I actually just found a girl on YouTube who broke out badly in month 4 and cleared up in month 5. Here's hoping!!

Fuck fuck fuxcccccckjk. Sorry for the language but we deserve it. I have a huge freaking bump on my chin which has been totally clear these past three months.. Kill me

I'M RIGHT THERE WITH ALL OF YOU!

I watched a bunch of accutane videoes on youtube today WTF. all these people had waaaay worse acne then me and were all clear, red marks gone and all by the end of their treatment!

W

Youtube is from hell!

before i went on tane I researched low dose tane and every video was unicorns and roses.....

WTF?

How could we ALL be in this same boat...LOL...CRAZY

Warning...Warning..

Im an angry BIOTCH this am

I went for my b/w yesterday....

I felt a sense of accomplishment and relief that it was my LAST time going for b/w

NOW I find out a mnth after stopping tane i need a blood pg test

WHYYYYYY?

I can see having to get the b/w to get another mnth of pills ...but if I'm done with this hellish medication... what's the point

Hubby had a V years ago so this damn pg crap is POINTLESS anyway...I can not get pregnant u idiots!!!!

and what if I got pg a mnth after tane...what would they do?

I dont know if I am just going to tell them to F off..Im not going..i want to be done with all of this!

I warned u guys..im super grouchy

up again at 6:00...exhausted all day

I also counted the pills I have left, because my bonehead Dr office messed up my rx last mnth and called in 75mg instead of 60

I have 32 days of pills at 50mg a day

i could miss my dr appt this wed and just take a 7th mnth..

BUT I guess Ill go anyway and see what she has to say

Why is my skin bumpy...why withing just the past 2 weeks have I had small whiteheads pop as well as small red bumps

Ok, im going to chill and stop my rant

*oooommmmmmmmmmmm*

and im pissed for all the ther people here dealing with this bologna!

Kim

Tell them to F off, Kim!!!

WAAAAAAAAAA

I went to get my eyebrows threaded

HOLY SHIT

I have 2 welts under my brows and 3 marks between my eybrows..raw....torn off flesh marks

it hurts

shittttttttt

now i feel so stupid

Do yall think the moisturizer is breaking us out? I am considering going to bed without any moisturizer tonight to see what happens... My breakouts are all just bumps with clear fluid in them. I can't figure it out.

Kim: duh! Stay away from anything of the sort! I guess it's too late for that advice.

GREAT it's two in the morning and I woke up drowning in my own mucus. Wishing I could get back to sleep. I'm going to be a douche today because when I don't get sleep I turn into an ass. Anyways I think I'm the only one that doesn't mind getting blood tested. Maybe it's because I've had so many IV'S and shots because of when I has asthma. I'm currently brewing some pure peppermint tea to see if it stops the mucus.

Hey Cshock

Sorry u had a rough night

I could care less about getting blood drawn (as in the actual act/needle..doesnt bother me at all)

Just the pointless act of having to go and make an appt to wait 1/2 hr fasting.....more silly waste of time...and I guess mnth after mnth..I just dont want to bother

anyhoooo...hope everyone is doing well

still a sore mess from threading

see my derm today at 12:30!

will post when i get back

kim

I waited 45 min to see my derm for 10min

She said most likely will NOT need a 7th mnth..if things stay as is

BUT wants me to get b/w in 4 weeks anyway (just in case)

I actually have pills for 30 days..so dont need rx but will get it anyway

Being technical my anni is the 17th but I am getting 30 days as of Thursday so...will be more like 6.5 mnths (every day counts!)

Anywayyyyyy

She said she likes to start patients on retin-a as soon as they stop tane

if they get too dry etc scale back to 3-4x a week but she prefers nightly

I have been using tane for 10 yrs so I dont know if it will be an issue or how much my skin has changed

Im over analyzing my skin lately

in the mirror looking at every small bumps/shadow etc

Kim

You've been using tane for ten years!? I hope you mean retin a. If so RIP Kim!

Currently running a fever and breaking out like crazy... This second month isn't going so good. I feel like this new breakout will never fucking clear!

I woke up to 2 new ones this morning. MY GOD! What's happening!!! I have 11 days left... I thought Accutane made people acnefree not acneless or acnenotsobad!!! I'm so desperate! And Kim, wow, will you take RetinA all the time? or just for a couple months?

So sorry Mary

I dont even know what to say

Do they look like pimples with heads or could it be irritation marks or bumps

It sounds like retin-a indefinetly

I dont know why I feel guilty thinking about dissing my derm

I have the meds for the next mnth plus ..my b/w has always been perfect (chol marginally high..ever so slightly)

so what the heck is the point of future b/w?

