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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

1 hour ago, under_tow said: Excellent, I am close to 4 months vit A free now, and symptoms clearing nicely, but slowly. Please report back how you are doing, thanks. Not super...

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3 hours ago, TrueJustice said: I wish it was that easy. The problem after 20 years is that the damage accumulates, regardless of theories other problems arise yeah namely gut lining and ...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

43 minutes ago, under_tow said: Retinol palmitate is the synthetic vitamin A, and probably the worst one to take. I did high dose retinyl palmitate (300K to 500K/day), did nothing. zero vita...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

23 hours ago, under_tow said: Taking accutane in normal dosage 40mg to 80mg per day is roughly equivalent to 2.5 million IU to 5 million IU of vitamin A per day. Over a 6 month dosage length, ...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

1 hour ago, under_tow said: Blood test is not reflective of what is stored in liver and fat tissues. I think a few hundred pages back some thought they were now deficient in vitamin a.

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9 hours ago, under_tow said: Some longer water fasting and liver flushes have helped fat absorption immensely and no longer have any issues. No folliculitis, but with the excessive sebum...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

6 hours ago, Sibel said: Been reading this thread. I took Roaccutane 5 times, 5 courses in the space of 8 years in different variations each time prescribed by dermatologists controlled with th...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

1 hour ago, under_tow said: I finished two rounds, that were years apart. The only thing that is progressively reducing the sebum production is the zero vitamin A diet, and this then helps wit...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

55 minutes ago, Mabbbs said: Same! My skin is oilier and flakier post-Tane. How do you manage other than being on a vitamin A diet? I attributed my oily skin to never actually finishing the ent...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

5 minutes ago, gutskinaxis said: Have any of you done a microbiome analysis? I have some theories... No let's hear it?

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

Has anyone been told by optometrist that they have corneal scars?

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 2/6/2019 at 3:34 AM, gutskinaxis said: You're saying b12 causes acne? There are some studies to support this. Could be one reason that accutane works so well. Just updating, although ...

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Curing the long-term side-effects of Accutane, both mental and physical

On 6/1/2017 at 2:52 AM, User497083 said: I tried megadosing vitamin A, I wouldn't recommend anyone else trying it. That said 5000IU can't hurt, I was taking much more than that, I think it ...

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5 hours ago, User2 said: Good catch - it was creatinine. My mistake. Thanks for clarifying. Tends to rise on Tane so wondering if things go haywire after treatment.

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I have lost alot of hair, but mine started with the whole temple thing. The only thing helps me is wash hair in water only, no shampoo or conditioner.

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6 hours ago, gutskinaxis said: Did your temple acne naturally go away? This is my worst area but my hair is a bit long. With mine it kept going untill the hair was gone, are you experien...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 1/30/2019 at 1:08 PM, gutskinaxis said: I take B12 no matter what to bring back my energy and brain/nervous system function after accutane. I find it helps make my skin look healthier but th...

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4 hours ago, TrueJustice said: FYI - Dysautonomia lists erectile dysfunction too for those who are concerned High creatine kinase or dysautonomia? Possible connection?

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3 hours ago, Mabbbs said: That’s a very long time, must’ve been painful all these years. I’m asking because I’ve noticed that people who took Accutane when they were younger tend to develop lon...

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6 hours ago, User2 said: It has been a while since I've had a blood test but my creatine level was high at that time. Just to clarify creatinine or creatine kinase (CK)?

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Has anyone had creatine kinase blood test?

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38 minutes ago, gutskinaxis said: I've found for my scalp/temple acne that low carbs/sugar/fodmaps/dairy seems to help, but that's really restrictive Have you tried B12 injections? I not...

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6 hours ago, Mabbbs said: I did an MRI for my hip, came back negative (other than minimal effusion which I don’t think is significant or at least according to the doc ). I’m honestly worried ab...

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5 hours ago, User2 said: I could be wrong but judging from photos online, I don't think the scalp breakouts I get is psoriasis. Mine are more like a sort of acne breakout that come and go. I ...

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10 hours ago, Francisco..Blanquez said: Yes, every 3 month my doctor test me about two inflamatory parameters PCR and VSG. I could control pcr using chucrut. I normaly make chucrut at home whic...

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