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Pimples????????????????
At First my skin looked great and soft, a few weeks back I got allergies ( to what I can exactly say cause I'm allergic to a lot).
I had those small allergy pimples like goosebumps you know, right? I was waiting for them to go and proceed as usual, couldn't take "atarax" for the allergies cause I was studying for a really important test and couldn't afford to take pills that make me sleep so I could be up all night studying. I waited and last week I got some big pimples! About 6-7 of them. I don't know what to do cause I've seen this. This is exactly what got me on accutane.
Why can I just be cured of acne like everyone else? I took the total dosage. What went wrong? Do I have to repeat the accutane treatment? How long should I wait? I need some help NOW cause I freaking out. Taking accutane was not a path of roses so I expect some damn long lasting results! Not something results that only lasted for 8 months!!!
Be worst is I can't even go to my dermatologist cause she'll think I'm freaking out for no reason. I couldn't be out in the sun for a year, got 4 shades darker and my lips got seriously Swelled up, had to deal with people constantly asking what was wrong with my skin for whole time the treatment lasted and walk around with a greasy skin!! That wasn't easy. I need some fixing and someone telling me what went wrong!
I had those small allergy pimples like goosebumps you know, right? I was waiting for them to go and proceed as usual, couldn't take "atarax" for the allergies cause I was studying for a really important test and couldn't afford to take pills that make me sleep so I could be up all night studying. I waited and last week I got some big pimples! About 6-7 of them. I don't know what to do cause I've seen this. This is exactly what got me on accutane.
Why can I just be cured of acne like everyone else? I took the total dosage. What went wrong? Do I have to repeat the accutane treatment? How long should I wait? I need some help NOW cause I freaking out. Taking accutane was not a path of roses so I expect some damn long lasting results! Not something results that only lasted for 8 months!!!
Be worst is I can't even go to my dermatologist cause she'll think I'm freaking out for no reason. I couldn't be out in the sun for a year, got 4 shades darker and my lips got seriously Swelled up, had to deal with people constantly asking what was wrong with my skin for whole time the treatment lasted and walk around with a greasy skin!! That wasn't easy. I need some fixing and someone telling me what went wrong!
3 shades darker
You know a picture is worth a thousand words so I'll just post one before(left) after(right) so you can see how much darker I got with accutane and I used SPF50 EVERY SINGLE DAY AND AVOIDED THE SUN. Only now 5 months later I begin, begin, to recover my old skin tone but I'm all dark not just face, even my body got darker except for my breasts, God knows why.
How do I get my skin tone back?
I've finished my accutane course about 2 months ago. Accutane changed my life for the Better clearing up my acne and dark spots killing 2 birds with one stone and saving thousands of dollars on laser treatments for the dark spot but it's not all roses and rainbows cause I've also gotten about 3 times darker. I just wanna know if there any of you former accutane users that have or have had a similar problem and how did you fix it as its really really really hard to get any answer on some kind of feedback of dermatologists here on the site and the rare times that we do have a feedback they all tryna pretend skin bleaching doesn't exist or it's not recommended ( we all saw MJ, Nickie Minaj and lots of other celebrities). Well I'm not trying to be like them I just want my natural color back cause accutane gave pigmentation problems. It's still early for me to do anything, I'll til I'm 4 months post but it's good that I have some ideas about what to do.
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Dr. Rosa Cardoso
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