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From: Edmonton. A 31 year old Female.
Subject: Currently on Accutane
Date: 28/05/2011 at 17:11 - Message #118

I started getting bad acne for 2 yrs and I was so against taking accutane because of what I heard. BIG MISTAKE. I wish I took it earlier like my dermatologist told me. I wouldn't have so many scars if I listened. I told him to give me anything else and he was pissed off because HE KNEW accutane was the only solution. I tried heavy detoxes, herbal Drs with tons of herbal remedies and vitamins and I also tried EXTREME dieting with no sugar no preserves just all organic, I lost 20lbs in two months but acne was still there. Dermatologist gave me hormone pills, didn't do anything, gave me creams, didn't do anything, finally I couldn't stand the resistance of the pimples so I gave in to the accutane. I love it. After 2 1/2 weeks I had no more pimples no matter what I ate. I never got one for 4 months, not even one, and I am still on accutane for another 3 months. It is not dangerous if you do your bloodwork every month like the Dr tells you and makes sure all your levels are normal. I cannot even have ONE drink of alcohol which is fine by me for having no acne. I just pray it stays gone after my treatment. I did notice my hair getting thin in one area so the dermatologist gave me iron pills plus high Vitamin C to absorb it. I'll see how my hair looks in that area as I go along. Also, around the 4 month mark on accutane- MAJOR IRRITABILITY and NEGATIVE THOUGHTS. I am a Christian and I've been telling God to take a hike everyday. Accutane is know to give depression so you better be strong willed to control your thoughts if you take this. I choose to carry out my treatment as acne is the worst thing that ever happened to me.

I started getting bad acne for 2 yrs and I was so against taking accutane because of what I heard. BIG MISTAKE. I wish I took it earlier like my dermatologist told me. I wouldn't have so many scars if I listened. I told him to give me anything else and he was pissed off because HE KNEW accutane was the only solution. I tried heavy detoxes, herbal Drs with tons of herbal remedies and vitamins and I also tried EXTREME dieting with no sugar no preserves just all organic, I lost 20lbs in two months but acne was still there. Dermatologist gave me hormone pills, didn't do anything, gave me creams, didn't do anything, finally I couldn't stand the resistance of the pimples so I gave in to the accutane. I love it. After 2 1/2 weeks I had no more pimples no matter what I ate. I never got one for 4 months, not even one, and I am still on accutane for another 3 months. It is not dangerous if you do your bloodwork every month like the Dr tells you and makes sure all your levels are normal. I cannot even have ONE drink of alcohol which is fine by me for having no acne. I just pray it stays gone after my treatment. I did notice my hair getting thin in one area so the dermatologist gave me iron pills plus high Vitamin C to absorb it. I'll see how my hair looks in that area as I go along. Also, around the 4 month mark on accutane- MAJOR IRRITABILITY and NEGATIVE THOUGHTS. I am a Christian and I've been telling God to F*** off everyday. Accutane is know to give depression so you better be strong willed to control your thoughts if you take this. I choose to carry out my treatment as acne is the worst thing that ever happened to me.

I started getting bad acne for 2 yrs and I was so against taking accutane because of what I heard. BIG MISTAKE. I wish I took it earlier like my dermatologist told me. I wouldn't have so many scars if I listened. I told him to give me anything else and he was pissed off because HE KNEW accutane was the only solution. I tried heavy detoxes, herbal Drs with tons of herbal remedies and vitamins and I also tried EXTREME dieting with no sugar no preserves just all organic, I lost 20lbs in two months but acne was still there. Dermatologist gave me hormone pills, didn't do anything, gave me creams, didn't do anything, finally I couldn't stand the resistance of the pimples so I gave in to the accutane. I love it. After 2 1/2 weeks I had no more pimples no matter what I ate. I never got one for 4 months, not even one, and I am still on accutane for another 3 months. It is not dangerous if you do your bloodwork every month like the Dr tells you and makes sure all your levels are normal. I cannot even have ONE drink of alcohol which is fine by me for having no acne. I just pray it stays gone after my treatment. I did notice my hair getting thin in one area so the dermatologist gave me iron pills plus high Vitamin C to absorb it. I'll see how my hair looks in that area as I go along. Also, around the 4 month mark on accutane- MAJOR IRRITABILITY and NEGATIVE THOUGHTS. I am a Christian and I've been telling God to fuck off everyday. Accutane is know to give depression so you better be strong willed to control your thoughts if you take this. I choose to carry out my treatment as acne is the worst thing that ever happened to me.

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From: Female on Accutane. A 26 year old
Date: 17/10/2010 at 20:50 - Message #114

Hi fellow acne sufferers,
So here is the scoop on Accutane (or isotretinoin now). I am currently 26 yr old female and I have been on Accutane 3x. Unlike what others will tell you, my story is a bit different. The reason why accutane has gotten such a bad rep is because only people with problems feel pissed off enough to get on a web site and tell others about it. People who have successful experiences forget that they even had acne in the first place (and subsequently don't go on these site- I am currently on these sites because I am having a problem with my new insurance not wanting to pay for accutane).
Now there ARE serious side effects of using it (eg: dry skin, birth defects if you become pregnant, etc), but for the most part, if you follow the directions you will NOT suffer the side effects (aside from the dry skin, but that's why you're taking the drug right? to dry up your skin). So be smart about it! It's a fat-soluble drug so take it with your most fatty meal of the day. Use 2 forms of birth control! That's why you SIGN A CONTRACT saying you will, because they are pretty much telling you that YOUR BABY WILL HAVE BIRTH DEFECTS. It puts heavy stress on your liver, so don't drink! And on to the most sensitive issue- depression.
Here is my theory on that. I have been seeing a dermatologist since I was 13 for acne, and didn't go on accutane until later in life, and I can tell you this, I am depressed when my acne flares up! Why? Because I feel like I look bad! It is completely independent of which drugs I'm taking. It's a simple correlation: my acne flares up = I get depressed. What does accutane do in the first few months? Flares up your acne! This is because accutane works by shutting down your oil glands and they respond by trying to kick up. Makes sense right? I am very lucky in the fact that accutane has never caused my acne to flare up. By the end of my first month, most of my acne is gone. I have never had issues with depression, weight changes, liver problems, etc. The only side effect that I have experienced was dry lips (and a little dry around my nose and mouth, but not bad enough that anyone noticed) and the fact that I don't need to wash my hair everyday because I'm not producing oil (which is actually nice).
So here is my advice: Don't listen to these anomalies and try it for yourself. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS! If you don't like it, you can always go off. My skin looks flawless, I don't need to wear makeup anymore, and the scarring goes away with time!

