Hi Everyone,

I am a 19 year old college freshman and also division 1 athlete at the University of Delaware. I first want to start off by saying that this is my FOURTH time of claravis(accutane). Yes, I said fourth. I have had moderate to severe acne since I was around 15 or 16 years old. Every year it's the same thing. I experience terrible breakouts around the winter months. Because of this my dermo puts me back on claravis. Usually around March or May my skin really starts the clear up. I won't have any type of breakout all summer and mostly through fall but when the winter months hit the cycle just repeats itself. This sounds like seasonal acne, but I don't believe that is the case. I have been on claravis (80 mg a day) for about a month now and am currently going through the initial breakout stage. This time around I have decided to take a different approach to things and am going to start to document my progress through all of this. If anyone has questions about the medicine, just let me know. Like I said, I have been put on this 4 times so I pretty much know everything and anything about the drug and the effects. I am probably going to start posting my daily progressions on my blog here so feel free to take a look.