Archive for the ‘Roaccutane Diaries’ Category

1 month completed – and really feeling it

Monday, December 7th, 2009

I’m just going to get straight into it (got report to do for uni).  My acne’s no different from alst week – get cyst type spots that wont go for ages and scar.  Make up wont cover it up because it all gets scabby and horrid.
Back hurts all the time, hips hurt sometimes not all [...]

Roaccutane: 1 Year Later (Pictures)

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

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

22 days in…440mg taken…

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Hello All,
This week has been slightly more ‘affected’ than the last.  Having to put vaseline on every hour, have a lil rash thingi developing on my right hand (funnily enough its in exactly the same place as it was on my first course), and my scalp is very dry and flaky. 
My face is also dry [...]

Day 17 – Commencing week 3 – 320mg taken

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

This time round the side effects have kicked in! My skin has gone dry all over my face (but I’m still getting spots – less though), which means yes, make up looks awful.  My hairs dry and I have a really flaky scalp, and its quite itchy too.  My lips are drier by the day – [...]

5 Months After Finishing…

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Hey all,
I thought I’d post as I haven’t updated in a good while.
I finished my tablets at the end of May and within 2 weeks I had a few spots under the surface and my skin was slightly oily again. I put this down to my skin readjusting and though its never been as nice [...]

Week 32 trudging on :s

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Hello people, so here it is my 8th month third time round going for my blood tests next week for the millionth time lol. Anyways about my skin no change really still clear which I’m really chuffed about athough the tiredness is becoming sort of unbearable now I’m really trying to get to bed as [...]

Never before seen pics…

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

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 [...]

week 27 still going :p

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Hi everyone,  so I haven’t been on here for a while about 3 months, anyway most of you will  probably be thinkin that my course should be over by now or soonish but im unique in a bad way lol I’m on a long term low dose, I was told long term was about  1-2 years on 20mg [...]

Aaaah, update…2 months after roac!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

WOW! I haven’t been on here in AGES!
Well, my 16 week roaccuane  course finished like, 2 months ago! LOL
Seriously, the monthly hospital visits, sore bones, chapped lips and dry eyes were worth every single complaint
My skin has improved so much, I get so many compliments about it, some people actually found it hard to recognize me at [...]

what to do…

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Hi,
Hope everyone is ok. I havn’t actually written a diary post before but people are starting to use them in the same way as the ‘noticeboard’ used to be used (and no one seems to reply to that anymore!).
Basically (as you may have read on my ‘noticeboard’ post), I’ve been brought off roaccutane after a [...]