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From: Female on Accutane. A 26 year old
Date: 17/10/2010 at 20:50 - Message #113

Hi fellow acne sufferers,
So here is the scoop on Accutane (or isotretinoin now). I am currently 26 yr old female and I have been on Accutane 3x. Unlike what others will tell you, my story is a bit different. The reason why accutane has gotten such a bad rep is because only people with problems feel pissed off enough to get on a web site and tell others about it. People who have successful experiences forget that they even had acne in the first place (and subsequently don't go on these site- I am currently on these sites because I am having a problem with my new insurance not wanting to pay for accutane).
Now there ARE serious side effects of using it (eg: dry skin, birth defects if you become pregnant, etc), but for the most part, if you follow the directions you will NOT suffer the side effects (aside from the dry skin, but that's why you're taking the drug right? to dry up your skin). So be smart about it! It's a fat-soluble drug so take it with your most fatty meal of the day. Use 2 forms of birth control! That's why you SIGN A CONTRACT saying you will, because they are pretty much telling you that YOUR BABY WILL HAVE BIRTH DEFECTS. It puts heavy stress on your liver, so don't drink! And on to the most sensitive issue- depression.
Here is my theory on that. I have been seeing a dermatologist since I was 13 for acne, and didn't go on accutane until later in life, and I can tell you this, I am depressed when my acne flares up! Why? Because I feel like I look like crap! It is completely independent of which drugs I'm taking. It's a simple correlation: my acne flares up = I get depressed. What does accutane do in the first few months? Flares up your acne! This is because accutane works by shutting down your oil glands and they respond by trying to kick up. Makes sense right? I am very lucky in the fact that accutane has never caused my acne to flare up. By the end of my first month, most of my acne is gone. I have never had issues with depression, weight changes, liver problems, etc. The only side effect that I have experienced was dry lips (and a little dry around my nose and mouth, but not bad enough that anyone noticed) and the fact that I don't need to wash my hair everyday because I'm not producing oil (which is actually nice).
So here is my advice: Don't listen to these anomalies and try it for yourself. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS! If you don't like it, you can always go off. My skin looks flawless, I don't need to wear makeup anymore, and the scarring goes away with time!

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From: Female on Accutane. A 26 year old
Date: 17/10/2010 at 20:49 - Message #112

Hi fellow acne sufferers,
So here is the scoop on Accutane (or isotretinoin now). I am currently 26 yr old female and I have been on Accutane 3x. Unlike what others will tell you, my story is a bit different. The reason why accutane has gotten such a bad rep is because only people with problems feel pissed off enough to get on a web site and tell others about it. People who have successful experiences forget that they even had acne in the first place (and subsequently don't go on these site- I am currently on these sites because I am having a problem with my new insurance not wanting to pay for accutane).
Now there ARE serious side effects of using it (eg: dry skin, birth defects if you become pregnant, etc), but for the most part, if you follow the directions you will NOT suffer the side effects (aside from the dry skin, but that's why you're taking the drug right? to dry up your skin). So be smart about it! It's a fat-soluble drug so take it with your most fatty meal of the day. Use 2 forms of birth control! That's why you SIGN A CONTRACT saying you will, because they are pretty much telling you that YOUR BABY WILL HAVE BIRTH DEFECTS. It puts heavy stress on your liver, so don't drink! And on to the most sensitive issue- depression.
Here is my theory on that. I have been seeing a dermatologist since I was 13 for acne, and didn't go on accutane until later in life, and I can tell you this, I am depressed when my acne flares up! Why? Because I feel like I look like crap! It is completely independent of which drugs I'm taking. It's a simple correlation: my acne flares up = I get depressed. What does accutane do in the first few months? Flares up your acne! This is because accutane works by shutting down your oil glands and they respond by trying to kick up. Makes sense right? I am very lucky in the fact that accutane has never caused my acne to flare up. By the end of my first month, most of my acne is gone. I have never had issues with depression, weight changes, liver problems, etc. The only side effect that I have experienced was dry lips (and a little dry around my nose and mouth, but not bad enough that anyone noticed) and the fact that I don't need to wash my hair everyday because I'm not producing oil (which is actually nice).
So here is my advice: Don't listen to these anomalies and try it for yourself. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS! If you don't like it, you can always go off. My skin looks flawless, I don't need to wear makeup anymore, and the scarring goes away with time! Accutane has done everything it promised to do for me and these lawsuits are ridiculous.

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From: woods in new zealand. A 21 year old male.
Subject: roaccutane
Date: 31/07/2008 at 08:32 - Message #111

