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I've been on Accutane for about a month now and one day I was sitting in the shade with SPF 60 sunscreen on for about an hour and I got a sunburn. So I can definitely say that Accutane and the sun do ...

I don't know if you should see a doctor or not, but I can tell you that I got an absolutely horrible headache when I started taking accutane. It wouldn't go away on its own so I took a large dose of i...

I just got put on 40 mg of Accutane by my GP yesterday. He told me to get a blood test in a month, and that was it. I've been reading a lot about it online and it seems like almost everyone else had t...

-avoiding eating messy food because you don't want to wipe your makeup off with a napkin -avoiding kissing your partner in public because your makeup will rub off on them and expose your acne -finding...

I recently got a Vitamin A supplement. I've been taking 10,000 IUs a day, and since that's the tolerable upper limit, I'm not too concerned about toxicity (and I will stop taking it if I see any sympt...

When I was a teenager my sister's friend said to me, "It must be so hard having such ugly skin when your sister has perfect skin." Damn right it's hard, but you don't need to point it out!

I've been using Retin-a .025% (soon to go up, but I was starting at low doses to get used to it) for about 8 months. I've always been very adamant about using sunscreen and I wear it every day, even i...

Background story: I've been using retin-a .01% for a little less than a month. I used to use benzoyl peroxide and clindamycin for years. My acne was under control for a while, but I had a huge breakou...

Just so everyone knows, tretinoin is the active ingredient in stieva-a and retin-a. So it looks like we're all on the same thing here on this thread. I feel like we're almost the same person: I used ...