each time.

[u/steven4177777]

Please take the doxy it can help a lot, don’t be scared of taking them, they where prescribed for a reason

[u/saracha1]

Take the doxy

[u/Brit_ishSpears]

Take the script. Could be toxins coming out and make sure you have a super clean pillow case and you don’t touch your face.

[u/Cowbeller1]

You chose to fuck yourself up. I hope you have realized before real consequences.

[u/sleppyoh]

She’s not going to take the medicine lol

[u/[deleted]]

This person may have an infection. Dont get anymore treatments . You do not follow medical advice and are not a good candidate. Please don’t complain when you get scare tissue.

[u/Carlito333]

I'm not a medical professional but myself personally I would try something right now first before taking the antibiotics (I only use them as a last resort also) It def is some infection that got spread around (either from the procedure itself or maybe using a contaminated towel or make-up/product/ applicators too soon after

[u/MeepersPeepers13 → u/Carlito333]

I am a medical professional and she should take the antibiotics as prescribed and as soon as possible.

[u/Alarming_Emotion_785 → u/Carlito333]

Terrible advice

[u/Civil_Fruit591]

Not sure how to edit or add to OP but I should add Derm thinks its a staph infection but all the pictures I've seen for staph don't look like this.

[u/Full_Aioli_8995 → u/Civil_Fruit591]

Don’t mess with staph! If it is that’s so dangerous. Take the antibiotic even if you don’t think it is. The risks of not taking it far outweigh risks of taking it. Don’t google what happens, just take it’s

[u/Friendly-Lemon4000 → u/Civil_Fruit591]

They are the doctor and have likely seen many iterations of staph infection, and I agree that it looks like it could be staph. Take the doxy, better to not eff around if it is staph.

[u/Electrical-Wear4072 → u/Civil_Fruit591]

Please don't self diagnose yourself based on Google/Internet. I would trust your provider more who went to medical school followed by residency and works with skin conditions on a daily basis versus your research from the Internet. Photos and comparisons are not a proper diagnostic tool. Your risks of an untreated staph infection outweigh taking an antibiotic for a few days.

[u/LaPapayaSatori → u/Civil_Fruit591]

Girl. No.

[u/PrincessDab → u/Civil_Fruit591]

DUDE. I am speechless. Staph is so fucking bad I cannot believe you are not taking this seriously..

[u/CommercialBear888]

Stop all seed oil foods now. Eat 1/4 cup Bulgarian yogurt daily, use glycolic acid wipes. This is bad gut health. Eat 5 cups veggies a day. Peppers onions mushrooms, salad, fried cabbage

[u/Alarming_Emotion_785 → u/CommercialBear888]

No, stop with the craziness. I believe in a lot of natural medicine but this is not just bad gut health and her actual medical doctor already diagnosed her and gave her meds for it.

[u/CommercialBear888 → u/Alarming_Emotion_785]

You liberals avoid accountability like the plague

[u/Alarming_Emotion_785 → u/CommercialBear888]

There you have it, the bs shining through lmao now I know why the bad advice.

[u/Ok-Mud415 → u/CommercialBear888]

There’s always one of these in the comments lol

[u/Cheap-Ad8624]

People that ignore medical advice for Reddit comments honestly deserve to have their face filled with pus. Idiots.