FOR EVERYONE TAKING THE TANE I FEEL FOR YOU READ THIS AS A HUMOURED GUIDE TO SURVIVE, I SHOULD KNOW THIS IS MY 2ND TIME!! I had a baby face till i was 15/16 when acne decided to plague my face!! like most people on this site i tried every trick in the book etc face washes, creams, antibiotics, proactive you name it ive tried it!! at one stage my acne was so bad i felt it a crime to walk in public and my usual bright happy self wanting to hide in the dark (you all know how it feels!!!) so after a few of my friends had been on a course of this miracle cure ''roaccutane'' i had to get this drug!! after being put on a LOOONG waitng list i finally got the chance to see my dermo!! he recommended antibiotics (i wanted to punch him in the face when he said that) after he took closer look he eventually prescribed it it was gold in my hands yeeepppee!! i started on 1 (20mg) pill i thought i was going to die after one month my skin dry, lips etc (if i only knew the worst was yet to come!! ROACCUTANE WILL MAKE YOUR FACE WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER!! so here i am feeling my face i have a million pimples chapped lips dry skin and what i like to call ROACCUTANE RED FACE what i thought was a reasonably good looking guy was heading out the drain!! DONT STRESS IT ONLY GETS BETTER FROM HERE!! JUST KEEP GOING!! After a few months i was up to 3 pills i then realised that on one pill i was just being a worried pansy!! my lips where split corner to corner i barely wanted to leave my room!! but still i was determined to get my ''ricky martin'' babyface back!! soo a few weeks pass im still cursing the tane and all the boys decide we are going to THAILAND for a holdiday YES 40 DEGREE THAILAND!! what am i going to Do im going too pop in the sun!!! i still decide im going to keep on keeping on!! after 5 days in thailand and about 3 days of bourbon in my stomach I GAVE UP ON THE TANE IM DONE HAD ENOUGH!!! so i get back to the much colder but beautiful N.Z and am soon to notice that the dryness the lip chapping is all starting to go and im not getting pimples anymore (this is about a month later as it stays in the system for 1 month) YAY CURED!!!! Wrong if only i new now that i was to be plagued again 2 years on!!! i have dreaded going back on roaccutane for 3 years but here i am telling my story!! yup thats right im back on it as i write this!! but wait there is a lesson to be learned from my endless babbling!! STICK OUT YOUR FULL PERSCRIPTION!!!And if only i knew back then what i knew now!!! SOOOO HERE IT IS LISTEN TO ME AND YOU WILL SURVIVE THIS %^&*&*& AWFULL DRUG
- Stop using any other acne treatments from the word go!! any acne cleansers, creams, pills Throw them in the bin now so you are not tempted to use them when you skin worsens YES YOUR FACE GETS WAY WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER
- Do go out and buy the most mildest form of cleanser you can find (i use cetaphil) and a non sented non clogdemic BIGGEST TUB YOU CAN FIND moisteriser cos boy your gona use it!!! And a lip balm i found it hard to finda good one so ask the chemist they no best
COST SHOULD NOT BE AN OPTION FOR THESE PRODUCTS!! THEY ARE HEAVEN IN A POTTLE
- NOW this is the most important note!!!!!!!!!!!!
Start by washing you face at night with the mild cleanser, pat dry, and then moisturise face neck (i even do my ears and repeat in the morning in the shower or so so, even if you are suffering from breakouts KEEP UP THE MOISTURE!!! i have stuck with this routine for the 4 months i have been on the tane and i have a had little to no side affects i had the intial bad breakout but now i am only getting little spots and i swear by this technique MOISTURISER IS NOW YOUR BEST FRIEND AND ALL OTHER ACNE CURES ARE THE DEVIL!!! on my first course of the tane i used acne facewashes and still used pimple cream BAD MOVE it only gets worse JUST LEAVE YOUR F%^CKING FACE ALONE AND YOU WILL DO YOURSELF THE WORLD OF GOOD
-Also i like to think now that i get a bit more rest then i did when i was a horny 16 yearold!! they call it beauty rest for a reason!!!
-TRY and i stress try (i love junkfood) have the odd bit of fruit i know it sucks but hey as they say an APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOC AWAY (i prefer KFC its for me)
-MOST importantly you are never as ugly as you feel you are BEAUTIFUL!!! you only see the spots on your face because you know they are there!!if anybody is even worth talking too they will see past it! remember there are kids dying in 3rd world countries that would kill for a cup of rice and here i am bitching over red spots and dry skin??
AND IF ALL ELSE FAILS EMAIL OR BEBO ME!!!
woodman112@hotmail.com
www.bebo.com/woodyrobinson
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FOR EVERYONE TAKING THE TANE I FEEL FOR YOU READ THIS AS A HUMOURED GUIDE TO SURVIVE, I SHOULD KNOW THIS IS MY 2ND TIME!! I had a baby face till i was 15/16 when acne decided to plague my face!! like most people on this site i tried every trick in the book etc face washes, creams, antibiotics, proactive you name it ive tried it!! at one stage my acne was so bad i felt it a crime to walk in public and my usual bright happy self wanting to hide in the dark (you all know how it feels!!!) so after a few of my friends had been on a course of this miracle cure ''roaccutane'' i had to get this drug!! after being put on a LOOONG waitng list i finally got the chance to see my dermo!! he recommended antibiotics (i wanted to punch him in the face when he said that) after he took closer look he eventually prescribed it it was gold in my hands yeeepppee!! i started on 1 (20mg) pill i thought i was going to die after one month my skin dry, lips etc (if i only knew the worst was yet to come!! ROACCUTANE WILL MAKE YOUR FACE WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER!! so here i am feeling my face i have a million pimples chapped lips dry skin and what i like to call ROACCUTANE RED FACE what i thought was a reasonably good looking guy was heading out the drain!! DONT STRESS IT ONLY GETS BETTER FROM HERE!! JUST KEEP GOING!! After a few months i was up to 3 pills i then realised that on one pill i was just being a worried pansy!! my lips where split corner to corner i barely wanted to leave my room!! but still i was determined to get my ''ricky martin'' babyface back!! soo a few weeks pass im still cursing the tane and all the boys decide we are going to THAILAND for a holdiday YES 40 DEGREE THAILAND!! what am i going to Do im going too pop in the sun!!! i still decide im going to keep on keeping on!! after 5 days in thailand and about 3 days of bourbon in my stomach I GAVE UP ON THE TANE IM DONE HAD ENOUGH!!! so i get back to the much colder but beautiful N.Z and am soon to notice that the dryness the lip chapping is all starting to go and im not getting pimples anymore (this is about a month later as it stays in the system for 1 month) YAY CURED!!!! Wrong if only i new now that i was to be plagued again 2 years on!!! i have dreaded going back on roaccutane for 3 years but here i am telling my story!! yup thats right im back on it as i write this!! but wait there is a lesson to be learned from my endless babbling!! STICK OUT YOUR FULL PERSCRIPTION!!!And if only i knew back then what i knew now!!! SOOOO HERE IT IS LISTEN TO ME AND YOU WILL SURVIVE THIS F@&CKING AWFULL DRUG
- Stop using any other acne treatments from the word go!! any acne cleansers, creams, pills Throw them in the bin now so you are not tempted to use them when you skin worsens YES YOUR FACE GETS WAY WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER
- Do go out and buy the most mildest form of cleanser you can find (i use cetaphil) and a non sented non clogdemic BIGGEST TUB YOU CAN FIND moisteriser cos boy your gona use it!!! And a lip balm i found it hard to finda good one so ask the chemist they no best
COST SHOULD NOT BE AN OPTION FOR THESE PRODUCTS!! THEY ARE HEAVEN IN A POTTLE
- NOW this is the most important note!!!!!!!!!!!!
Start by washing you face at night with the mild cleanser, pat dry, and then moisturise face neck (i even do my ears and repeat in the morning in the shower or so so, even if you are suffering from breakouts KEEP UP THE MOISTURE!!! i have stuck with this routine for the 4 months i have been on the tane and i have a had little to no side affects i had the intial bad breakout but now i am only getting little spots and i swear by this technique MOISTURISER IS NOW YOUR BEST FRIEND AND ALL OTHER ACNE CURES ARE THE DEVIL!!! on my first course of the tane i used acne facewashes and still used pimple cream BAD MOVE it only gets worse JUST LEAVE YOUR F%^CKING FACE ALONE AND YOU WILL DO YOURSELF THE WORLD OF GOOD
-Also i like to think now that i get a bit more rest then i did when i was a horny 16 yearold!! they call it beauty rest for a reason!!!
-TRY and i stress try (i love junkfood) have the odd bit of fruit i know it sucks but hey as they say an APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOC AWAY (i prefer KFC its for me)
-MOST importantly you are never as ugly as you feel you are BEAUTIFUL!!! you only see the spots on your face because you know they are there!!if anybody is even worth talking too they will see past it! remember there are kids dying in 3rd world countries that would kill for a cup of rice and here i am bitching over red spots and dry skin??
AND IF ALL ELSE FAILS EMAIL OR BEBO ME!!!
woodman112@hotmail.com
www.bebo.com/woodyrobinson
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From: amanda. A 18 year old female.
Subject: I want my life back!
Date: 25/01/2007 at 01:42 - Message #109

