I have not personally tried Bactrim but I have used a couple antibiotics for acne and I found the results were not that great.

My acne would clear up a little but then my skin would get very dry and I would get awful red patches (on my face and body!). It also affected my mood drastically and I would be down for no reason and it was out of my control.

I recently started Benzemycin (a topical treatment). At first it just made my face really red (right after) and dry but its been almost a week now and my face is reacting less negatively and more positively and I am starting to see results :)

I hope that was helpful. I do understand that not everyone is the same but I have had bad experiences with the antibiotics that I tried to use and I think I have found a topical treatment that works (which none ever really have for me before this).

Thanks for your feedback. I have been on 2 antibiotics so far, and neither one have done anything, so I don't really know what this one will do either. I guess she wanted to exhaust every possibility before Accutane, and I understand that. It's just that I am scarring so badly, and every day brings me new ones. This needs to stop now. I wish!

I am using Epiduo, to help with fading the scars, but it doesn't seem to be helping much with the actual acne.
*Sigh*

I used bactrim for UTIs and it helped my acne.

There are a lot of nasty chemicals in shampoos, conditioners and makeup that cause acne, like sulfates and parabins. Try to switch to organic products and see if it helps.