soon to embark on the accutane journey

I haven't updated in a few weeks... and no.. it's not because i'm cured LOL. Although.. there is a LOT of improvement which is promising. The blister like lump next to my left eye is significantly smaller and i'm hoping another 30 days eliminates it completely. And the knot by my mouth, also on my right side is also WAY smaller. It has...

1 Month down! Hooray!! Please oh please let the next 4 go quickly! For the first time in the two years since I stopped working.. I almost wished I had a job to keep my mind off of how slowly time seems to be ticking LOL. Luckily my OCD cleaning tendancies seem to keep me pretty occupied.

Skin update: The 3 knots I have all seem to pretty...

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Well hello dry skin.. nice to see you. (sort of.) I took my middle sister to the dr. yesterday which meant being in public which meant wearing makeup. I lathered on as much moisturizer as I could before applying a little concealer and powder and it looked ok for a few hours. By the time we were headed home.. my chin was a flaky mess as was the area around...

I realize my original plan to "only post once a week" is out the door. I swear I wake up with new things to talk about daily so what the heck. I know I've said this before... but i'm still really surprised at my dose? Is ANYONE else here taking 80mg a day?? Maybe that's the reason why I literally have a new "side effect"...

I dont intend to update daily... BUT... a few things have changed just since my 1 week post yesterday so I thought I'd share:

First of all.. my face is RED. Although the sunburned feeling has downgraded to just a mild sensitivity... I woke up this morning looking very flushed. I dont feel warm or anything but i look like i'm running fever...

Yay! 1 week down19 to go LOL. I am a 5'7 female weighing 140 lbs taking 80mg of Claravis (40mg twice a day) Seems like a high dose to me?? BUT.. i'm not complaining since id rather take the agressive approach since i'm taking this stuff. Here is what I have experienced the last 7 days:

Day 1 and 2 I had headaches pretty much all day. They...

So I see a TON of blogs and but I haven't really encountered anything quite like MY story so I thought I'd share what's going on with me!

I have never had that ever so envious flawless skin BUT.. I've been fortunate in my 31 years of life (including my adolescence) to have decent skin. Occassional breakouts but nothing major and NOTHING...