College is supposed to be the best 4 years of your life. So far not for me. I never had acne in high school, at least I don�t ever remember skipping school more than once because of a pimple. But, here I am locked in my room for the fourth day straight. This semester I can count on one hand the number of classes I�ve made it to. I remember my first cystic pimple, smack dab on my chin the week of a Bob Dylan show. It was during my period, however I sucked it up and went. No excuse for me to miss Bob Dylan would be believable. That was at the beginning of August. From then on I would get a cystic pimple a week before and another one during my period. I went to my dermatologist and was put on Retin-A and antibiotics however they did not help my cysts. Shortly after I started college. When my skin was great I would go out and have fun with friends. However, as soon I as I would get a cyst I would hide in my room for days. No food or water for days at a time. Unless I felt the nerve and that the cyst was coverable enough to order delivery and to run down the stairs to get my food or I would call one of the girls on my floor, lie say I was sick, and have her leave food by my door. I finally broke down and started to urinate in plastic cups in my room so I wouldn�t have to run into anyone going down the hall to the restroom. I would spend hours putting on makeup just to shower at random odd times at night so no one would see me and then run like a mad women back to my room. I couldn�t turn my bedroom light on at night because then my friends would know I was home and would want to hang out. I literally live like a caged animal. I cant study because all I would think about is what I could use around my room to make it go away faster. Ice, crushed asprin, you name it I researched it and used it. I don�t know why I never cried during this low point in my life. When it finally did go away, it was an amazing day. I�d see my friends and they�d question me on why I completely disappeared. First semester I was locked away for 3 days at a time but only a few times I learned that if I was going to survive I would need to stock up for my next jail sentence. I went to the store and got enough food and water to last me a few days. It�s amazing how I got such good grades first semester. I almost did miss a final but I sucked it wayyyy up and went. I missed so many parties, meeting important people, going out with friends, and I eventually had to quit my job.
Over Christmas break I went to the Bahamas, the first day was amazing but then I got a huge cyst right by my nose. With no place to hide I would wake up at the crack of dawn and lose myself among the crowd on the beach with my large ass sunglasses covering up the cyst and ignoring the friend who so graciously paid for my trip. The whole vacation all I could think about was this cyst and how badly it hurt and how I desperately wished my dermatologist was there to give me a shot of cortisone. My friend was out at the bars every night enjoying himself with new friends and wondering why I wouldn�t come out. One night after 3 hours of alternating ice with cream with makeup I decided to go out and I met a guy, why he still decided to pursue me is a wonder to me. I wish on everything I could have that week back so I could actually have fun. When I got back to school it had died enough that I could show off my tan to friends and actually have some fun. Even though for some reason my skin became ultra greasy to the point where I would have to brush on powder every half an hour to cover the shine. I would be playing a game with my friends and they would all wonder why I had to go back up to my room for the thousandth time. This happened first semester too, I�d have to carry a brush and a compact and during class dab on powder when noone was looking. So that also means no parties or anything that would require a long sitting of time. Anywho, a few days later I got another large one next to the old one. I went into hiding but this time I had no food or water. It was the weekend so the derm was closed. Monday morning I decided to make a break for it and drove the 2 hours to his office back in my home town. I couldn�t sleep because I was so anxious about missing the first few days of school. In the cover of darkness (5am) I ran to the vending machine and finally got something to drink then made a quick break to my car and was at his office before they had even opened. He injected it and I declared I couldn�t live like this anymore. It completely ruined my freshmen year of college. At that point I had also quit sorority rush because I couldn�t imagine trying to meet those girls with that thing by my nose.
I may have very minor acne but it is destroying my life. Which brings me to a point. When I do have clear skin and go out I look at peoples faces and by comparison my face is so much more clearer then 75 percent of the people out there. Really my skin is great its just 2 huge painful cysts a month. All I can think of is�What the hell is my problem, these people are so much worse, I�ve seen pictures of people way worse, how are they able to go out looking like that? Here I am typing this when I�m supposed to be in Spanish class, my grades are suffering badly. I�m going to the clinic here at school tomorrow (depending if I can make it out of my room) and demanding that I speak to a professional, I just want someone to talk to and maybe get excuses for missing class. I don�t think I have BDD because I don�t find myself ugly at all just I get sick to my stomach thinking about going out in public with a cyst. I�m tired of blowing off my friends, they all think I hate them or something. I wish so badly that I could go and hang out with them. I started accutane 12 days ago. My face no longer gets greasy, three cheers for that. I�m absolutely terrified of the initial breakout, I think I may have gotten it. A small cyst near my huge ass dent from a cortisone shot I got awhile back (he said it will go away soon, is that true) but that�s near my hair line so easily covered. I have a tiny finally normal pimple by my eyebrow which doesn�t bother me and then a tiny cyst near my nose which should hopefully be gone by tomorrow, but I said that yesterday. I want my life back, I want to see my friends, go to class and study, be able to look people in the eye. My period is coming in 2 weeks which means I�ll probably miss the superbowl parties, and I really cant miss anymore class. I think I have the nerve to invite one of my friends over tonight to watch tv in my room cus I can control the lighting in here and plus his acne is much worse that he cant complain about my one zit. Thank you for reading this, I needed to get out of me. I�m on 40mg of accuatne twice a day�so far joint pain, a few pimples, bloody nose, really chapped lips. A few questions, when is the initial breakout most common, and for anyone that has hormonal cysts has it helped you? Sorry so long!

