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Week 34: Still taking 20mg of accutane every other day. Stopped taking vitamin D3 because it wasn't doing anything and I took a high dose for a long time. I guess vitamin D clears some peoples' oil,...

My OP may have sounded insecure, but I was mostly just wondering if oily skin is a turn off for other people, not if I should be worried about how I look. However I admit I have some confidence issues...

I haven't been posting much lately because I've been focusing on school and my face just doesn't look that bad right now. And since I look decent, I've been trying to get a social life again, which in...

Week 31: Not really much to say, which is why I haven't been on here as much. Acne still looks good, oil and blackheads are still here, but better than when I started accutane. I started taking 20mg ...

I wouldn't get your hopes up. I don't really think it will do anything. Saw palmetto is totally safe, especially for females. You will be fine if you try it. Personally if I was female I would just ...

Accutane will work great for oil while you're on it, but I guess it's not an option for you. As already mentioned, vitamin A and D supplements could help if you want to try those. That clearetto has s...

Week 29: Acne, oil, and blackheads are the same, as usual. I stopped taking the vitamin d3 for a week to see if it was causing my neck pain, but it didn't go away. So I resumed taking the vitamin d3 ...

Week 27: Everything is pretty much the same. Acne looks good, don't even care about it anymore. I still have some oil and blackheads. Still taking 20mg accutane and 10,000iu vitamin D3 a day. Can't t...

Honestly acne does make you look less attractive. That's why we are here. To find out how to get rid of or deal with our acne because we don't like how it looks. It depends on how bad the acne is thou...

People who actually have acne don't just grow out of in it their early twenties. You have to do something about it. If your cysts and scars are as bad as you say they are, you might want to just get o...

Worst title ever. Never give up, never let acne win. Take accutane if you have to. You can get clear. You will get clear if you try hard enough for long enough.     And don't take antibiotic...

I don't want to find ways to cope with it. If acne didn't make me feel bad, I would never be motivated to get rid of it. Instead, I just use the negative feelings about acne to drive me to get clear. ...

Noted. Thanks for opening my eyes. I just did a ton of research in the online medical journals and you're right, no real evidence of a 'feedback effect'. I guess I had been thinking that way from read...

I wasn't going to post anything in this thread, but I feel like I should correct this. Mainly, your sebaceous glands are usually producing oil in an attempt to hydrate your skin, which is why if yo...

I think the most realistic solutions for oily skin are accutane/vitamin a, vitamin d, and antiandrogens. If you are female you can also try spironolactone or birth control. Try 1-3 grams of pure vi...

Week 25: I have 59 pills left, so I will be on 20mg for 59 more days. My acne still looks good. My blackheads have not improved, but I do seem less oily than last week. I'm judging how oily I am by h...

I started on 20mg and it took a few weeks to start working. After that it was dose dependent for me. I never took enough for it to actually shrink my oil glands, so the oil would just decrease when I ...

2. long-term overexposure to androgens during formative years (I think there is a reason acne is worst in cultures that feed kids dairy and sugar constantly during their formative years when their cel...

So do you believe we have too much DHT, and not a sensitivity to it? Do you think we have too much DHT in the skin or too much free DHT in the body?

It would be pretty hard to get accutane legally if you don't even have acne. Even if you did get it, you might have to take more than you expect for it to work, and your oil will probably return after...

I wasn't purposely avoiding the sun, I just never wanted to go outside. But now I'm making myself go outside for some vitamin d and sunlight.

Week 24: I started going outside this week to get some vitamin D from the sun as well. So from the accutane, vitamin D3 supplements, and sunlight, my acne looks great. I'm getting like 1 tiny pimple ...

Yea all acne products are scams. They don't cure anything, they just "treat" acne or oil. Meaning they never get rid of it. I don't know much about hormonal imbalances, but we don't necessarily have ...

Week 23: Acne, oil, and blackheads are all the same as last week. So are side effects. There still seems to be only a short term effect from the accutane, and no long term effect. Still taking 20,00...

Sweet I'm a science person lol. I actually haven't cared about topicals for years. I just use a gentle cleanser, and benzoyl peroxide when I need to, and a moisturizer when using benzoyl peroxide. To...