Hi everyone. My 13 year old son is starting on isotretinoin today. I had quite a time at the pharmacy today. The only medication they could get for me today at 30mg was going to cost over $500! Yikes! They were able to get me Claravis, but only at 20mg. The doctor said to start him on this. Luckily, we just met our $200 pharmaceutical deductible. That was fast.

Anyway, my son has been battling acne for a year now and it has recently gotten very bad. We did a month on the doxycycline and that only made matters worse so here we are today. I really had a hard time deciding to let him go on this medication. It's so scary as a parent, but I can see his confidence getting shaken by this acne and really had to do something.

Here we are on day 1.