skincare emergency

Exactly, I am just going to be sure I let the Doctor know that I have succesfully used the 1% retinol OTC cream and would prefer to start on a fairly low strength script dose and work my way up, rather than starting too high and over doing it 🙂

Yeah of course – research what you`re doing – but I mean don`t confuse yourself with the different strengths etc! BT`s do know what they`re doing! 🙂

I know Elmo but I do like to know what I am getting myself into as well, lol. I am only just understanding the difference between all the different forms of Vitamin A, I have done some interesting reading, so it does sounds good to me 🙂

Don`t confuse yourself mel! Just leave it up to your BT and doctor! 🙂

This site gives the different forms of Retin A and it`s percentages, I don`t see 1% in there at all though, that must be just for retinol, confusing myself big time, LOL.
It does appear that only Retinol OTC products can be as high as 1% as it is not as potent as retin a.
http://www.dermadoctor.com/article_Retin-A-Vitamin-A-Creams_63.html

After re-reading this I realized it does not make that much sense, I need to find out more about it really, I am aware of the different brands available in the prescrition vit a`s but I have not looked into their % or anything as of yet, I was going to ask the Dr. to start me on the lowest to begin with.

The 1% is only the retinol OTC product, wheras they have different strength creams and gels in different forms of vitamin a available with a script, these come in various strengths as well, I assumed they would be stronger than the retinols as they are apparently more effective, but I would doubt in whatever form they would be stronger than 1.% it is just a different product so I believe. I am yet to discuss this with my doctor just that the BT advised me to move on to the prescription vit a after having successfully used the retinol strengths. Hope that makes sense, this is all new to me darl, lol.

What strength do they give you after 1.0%?

No darl, I looked and I have some other one`s but that is not one of them, I might see if I can get a sample with my next order, the phyto sounds like it has similar benefits. Thankfully I have had no dramas at all with the retinol 0.5, I use it everyday and have no side effects at all. I am ready to start on the 1.0 now and hopefully that will go well so I can then go for the prescription strength in a few more months 🙂

Do you have a sample? It`s great to have on hand if you od on retinol!