just want to put out the reminder, if you do take accutane- don't give blood. For at least a month after stopping it. If a prego woman gets your blood you could cause birth defects.

My wife started using accutane roughly a year ago. It was working doing it's magic then she got dry. All joints she said was like shards of glass. So she decided to stop taking it. That was when the depression started. I honestly dunno if she has gotten over the worse sense of depression she ever dealt with.
Thing is no one can predict how you will respond to accutane. You will have to try it to find out. Personally i would try anything other than accutane & make that my last last choice. I was going to go on accutane myself but after seeing the depression my wife had fought over it I decided to go another route.

Having trouble posting Jimmy lol it's not letting me post all that I'd written out :/

@ Jimmy Dog medicine sounds good for it man

I've always had the same problem. In middle school/high school up into early twenties. Then when starting messing with my own hormones. I used accutane. Yeah it works but made me feel like shit. 10-20 mg a day made them fade with minimal sides. I read that sebacious glands can actually be shut down permanently with a high enough dosage which would get rid of it permanently. But that's a bad thing too, the oils in your skin are natural moisturizers and help you keep looking young.

There's a ton of threads on here about acne control. But I believe the best way to control it is to control your hormone levels. Get the test high quickly, yeah you'll break out, but once it's leveled off it gets better...if the the other hormones are good too. Estrogen can skyrocket along with that, that's why blood tests are important. Outside of my doc's office I've never gotten bloods due to where I live, but I've been able to (at least do my best to..) keep hormone levels stable based on acne and joints.

So imo, no it's not worth it. You look great other than the acne and want to hit the beach so you take the accutane, acne fades, you go to the beach, but you feel like shit...bad trade off imo. And meanwhile your lips are all fuckt up too... Stable test levels and estrogen/prolactin within a healthy and stable range are your best bet. Then there's all the other stuff people recommend...tanning, showering twice a day, scrubs, some sort of dog medicine or some shit loll....

OP here, couldn't log back into my account, sorry lads, some decent replys here tho. I did decide to go through with jumping on the accutane, had been thinking about it before for a good while & after being on numerous courses of antibiotics & roll on stinky bullshit that done nothing but make you smell like nail varnish & look oily as shit from back when I was a kid it's a last resort & it annoys the hell out of me so fuck it, nuke em lol have been on just over 4 weeks at 40mg per day & I have been feeling dry as hell, skin even peeling at my fingertips! Dry lips mainly though & I'm pretty sure it irritated my guts like fuck at one point. Drinking a shitload of water seems like the best bet. Gonna stick at it for 6 months & hope they never return. I have had the 'initial breakout' too, which I never heard about before :/ it was pretty fucking bad, all over my cheeks, but they have all dried up now & I've noticed they're clearing up pretty fast now anyway as for lipids, chicken & rice bro haha, back to eating 'clean' again now anyway so hopefully that ain't an issue. I've suffered with acne (all over my shoulders from skateboarding/sweating 24/7 back in the day, I think anyway) for 11+ years, killed my confidence at school n shit, even though I was a cheeky fuck :)) every chick loves a bit of pizza, but not when it resembles a face ffs so no wonder :)) I had been reading up on it & came across depression & suicidal thoughts n shit listed as serious sides, couldn't give a fuck about birth defects since I'm a fuckin' guy lol & that was the main warning when using the drug. I have been on aromasin & I think it was 50 to 75mg tren to 25mg prop ED when I broke out, won't be touching that shit again for a long time! & that's a one off @madman ;) ahaha!!

I've run accutane under the care of a dermatologist and it worked wonderfully. Your skin will get very dry and lips will require Chapstick or aquaphor. My cholesterol went to absolute hell and my joints suffered a bit for it, but overall no other sides and was well worth it. Go through a doctor though. One it's horribly expensive without insurance and two if you don't take the correct dose for long enough the effects won't stick, and you'll have all those side effects for only temporary relief. I've seen my friend only take it for four months at a lower dose and it cleared him only to come back entirely. It's not a permanent cure for some but it's almost guaranteed to lessen the severity if done correctly. I've been entirely clear since doing it even on cycles.

It's not your liver you need to worry about its your lipid profile. My doc had me on it for 7 months at 160mgs liver vals never budged but within a month at 40mg my total cholesterol went frkm 160 to 206. Stil not to high but that's the most common side of the drug not increased liver vals in the clinical trials and studies you'll see only a small percentage of paitents had increased liver vals. I've used it many times at small doses to prevent breakouts as I'm extremely prone to acne. As for the long term side effects showing up down the rode it's never been proven. All the Ibs and chrons disease stuff was disproven and shown to be caused by long term antibiotic use as basically 100% of accutane paitents tried antibiotics first for a long time. I was on them for a year.

It doesn't sound like yours acne is to serious I right now tho, I would suggest holding off ok the tane it takes forever to kick in. Look into bactrium or doxycycline first or retinoids like differn, retin-a or tazorac. The antibitics work a lot faster then accutane does. If all else fails then use accutane. It's a last resort thing not a first line of treatment drug.

As for side effects just dry ass lips. My doctor did his residency at the hospital that developed the drug and sides are not dose dependent. I'm using 10mg ed on cycle and my lips are just as bad as when I was on 160 when I was under his supervison. Sucidal fhougts? Lol hell no exact opposite seeing the acne finally disappear is the most awesome feeling in the world. Were all differnt tho. If anything I had suicidal thougts befoe I used it, lol not really but I hated lookng in the mirror. I didn't get bad acne till I was 22 and I had never used steroids yet. Was the effects permenant? Well let's say before my back shoulders chest and face were covered and for 8 months after I had none then it creeped back. Now I'll get a spot here and there on my face and a few on my back. So id say it worked pretty damn well.

But I would not suggest your first time using it not being under the care of a doctor. It's best to be monitored were all different. Then if you need to use small amounts down the road you know how it effects you.

This is just my experince others could have had the exact oppostite as me. My only regret is not doing it sooner and wasting all that time not wanting to look people in the eye and being discusted with how nasty that acne was.

I can and will mess your liver values up. You have to get bloods done, even at a low dose.
I would focus on controlling my estro and every other method before I'd ever think of using acutane.

Ive ran accutane before on a tren cycle. Low dose is all you need. The sides get bad when you go over 40 mg. For me they did. All you need is 10 to 20 mg and a good liver supp. Drink lots of water.

That's a great avatar picture, is that you pounding down a protein shake?