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Tyrean, don't despair. The best part of accutane usually occurs when you stop the drug. You know how it made your acne worse at first? Now imagine taking that drug out of your system. For the lump...

use something like vasoline at night... and when they start getting real bad, you'll want to put some desonide or cortisone on them from time to time.

To your question about taming inflammation, desonide works well. If you don't have a prescription for that, over the counter hydrocortisone cream works well too. Both are corticosteroids and reduce ...

We have little circular bandages in the US too... not sure if they are the same thing, but I've put one on a popped zit overnight when I know it was going to continue to ooze. Use a lot of hot compre...

Day 98 Insurance company refilled my Accutane, so I picked up my 4th set of 60 x 40mg pills. Since April 5, I've taken 6,000mg total. Current dose: 80mg/day Also using Desonide (corticosteroid cream...

Insurance problems.

Oh I feel bad for your cheezycakes, it's like mine... my skin looks so good, then the nastiness comes back. I'm on my 3rd course right now. The silver lining is, it's always permenantly a little bet...

Tim, it always looks worse when you bump up the dose... it takes a couple week for the body to adjust. But the higher the dose and longer the course, the better chance you have at full remission.

Day 88 - Dermatologist Visit Saw the dermatologist today. He said to use more moisturizer and also use Desonide. He wants me to be more aggressive with using Tazorac for the whiteheads. I'm also o...

Not much you can do about the redness except: sunscreen when you go out, and hydrocortisone if it's aggravated and inflamed.

Did you ever increase the retin-a micro to every night?

That's such steady progress... I'm starting to believe low dose treatments are a good idea.

I'm so happy for you... it definitely cleared you completely up in 6 months. I'm 3 months in my 3rd course, I hope my skin looks as good as yours in 3 months. I also have Tazorac for when I'm done w...

Day 83 Acne is erupting all over my face again! And I have a black tie event coming up on the 6th. I smeared desonide all over my face to calm the inflammation, and I started another round of Kefle...

Good luck! Hopefully the erythromycin will really help stop any major breakout as you get started. Keep us posted.

Looks like angular cheilitis, anyone know what to do about that besides vasoline and a topical steroid, or is that all I can do?

Day 78 Here's a current picture, mostly of my lips. Notice that crater looking thing on left corner of my mouth. It hurts!

Ouch! Today I woke up, my mouth is so dry and sore on one corner it hurts to open my mouth. Been applying aquaphor, no help. Applied some Desonide my derm gave me for ezcema, hoping that will help....

Day 77 Could it be that I made it past the IB? I hope so. I've been at this 80mg/day dose for a while now, and it's not getting worse. It's actually getting a little better. I have a few nasty, h...

Tell me about the honey mask. I have 3 bee hives I keep, and I have plenty of raw honey. Do you just put some on your face and leave it there for a few hours? Your progress looks great... I think s...

Let me know how it goes, good luck!

No, at least in America it's otc and marketed as anti-itch cream near the pharmacy.

Try hydrocortisone

I'm finding it doesn't matter *what* i use on my dry lips, but it matters you *always* have that handy or something similar, i.e. vasoline

That's interesting, because you started right when I did, and I've been taking mostly 80mg/day. My face is still pretty constantly horrible. I'm wondering if I should lower my dose and be less agres...