Accutane Effects

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Alright,

Well yesterday was my first day on the acne treatment Accutane… I take 30 mg in the morning and 30 mg at night of Claravis which are isotetinoin capsules…

I went on vacation recently and I have been tanning since then so my face looks pretty bangin nowadays. I wish that I didn’t need the tanning for it to look better but I figured I would get as black as I could because I know that I can’t tan for the entire duration (and even a month after.) I hate being pale but it is the price you have to pay for clear skin. I haven’t noticed any differences in my skin yet and my dermatologist told me that I won’t start seeing changes in my skin for a little while so I need to continue the treatment that I am on right now. I was taking pills for my face before I started but I stopped taking those and now I just wash my face with brevoxyl 4 at night and in the morning, use clindamycin phosphate topical solution in the morning and duac topical gel at night. The dermatologist told me to chill out on those treatments as my face starts to get dryer. I feel pretty dry this morning but that is probably because I went tanning yesterday…lol. He gave me a moisturizer called DML that works pretty well so far. He also told me to use vaseline on my lips because a lot of the other kinds of chapstick and such actually burn the lips? Idk, something weird like that but mine aren’t THAT chapped yet and even if they are, it is probably due to the winter.

Some things I had noticed in the past from people that went on it: one girl’s face was literally shedding in sheets (but she wore a lot of off-color make up that could have been responsible for that)…i saw her a few years later and her face looks a LOT better so that seems promising, i heard one of my friends had gone on it and his face looks pretty damn good nowadays too, even my gyno (lol) told me she went on it and that her lips were really dry and her eyes were really sensitive but that it worked out really well for her (even though she had to go on another round of it later on in her life).

That is one thing that scares me- that it will reoccur and I will have to take another cycle of it. I am prepared for the dry face, the dry lips, the dry eyes, the joint pain, anything and everything that comes along with it. Just the thought that in half a year I will have bangin skin and I don’t haveta wear make-up to make my face look legitimate is enough to keep me going. It’s hard when you are in college and you barely know anyone that has bad skin. I guess it’s good that i’m a girl and can cover it up (sorry boys).

I took a pregnancy test (they are SO STRICT about taking those tests monthly) a month ago and than another one two days ago even though I am on birth control. That is kinda unfair that the boys have such fewer qualifications to meet before they begin. There is a 7 day window that you need to pick up your prescription in or you haveta start the whole process over again. I had to get blood work to check if I was pregnant and to check if I am physically healthy enough for the pills (good thing both of those turned out the way I hoped). I haveta do that every month and have an appointment with my doctor to discuss the tests and refill my prescription. The whole pregnancy aspect is what the company is most concerned about. They don’t want accutane patients popping out deformed babies but honestly, if I did have one- at least I would know there is a reason behind how ugly it is. I am not looking to have babies anytime soon (unless Ryan Gosling decided to impregnant me for the hell of it) but I was nervous about what the long-term side effects might be for this treatment. Luckily, my gyno was pregnant last year and birthed a healthy little baby after going on the treatment twice in her younger years….that was reassuring to find out. She did however inform me that she developed a dry patch on her arm during the treatment around 20 years ago that has yet to clear up (whoops!).

My face on Day One = (

Well, I really have no news on the second day of my treatment but I am eager to see how terrible things get! Hopefully because my face is one of the better cases, it won’t affect me as much as it does others…but that is just wishful thinking. Either way, I’ll let you bitches know how things pan out… = )