I have suffered my whole life from mild acne. From a young teen to my mid 20s it slowly seemed to be getting worse. By the time I hit 24 something changed where it just got out of control and became inflamed huge blood filled bumps that were the size of a little bigger than a skittle. my whole face was covered and my face would literally be in pain when nothing was even touching it. I wore pounds of makeup to try and hide it. Couldn't go swimming with friends or ever be without my full makeup bag anywhere I went incase God forbid someone or something touched it and ruined it. I tried everything from topical creams at 130$.. to tetrocyclin and minocyclin and nothing helped. I was desperate, depressed and on my last hope. then my doctor prescribed me accutane (40m one day, 80mg the next, 40mg again and so on). it is a LIFESAVER!!!
immediately I started getting a dry nose and cracked lips, also working at a hair salon my hands always getting wet became EXTREMELY dry and irritated, my face and body were extremellllly dry, along with my eyes at times. but was it worth it? 100%.
I am able to be MAKEUPLESS around my boyfriend and famoly which I never thought would be a possibility ever again. I am so much more confident and can look people in the eye when speaking. ando my overall mood is so much happier it's unreal. I only wish I could have started accutane sooner.
I started accuTane December 17 2015 and stopped mid august 2016. after 4 or 5 months I honestly didn't see the huge change I was looking for and became so afraid it wasn't going to work on me and I'd be that low percentage of people it didn't work on. all I can is BE PATIENT. it will work!! I am a 26 year old from Quebec canada. I live a normal life and I'm someone just like you who was so effing frustrated with my acne I would've sold my soul for beautiful skin. while I still have some acne scarring and redness..
I am still so content with my skin and love looking in the mirror now rather than bursting into tears (and I still have my soul).
try it!!! so worth it!!!
Congrats, you look really good.
It gives me hope since I think I'm going to have to do a low-dose course for mild to moderate persistent acne and cystic acne on my chin. For some reason my forehead got jacked up after using the wrong kind of cleanser and taking Spiro and I don't know if it will ever go back to being normal and not oily anymore without Accutane. Here's to hoping I can have a result as good as yours.
Did you notice if any closed comedones became inflamed on Accutane? Also was there a reason they alternated the dosage up and down every other day? I was thinking of starting super low dose at like 10 or 20 mg.
Good, now whatever you do, don't do what I did and use retinoids...accutane worked wonders for me and then 3.5 years later I decided to unnecessarily use Tazorac which utterly wrecked my near perfect skin,,.please be gentle and careful with your skin now...I hope things into continue to get better and better for you, I remember the feeling of my skin being cleared and I would give up everything to have that again