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Accutane 40mg Everyday for Six Months. Changed MY LIFE - Houston, TX

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My acne may not have been the worst in the world...

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My acne may not have been the worst in the world but I'm already a shy person as it is, my mom left when I was a kid.. And it kinda messed up my self esteem, and that plus acne just made my life hell. I had it from 15-19. Finally after my freshmen year of college I called my dad one night to come pick me up... (he drove 4 hours to get me) when he got there I had a pimple so big my eye was shut and wouldn't open. That's when I called my grandpa ( a doctor) and said I really need help. He referred me to one of his friends who prescribed me 40mg of accutane. Now mind you I had literally tried everything to get rid of my acne (proactive, doxycycline, minocycline, tetracycline, sulfas, along with others none worked.) aft three months and a really bad initial break out my face became so clear it was AMAZING and after four months of accutane I finally had enough confidence I got my first girlfriend since I was like 15. It felt amazing really changed my life. Now here I am 22. Two years later and I couldn't be happier. My face still has the occasional one two three at the worst pimples sometimes, but I'm like a normal person with no acne now. It also removed 95% of the scarring and purple marks! AMAZING... I think all these people that have problems with it took too much mg of it. The most anyone should be on in my opinion would be 40, but I wouldn't even recommend that much unless you have it CRAZY TERRIBLE.

Now I'm not gonna lie their are a few side effects to this drug, still to this day my face feels kinda dry and I have to put moisturizer on. And while I was on it my lips were really messed up, but it goes away when u get off it. And in the end what's better acne everywhere or a little bit of a dry face?...

About a week after I got off the drug I had someone ask me if I wore makeup because my face looked so perfect... Lmao. I thought it was hilarious (I'm a guy). It made me feel so good because for once my face looked good. I also got called a red headed Ken doll. Lmao that was a funny one.

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William Waidhofer

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Replies (3)

May 10, 2012

It is so great to read your story!! How fantastic that you had such great results from it!

It really is a fantastic drug for many people, and I'm glad you were one who could tolerate it to receive its benefits. :)

May 13, 2012
Hi, I've been on Accutane for the past 6 days, and my first week today haha. My skin has been quite strange before the treatment, I think it's due to hormones; one day it'll flare up with huge, deep, under the skin spots all over my face, then over a week it will completely clear up with only the scars remaining, then I will have about three or four days of clear skin, next I have two weeks of not-so-deep spots that are mostly whiteheads or soon to be white heads, then the skin clears and we're back to square one. My skin is generally oily. The reason I'm telling you this is because my acne is constantly changing I don't know when the initial flare up is, I'm also on 40mg, and I'd just like to know how long it lasts and how far into the treatment it starts - I have prom soon, and naturally I'd like to be remembered with clear skin.
April 18, 2013

Great to read your post. I am about to finish my 6 Month taking 1/40mg a day. But I'm still breaking out. When I finish my 5th month my face was clear not even one pimple but last week I break out again that made me think that this might nit work out for me :-( what do u think???