My dermatologist said that after my 6 month course, we could try 20mg a day on an ongoing basis to keep my acne under control . My questions are: 1)If i begin 20mg over a month after I finished my course, do you think that it will be sufficient enough to keep it under control or did I miss that boat when I didn't immediately drop to 20mg a day 2)Do you think 20mg on an ongoing basis would do harm? My liver results have always come back fine.
I'm 28 year old asian female.My weight is 80kg i take a course of 20mg oratane but it doesn't seems effective i still breakouts i take it for 8 weeks.than i read doctors reviews and it says you can take them by your weight if I'm 80kg how much mg should i take on daily basis and for how long .
So, I have 5 days of 40mg accutane tablets left till im done with 6 months of treatment. I am 29 years old and way 10 st 4 lbs. After the 3rd month i missed 10 days of tablets because of a delay between getting my perscription and tablets. My Dermotologist and I had my final appointment the other day. I told him about the missing doses and he said i don't need to take them. I'm confused, because doesn't that mean i wont have taken enough to reach my accumulative dosage?
I started low dose 20mg accutane 7 months ago. My face and everything has completely cleared since then except a few months into the treatment I got these hard raised bumps (in total 4, one on the chest, 2 on the shoulders and 1 on the back) that were not painful to touch and were red. They've persisted throughout the therapy and won't go away. Any idea as to what they might be?
I started accutane 4 months ago. I can only tolerate 10mg 5 days/week. If I take more then my hair starts to fall off like crazy. Even with 5x/week my hair is falling more then usual. After 4 months I still break out (not as bad and they clear up faster). Will it work in the end? Will it just take more time to stop my acne completly? Do you suggest en alternative dosing like 20mg 3x/week...could it be better?
I have taken 2 courses of accutane- both with 30mg for 2 months, then 60mg for 6 months. The second course was mainly to address oily skin, but it came back. I want to do 20mg weekly indefinitely for my oily skin. The only issue I had during both courses was hair thinning at 60mg daily towards the last 4 months. Is this a cumulative effect or a higher dose effect? If I do 20mg weekly for my oily skin, will I experience hair thinning? Please help!
I'm a 45 year old 75 KG male who was on Accutane last year. Started in March 2020 and got off in July 2020 per my dermatologists. Dose was 40mg month 1&2 then 60mg month 3&4. Only bad side effect was terrible dry eye. After checking the math I don't think I hit the Target Dose of 120mg. Fast forward 7 months later and my skin is breaking out again. Dermatologist wants me to go on round 2. I'm all for it. Given the time since my last course what cumulative dose do I need this time around?
I've been on dianette for acne for a very long time but due to my age my GP has said I've got less than a year left on it. I still get cystic acne but it's not too bad. Every time I've tried coming off it my skin has been terrible with cystic acne and I've had some bad scarring as a result. I think I'll have to give in and take accutane but as I've spend 1000s on treatments for my indented scars I really don't want to purge. Would a very low dose over a long period of time eliminate the risk?.
Ive been on accutane for 6 months. I took 20mg for 2 months and then 40mg for 4 months to finish the course. After a week of being off of accutane, my acne is coming back. When I approached my doctor about accutane the first time he had no idea how it worked whatsoever to the point where I was guiding him through the whole course and explaining to him how it works. I want to go on a second cycle and I really want someone to guide me through it. What should I tell my doctor?