Hello everyone,
I have just 1 dose of roacc left and I am really chuffed with the results :o)
For a while I was afraid that I was going to be one of those people that roacc doesn’t work for. After 4 months there was medium improvement, whereas the other diaries I was reading were reporting miraculous results. I wasn’t peeling, but I didn’t have clear skin either. I was right to get another prescription; I definitely needed these last 8 weeks. I now have better skin than I had in weeks 3 and 4 and it has been this way for about the last month.
My skin is dryer and I’ve noticed little… not quite ‘wrinkles’; more like ‘creases’. But they are preferable to spots anytime. Right now I have just one tiny spot, and for a couple of weeks I had none. I can certainly live with 1 or 2 spots once a month.
I never used to understand how people could go to bed without washing their face. By the end of the day, my face used to be so greasy and grimy that I couldn’t contemplate the thought of doing that for a second. Even at times when I’ve been a ‘little worse for wear’, I’ve always washed my face first. I don’t intend to stop doing this, but now I can understand how some people can fall asleep contentedly without cleansing.
I am very ready to stop taking roacc. My body has ached throughout my treatment. I gave up on kick-boxing because it took too much of a toil on my body. I feel like I’ve been experiencing what it could feel like to be 65yrs old: tiredness, stiff joints, random aches for no reason, and hurting eyes. I’ve gotten glasses and I never needed them before. I’m pretty certain it’s the roacc because I have an annual eye test and my prescription hasn’t changed – it’s still quite mild. However my eyes got quite dry and tired quickly when I was using computers. This was giving me headaches, despite using eye drops. I only have to wear my glasses when using computers, and they make me look smarter, so I guess it isn’t all bad :op I also had a couple of nose bleeds and, like pretty much everyone else, dry lips and rashes on my hands.
I have pits in my skin and I don’t think these will ever go. But many of the marks of previous spots have faded. I’ve darker circles under my eyes than before. I hope that once I have the roacc out my system I will start to sleep well again and they will fade.
I have 2 hopes for the future. Firstly, it would be nice if I had my body back for Christmas – one that is 31yrs old and not 65! It would be a lovely present to wake Christmas morning without the aches and pains, or feeling like I’m dragging myself everywhere. Secondly, I would like the spots to stay away so that I don’t need to take another course of roacc.
To those of you that are just starting out or a part way through a course and wondering if it’s worth it, I say ‘stick with it’. It is worth it. I feel so much more confident now.
I was very good in the beginning and I kept a weekly photo diary, but I lapsed after week 15 when photographing became ad-hoc. But I’ve done a little photo montage of all my best bits ;o)
Now to take that final dose!
Good luck everyone!
