anyone here took accutane before?
currently on 20mg a day and on week 3. cant lift anymore cause everywhere fuckin hurts, especially my mid back and knees. now im forced to only do the elliptical. face is breaking out now, face and lips are dry like the desert. easily depressed and melancholic especially if bored.
help me
enjoy your permanently painful joints and clear skin breh
Took it for 6 months, finished a year ago. Started with 40mg and ramped up to 80mg. Had no serious side effects. Just had dry skin and lips, which was totally manageable with moisturizer/aquaphor. It didn't completely cure my acne though. It was mild/moderate and oily af. Now it's still oily and I get the occasional pimple. I actually miss being on it because my skin wasn't oily and don't care for alcohol anyway.
My experiences seem to be atypical in that I didn't have serious positive or negative effects.
Might look into going on it again in the future. Good luck.
I finished about 2 months ago. Do you've got lots of scars?
Basically every cut or pimple left a small scar and I'm wondering if most of them go away after stopping the accutane.
what youre saying is that pimples during accutane leave icepick scars?
Took Accutane when I was 18, 6 month treatment. After trying everything else my dermatologist could come up with since I was worried about the side effects. Had the usual dryness, joints and back especially hurt while on it so I mainly did cycling instead of lifting. Only lasting side effects were somewhat dry skin and eyes. But it completely stopped my acne and haven't had any since.
You're face will break out when you're first start it but it will go away pretty soon after, tough it out and take fish oil. Really wished it did it sooner desu. You'll make it.
dont take accutane unless you are literally quasimodo, that shit dries the fuck out of your skin. I took it just when I had mild acne and I took one bath in a hot tub and the next day half my arm peeled off. I was only taking 20mg a day.
currently on 20mg a day
hasnt effected my strength or joints although I have read it does for some people.
on my 2nd week I broke out in acne way worst than what I had orginally had. however week 3 onwards it's been clearing fine. 2months in and my face is almost clear.
The side effects I am getting are dry skin which I solve with sunscreen moisturiser. dry eyes & lips which are also easy to solve. thats about it. I was worried about the depression part but my mood has been pretty stable
My starting point was pretty bad. I had acne around my chin, cheeks and forehead and 3 deep cystic pustules when I started taking them. One turned into a pretty big scar and my beard hairs stopped growing there. The other 2 healed during my treatment and didn't even leave a scar. Took 20mg/day for around 9 months. No side effects aside from dry skin and lips. Unfortunately, acne still breaks out sometimes and I've even had one case of cystic acne after the treatment so I consider visiting my doctor again.
Also, if you have to pay for it yourself, don't get accutane, get some generica isotretinoin. It's literally the same thing just less expensive because it doesn't say Roche on it.
Its not worth it