Month of Roaccutane and acne

Yeah, first month of my treatment is gone. Thanks god. This drug is not pleasent at all, I can already tell. But it is finally something that is helping. Yep, roaccutane or isotretinoin is really helping with my acne and my fordyce spots.

To acne...

I do not have new break-outs. Thats perfect. Also blackheads are going away. Roaccutane made his job here really well. I dont know yet what will happen with scars and places where breakouts were, but are not healed yet. 

To fordyce spots...

Helping. Yeah. Isotretinoin is helping with fordyce spots. Thats awesome. Its like...90% of them dissapeared and the other 10% are still there without any change. From those 90% I still know that there are there, there are just extremly small. I can feel them when I touch them and I concentrate on them...but they are not visible...

To side-effects...

As you know, I am taking 70mg/day. Right now I have eczema on both of my hands. I was consulting it today with my doctor. He gave me "Betacorton U" which containts a corticoid called Halcinonide. I applied it for the first time several hours ago and my eczema seems much better already. Otherwise, I feel dry on my skin, on my lips and on my eyes. Every part of my body is dry, hands, feets and face.

I am very happy that I started taking Roaccutane, as it is really helping me. But I am really looking forward for August, when this 20 weeks long treatment will end...

Where is my acne?

20 days. 70mg per day. That's 1400mg of isotretinoin for now. Until I reach the last day of myRoaccutane treatment I am supposed to take 9800mg. But already...my acne got incredibly better.

In last week I had just one little eruption for approximately 2 days. It is even more unbelievable that a whitehead on my face go away just in two days when it used to take even a whole week.

That is really perfect. Only thing that looks bad right now on my face are the scars that are left here after acne. My doctor told me that acne scars are life-time issue, and I am not going to get rid of those. Souds bad, but when not to get rid of the scars, at least I want to get it better so I have some creams and so...I will let you know.

Side effects of Roaccutane right now...

I have extremly dry lips and skin on my face. I dont have problems with dryness of my skin anywhere else. My lips needs special attention, I need to use lip balm several times a day and I need to carry it with myself everywhere. Even after eating my lips get rid of the lip balm and I need to use it immediately, otherwise the feeling is terrible.

The other problem that occured to me is what you see in the picture. I have no clue what it is, but I am going to a doctor this week, so I will ask him. It is just on my shoulder, nowhere else. Any ideas?

Fordyce spots and isotretinoin

Roaccutane is helping! Awesome..

I find out just nine days after I started using Roaccutane and they already seems to be smaller. They are there, when you look close or when you touch your skin properly, but 50% of them are already not visible! BTW...my weight is 78kg and I am taking 70mg/day.

Thats really amazing, I hope I will get rid of fordyce spots as soon as possible. Fordyce spots is a condition that is really annoying for me.

After 8 days...

When I heard that everyone who uses Roaccutane (isotretinoin) has dry lips, I thought to myself...I can stand that, my lips are cracked time to time also without isotretinoin, I am used to that.
I am not... I have extremely dry lips. I was not even able to imagine that lips can be that dry. I am using different products that are out there on the market for my lips, but it is still kind of bad. I have to use products against dry lips several times a day and they are still dry... Even my friends started to notice, when one of them asked me about it.

To acne...I think it is still getting better and better. In side effects of isotretinoin there is mentioned that a lot of people experience their acne getting worse, before it gets better. After 8 days of usage I can tell that it is getting better and better. I have had two big eruptions from my skin in the last days. I usually have had much more. And even those two treated themselves in 2 or 3 days(normally took 7).

From side effects excluding dry lips I experienced dry skin and sore throat. Nothing else right now. Sore throat little surprised me, but it is not such a big deal. I dont really feel good about lips and skin dryness, but I hope I will get used to it and I will find some effective products for those.
Any ideas?