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From: Amanda in nowhere. A 18 year old Female.
Subject: Cysts
Date: 25/01/2007 at 01:34 - Message #108

College is supposed to be the best 4 years of your life. So far not for me. I never had acne in high school, at least I don�t ever remember skipping school more than once because of a pimple. But, here I am locked in my room for the fourth day straight. This semester I can count on one hand the number of classes I�ve made it to. I remember my first cystic pimple, smack dab on my chin the week of a Bob Dylan show. It was during my period, however I sucked it up and went. No excuse for me to miss Bob Dylan would be believable. That was at the beginning of August. From then on I would get a cystic pimple a week before and another one during my period. I went to my dermatologist and was put on Retin-A and antibiotics however they did not help my cysts. Shortly after I started college. When my skin was great I would go out and have fun with friends. However, as soon I as I would get a cyst I would hide in my room for days. No food or water for days at a time. Unless I felt the nerve and that the cyst was coverable enough to order delivery and to run down the stairs to get my food or I would call one of the girls on my floor, lie say I was sick, and have her leave food by my door. I finally broke down and started to urinate in plastic cups in my room so I wouldn�t have to run into anyone going down the hall to the restroom. I would spend hours putting on makeup just to shower at random odd times at night so no one would see me and then run like a mad women back to my room. I couldn�t turn my bedroom light on at night because then my friends would know I was home and would want to hang out. I literally live like a caged animal. I cant study because all I would think about is what I could use around my room to make it go away faster. Ice, crushed asprin, you name it I researched it and used it. I don�t know why I never cried during this low point in my life. When it finally did go away, it was an amazing day. I�d see my friends and they�d question me on why I completely disappeared. First semester I was locked away for 3 days at a time but only a few times I learned that if I was going to survive I would need to stock up for my next jail sentence. I went to the store and got enough food and water to last me a few days. It�s amazing how I got such good grades first semester. I almost did miss a final but I sucked it wayyyy up and went. I missed so many parties, meeting important people, going out with friends, and I eventually had to quit my job.
Over Christmas break I went to the Bahamas, the first day was amazing but then I got a huge cyst right by my nose. With no place to hide I would wake up at the crack of dawn and lose myself among the crowd on the beach with my large ass sunglasses covering up the cyst and ignoring the friend who so graciously paid for my trip. The whole vacation all I could think about was this cyst and how badly it hurt and how I desperately wished my dermatologist was there to give me a shot of cortisone. My friend was out at the bars every night enjoying himself with new friends and wondering why I wouldn�t come out. One night after 3 hours of alternating ice with cream with makeup I decided to go out and I met a guy, why he still decided to pursue me is a wonder to me. I wish on everything I could have that week back so I could actually have fun.
When I got back to school it had died enough that I could show off my tan to friends and actually have some fun. Even though for some reason my skin became ultra greasy to the point where I would have to brush on powder every half an hour to cover the shine. I would be playing a game with my friends and they would all wonder why I had to go back up to my room for the thousandth time. This happened first semester too, I�d have to carry a brush and a compact and during class dab on powder when noone was looking. So that also means no parties or anything that would require a long sitting of time.
Anywho, a few days later I got another large one next to the old one. I went into hiding but this time I had no food or water. It was the weekend so the derm was closed. Monday morning I decided to make a break for it and drove the 2 hours to his office back in my home town. I couldn�t sleep because I was so anxious about missing the first few days of school. In the cover of darkness (5am) I ran to the vending machine and finally got something to drink then made a quick break to my car and was at his office before they had even opened. He injected it and I declared I couldn�t live like this anymore. It completely ruined my freshmen year of college. At that point I had also quit sorority rush because I couldn�t imagine trying to meet those girls with that thing by my nose.
I may have very minor acne but it is destroying my life. Which brings me to a point. When I do have clear skin and go out I look at peoples faces and by comparison my face is so much more clearer then 75 percent of the people out there. Really my skin is great its just 2 huge painful cysts a month. All I can think of is�What the hell is my problem, these people are so much worse, I�ve seen pictures of people way worse, how are they able to go out looking like that? Here I am typing this when I�m supposed to be in Spanish class, my grades are suffering badly. I�m going to the clinic here at school tomorrow (depending if I can make it out of my room) and demanding that I speak to a professional, I just want someone to talk to and maybe get excuses for missing class. I don�t think I have BDD because I don�t find myself ugly at all just I get sick to my stomach thinking about going out in public with a cyst. I'm not the least bit depressed I know this will pass soon and I can out out again!! I�m tired of blowing off my friends, they all think I hate them or something. I wish so badly that I could go and hang out with them. I started accutane 12 days ago. My face no longer gets greasy, three cheers for that. I�m absolutely terrified of the initial breakout, I think I may have gotten it. A small cyst near my huge ass dent from a cortisone shot I got awhile back (he said it will go away soon, is that true) but that�s near my hair line so easily covered. I have a tiny finally normal pimple by my eyebrow which doesn�t bother me and then a tiny cyst near my nose which should hopefully be gone by tomorrow, but I said that yesterday. I want my life back, I want to see my friends, go to class and study, be able to look people in the eye. My period is coming in 2 weeks which means I�ll probably miss the superbowl parties, and I really cant miss anymore class. I think I have the nerve to invite one of my friends over tonight to watch tv in my room cus I can control the lighting in here and plus his acne is much worse that he cant complain about my one zit. Thank you for reading this, I needed to get out of me. I�m on 40mg of accuatne twice a day�so far joint pain, a few pimples, bloody nose, really chapped lips. A few questions, when is the initial breakout most common, and for anyone that has hormonal cysts has it helped you? Sorry so long!

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From: Cassie in Washington. A 20 year old Female.
Date: 25/11/2006 at 10:15 - Message #105

My doc up'd my med dose for my last month. Not a good idea. One morning I felt like my equalibrium was a bit of, thought I was just tired. I got in the shower and within 2 min I fell back on the wall and nearly passed out. I caught myself and quickly through my hair up in a towel and put clothes on and some how go to my bedroom 2 floors up because I felt like shit and I was frightened. I began to feel really dizzy and I couldn't see right, it was blurry. So about 2 hours later I was able to get back out of bed and regain myself. I was honestly as white as a ghost and too sick to eat. I got some toast down and drank some fluids. I regained myself throughout the day but was exhausted. I have gone back to my regular dosage and I staying away from the increase. Advice to others, dont take any more meds then you think you can handle. Ask lots of questions about the increase your doc is perscribing you. Let me tell you, what I went through can't be explained enough as bad as it really was. I hope others didn't experience what I did. I felt like shit!

