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Hey!I think you have the best log I've ever read! 😀 Thanks for the awesome ramblings and your Quelf reference that made my night! 🙂 I can't wait to have another "Quelf-The Drinking Game" Tournament once I'm done my accutane 😀 lol awwww the things we aspire to
Have a great holiday!
Thanks and Quelf is wicked fun if you find a good group of people to play it with
Reading this made me feel like such a moron, whining over 1/100 of what you had when starting/through IB.As others have said, adorable attitude.
Thanks and all suffering is bad in its own moment, This blog is all about being on the sunny side 😛
In case people were still interested... coming up on 2 years post accutane
My raised scarring has fallen down to pretty unnoticeable, except when i dont shave for a week, b/c theres big areas where the hair follicles were destroyed. My pocked scarring is still there a little bit, but much less every year. No noticable residual accutane side effects as of yet, but i guess only time will tell.
Keep fighting the good fight friends, and I'm he ar to answer questions, or just to be someone to listen to, b/c God knows i needed to spout all of the random blatherings in this log, when i was on the Tane.
In case people were still interested... coming up on 2 years post accutaneMy raised scarring has fallen down to pretty unnoticeable, except when i dont shave for a week, b/c theres big areas where the hair follicles were destroyed. My pocked scarring is still there a little bit, but much less every year. No noticable residual accutane side effects as of yet, but i guess only time will tell.
Keep fighting the good fight friends, and I'm he ar to answer questions, or just to be someone to listen to, b/c God knows i needed to spout all of the random blatherings in this log, when i was on the Tane.
Hi Ranger! I am writing for my son. He is 14 and on week 9 of accutane. He is having a severe initial breakout, Dr. said he sees less than 5% of people with this! I am feeling so guilty for putting him on this. I am holding on that this will work. They upped his dosage yesterday to 40, was only on 20 due to breakout. He is also on prednisone. I feel so bad for him. I can't sleep because I am so worried, so have been reading your blog. Thank you!
Thanks acnechemist, and good luck!
Don't feel guilty! If it was bad enough to get accutane then believe me it was worth going down this road, but its not necessarily an easy one. Mine seemed to get way worse until 3 months in, b/c all the stuff that was buried deep down was forced out so that the healing could begin. The main advice i can offer you is to treat him normally. Its hard enough to not think about it, but even worse when thats all people talk to you about. "How's your skin feel?", "It's looking better." Acknowledge it, but don't let it become his identity.
If you or if he has any questions, I'm on here enough to respond usually within a day or two. 
Thanks acnechemist, and good luck!Don't feel guilty! If it was bad enough to get accutane then believe me it was worth going down this road, but its not necessarily an easy one. Mine seemed to get way worse until 3 months in, b/c all the stuff that was buried deep down was forced out so that the healing could begin. The main advice i can offer you is to treat him normally. Its hard enough to not think about it, but even worse when thats all people talk to you about. "How's your skin feel?", "It's looking better." Acknowledge it, but don't let it become his identity.
If you or if he has any questions, I'm on here enough to respond usually within a day or two. 🙂
Thanks again. We start week 10 tomorrow and I thought last week that maybe we were seeing progress, but today there is probally about 10 new active cysts and whiteheads. He is also still on prednisone and we are seeing this!! I am becoming really discouraged for him and that makes me feel even guiltier. I don't say anything to him, but I feel like the worst Mom in the world right now. I am thinking of calling the derm. back tomorrow and just quitting. I can't take this guilt anymore and he probally can't take these zits anymore. His face was nothing like this until we started the accutane. I am thinking that it is just not going to work for him. I feel so lost, like I just don't know what to do. Everytime I think I am helping him, it just is the opposite. Thanks again and hope that you are doing well.
It's not for everyone, and it definitely not an easy road. When people ask me if they should go on accutane i usually tell them no, b/c they haven't tried everything else. This stuff is powerful, and its hard to say what the long term consequences of it are. However if what he was experiencing was bad enough to get a perscription for accutane, and he's already 10 weeks in, and dealing with the worst of it... If my mom had tried to take me off at the point i looked like this (about 2 months in)...
