Heyyyy buddy!! I'm in the same exactly situation as you! I thought I was the only one since everybody seems to report their IB after 2 3 weeks. So its good to see I'm not the only one

I know for sure it's not just coincidence since the last couple of weeks my skin was getting minimal breakouts (4 per week) and after 4 5 days taking 40 mg of accutane/ day, my skin started to break out in big painful red whiteheads (which I couldn't help but to pop them... I know but i just couldn't help it) and I've almost never had those before! My skin is already quite flaky, although I don't think it is very dry, but getting there.

Right now I have 4 huge whiteheads in my cheeks.

Please I need someone to answer someonegood questions ASAP

Thanks so much

ya well I called my derm and she put me on amoxicillin and predisone which is helping. Sucks to put more garbage in my body but hey there are side effects to taking it and not taking it. I guess the plan is wait until the accutane has flushed out all the shi skin and when that happens I should be able to get off the prednisone and amoxicillin without breaking out any more. Maybe you should call your derm and see if you can arrange something similiar to that. There re so many drugs in my body it could be doing really bad things but when people get tons of acne and get all depressed about it they become very short sighted like me. See the light at the end of the tunnel. We are lucky it is just acne and not like diabetes or cancer or blindness or something worse but the worst thing about acne is that it changes the way you feel about yourself and your image and you always notice people looking at it. It's easy to just tough it out for a day but when it happens day after day it actually affects the neurotransmitter levels in your head and makes you feel like s which can be serious.

bump for you

I totally get you. I feel so identified with every single thing you've said. These past days I have been feeling so sad and ugly and unsocial. I just go to college, come back and lock myself in my room just and just watch TV, study and feeling like sh*t all day.

Right now, every single obstacle or problem breaks me down in tears, and I am definitely not the kind of girl that stress out or is very problematic. I'm never make up a world of every single problem, but this is driving me crazy. I don't feel like myself. I'm very sociable and friendly, and acne is destroying everything. I'm constantly thinking all of the things I would do if my face looked decent.

I want my life back and hopefully we are on our way, with accutane there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm so sorry for my negative perspective, i'm quite positive and cheerful but right now I just feel very frustrated.

Let's wait for better days and clearing soon

PD: If you find my English very awkward or incorrect is because I'm from Spain

yes you are just like me then haha I am also a college student doing the same thing. I wish that you weren't going through what I am also going through but it does make me feel better I am not the only one. Theres about a million one in a million chances you can have of something in your body being messed up. Our one in a million happens to be uncommon acne issues. It's not really one in a million but you know what I mean. This obviously isn't an issue that can be fixed overnight but the key here is progress. If every day I wake up looking a little bit better than the day before, I will be estatic. I actually stopped looking in the mirror like 10 weeks ago because I would just get self concious and I already knew it was all jacked up so there was really no point in being dissapointed.

Your negative perspective is very normal, acne sucks, but I'm sure we will appreciate things very much when it goes away as well as live by the phrase "don't sweat the small stuff" because at least we won't look diseased anymore.

It is strange how different things affect breakouts, for me I know that caffeine, dairy, and lack of sleep do awful things. I'm not sure if these things will make a difference now because I am assuming that these factors affect the secretion of oil which the accutane is already handling, I'm not a doctor, but it couldn't hurt to lay low on that.

I have found in my experiences that I dont really want to go to bars or be social when I have a serious acne problem, but if I do things like fishing, reading, playing guitar, I can still find inner peace that makes me not miserable. Good luck my friend

also I work out, I work out a lot. And I decided to run a marathon after the summer.

When god gives you lemons just spend your time focusing on absurd goals to pass the time and build mental strength. Maybe setting some outlandish goal you can focus on while you wait would help pass the time.

You have a great attitude towards life!! I think it's so important to stay positive and being grateful with life for everything we have. We often just look to all of our flaws, like acne, and forget all the unique and beautiful things we have.

The truth is that my attitude with my friends and and family is quite different as the one I have here. They don't even imagine how much I suffer psychologically from this. I mean, of course I don't have depression or anything, but I think they don't have a clue on how sad acne makes me feel.