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From: Dank in ohio. A 18 year old male.
Subject: acne
Date: 31/08/2006 at 14:06 - Message #104

My docter finally prescribed me accutane, but the pharmacy called and said the doc needs too call in and say if my insurance will cover is, i really hope it does because acne is like the worst feeling in the world when you feel scared to show your face , i wonder somtimes why god let me have the shit, but my question is how did all of you guys PAY for accutane like what insurance do you guys have , thank you
ill really appreicate if everybody trys to awnser this

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From: MIKE HOLTON. A 18 year old not sure anymore.
Date: 20/08/2006 at 04:05 - Message #103

MY FACE STILL LOOKS LIKE SHIT

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From: Smurf in Texas. A 15 year old male.
Subject: Proativ
Date: 23/08/2005 at 22:05 - Message #102

im 15 and have had acne since i was 14 although it never has really gotten abslutly horrible, and unbearable. But it has caused problems. And i was just wondering if anybody here has tried proactiv? I have and the stuff didnt do SHIT for me. I could be applying it wrong, but im unsure.

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From: Ronda in Irish American. A 16 year old Female.
Subject: okay this works!
Date: 26/12/2004 at 14:31 - Message #101

Hey everyone, im ronya.. alright listin i just wanted you guys to know that ive never gotten acne in my life! not even one zit! UNTIL i turned 16!:( .. i got one in the middle of my forehead.. i was gona die! soo i picked at it .. and put soo many chemicals on it, like acne treatment.. a lil adives(alwasys stick to one acne material, dont use 3 to 4 diffrent types)..well i BURNED my FACE!!!!! soo afterwards the sideaffects were 1000 zits EVERYWERE!!!! ive never seen soo many more zits on anyone in my life! ive just turned from the person w/ the least zits in my class to THE MOST zits. people came up to me and said omg what happiend ur face used to be soo nice! or did u get into a car accident! i was gona die.. and my self confidence was soo loww. but THE CUREEEEEEEEE!!!!! okay every one listen DONT use anymore acne shit to clear you face, go natural! 1st put fressing cold yougert on ur face to get rid of the redness or u can use cucumbers .. but the thing that got ride of all my pimples (mashallah ).. was ocean sea salt!.. like ocean water.. soo swiming in the sea!!! thats all it dries up ur pimples then they goo away it takes less then 3 days! .. its amazing!!!.. just SWIM IN THE OCEAN!! or get sea water and soak your face in it 4 10 min 5 times a day! it works .. TAKE MY ADVISE IT WORKS!!! YOU WILL BE ACNE FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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From: Nikki girl in michigan. A 15 year old female.
Subject: i need advice
Date: 20/07/2004 at 13:55 - Message #100

hey...this is a long story...it all started in the fall when i meet this boy adam at a football game..the whole night we were hooked at eachtohers hip i mean we had so much in common and it was kewl and then the second time i seen him was when i took him and my friend billy (his friend too) and my friend amber to a concert (oh and by the way billy and adam go to a different school than me and amber and they are good friend!...but there school is only like 5 min away) anyways yea adam had a g/f at the time but at the concert me and adam sat next to eachother and he would stare at me and we would talk and stuff and then the next night me and amber went to their schools dance! and the whole night when adam was dancin with his girlfriend he would stare at me well then like a week later him and his g/f broke up and then a couple days after that he asked me out...well we went out for about 4 months! and i mean he was the first boy i have done anything with besides make out...but we were eachothers first for everything but yea......anyways (by the way thats kinda a big part of the story) kk..well yea back to the story when 4 months came he broke up with me and his reason for it was saying that he lost the feeling and that i didnt deserve that i didnt deserve someone who didnt like me the way i liked them and that i deserved better and crap and it bothered him that we didnt go to the same school...well so like now when it came to may (we broke up in march) but yea when may came after him and his other ex broke up me and him started talking and then we started to like eachother again (i always still liked him) but we talked and he said that going out with his ex made him realize that when you have a good thing you should keep it going and try to work things out and that he was stupid for how he treated the girl before and he was talkin about me! and then like a few days later he told me he liked me... and he told me i was the most awesome girl ever and i was amazing and crap well anyways yea we had a lil thing going and then like in june just in one day...he hung out with his friend donnie and me and donnie dont really get along..we sorta fight and crap but yea he hung out with his friend donnie and then the next day he said that the feeling he had for me died and crap and he still wanted to be friends and i was yea kk w/e and then the very next day adam, me, amber, billy, , char and zac all hung out (by the way billy and amber are going out) kk anyways we all hung out and we ended up going to the beach and haha everyone went into the water except for me and adam..we stayed out and talked but like on the walk back to billys me and adam would flirt and all this and we would tease eachother and be mean but we were doin it in a flirty way..well then when we got to billy's house and we were all sitting in his basement and me and zac were talking and i told zac that i needed some cds burnt ...and adam was like ill burn some for you! and im like okay thanx well then when i got home that night i had a msg on icq from adam saying sorry for being mean and crap like that and im like its okay and normally adam wont call me hun or babe or stuff like that unless he likes me or if we are going out well that night we were talking and hes like night babe...and then we talked for a few more days and then we stopped talking and then they had there fourht of july on the 5th and i went to it with my friends and i saw him there and he looked back and stared at me as i walked by ( and by the way he liked some other girl at this time) anyways and i was wearin a skirt a punky belt and a dickies shirt with a hat and lets just say im punk ...not bad but i looked punky that day ..and he liked that about me when we were going out...anyways...right as we were walking by them my cousin and his two HOTT friends yelled NIKKI.................. we are waving to you and you dont even stop to talk to us and in a way i was glad they said something cuz it made me look ya know... i cant explain but yea we went over there and my cousins hott friend gave me a hug and crap (they are my age too) well anyways yea we talked to them for awhile and adam was watching us kinda...and then when we were walking back we walked past adam and i didnt look at him and my friend katie was like nikki he was watching you the whole time you walked by and i didnt even notice and then like when it got night time i was walking to go talk to my cousin and adam was walking right in front of me and he stopped and backed up like he was blockin my way and i just walked around him acting like i didnt give a shit and then just the other night i talked to him on icq and i told him that i saw him once and hes like yea i saw you a couple times, i was looking around alot..hahaa!....
alright i still am in love with adam but he has a g/f now and i want him back ...can you please tell me some ways to get him back and help me out please?!!!!!! i realllllllyyyy need help with this!

