I'm at the end of month 2 on Accutane and will soon be starting month 3. I started with 80 mg right off the bat. Had a terrible breakout after one week and it lasted 2 weeks. Since then, skin has been totally clear. Red and dry, but clear.

Over the past two days, though, my skin has become sticky. Like, it sticks to itself. When I don't have a shirt on, my arm will stick to my sides. My jaw will stick to my neck when I'm laying down. The back of my neck will stick to itself when I tip my head back. When I bend my elbow, my bicep touches my forearm, and all that skin sticks to the other skin it comes into contact with.

Also, if I touch my forehead, cheeks, neck, or arms with my hand, then my hand sticks to whatever it's touching. Is this normal? Is this just part of the process and does it go away? If not, I think I have to stop taking accutane. I could handle the joint pain, the sleeplessness, the scattered-brain thinking/ADHD feelings, poor memory, lips cracking and bleeding, and total muscle weakness...but this sticky skin is so uncomfortable it might be the thing that pushes me over the edge. Which would suck because it is working SO well otherwise. And only 4 months to go with it.

Anyone have a similar experience?

Oh, incidentally, my dermatologist is a nurse practitioner who did not want to treat my accutane induced insomnia with meds and told me my only option was to stop taking the med. I went to my family doctor who put me on ambien right away. It made me angry that the practitioner who is prescribing accutane won't treat the side effects of the med she prescribes. That's bad medicine, isn't it?