Accutane Effects

Ok, Week Two is over… and the Accutante treatment side effects are starting to emerge.

Recently I have been on the bottle again and haven’t taken my pills on time, oh no! I haven’t noticed anything negative as a result of this but i’ve only effed up the last two days. Also, I didn’t wash my face last night….BAD NEWS. Alright, broken up changes in my situation down below.

Dry Skin: My skin is a little less dry than it was last week. I don’t use the harsh face creams anymore and moisturzing my face in the morning and at night seems to be doing a supreme job of keeping it moisturized. The only place it gets bad is around my mouth and this is only after like eating or if I don’t moisturize my lips.

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Well…

Week One on Accutane treatment is over. Oddly enough, I didn’t start feeling the effects of the treatment until the afternoon of my fifth day. Maybe I will break things up to make it easier to understand my pain…lol… Here is a list of Accutane side effects :

Dry Skin: My face was fine for a while and I even was able to go tanning without a problem. I was using my regular treatment from before until I woke up on the 6th day with what looked like a wicked burn. People were asking me if I went tanning, it wasn’t a good sight. I guess the topical stuff my dermatologist had given me before was way too strong for how dry my face is now so I have stopped using it and just stuck to moisturizer. My face is pretty dry. You know when you smile but you feel like you can’t cuz your mouth is too dry to open? Yeahhh, that’s pretty much my situation. I was eating a sandwich that requires opening the mouth repeatedly and it ended with dry skin all around my mouth that I had to re-moisturize. It sucks but I don’t think it’s terrrrrible. I just haveta put on moisturizer a couple times a day in the problem areas around my mouth and nose (the rest of my face is a little dry but nothing too bothersome).

Breakouts: My dermatologist told me that 10% of people who start Accutane flare up. I am super Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Hey everyone (or no one at all),

So here is my deal- I was very back and forth about accutane. I kept debating if I should do it or not considering all of the negative things I have heard about it. I started breaking out when I was in 7th grade (I am a soph in college now) and it wasn’t that bad at the time. I tried everything in CVS and such for a while until I realized that it wasn’t helping and I was getting worse. I finally found a dermatologist that I liked and stayed with her up until this year. She put me on everything humanly possible to help my situation. I can only remember a few of the attempts: brevoxyl, proactive, differin, retin a, every type of face wash-cream-pads…EVERYTHING!

It kept getting worse and the summer before my first year in college, my dermatologist offered up accutane treatment as the next option. I knew that it was going to be really intense and I heard a lot about it like not being able to be in the sun without getting burnt, all of the medical tests that you need to take every month, how dry your face and lips get. At that moment in time all I really wanted to do was enjoy my summer at the beach, hang out with my friends, and not have to worry about accutane and everything that goes along with it. She offered it to me again later on, I freaked out yet again and basically pussed out and didn’t end up doing it. Read the rest of this entry »