posted Mon, 04/08/2024 - 05:26
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+ 1 Accutane & Bloodwork
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Hey Everyone!
I wanted to share this to show what Accutane does to blood markers. This here is my wife's blood work she is your average gym goer (100% natty), she enjoys weight training but usually sticks to about 3x a week and mainly focuses on cardio (5x a week) at the moment because she is in a weight loss phase. The month of January she was on 40mg of Accutane a day prescribed by her doctor, and the months of February and March she has been on 80mg/day. Anyways, I thought this was interesting because not only were her liver enzymes doubled but her LDL was affected too. Left pic is Jan - no accutane. Right pic is April - 3 months on accutane.
I thought I would post up the info for the community. The more we know the better!
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Tbh I thought they would be worse there mate, those Liver results are still well within range bud. I would expect them to be outside of the safe zone on 2 months of that high dosage. Even more surprising is her eGFR has slightly risen in the after results, you would expect Accutane to be not that nice to kidneys. Cholesterol doesn't look great for sure but that will soon sort out, Milk Thistle works wonders on Blood fat.
Thanks for the insight. Didn’t even notice the eGFR. But it is interesting! Maybe she has elite genetics and meant to run orals steroids haha
That seems like an extremely high dosage. How bad were her symptoms to be prescribed that? I had bad modular and cystic acne from elevated testosterone and already oily skin/active sebum glands, I took 10mg per day for 4 months and it completely cleared it up.
That’s the standard dose that dermatologist’s will put people on. When I had acne in my teenage years that’s the same kind of dose I had too. It is crazy high and probably overkill but it is that last resort kind of drug in the skin world so they really throw the kitchen sink at it lol. That doesn’t come without saying the side effects are real. She’s got horrible SI Joint pain and achillies tendon pain. No bueno for exercising
Yea I understand that, it’s absolutely irresponsible for any physician to prescribe that kind of a dose when you can cut it down by 80% and still get desired results.