Hey Everyone!
I think that for most people it can be a bit of a worry than when you stop taking the Roaccutane, all the spots will come back.
When I had my first course when I was 18 my skin stayed clear for 9 months after I stopped taking the tablet but then the spots started to come back (not as bad as before but still not very good..). When I think about it now, I think this might have been because I was on a very low dose. I started off on a very tiny 5mg, then took 10mg and then eventually took 20mg for the last month. I was on 40mg on my last course so I am hoping that this time around my skin is going to stay clear..permanently.
It has now been 3 months since I came off the tablets and my skin seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis. The area around my nose has gone back to being a little greasy but my forehead still insists on peeling off! My cheeks are also very dry. Therefore I am now moistursing only specific parts of my face.
As far as spots are concerned, things are still very good on that front. I have had a few very small spots, but nothing serious at all. I’m praying it stays that way!
This is a picture of my skin 3 months later. You can see a small spot and that my nose is slightly greasy but apart from that I don’t really have any complaints. I can’t believe how different my skin looks now to how it did at the start of the summer.
I hope you are all doing okay with your treatments. I think it’s great that there’s so many people doing diaries now as people deciding whether to take Roaccutane need as much non-biased information as possible ![]()
