Going on acutane, anything I should know??
 

I dont have BAD acne, from bout 6 feet u cant see any at all, but I am self conscious bout it and it is driving me nuts. I have tried some creams and some shit pills and nothing helped, thought this might do the trick. I would rate my acne at like a 3-6/10 BUT nothing gets rid of it!!!!!!!!

Its not the food, cause I am fit (finally!!) and I dont pick at it, and when I shave it doesnt get affected... so I said fuck it ill try it.

Heard it can hurt your system though... any suggestions, warnings....

Btw I am 19, so I know it might just be a phase but I dont care.

don't get pregant..

stay away from that kind of stuff.. I heard it causes depression.

My doc is funny, he goes just dont fuck without protection or you might create something bad LOL!!

I have no stress, (school is done, my financial situation is good, have lots of friends, going to party every week, going to montreal AGAIN :) and then to tour europe....) so I dont think I can but thanx for the warning...

Anything else I should know of?

you'll know within a week if your liver can take it. mine couldn't and i was never that sick in all my life.

Ouch, fuck, that sux, I went on cretean before ( a lot of it ) and was fine so hopefully this shouldnt be that bad, btw what was wrong, I mean how did you feel like it was that bad?

you dont have bad acne but you're going on the most painful possible acne treatment available?

sounds to me like you'd do better to just work on your self esteem. stop eating shitty food like mcdonalds, dont smoke pot, work out regularly, shower dailiy.. that shit will fix 90% of all acne problems (and a lot more too).

Do as i say, not as i do though ;-)

i guarantee you'll be back here in a few months telling us horror stories about constant blood monitoring, the emotional roller coaster, your dietary problems etc..etc..etc.... oh plus your lips will crack like you're in the fuckin desert cause that shit dries you up big time... so dry that if women take it, they literally cant get wet enough to have sex.

on another note. i'm thinking about having pigfat injected into my penis.

I use Retin-A micro and a pill it works great. I used it when I was 16 and it cleared up a lot.. never got bad again even when I stopped using it.. starting to clear up now since I'm older I guess.. but I still use this stuff because it works.

Thanx Hooper,

I eat right, am at the gym 2-3hrs EVERYDAY! almost never smoke (anything) and shower sometimes 3 times a day.... I know its an extreme but heard it works wonders, and nothing else has..

it was like a bad flu. i was weak for almost a month after tho. it will clear up acne fast tho, and if your body can handle the drug then you'll be laughing.

Im 82 kilo and pretty well built, and Im gonna be on 40mg a day... so that doesnt sound that bad..

Try proactive everyone I know including myself who used it had awesome results (and it doesnt have side effects)

Was gonna do that, but it just sounds like a daily facial cleaser and a cream.... creams didnt work and my face is pretty clean overall....

did wonders for acne try it before doing acutane

doesn't matter if you're well built. if your liver doesn't like the drug you're gonna get sick. its a very powerful drug.

BECAREFUL...there has been a connection with accutane and suicide. There are a bunch of stories of people who lived ok lives, not too depressed, etc, have gotten on acutane and have commited suicide.

http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice/o...topic=Accutane

http://www.mercola.com/1998/archive/acne_drug.htm

Thats some bad stuff! Beware!

I had bad acne all through highschool -- all the pills and creams didn't do shit -- neither did exercise... This is what worked for me back then -- a special diet, but now I'm older -- so I have even more advice... although I have not had bad acne since highschool, my skin got crappy recently due to the smoking I did after college...

This is not easy, but I know when you have acne problems at that age, you'll try anything.

1. Cut out all dairy products. No icecream, no milk, no cheese, yogurt, etc. -- NOTHING with milk (very difficult)
2. Cut out all sugar from your diet except from fruits, etc.
3. No yeast products -- ie: no bread, donuts, etc.
4. No beer or alcohol.
5. No coffee or chocolate.
6. Eat foods that are good for your skin -- here's only a short list. Sweet potatoes (I like to eat them raw), Cucumbers -- do a web search on this. You'll be eating lots of salad and shit like that...
7. Meditation.
8. Drink lots of water and get lots of cardio -- make sure you are sweating like a mofo.
9. Stay away from oily, greasy foods (duh).
10. If you can, try to remove meat from your diet -- this will also cut back your raging hormones...

These acne pills really just fuck with your reproductive system -- read the fine print -- all it does is lower your testosterone levels and you can do permanent damange to your reproductive system... that's why you can't take the shit for more than 2 weeks. Stay away from that shit. I took it for a little while and found that it just took away my sexual appetite...

If you can do these steps -- I guarantee your skin will clear up. Don't even bother with topical medication shit -- you will probably do more damage than anything. Now that I look back I wish I had no used any topical shit on my face. Your friends will call you a fucking rabbit for eating like this but it works -- mine cleared up around 18... I only had to stick to this diet for a few months strictly -- after that I started eating more normal. After I changed my diet in highschool, most of those habits stayed with me my whole life.

