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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

Right! This greatly increases one's susceptibility to infection.

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

Results of the propeciahelp post-drug symptoms survey are now available for viewing here.   The report is regenerated daily as surveys are completed.  There will be more ...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 5/30/2019 at 4:42 PM, Owen2000 said: Thyroid came back normal, as of now I still have eyebrow and and eyelashes, but it’s more noticeable on the eyelashes that I am losing hair. How h...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 5/29/2019 at 4:40 PM, jellyy said: Someone commented in this link [removed] "A study about vitamin a depletion in a old man who had hypervitaminosis A. It showed that RBP was greatly ...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 5/23/2019 at 12:34 PM, Calcified said: Does someone know why it's an anti androgen yet people are going bald ? 2 schools of thought on this. 1) It's a form of reflex hyperandr...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

Hard to believe this is so rare when I know of 4 people IRL who have/had persistent symptoms. One had ED as a young teenager (14 y/o) and I was told that he took Accutane prior. One was shi...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

That's discussion of secondary and tertiary sources. Not evidence. I've been destroyed for 20 years since Accutane and on a rather low vitamin A diet for most of those 20 years. Not intentionally, ...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

1 hour ago, under_tow said: So accutane is on top of all the retins stored already in the liver, fat tissues, and beta carotene throughout the body, which takes years to get down. Eviden...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

@guitrman, Thanks. Noticed one nasty tidbit in the first study you posted: Quote Staphylococcus aureus colonization was prominent in the microbial floras of nose and oropharynx and...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 5/7/2019 at 8:40 PM, guitarman01 said: So has anyone you know of actually been diagnosed with any kind of nerve damage or blood vessel disorder? Have metabolic markers been looked at ...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

Nice! Did the high prolactin levels go down on their own, or did you take something to lower them? I took a dopamine agonist, bromocriptine, for around 4-5 years after having borderline high pro...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

You're right @guitarman01. I was thinking along these lines but kept erroneously referring to an effect that explains a paradoxical response to excessive doses as inverse-agonism. Seriously, i...

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help ?? weird accutane side effects.

On 4/20/2019 at 12:49 PM, robertlove said: Try taking vitamin B12 and/or SAM-E. I personally think there is a link between the neuro side-effects of Accutane with B12 and SAM-E. Do you m...

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6 years ago
Depression after accutane

On 3/7/2019 at 11:11 AM, Mufasa628 said: Hi guys, I'm new to acne.org. I've recently stopped my second course on accutane. This was a three month course of 40mg/kg. Anyways, two weeks after fin...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

3 hours ago, cnb30 said: Finasteride only made things worse Did you have any sort of temporary recovery before getting worse? Development of any new symptoms? Any other noteworthy observ...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

3 hours ago, cnb30 said: Whenever I go to clubs and parties now (I don’t know how else to put this) but it seems that my “mojo” is somewhat back (for those of you who remember the movie Austin ...

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help ?? weird accutane side effects.

Hi, You really should inform your parents and/or doctor about this before it gets worse. I am someone who was left with a multitude of permanent side effects after quitting Accutane years ago and r...

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6 years ago
Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 4/16/2019 at 5:42 AM, Justdry said: There have been doctors in the past treating post accutane patients with more toxic doses of Vitamin A, causing even more damage. Just because the...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

21 hours ago, Justdry said: No offense, but I'm not even going to try and sugar coat this or be mature about it.......... Your post is dumb. What's the deal with the bla...

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Severe Side Effects Have Left Me Suicidal

On 3/31/2019 at 4:48 AM, robertlove said: Try SAM-E or Vitamin B12 for mental side effects. Using these supplements to combat post-Accutane side-effects destroyed me: [removed] ...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

What if you lost morning erections while taking Accutane and they never returned, even years later, and no physical or psychological diagnosis could explain it. What then Dr. @Ãkos?

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 3/12/2019 at 8:21 AM, cnb30 said: It’s been a while since I posted here but I think I’ll make some updates. - I made the mistake of taking a small amount of Fin in order to try to imp...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 1/30/2019 at 6:15 PM, TrueJustice said: FYI - Dysautonomia lists erectile dysfunction too for those who are concerned    On 1/30/2019 at 12:50 AM, TrueJus...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

On 1/22/2019 at 8:17 PM, GeRalt said: hey guys, I just wanted to ask how do you stay alive and not commit suicide? why even live? ive lost everything to this drug... my career wh...

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Repairing the long-term damage from Accutane

@RafCej , there is possibility the feeling of head pressure is intracranial hypertension, a.k.a pseudotumor cerebri. There have been a few people mention being diagnosed with this condition and it is ...

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