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So that’s it. The last tablet has been taken. My journey with roaccutane is (fingers crossed) over.
As you may know from my frantic coment to my previous diary entry, I got me another mini pimple, or pimplet, which I like to call them (apparently this is a type of anemone too, but I reckon anemones [...]

Hello people! Huzah, I have survived another week of this, most tiring and woesome regime!!!
firstly, here are some pictures…side on without makeup at the end of day after travelling across the country (complete with delightful, as usual, tube journey), front on with makeup, just cos I wanted to show off my new hair colour and [...]

ok, so here is the lowdown. I read the article kindly sent to me by Olivia (Ton254) (cheers m’lovely) and have summarised the findings of a study comparing various aspects of some generic forms of isotretinoin (from 2006) and the original Roch pills. This study was funded by roche btw:
(if you stumbled here [...]

YAY only 2 more weeks………..oh no! what if the spots all come piling back onto my face? ok deep breath…it will all be ok. wont it? after being do afraid of these blimmin pills in the first place who’d have thought I would be stressing abut STOPPING taking them!
so this week it has been almost [...]

sleepy grumpy make-up and humour-free photos from this morning. not fully awake at time of taking….not yet had coffee…still not had a coffee…want to go back to bed.
This week was good for my skin, only has a cyst on my ear lobe which you can’t see anyway and its deflating quite quickly. red marks [...]

As the title suggests, no new spots this week YAY but boy! am I gonna be glad when the next four weeks are over. Let me elaborate: I ACHE, ITCH AND AM FLAKING ALL OVER.  A truly beautiful sight to behold (should you find crippled flaky zombies with constant scratches beautiful). Now I [...]