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A brief overview and some pics of myself a year after my roaccutane! Thanks for reading x

Hi All.  I had acne for 10 years, I’m now 22, and I took Roaccutane for 9 months about 2 years ago.  For just under a year my skin was completely clear – my confidence increased, I got a boyfriend, I did well at uni…felt like a differant person.
Now its returned, and getting worse.  All [...]

If anyone has followed my story…you’d know that I relapsed. I was on Roaccutane for 5 months. The first month on 20 mgs. and the next four months on 40 mgs.
After being off of it, I relapsed just about 3 weeks after that.  I had to go to a different dr. because it would cost [...]

hey everyone ive been on roaccutae for around 6 moths now and am currently on 40mg… and yes my acne has got better than it was originally but i am still getting fresh spots now and again on my face chest and back.  When i first started i thought at this point in my treatment i [...]

I have only posted a diary once earlier on in my treatment but haven’t posted anything else until now because there honestly wasn’t much to report apart from hideous side effects lol.  So, it’s now week 16.  I was only supposed to do 12 weeks but have been upped to 20.  Been on 50mg from [...]

Hello all
I haven’t posted on here for a really long time… I’ve been on roaccutane for roughly 9 months now (scary!) and 3 months ago I had my dosage upped. It was only by 5mg but even that had a huge impact on my side effects. Dry skin to the max, my lips were an [...]

Finally! Ive been waiting for ages for something to kick in, and now after 3months there is a definate change in my skin. I now only have real spots on my forehead, and the giant ones on my cheeks have gone. The scarring also seems to have gone down! I still get the odd arm [...]

Ok, i haven’t posted for a while, as my skin as just been getting progresively better. Im about to finish week 16 (gone fast) and have a derm apt next week.
My face is prettty much clear with the odd spot here and there.
My chest is still really bad if not worse than when I started. It’s [...]

First dermatologist appointment, got my prescription -yay!

Hi,
I have suffered with painful burning acne for over a decade and tried everything from chinese herbal therapy to topical antis from the doc and while somethings do have an effect its always come back once the treatment is complete, I have been reading every ones posts for a few days and im thinking i [...]