I am not the kind of person that go and vent everything with their friends and family. I guess i don't like be seeing like that.

What makes me feel self pitty is that acne makes me kind of a different person. I am very simple and love having fun and just don't care too much for little things. I'm spontaneous, very sociable, love talking with peoole and used to be very secure and outgoing.

However acne really changed my personality. I'm definitely much more insecure, some days I don't want to talk to anybody. If there is a bright white light over me or too much luminosity and I'm talking to someone I will just want to finish the conversation ASAP and go somewhere else with less light. I hate makeup and have to cake up foundation on my face, which is so anti-me cause I am all about natural and effortless.

Luckily, in a couple of weeks all of these will be part of the past and acne will be gone for good and I will be the girl I used to be. Can't wait

I didnt read all the responses but just finished a 6 mnth course 2 weeks ago

I did not break out at all until about 4 week sinto tane and i had a horrible break out on the entire right side of my face

After that I never went more than 5 days without some small red bump the entire 6 mnth course

Im off 2 weeks now and knock on wood..so far so good!!!

who knows with this wacky med if there is any rhyme or reason

I started on a lower dose 20 than 40mg..so i dont know if that had anyhting to do with it

gl

kim

I should have known

jinxed myselfjust

got out of shower and have red bump under right cheekbone

worst area pre tane

oh well

2.5 weeks.....no new spots thought i was on a roll

IDK what to do

call Dr?

sigh

of course just saw her YESTERDAY!!!!

hey just one spot thats not too bad, you could look like me I probably am nearing 50-100 red spots of some type all the time.

Lucy, you have perfectly summarized the last year of my life.

I don't believe that a couple weeks will resolve the issue here, I am expecting after my second complete month that things will start to get better because I am getting more and more short tempered when people stare, its like F*** off buddy.

Kimber I am going to guess if you call your doctor they are just going to ask you if it is a serious breakout or mild breakout. When you say it is a mild breakout they are probably going to tell you to do nothing and see if the problem resolves itself or if it progresses. My opinion would be keep unnecessary drugs out of the body unless the breakout is serious enough to warrant putting yourself in harms way.

Never felt more impatient. Excelcior

what kind of side effects are you guys dealing with? I have a few lol so this better be worth it

Achy joints

fatigue

of course the dryness of the eyes skin and lips

Definitely lower serotonin. Not going to say I am depressed but I can tell that my brain chemicals have changed

I drank one night and got really hungover which doesn't normally happen to me. Didn't pop a tane that day so dont understand too well.

Can't forget a good spontaneous nosebleed either.

Is it just me or does everything I do to combat acne make it overall worse? after antibiotics my skin turns to hell, my clearest skin of the last few years is when I took no drugs, only took a shower in the morning and didnt wash my face with soap even, no products what so ever and I didn't even change my pillowcase or any of the precautions I now take...

Heyyyy time does not pass haha I'd love having a time machine and just go forward 2 months from here.

Right now my skin is doing well, I'm having only 2 actives but i feel like 2 are about to form cause I feel 2 little bumps at the right cheek. Today as soon as I arrive home I will put ice on them.

RIght now I feel the same as you, the more products I put in my face, the worse it looks. I feel while accutane, less is more. I am not putting anything on my face and its less irritated, less red and looking more healthy.

What I feel makes a difference and really help is ice!! As simple as that. It does not irritate and helps shrinking pimples and reduce it size. Sometimes at night I put one of those frozen gel bags all over my face and at the following day I notice they are less red and inflamed and smaller.

Don't pay attention to stupid people who dont have the simpathy to stop and think how would you feel if he stares at you. I hate those who think that we are the one to blame for having acne and it's our fault for not taking care. They don't even know how we struggle everyday, how we wash our face and put every lotion and cream and treatment available, how are constantly looking up for a cure or a remedy or some miracle.

It's genetics, not dirt or poor hygiene. Ignorants.

Let's keep calm and strong and positive. We will get beautiful skin in some weeks/months.