I’ve got the blues and shed a few tears today, the first time I’ve had reason to cry since my week 5 breakout. When I got to school this morning, my friends got a look at me for the first time in 3 months, and do you know what I was greeted with?
About 50 variations of “Oh my God, why have you gotten so dark, why are your lips so pink, why do your lips look white, did you get sunburnt!!???”
Not one mention of the fact that there’re no more spots on my face. Just immediate mention of how discoloured I’ve gotten.
Since my last post, where I included pictures of my progress thus far, I spent an entire day in the sun without sunblock. But because it was overcast and even rainy at times i didn’t think the damage would have been too great, my skin didn’t even burn. But the damage has been silently done, and who knows when it’ll clear up. I’ve still got 11 weeks on this treatment and a renewed determination to keep out of the sun.
As for my ‘white lips’, I’m stumped and don’t know what to do. Are there any lip moisturizes that are clear and don’t leave behind that white residue like chapsticks?? I really don’t know how I’m going to get through this first week, I just hope everyone gets accustomed to it and ignores it.
The pic I’ve uploaded includes another before treatment shot, and then two shots taken on the same day, in different lighting conditions. The last one with me in the shadows is what I faced my friends like today, after they had last seen me as I was in the first pic. So I guess I can understand their bewilderment.
I got 3 small pimples the day after my week 12 post, but they’re gone now. Everthing else is fine. Side effects still just dry lips.
**And I think I’ve got the flu at the moment, I hope roaccutane meds don’t interfere with panadol multi-symptom???
