Hello everyone,

I know there are a few similar topics around here which I've read, but I can't say it helped.

I had bad acne since 11-12 years old. I used many products dermatologists would give me, mainly ointments, but nothing really worked.

Last year my dermatologist suggested we should do a laser treatment (something photothermal, i don't know exactly) once per 15 days for 6 weeks.

Eventually, laser treatment didn't helped my acne as i would continue breaking out, but the redness indeed eliminated.

Then I started considering Accutane. When I asked him(Summer 2011) to prescribe it to me, he said I won't have to do it, as I'm still young and all these hormones still are powerfull and it will go away itself.

Then he called my(December 2011) and told me we should do it, and acne will go away surely. Then I was about 60 kg (132 pounds) so we started with 40mg/day.

He told me acne will be very worse in the second month. So it happened, but acne continued to be worse even at the end of third month. He then said I could get a third pill every 3 days. I continued to break out even at the beggining of sixth month.

When I finished I had some pimples in my back, and he told me those would go away in summer, which indeed happened (really swimming in summer, every year, clears 95% of my back acne). So I finished Accutane in June 2012 and my face was 100% clear (no oilment, not pimples, not scars at all)

In December 2012 i started to break out again (just a few simples), but acne was coming, gradually, back. Now I have a few pimples in my face (I used benzoyl peroxyde and now topical isotretinoin) and some in my back.

I don't really know what to do. I get sometimes cystic pimples, in my face and in my back, and my skin is very oily again.

Should I go to Accutane again? Does second course have better/permanent results?

Should I just wait? Will my acne never go away?

I m planning to visit my dermatologist next month.