Graciemeow's Blog

When my skins good I'm euphoric.When my skins bad it's not even worth getting out of bed in the morning.I feel like accutane is this horrible drug that lulls you into a false sense of security until your skin comes back with a venganceI have just been diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovaries) and therefore discovered that the two courses of roaccutane I ha...

Sometimes I feel like I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.After buying and trying all the over the counter creams, lotions and potions under the sun, to using topical and medicated creams to having every available anti-biotic, cutting out various food groups from my diet, self esteem plumetting to an all time low, two courses of gruelling courses o...

Okay so, following my blood tests and ultrasound,I don't have PCOSbut,i do have more testosterone than I should in my body. So my GP has referred me to an endocrinologist, who I am going to see on tuesday morning. I'm really excited as I hope there is something I can do about this.

So, since I already had bloods taken I'm having them repeated just because the doctor wants to make sure, which is happening next Wendesday, and then my Ultrasound scan is next Thursday.
I will make a post with what happens.
I will also post some pictures after this weekend of what my skin currently looks like.

Hello!
Its been a long long LONG while since i posted here.
I began this blog as a follow along for my second course of accutane (or roaccutane for us brits). I wanted to also keep people that followed this blog updated and also because, just because I am cleared of acne (for the time being at least, one can never be too optimistic) I shouldn't...

ok ok soooo...since being in the sun the skin on my face is so so sore ;'( and like rough and flaky. also since saturday night my jaw got helllaa sore (the left side) and now there is a sore lump along it. this is so tender to touch. its like along the bone.. none of my teeth hurt at all and im not due dental work or anything so it can't be that. im...

okay sooooooooooo maybe this kinda only applies to people in the UK where sun and nice weather is rare ...we've had a rate nice week up in York which brought me to procrastinate and leave me assignments for a week in the sun with my friends... PUT SUN BLOCK ON. within about 10 mins my back was burnt to shit and then i put sun cream on but it didnt...

not long to go now, only until the 17th April and then my 4 month course (or 16 weeks...whichever) is over )) !! i noticed that my side effects are actually subsiding. they weren't terrible at all really, there was a point a few weeks ago where my lips were painful and cracking but i kept up with the carmex and its got a little better.
the...

okay for the past three days this has been pretty awful now...its only just dawned on me that its probably a side effect frmo the med. IM. NOT. HUNGRY. ever. and when i try to eat because i realise i havn't eaten in ages (i can go all day/over a day without eating and not realising it) i try to eat and i feel... sick and really overly full and lethargic...

okay so late but as promised some PICTURES


as you can see my lips are now so sore...i've got carmex on but they're just dead bitty all the time and if i don't kee carmex on they crack and bleed yaaay. i don't have any foundation on .