Im so afraid of breaking out again and becoming an oil slick

I thought might finish off this mnth at 40mg than taper and add another mnth at 25 mg

I know dont wnat to be on in the summer..but also dont want to be a gross oil slick either

and want as much tane in my system as possible!

kim

A bunch of people on another board on this site said they broke out until the end and only cleared up after treatment. Do not despair!!

Yes meant retin-a for 10yrs

Lol

Sorry for the fever and breakouts

That sucks breaking out until the end

Makes me confused as to wether I want to continue treent for as long as possible or stop once hit 9600

Haaaaa

Thanks Marilyn for the hope!! Kim, they are very small pimples but I am sure they are not due to irritation. I don't know if I will ask for Retin-A in my follow up appointment on May 11th... I wanted so much to be over with acne products and everything, my biggest mistake was probably to expect a miracle from Tane. I guess like me you have read/watched many successful testimonials so I was very hopeful before starting.

I can relate

Thought look like a porcelain doll

I have still have pretty bad milia under my eyes

Worse that pre tane

I have a whitehead that won't budge next to my nose few smaller ones around my nostril

Give up trying to make sense of it

Annoyed me skin is so difficult that that hasn't been enough to become totally clear

I don't mind using retain a after tane as its anti aging and think gives skin a nice glow

Hang in there

May 11 around the corner

Kim

My face looks terrible ugh

Also I just barely grabbed a metal tube and a chunk of skin on the side of my finger came off. I heard tane makes it so easy for you to get cut and what not but OW

Hey yall. I am new to the forum and just started accutaine(claravis) about a month and a week ago. The first month was a breeze other than my lips were super chapped, but cortibalm was a lifesaver there. I'm into month two and I seriously am exhausted but can't sleep at night. I toss and turn most of the night. And my back aches 24/7 right now. Nothing seems to help with that pain and I can only assume that is coming from the accutaine. I injured my back during vb in highschool but it is only an off and on thing when I do a lot of strenuous lifting or playing something like volleyball. Is any of this normal? If this keeps getting worse with the larger dosage, I'm going to seriously struggle to finish!! On the up side though, my skin is already clearing up and looking a thousand times better!

Sorry Cshock

and Mary you are not alone..after being maybe 5-6 days red blip free

I wake up to a doozy of a zit on my hair line

a place i never ever ever had issues with pre tane

Im speechless

*sigh*

kim

Does anyone every think they forget a dose and take an extra pill by accident?

I swear my lips were doing SO much better and today they are HORRIBLE

I have cracks in both corners of my mouth

my lips are peeling outside my lip line...red ..looks like 3 little blisters on lip line

WTFFFFF

I have a big family event coming up monday/tuesday

seeing cousins from out of town I have not seen in years

would it be totally nuts to go down to 20-25 mg a day just for 2-3 days..will it help?

IDK as long as I keep the drug n my system I could bump up the following 3 days to make up for it

???

kim

Kim, have you tried cortibalm? I had TERRIBLE lips and that has done wonders. I rarely notice my lips being chapped as long as I make sure to put it on at consistently. It works and it works fast.

Thanks

Used it yes but didn't make huge difference

Stopped weeks ago

Just last week they were so much better

Don't know what happened

Kim, I never changed my dosage and my skin goes to super dry, dry, normal, dry, dry, super dry, normal. I'm not sure there's any particular reason as my routine is always the same. I am not sure that lowering your dosage would change something as the drug stays in your body for a while. But I'm no specialist. My feeling is just that it's better to stick with a dosage so your body gets used to it. I'm having a small breakout on the right corner of my chin... a couple small ones. Strange! Lately, I was having just a single one from time to time, something is happening, but I don't know what. It's funny how it's been. At first, my whole face was breaking out with a couple of huge angry ones, and mostly on the forehead. The forehead cleared up in 2 months and nothing there since then. Then, it was my cheeks and my jawline and now they are quite cleared. Now, it's the chin that's breaking out a bit....

Welcome Katebug, can I ask what is your acne history? Good luck for you! And I think the body pain is normal but if you can't handle it, maybe you shouldn't up your dosage!

Thanks Mary. I've had acne for years, and it's always been super bad. It runs in my family and each child down seems to get it worse. I used retin a for a really long time but then developed sensitivity to it for whatever reason. We then tried doxycycline but as soon as we lowered the dosage, it went back to being bad, so he put me on this. I'm excited to see that it is working and my face that used to be so excessively oily isn't anymore. But it will take a while to get used to my back being in so much pain. Today I could barely sit up straight it hurt so bad.