Lips Too Dry To Handle (Accutane, Week 9)
March 22nd, 2008
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This is my first week in month three on the dreadful Accutane (isotretinoin or claravis). Would you like to know what’s been happening? Cause I’m obviously going to tell you anyways…
Dry skin: Holy hell, skaley dragon situation is back. I really need to get up on moisturizing my hands and my arms. My legs only really need moisturizing right after I shave them. If you get into the habit of doing it right when you get out of the shower then it should be a lot easier. Other than that, my face is pretty legit unless I put moisturizer on at 6 am and don’t re-apply on trouble spots until like 3 am the next day. Keep up on the moisturization efforts and you should be fine!
Breakouts: I have been getting a little bit better since my break-out freak-out a few weeks ago. My face has been clearing up and I don’t have any massive pimples forming anymore. I just hate that I haven’t been able to go tanning in 2 months and so if I do break out a little, I feel like it is much more obvious against my pasty white skin. But Oh Well!
Lips: My lips are out of control. I can literally peel them off in sheets. This has never happened to me before. If I am really bored and in front of the mirror, I could peel massive pieces of my lips off. It doesn’t really hurt but sometimes it bleeds and I have raw lips = ( I just need to re-apply chap stick at every opportunity (which is necessary pretty often). My favorites? The cocoa butter chap stick that looks like a glue stick, aquaphor, and burt’s bees. Stick with the chap STICK and not the liquidy ones. The good thing about lips is that they heal pretty quickly but still, try not to bite or pick at them.
Body: Other than the dry patches awkwardly around my body (which do go away) there is nothing really new going on. No dandruff like I heard happens to people on the treatment and nothing really creepy and uncomfortable for right now.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
out of your favorites what is the best chap stick in your opinion? i use the Chapstick Classic brand.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I’m enduring my 4th month on accutane, and my dermatologist says that all the wax-based lip balms such as chapstick etc are useless, and rather to stick to aquaphor. It’s true. There’s no comparison. My lips are a constant disaster without my aquaphor!
July 16th, 2008 at 11:44 am
My favorite day time lip balm was the Natural Ice brand of SPF 15.
But like you, I used Aquaphor the rest of the time and at night.