I've used proactive for two day now. And both days I've woke up with my eyes like extremely swollen. But it didn't hurt it just itched a little bit. I was so excited for this product, but now I'm like heart broken I have to stop using it.
Same happened to me. I used it for about a year and then randomly before work after I used it my face and eyes swole and got red and face was dry. Crazy puffed eyes. I was disappointed becUse it did clear my face, but I would up being sensitive to benzoyl peroxide. A good alternative to people allergic to benzoyl Peroxide is cleansers with salcylic acid. Works great for me and no reactions
I happened to come across your statement and I was wondering if you ever actually received your refund, and any suggestions for disputing the charges for this product( received a collection email 9/21/15) when I initially discontinued proactive ( since 2012) due to having the same allergic reactive symptoms as numerously stated by others throughout this discussion?
After using Proactive the night before, I woke up to a red face with swollen eyes, big bags underneath sometimes my eyes were almost closed. I could not figure out what was causing it. I noticed when I stopped using the face cream everything cleared up .
The SAMEEEE THING HAPPENED TO ME TOO
Like others I had used benzoyl peroxide in the past successfully. Tried proactiv the last two days on small acne areas on my cheeks. I only applied it twice, last night and this morning. As i was riding my bike today my face started feeling hot and it really was hotter to touch the areas where I applied the lotion. Well during the day i noticed that I had developed a raised rash with many many tiny pustules that were totally horrifying. I squeezed them out, took a hot shower, and waited for the weeping tiny holes to stop weeping beads of plasma. After that I put on a thin layer of neosporin. I'm going to pop some claritin, sudafed, famotadine, and visine AC my eyes. And then put down a layer of benedryl lotion. wow, proactiv, not good...
My regimen worked; after two days the swelling has gone down and no more pustules. I did have a few last night but like the previous night, squeezed them out, took a hot shower, neosporin, benedryl cream and this afternoon it just looks kinda pink. I'll use the Benadryl tonight and may dc it tomorrow am. When experiencing an allergic reaction I like to overpower it ASAP. Don't know if this is all related to proactiv in all fairness; I'm paranoid that I have discovered that I have rosacea or lupus. But given that I responded quickly to OTC stuff I think it is probably just an allergic reaction to whatever they put into the proactiv besides the benzoyl peroxide.
I used the product years ago and it worked great without any problems. I started to use it again a few days ago and then next day I noticed a bumpy rash on my face and swelling around the eyes. I was hoping it would go away so I used proactive again.. Well bad idea! The rash got so bad that I had to start Prednisone!! Third day still taking the prednisone and rash is finally slowly going away. Sad part was that this product actually helped but can't use it now :(
I had the same problem I woke up with my eyes swollen and now I have baggy eyelids and am considering eyelid surgery I heard that once ur eyelids stretch out like that they lose elasticity and won't go back to how they used to i was 16 when this happened and I am currently 19 and still dealing with this problem, I thought I was the only one that went through this problem
literally had the exact same thing happen to me, my eyes were swollen shut and everything. I'm almost 99% sure it's benzoyl! but ever since then I've had really bad acne and my face has aged and all idk what to do or how to fix it and this happened when I was a freshman in highschool....I'm now a senior
This happened to me too;boil some water and put pieces of Apple and get a towl and put it on your face but make sure the water cools down a bit.
I pleased to discuss after use pro active
Omg thus just happened to me my face is burning and so red i called customer service and it took 20 minutes to get to a person who wasnt a robot
My face is like an itchy sunburn, was that a first sign for you as well?
I used proactive for three days and now i have all my face and neck burned, it look much worse than before and it hurts, I didn't know this could happen, but now I won't use it again and I don't recommend this product.