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Has Any Doctor Seen Erectile Dysfunction As a Side Effect of Taking Accutane?
asked 1 year ago by Houston_iwannaknow in Houston, TX
Latest answer by Emily Altman, MD
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Tags: male, sex, side effects
I am on my second round of accutane. The first time I took accutane I had amazing results my skin cleared beautifully. On my second round, I am on my third month. On my first month, I was taking 40mg a day but when I increased to 60mg I noticed a significant difference in libido and the ability to have a sustained erection by the sixth week. Has anyone had any patients with similar complaints or long-term adverse sexual side effects of accutane?
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Accutane side effects
Sexual side effects are not in general associated with accutane therapy. In my 17 year experience of prescribing accutane I have never seen this association, however, on searching the Medline databases, I did find one article from a hospital in Mexico where they did a study on the side effects of accutane and noted that there were six men who had decreased libido and difficulty maintaining erections due to depression while on accutane.
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