Archive for June, 2009

NHS Appointment, yay!

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I’m so lucky to have already got an NHS appointment, fantastic! It’s at St george’s Hospital in South London and I’m really pleased with the hospital, it’s great, clean and nice. And the staff is fantastic (apart from the Dermatologist who was a bit of a w**ker, but that’s a different story!) I only had [...]

Upped the dose to 40mg

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Hello everyone!
I’ve now been on Roaccutane for just over two weeks and on Thursday I upped the dose from 20 to 40 mg. Still not noticing too many side effects more than the dry lips – they feel like they’re mucky, you know when you’ve got a cold and you wake up from having slept [...]

First week done

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Today it’s exactly one week since I saw my Derm for the first time and started taking Roaccutane. I am on a low dose (20 mg) so haven’t noticed huge side effects apart from the dreams as mentioned in the previous post, but today I started feeling very thirsty and had a dry mouth. I [...]