hey...this is a long story...it all started in the fall when i meet this boy adam at a football game..the whole night we were hooked at eachtohers hip i mean we had so much in common and it was kewl and then the second time i seen him was when i took him and my friend billy (his friend too) and my friend amber to a concert (oh and by the way billy and adam go to a different school than me and amber and they are good friend!...but there school is only like 5 min away) anyways yea adam had a g/f at the time but at the concert me and adam sat next to eachother and he would stare at me and we would talk and stuff and then the next night me and amber went to their schools dance! and the whole night when adam was dancin with his girlfriend he would stare at me well then like a week later him and his g/f broke up and then a couple days after that he asked me out...well we went out for about 4 months! and i mean he was the first boy i have done anything with besides make out...but we were eachothers first for everything but sex...anyways (by the way thats kinda a big part of the story) kk..well yea back to the story when 4 months came he broke up with me and his reason for it was saying that he lost the feeling and that i didnt deserve that i didnt deserve someone who didnt like me the way i liked them and that i deserved better and crap and it bothered him that we didnt go to the same school...well so like now when it came to may (we broke up in march) but yea when may came after him and his other ex broke up me and him started talking and then we started to like eachother again (i always still liked him) but we talked and he said that going out with his ex made him realize that when you have a good thing you should keep it going and try to work things out and that he was stupid for how he treated the girl before and he was talkin about me! and then like a few days later he told me he liked me... and he told me i was the most awesome girl ever and i was amazing and crap well anyways yea we had a lil thing going and then like in june just in one day...he hung out with his friend donnie and me and donnie dont really get along..we sorta fight and crap but yea he hung out with his friend donnie and then the next day he said that the feeling he had for me died and crap and he still wanted to be friends and i was yea kk w/e and then the very next day adam, me, amber, billy, , char and zac all hung out (by the way billy and amber are going out) kk anyways we all hung out and we ended up going to the beach and haha everyone went into the water except for me and adam..we stayed out and talked but like on the walk back to billys me and adam would flirt and all this and we would tease eachother and be mean but we were doin it in a flirty way..well then when we got to billy's house and we were all sitting in his basement and me and zac were talking and i told zac that i needed some cds burnt ...and adam was like ill burn some for you! and im like okay thanx well then when i got home that night i had a msg on icq from adam saying sorry for being mean and crap like that and im like its okay and normally adam wont call me hun or babe or stuff like that unless he likes me or if we are going out well that night we were talking and hes like night babe...and then we talked for a few more days and then we stopped talking and then they had there fourht of july on the 5th and i went to it with my friends and i saw him there and he looked back and stared at me as i walked by ( and by the way he liked some other girl at this time) anyways and i was wearin a skirt a punky belt and a dickies shirt with a hat and lets just say im punk ...not bad but i looked punky that day ..and he liked that about me when we were going out...anyways...right as we were walking by them my cousin and his two HOTT friends yelled NIKKI.................. we are waving to you and you dont even stop to talk to us and in a way i was glad they said something cuz it made me look ya know... i cant explain but yea we went over there and my cousins hott friend gave me a hug and crap (they are my age too) well anyways yea we talked to them for awhile and adam was watching us kinda...and then when we were walking back we walked past adam and i didnt look at him and my friend katie was like nikki he was watching you the whole time you walked by and i didnt even notice and then like when it got night time i was walking to go talk to my cousin and adam was walking right in front of me and he stopped and backed up like he was blockin my way and i just walked around him acting like i didnt give a shit and then just the other night i talked to him on icq and i told him that i saw him once and hes like yea i saw you a couple times, i was looking around alot..hahaa!....
alright i still am in love with adam but he has a g/f now and i want him back ...can you please tell me some ways to get him back and help me out please?!!!!!! i realllllllyyyy need help with this!

hey...this is a long story...it all started in the fall when i meet this boy adam at a football game..the whole night we were hooked at eachtohers hip i mean we had so much in common and it was kewl and then the second time i seen him was when i took him and my friend billy (his friend too) and my friend amber to a concert (oh and by the way billy and adam go to a different school than me and amber and they are good friend!...but there school is only like 5 min away) anyways yea adam had a g/f at the time but at the concert me and adam sat next to eachother and he would stare at me and we would talk and stuff and then the next night me and amber went to their schools dance! and the whole night when adam was dancin with his girlfriend he would stare at me well then like a week later him and his g/f broke up and then a couple days after that he asked me out...well we went out for about 4 months! and i mean he was the first boy i have done anything with besides make out...but we were eachothers first for everything but sex...anyways (by the way thats kinda a big part of the story) kk..well yea back to the story when 4 months came he broke up with me and his reason for it was saying that he lost the feeling and that i didnt deserve that i didnt deserve someone who didnt like me the way i liked them and that i deserved better and crap and it bothered him that we didnt go to the same school...well so like now when it came to may (we broke up in march) but yea when may came after him and his other ex broke up me and him started talking and then we started to like eachother again (i always still liked him) but we talked and he said that going out with his ex made him realize that when you have a good thing you should keep it going and try to work things out and that he was stupid for how he treated the girl before and he was talkin about me! and then like a few days later he told me he liked me... and he told me i was the most awesome girl ever and i was amazing and crap well anyways yea we had a lil thing going and then like in june just in one day...he hung out with his friend donnie and me and donnie dont really get along..we sorta fight and crap but yea he hung out with his friend donnie and then the next day he said that the feeling he had for me died and crap and he still wanted to be friends and i was yea kk w/e and then the very next day adam, me, amber, billy, , char and zac all hung out (by the way billy and amber are going out) kk anyways we all hung out and we ended up going to the beach and haha everyone went into the water except for me and adam..we stayed out and talked but like on the walk back to billys me and adam would flirt and all this and we would tease eachother and be mean but we were doin it in a flirty way..well then when we got to billy's house and we were all sitting in his basement and me and zac were talking and i told zac that i needed some cds burnt ...and adam was like ill burn some for you! and im like okay thanx well then when i got home that night i had a msg on icq from adam saying sorry for being mean and crap like that and im like its okay and normally adam wont call me hun or babe or stuff like that unless he likes me or if we are going out well that night we were talking and hes like night babe...and then we talked for a few more days and then we stopped talking and then they had there fourht of july on the 5th and i went to it with my friends and i saw him there and he looked back and stared at me as i walked by ( and by the way he liked some other girl at this time) anyways and i was wearin a skirt a punky belt and a dickies shirt with a hat and lets just say im punk ...not bad but i looked punky that day ..and he liked that about me when we were going out...anyways...right as we were walking by them my cousin and his two HOTT friends yelled NIKKI you stuck up B**** we are waving to you and you dont even stop to talk to us and in a way i was glad they said something cuz it made me look ya know... i cant explain but yea we went over there and my cousins hott friend gave me a hug and crap (they are my age too) well anyways yea we talked to them for awhile and adam was watching us kinda...and then when we were walking back we walked past adam and i didnt look at him and my friend katie was like nikki he was watching you the whole time you walked by and i didnt even notice and then like when it got night time i was walking to go talk to my cousin and adam was walking right in front of me and he stopped and backed up like he was blockin my way and i just walked around him acting like i didnt give a shit and then just the other night i talked to him on icq and i told him that i saw him once and hes like yea i saw you a couple times, i was looking around alot..hahaa!....
alright i still am in love with adam but he has a g/f now and i want him back ...can you please tell me some ways to get him back and help me out please?!!!!!! i realllllllyyyy need help with this!

