Derm Starting Son on 80 Mg Accutane?

While each dermatologist selects the dosage he feels comfortable with, this seems to me to be a bit high. The general recommendation is for a 1 mg./kg. dosage. Your son's dosage would be exceeding that by about 40%. There certainly is nothing wrong, per se, with this dosage, but your son would be much less likely to have problems with half this dosage, drawn out over 6 months. Since pregnancy is not an issue in males, there is not an impelling reason to limit the number of months of exposure... more

When setting up a patient for an Accutane regimen there are several things that need to be considered: the acne itself, the patient's ability to be compliant, and the environment. While the point of Accutane is to get a specific mg dosage into the body over an allotted amount of time, I've found that most of my patients prefer a lower dosage for a longer amount of time, otherwise they give up and the issue is never resolved. It's not the hairloss, testosterone, etc. that I find to be an... more