I ended my Accutane 3 months ago. My skin is clear, although I still have lots of red marks. My problem is extremely thin and fragile skin; it's gets broken easily and all veins are very prominent. My derm says that skin should become back to its normal thickness after Accutane. But how long should I wait? I'm very sad, I can't wear skirts, my legs look so awful because of thin skin and prominent veins! This is even worse than acne! Please, tell me if you have had the same problem and you know how to help skin become thicker again!

Not forever. It usually take six months for that particular side effect to normalize.

I have been off accutane for 3 years and my skin is till extremely fragile and thin. So it doesn't take 6 months. It could be permanent. This thin skin then starts to cause wrinkles after a short amount of time. I wish i had take a much lower dosage of this serious drug. It has turned my face from a 22 year old to a 45 year old in 2 years, not joking.

What was your dosage 2muchtane??

For most people it should be normal in 6 months, but of course your gonna hear all the horror stories, nobody bothers to go on the net to post "I my thin skin is thick again"

Is really hard to know whether skin thinning will recover. I would say the chances get lesser and lesser as time goes by. What I will suggest people to use is product that contains L-ascorbic to stimulate collagen production and hope that the skin restore some thickness.

I took accutane for 6 months. Months 1 and 2 40mg/day, months 3-6 80mg/day. I weighed 165lbs at the time which is about 75mgs. That's a cumulative dose of 160mg/kg.

Well I've seen this with a fellow worker who took accutane, his skin is completely clear but
I have noticed his skin has now become thin and quite wrinkled.

Can u explain how his skin has wrinkled? How old is he?

The skin becomes thin and basically, gravity takes its toll on it quicker.
For most people though, you shouldn't experience too many wrinkles, a lot of people I know who took it, no wrinkles =)