I'm a 44 year old male. My Dr. asked me to use Carac on my face. I used it for 18 days and then returned to Dr for my appointment. The first week was hardly noticeable. The second week it started getting pretty bad and by week 3 it was really awful looking. Thanks to reading things on this forum I took a week of vacation during the 3rd week.
After 18 days my Dr. prescribed a cream called Bionect that I applied 3-4 times per day for 4 days and then started back on the carac cream for another 10 days. My face healed up really good after this short break and didn't get nearly as bad during this treatment as the first round. I started back on bionect after the 28 day treatment and within 5 days my face is almost back to normal.
I would highly recommend the Bionect cream. It is kinda expense at about $80 bucks a tube but it really helped me.