Also you may worry about acne now that you are young -- but accept it for what it is. You've got more hormones than most of the little punks in your school -- that just means you're more of a man. If you think about acne as an evolutionary indicator -- you're showing the female the intensity of your sexual appetite... Some monkeys have cheeks that match the color of the testicles -- and nose to match the cock -- facial hair -- acne -- all the same shit... sexual response indicators. When you get older if you have scars under your skin like I do you will probably grow to appreciate them a lot more as a symbol of your manhood. Be proud man -- fuck these drugs designed to profit from your insecurity and ignorance.

yay for weekly blood tests. woohoo! :warning



they yanked me from it to years agoo... guess it might have killed me or something. nasty stuff!

Great posts!!!

I cant diet like that man, I love to eat what I crave, I eat fatty food, or ice cream or whatever the fuck I want when I want it, and I burn it at the gym. I dont have a six pack but am very close and am eating fast food at least twice a week and whatever else I want....

TheFly, thanx for the advice but I just cant do it, especially
4. No beer or alcohol. that is crazy.

I have a few friends that all took it and it worked WONDERS!! No side effects at all and their acne was REALLY bad, mine is just a bit but doesnt go away NO MATTER WHAT I DO

I cant diet, I rather go to the gym twice as long then not eat what I want.

Dude.. bah.

F L A X S E E D O I L .

http://www.doctorstrust.com/images/p...0941_2_175.jpg

Take like 1 tablespoon in the morning with breakfast (you do eat breakfast right?) and 1 tablespoon in the evening with dinner...

And like Hoop said... diet is key.

If you curb your intake of sugar & breadstuffs you'll be pretty surprised in a couple weeks.


...edit.. tired didn't see flys post. He basically covered all the dietary bases.

i heard people killed themselves on that shit


crazy stuff, whacks with your mind

it hit me the day before i went in for a blood test. less than a week

Reading the stuff you have to sign and it sounds crazy !!!!

I think ill try it and go for a blood test and physical after a week... to see how I am holding up, if it doesnt affect me at all then ill continue otherwise OUT

I took some fat burners before that are supposed to make you really depressed and shit and didnt feel any change at all....

How big was your dosage?

Im on acutane right now.

Trust me when I tell you, you feel different. But it really does take away everything . I dont have like serious acme. But I do have some. But out of all the treatments, topical creams, retin-a micro, special diets, acutane works the best.

I have been experimenting with what foods are good and what are bad. To me it seems like I can't eat pizza (cheese is very bad) and chocolate is very bad.


You think by me going on and off of acutane i could become perma depressed?

Dont listen to doctors. Its all diet. I had horrible acne in early high school. Dermatologists put me on that shit and also retin-A (this was 8+ years ago). Turns out I was allergic to a few foods. I only figured it out with very careful and methodical analysis of food logs and self assessment of acne. About a month after I stopped eating chocolate and a few other things all my acne went away. I didn't eat the foods that caused the acne for a few years and now I can eat them with no ill effects. Thats a pretty strong indicator its diet / allergies.

Try it yourself. Worked for me, and for a few other people I talked to about it.

:2 cents:

Since when did GFY give out free medical advice?

Went for allergy tests before and I am not allergic to anything not even that hay fever stuff that most ppl have even a bit of allergy to....

But I was thinking if mine isnt that bad, then it should clear up fast no?

Can you tell me what you would eat on an average day, cutting out bread would be kinda crazy.

The atkins diet is liek that too. Works wonders but HARD to do.

My friend use to be a pizza face in high school but when he got on it, it was all gone within two weeks time. Dunno any side effects tho.

got a link for some info?

Cool I'll try this... never heard of that.

As for diet man, yeah after you cut out all those things -- whatever is left -- lots of different kinds of nuts, dates, any fruit, any vegetable, salad, lots of pasta, rice... potatoes, spaghetti... just avoid the butter hehe... chili, beans, dude I could go on all night... it's all about changing your habits... Don't eat the same shit every day -- variety is the key -- went to a very fancy food allergist back then and that's basically what they told me -- don't eat the same thing for too many days in a row...

You might just find that your acne is just an allergy due to dairy products -- this is very common allergy I'm told. Anyway acne is kindof like a chemical reaction in your face -- you just eliminate the reactive foods and your body has no way to produce the acne... You would be suprised it's easy to do the diet once you get over the initial cravings -- they will subside and you won't crave those foods again. Even to this day I only drink milk maybe once a month... the shit is for cows not humans. Try Rice Dream milk -- it's sweet and tastes real good -- you can eat it with cereal -- try shredded wheat... Soy milk is not as good unless you get chocolate hehe...

This is going to sound pretty out there, but I had a secret weapon to combat adolescent acne, even though I didn't know it until I was older. Kool Mints. I don't know if these are Australian only, they're like hard peppermint balls with a soft nougat centre. From about the age of 14 to 20 I had a few packets a week (often one per day), but once I slowed down I noticed something interesting... I'd break out every time I didn't eat any for a few days. Start eating them again, and it would clear up immediately.

I'm a bit older now and I don't need the Kool Mints to keep my face clear. From memory the only ingredients that were unusual were egg albulmen, peppermint oil, and titanium dioxide (colouring).

http://australian-food.com/lollies/kool_mints.html

Fly thanx for the advice bout the diet, I will change some stuff around but I dont drink a lot of milk so cant be that and cutting out the rest is too much for me :(

accutane will clear you up.. but like someone said, your lips will crack pretty bad.. depression comes with accutane too