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Hello all! My name is Liz, and this forum will be home to my Accutane journey!
A little bit of history about me:
A little bit about my acne/skin:
My skin is incredibly resilient and bounces back easily, but recently my hyper-pigmentation hasn't been healing as quickly as it used to. Adulthood haha.
My skincare regimen?:
I have tried everything under the sun. But for my Accutane I am using:
Cocoa Butter Formula Daily Calming Facial Lotion x1 nightly (will up when skin dries out)
Aloe Vera
Vitamin E
Milk Proteins
Home-made Toner x2 daily
Crushed up Aspirin
Water
Tea Tree Oil
Neosporin
(OPTIONAL) Apple Cider Vinegar at night only!
My dosage:
What foods am I eating?:
Peanut Butter
Walnuts or Peanuts
Any nuts really
EVOO
Peanut butter is the best thing in the world, hands down.
Photos?! (Week 0/Start):
you're going to clear up beautifully, i can just tell! One Month In!
Hello! So, going to do one gigantic update since I have been super neglectful of this the last few months.
These photos were from about a month into my Accutane Regimen. I had just wrapped up the 40MG dosage and was moving into the 80MG dosage.
I didn't notice the dryness too much in the first month. I kept well moisturized. Nothing else incredibly notable about this month.
Two Months Down!
So this was about two months into my regimen, it was my first month on the 80MG dosage. The dryness really set in at this point, I went to straight aquaphor on my lips and do not even get me started with trying to cope if I didn't have a lip balm in sight for over 30 minutes. Cracking at the sides of my lips also started up, trying to combat that with neosporin (I have heard wonderful things, but my lips crack again first thing in the morning when I brush my teeth). Definitely a noticeable difference, really haven't been getting cysts (yay!) and the oil skin is so far gone that I finally swore off most cleansing products and use only a few light products. CeraVe and Cetaphil, but my favorite is definitely the GrapeFruit Lemon Balm scrub by Yes! It's like 10 bucks and doesn't really harm my skin. It actually soothes it.
Also, for the TMI part. Bleeding from my cracked bottom hole. That sucks too. Infrequent, but happens. Hair is also dry most days, combating that dryness is a whole new ball game.
Three Months In!
Chin redness! Arggghhh. Anyways, back to the science. Ignore the giant scar on the bottom of my chin, had a bicycle accident this week and slammed my face into the ground. Had to get stitches. Got them removed and healed pretty well.
As far as breakouts are concerned, I have a few small ones. When I do get them they love to come all around my mouth like a pimple goatee. But it's not nearly as bad as when I started. Sides of my face have cleared up astoundingly, jawline pimples are gone.
Dryness is at an all time high, my lips are always chapped and my skin is flaky. Once a few more of these clear up I am going to go ahead and swear off makeup. My nose is also dry all the time. That sucks, looks like I always have a cold.
All other symptoms persistent, but easily enough combatted. My hair is super brittle so I am being especially kind to it. The moisturizing has helped tremendously with combatting aging symptoms.
Hopefully will be up to 120MG in the next few days.
