1 hour ago, MaleMuriel said:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25870473
Have a read, tell me what you think. I personally have not taken my prescribed accutane because im afraid of this drug, but this research gives me some hope..

Hi mate, low doses seem to work well... but side effects, even permanent ones could still happen.

In my case, it hit my muscles. There is joint pain as well. I took 40mg almost full 4 months, then switched to 10mg a day, but had to stop due to reaction. It worked wonders on my back acne/scalp.

The problem with tane is that you don't know when you will be hit, and by what.

Unless you have very severe/cystic acne, don't take this. Do your acne cause problems in every day life(back bleeding/scalp/pain etc)? If not, don't risk this at all, in any dose. Many of us signed a deal with devil, and now suffer problems.

The blood tests done for roaccutane do not always cover everything... and they do not always show potential long term damage. If you do go on this, insist CK levels and perhaps ANA to be done as well.

I do not think any tane dose is "safe". All these drugs are dangerous, but I think tane is even worse than long term antibiotics.

1 hour ago, fiksi said:

The blood tests done for roaccutane do not always cover everything... and they do not always show potential long term damage. If you do go on this, insist CK levels and perhaps ANA to be done as well.

I do not think any tane dose is "safe". All these drugs are dangerous, but I think tane is even worse than long term antibiotics.

Testing for CK and ANA would not do anything. The drug is known to have an effect in some cases on both of those measures, but it is almost always temporary

1 hour ago, 808toms said:

2 hours ago, fiksi said:

The blood tests done for roaccutane do not always cover everything... and they do not always show potential long term damage. If you do go on this, insist CK levels and perhaps ANA to be done as well.

I do not think any tane dose is "safe". All these drugs are dangerous, but I think tane is even worse than long term antibiotics.

Testing for CK and ANA would not do anything. The drug is known to have an effect in some cases on both of those measures, but it is almost always temporary

"Almost always" doesn't cut it when your head is at stake and CK very often increases. This drug is a known myotixic drug. Joint pain is sometimes very long term as well. If tane does damage to muscles, this could catch it. However, severe reactions did happen before even without CK elevation.

18 hours ago, fiksi said:

Hi mate, low doses seem to work well... but side effects, even permanent ones could still happen.

In my case, it hit my muscles. There is joint pain as well. I took 40mg almost full 4 months, then switched to 10mg a day, but had to stop due to reaction. It worked wonders on my back acne/scalp.

The problem with tane is that you don't know when you will be hit, and by what.

Unless you have very severe/cystic acne, don't take this. Do your acne cause problems in every day life(back bleeding/scalp/pain etc)? If not, don't risk this at all, in any dose. Many of us signed a deal with devil, and now suffer problems.

What are your permanent side effects?

On 29. 12. 2017. at 3:15 PM, MaleMuriel said:

On 28. 12. 2017. at 8:22 PM, fiksi said:

Hi mate, low doses seem to work well... but side effects, even permanent ones could still happen.

In my case, it hit my muscles. There is joint pain as well. I took 40mg almost full 4 months, then switched to 10mg a day, but had to stop due to reaction. It worked wonders on my back acne/scalp.

The problem with tane is that you don't know when you will be hit, and by what.

Unless you have very severe/cystic acne, don't take this. Do your acne cause problems in every day life(back bleeding/scalp/pain etc)? If not, don't risk this at all, in any dose. Many of us signed a deal with devil, and now suffer problems.

What are your permanent side effects?

Hi mate,

I still don't know. I was once on tane quite young, but only maybe 2 months... even if that, by inexperienced derm on very low dose. Came back. I think even form then my eyes were permanently drier. My night vision might be worse as well.

Accutane is toxic to muscles and bones. Joint and muscle pain comes from this. In fact, this is a listed myotoxic drug.

Accutane may help you, I was quite desperate as well... but it is really systemic. It affects thyroid, pituitary, brain, everything. I've had side effects form mino, been taking it long, but nothing like this extreme muscle weakness I had which scared me to death.

I think there is no safe dose of tane- listed effects are many. The fact it can deform an unborn baby should be a major alarm.

Even Roche still don't know how exactly tane works. They know something, but not all. We don't know how it works in full. Nobody does. They keep adding new side effects to list...

If you are a very severe case, tane may help you. Lower dose could work. The decision is on you.