do i stop epiduo???

hi!! i have been on epiduo since early november and i’m almost at 10 weeks. my skin really wasn’t that bad when i started i’m on birth control (which never rlly helped w/ my acne anyways) i would just get a few breakouts here and there and had a lot of closed comedones esp on my forehead. since then, i feel like my breakouts have only gotten worse. i get multiple hard maybe cystic bumps/pimples every week and they are SUPER red. my cheeks are full of scaring from all the pimples and i feel sooo insecure going outside without makeup even though i’m sure the makeup isn’t helping. the only thing giving my hope is that the closed comedones on my forehead are much better and smoother (other than the painful breakouts🥹) but i really haven’t seen any improvement on my cheeks. i guess the breakouts have started to be closer to the center of my face instead of fully on the side but there is still some texture and a lot of redness/scarring. i was using epiduo 5 days a week and i’ve gone down to 2-3 to see if the breaking out was j because of a damaged skin barrier/irritation and i haven’t really seen a difference other than breakouts taking longer to go away. i just wanted to post this to see if anybody has any advice/tips because i am seriously about to throw the bottle away i just want my skin to be back how it was. i use byoma cleansing oil at night, cerave cream cleanser, byoma hydrating toner, and vanicream moisterizer. and for spf i use glow screen.