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Originally Posted by avalanche
Acutane is a miracle drug, but it is very dangerous. There is a national registry of doctors who prescribe it and when a doctor does put a patient on it they schedule regular liver tests as the drug is so dangerous specifically to the liver. Or, at least they did 10 years, obviously that may have changed.
Not to mention it's expensive as hell. I took it over 10 years ago and I think it was $10/pill and you did 2 a day at the time. Thankfully my insurance covered it on a $10 copay.
Great shit!
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my son's doctor had him taking accutane (along with other treatments) after he had been diagnosed with a certain form of cancer. he let us know that having patients take it for this was something that doctors were still "experimenting" with, and of course, we were down to try whatever. it dried him out pretty bad, but he had none of the truly major side effects
i don't think you can make a direct connection....but you can't rule it out either. last month, doc found no traces of cancer
so if it can kick cancer's ass, imagine what it does to acne!!
