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Hello, so I have suffered from acne since I was about 11 yrs old, I'm 31 now and have literally tried everything out there! In Sept of 2014 after a very stressfull year my skin was at it's worst. after some research I decided to start taking 3 capsules of milk thistle, 1 omega 3 capsule and 2 vitaclear vitamins(proactive free trial) and I started making myself 8oz of carrot juice daily, after a month of adding these things to my diet I saw a HUGE change in my skin!! I mean MAJOR, my acne and scars/spots were pretty much going away however, my skin was still very oily, but I definitely saw an improvement, after I finish my Accutane treatment I plan on adding all those things back into my diet to hopefully maintain my clean skin.

So Oct 15,2014 I started Accutane,
**FACE** day 28-so far my acne is worse, which I expected, BUT 7 days ago(about day 21 on the med) my face stopped being oily, COMPLETELY!! I am amazed that I stay matte from morning to night, I don't have to blot one single time, it's amazing! I had a lot of sebaceous hyperplasia(hard enlarged oil glands) bumps, about 40) around my hairline, chin, forehead and chest, after one week on the med they were all gone!! I could not believe it because as far as I knew, there is no cure for this and I thought I was just gonna have to deal with the bumps my whole life unless I had them removed with laser and risk scars. So I am very very happy about that.

**Hair** I used to have extremely oily hair, I used to wear my hair down one day and up the other because it was so oily, well now I can go up to 4 days and my hair looks freshly washed!!! About two weeks into the treatment my scalp started getting very itchy and it seemed like I had a lot of little scabs, today is day 28 and my scalp hasn't itched in about 10 days and so fair I do not see any hair loss, I've been deep conditioning my hair every time I wash to compensate for the lack of oil production.

**LIPS** I bought the Aquaphor chap stick but felt it came off too fast, so then I found these teeny tiny Vaseline chap sticks and I LOVE them!! I keep one at work and one on me at all times and I apply chap stick about every 15 mins and right before bed I just slather it on lol so far my lips are still perfectly soft except for this one tiny cut which is not gonna win! LOL

**HANDS** 3 weeks into the treatment my hands felt "sunburned" one night everywhere that I have lil hairs, they got kinds scabby where the hairs are but not too bad, so I bought the Aquaphor healing ointment and have been applying it 3 times a day and my hands are now perfectly smooth again.

**SKIN** My arms are getting little dry patches and I can no longer wear my Pandora bracelets because I'm getting a rash, but Aveno calming lotion seems to be helping. If I run my hand in the opposite direction of my skin on my back/shoulders it feels really rough, almost like a bunch of hard black heads, I'm thinking it's all being pushed out??

**MOOD** I don't feel any different other than a lil bit more tired, but I also stopped drinking coffee to avoid dairy so that could have something to do with it too. I drank Starbucks every morning for the last 3 yrs (caramel machiatto) and I really miss it and crave it but I also have noticed that if I have one on Saturday, by wed I will have a lot of new big breakouts, no more Starbucks! (I don't like soy lol)

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