... I would have gone ballistic, but then it was me who was really angling for accutane in the first place. In every accutane story I've heard and from my own experience, It gets way worse before it get better, b/c the sebum glands (where acne occurs) are being shrunk by the accutane and so they force out what was there but you couldn't necessarily see. My mom started freaking out too when it looked like it was getting worse, but when i reality my face felt alot better, b/c they weren't deep anymore.
You should talk to your son, see how he feels, b/c whether you feel guilty or not... its his face.
Worried mom, how are things with your son? I was like you, losing my mind, unable to sleep because of my son's "exuberant response" to accutane. He is almost at 12 weeks and just started to get better. And he's at a 60 mg dose. When my son wasn't progressing, his derm was about to increase that dose. He also went on prednisone for 10 days.
The derm kept saying to be patient. He said he had never not cleared up anyone on accutane. This is "the" acne practice in my area -- northern Virginia. The person we see is tasked specifically to see all the acne patients. My husband also got a pediatric dermatologist from Johns Hopkins on the phone (he knows someone there) who counseled patience and said it would work.
I responded here before I feel your pain!
Worried mom, how are things with your son? I was like you, losing my mind, unable to sleep because of my son's "exuberant response" to accutane. He is almost at 12 weeks and just started to get better. And he's at a 60 mg dose. When my son wasn't progressing, his derm was about to increase that dose. He also went on prednisone for 10 days.The derm kept saying to be patient. He said he had never not cleared up anyone on accutane. This is "the" acne practice in my area -- northern Virginia. The person we see is tasked specifically to see all the acne patients. My husband also got a pediatric dermatologist from Johns Hopkins on the phone (he knows someone there) who counseled patience and said it would work.
I responded here before I feel your pain!
Thanks so much for asking about him. We went for an unscheduled visit to the derm. on Thursday. He will be on the accutane 13 weeks on Monday and his face is still just breaking out horribly. It was doing better on the prednisone, but he went off that last Monday and by Thursday he had 8-10 more cysts than he had, and he still has all the bad redness from all of this flare. I don't know what to do anymore, I have cried and cried over this thinking I should not have put him on it. The Dr. thursday put him back on a higher 3 week cours of prednisone and then she thinks he will have to stay on the prednisone everyother day until treatment is done. Now, the longer/higher dose of prednisone has me worried even more, but without it he gets these painful cysts. I thought by 12 weeks we would be in a totally different place and not have to worry about being on prednisone anymore. We go back on Tuesday for his regularly scheduled 3 month visit, but she said on Thursday that she plans to keep him on 40mg because of him still breaking out so bad. I thought she would raise the dosage. She says that for a 14 year old, he just has very severe acne. I just feel so bad for him! I would do anything to clear this up. Thanks again and I hope things are going well for your son. I just don't understand why he is having such a hard time with this, and why he has to be in the 5% of people that have this bad of a flare.
Thanks again for listening to me go on about this, it's just hard when all your other friends kids have flawless skin, not because I am upset about that, but they don't really understand. Good luck to your son, please let me know of his progess.
Oh hey yall bumped this old thing, it may get to 100k after all 😛Most Recent pic
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Hey Ranger! We began week 17 today and it is still horrible. Still huge cysts and new breakouts. We are also still on 10 mgs prednisone, but once he goes below 20, it really doesn't help. I just really don't know what to do anymore and he is getting more and more upset about it. We go to the derm. on Friday, I'm hoping they will up the accutane from 40mgs. but I don't know, they haven't yet. I'm not sure why they won't increase the dosage but they have not wanted to. I just don't understand why this is not working and why he is having to go through this. Thanks for listening and glad things are going well for you.
Ranger, still looking marvelous!!
Worriedmom3, maybe ask your son's dermatologist about a round of oral antibiotics to help calm down his cysts right now. They sometimes do that to help calm down an intense initial breakout. Also, long term, and sometimes even short term, steroids such as Prednisone can actually increase acne, so that may need to be taken into consideration as well. Talk to the doc about that too.
I know it's frustrating and so hard to see your son suffer, but hang in there! ((hugs!))
