Accutane Doses Immediately Prior to Conception?

While Accutane is a great medicine for cystic acne, it needs to be carefully monitored under a care of a physician. It has a lot of side effects particularly birth defects. Taking doses randomly will not reduce the amount of acne you have for any prolonged period of time and you place yourself at risk since you are not having labs and pregnancy tests checked. I would see a dermatologist asap and get a pregnancy test ( both urine and blood). There is a program now that is called... more

It is obviously not wise to get pregnant while taking Accutane, which you know. The biggest side effect is birth defects, which result in such deformities the babies won't live past two. Most of the time, we have to recommend that if you did become pregnant while on Accutane, you seek to cease the pregnancy. There is not a well to tell if the baby will or won't be deformed until too far into the pregnancy otherwise. Please seek medical attention and both urine and pregnancy tests immediately... more