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Accutane is the greatest medication ever...
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Dryness is a noticeable side effect though. To this day, after shaving, my face looks completely whitewashed (I have olive skin) and it's very noticeable unless I apply moistureizer, which is a pain. Still, it beats the alternative by leaps and bounds. Gotta love modern science.
with all due respect to your friend (no sarcasm intended), i don't buy that accutance generates suicidal thoughts. one of my close friends' dads took him OFF accutane when he heard that even though my friend was very happy with accutane and saw that he was making progress in getting rid of his terrible acne. instead, once he was taken off, the acne came back in full force and my friend was extremely depressed. then again my friend's dad is an idiot. but it really sucks cuz my friend has a BADDDD case of acne... he gets ENORMOUS purple boils on his nose and whatnot... so tragic. 🙁
well i had to go thru two cycles(it came back after about a year) , (the first one was free, i was on a study for bone density, got paid, very cool) - and I have to agree. It is the greatest medication ever..whenever i see a girl with bad acne, i'm almost tempted to tell her about it 🙂o - bad acne can ruin a girl's apperance (and a guy's too, I'm sure)
my bad for not finishing my thought... basically i don't buy that there's a correlation between accutane usage and suicidal thoughts. since most of the poeple who use accutane are youngsters/teenagers who are, perhaps, more uncertain and/or insecure about their looks, there's bound to be a sizeable portion of accutane-users who might end up having suicidal tendences. that's why i'm skeptical about any such linkage. but, like i said, i've done no research on this so i wouldn't know if the suicide thing is based on hard science or if it's just some crap cooked up by a rival pharmaceutical company or whatnot.
MazerRackham
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Yep. Worked for me also. I was on it for maybe three months, and it completely obliterated my acne. And I had some baaaaad acne too. I took it maybe 14 years ago now (I am 29), and I am still okay! 😉 No side effects, except for the hump on my back.
I did one course about 18 years ago and I got the best overall complexion improvement that I've ever experienced in 20 years of seeing a dermatologist. The dryness was a beeyatch and my lips were constantly cracked, but it was well worth the trouble. My face was as smooth and unblemished as a baby's butt for about the next 3 years. Highly recommended if you can deal with the side effects.
The suicide/depression thing is totally overblown, IMHO. I would guess that the target age group for this drug (post-pubescent teens) has such raging hormonal imbalances in the first place, that some of them are probably blaming the drug for what's really a normal teen angst condition.
The suicide/depression thing is totally overblown, IMHO. I would guess that the target age group for this drug (post-pubescent teens) has such raging hormonal imbalances in the first place, that some of them are probably blaming the drug for what's really a normal teen angst condition.