hey...this is a long story...it all started in the fall when i meet this boy adam at a football game..the whole night we were hooked at eachtohers hip i mean we had so much in common and it was kewl and then the second time i seen him was when i took him and my friend billy (his friend too) and my friend amber to a concert (oh and by the way billy and adam go to a different school than me and amber and they are good friend!...but there school is only like 5 min away) anyways yea adam had a g/f at the time but at the concert me and adam sat next to eachother and he would stare at me and we would talk and stuff and then the next night me and amber went to their schools dance! and the whole night when adam was dancin with his girlfriend he would stare at me well then like a week later him and his g/f broke up and then a couple days after that he asked me out...well we went out for about 4 months! and i mean he was the first boy i have done anything with besides make out...but we were eachothers first for everything but sex...anyways (by the way thats kinda a big part of the story) kk..well yea back to the story when 4 months came he broke up with me and his reason for it was saying that he lost the feeling and that i didnt deserve that i didnt deserve someone who didnt like me the way i liked them and that i deserved better and crap and it bothered him that we didnt go to the same school...well so like now when it came to may (we broke up in march) but yea when may came after him and his other ex broke up me and him started talking and then we started to like eachother again (i always still liked him) but we talked and he said that going out with his ex made him realize that when you have a good thing you should keep it going and try to work things out and that he was stupid for how he treated the girl before and he was talkin about me! and then like a few days later he told me he liked me... and he told me i was the most awesome girl ever and i was amazing and crap well anyways yea we had a lil thing going and then like in june just in one day...he hung out with his friend donnie and me and donnie dont really get along..we sorta fight and crap but yea he hung out with his friend donnie and then the next day he said that the feeling he had for me died and crap and he still wanted to be friends and i was yea kk w/e and then the very next day adam, me, amber, billy, , char and zac all hung out (by the way billy and amber are going out) kk anyways we all hung out and we ended up going to the beach and haha everyone went into the water except for me and adam..we stayed out and talked but like on the walk back to billys me and adam would flirt and all this and we would tease eachother and be mean but we were doin it in a flirty way..well then when we got to billy's house and we were all sitting in his basement and me and zac were talking and i told zac that i needed some cds burnt ...and adam was like ill burn some for you! and im like okay thanx well then when i got home that night i had a msg on icq from adam saying sorry for being mean and crap like that and im like its okay and normally adam wont call me hun or babe or stuff like that unless he likes me or if we are going out well that night we were talking and hes like night babe...and then we talked for a few more days and then we stopped talking and then they had there fourht of july on the 5th and i went to it with my friends and i saw him there and he looked back and stared at me as i walked by ( and by the way he liked some other girl at this time) anyways and i was wearin a skirt a punky belt and a dickies shirt with a hat and lets just say im punk ...not bad but i looked punky that day ..and he liked that about me when we were going out...anyways...right as we were walking by them my cousin and his two HOTT friends yelled NIKKI you stuck up Bitch we are waving to you and you dont even stop to talk to us and in a way i was glad they said something cuz it made me look ya know... i cant explain but yea we went over there and my cousins hott friend gave me a hug and crap (they are my age too) well anyways yea we talked to them for awhile and adam was watching us kinda...and then when we were walking back we walked past adam and i didnt look at him and my friend katie was like nikki he was watching you the whole time you walked by and i didnt even notice and then like when it got night time i was walking to go talk to my cousin and adam was walking right in front of me and he stopped and backed up like he was blockin my way and i just walked around him acting like i didnt give a shit and then just the other night i talked to him on icq and i told him that i saw him once and hes like yea i saw you a couple times, i was looking around alot..hahaa!....
alright i still am in love with adam but he has a g/f now and i want him back ...can you please tell me some ways to get him back and help me out please?!!!!!! i realllllllyyyy need help with this!

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From: Ian in Ireland. A 21 year old Male.
Subject: Moisturizer
Date: 12/07/2004 at 18:59 - Message #96

Yo, yo, wassup!? Ok, I've never had severe acne and I'm sure all my friends dont think it's a concern for me or that it gets me down so bad. Im fortunate, I have absolutely no scarring to my face but I'm getting unsightly keloids on my shoulders, this must stop now! I've tried the lot, tetracycline, minocycline, topical retonoids, Dr. Dubrow's 6 week acne cure, diets, drink a gallon of water a day, eat fruit and veg 'til it comes out my ears and all the old wive's tales shite by the bucket load! But, you guessed it, no joy! Started gettin acne at around sweet sixteen and it seemed to be gettin worse not better at twenty-one so I decided to go on the dreaded roaccutane or accutane or whatever you call it in your neck of the woods. Been on 40mg for about 25 days now and the results are quite astonishing! My face used to be really oily, now not a drop. I havent seen a pimple on my face in about two weeks now and my back and neck which used to be worse than my face are clearing up. I suffer from dry lips but vaseline does the trick. I put vaseline hair tonic on my head after I shower everyday and before I slap on the wax to prevent dryness and hair-loss and it works. However my problem is the dryness around my nose and mouth, the flakey skin is kinda gross to be honest. Now heres my question- I use an oil-free mosturizer as it is non-comedogenic, will the use of an oily moisturizer give me pimples on my now clear face? Thanks for takin the time to read my sob story!!!!!

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From: non of ya business in australia. A 15 year old male.
Subject: response
Date: 27/06/2004 at 05:13 - Message #95
Web Site: BLAH BLAH BLAH

after reading these letters i am here to tell everyone that is blaming roaccutane for causing depression, and loss of eye sight. what a bunch of shit your only depressed because acne itself causes depression not the drug and for the person who lost their eye sight you have issues that nedd to be dealt with. No isotretinoin tablet could possibly cause blindness. And all the side effects vay from person to person. Never be afraid to go on roaccutane thats just rediculous. it is only a prescribed drug and if it was dangerous dermatologists would of found it out during its tests before it was approved.
TO WORRIED PERSON IN AUSTRALIA WHO HAS BEEN ON ORATANE FOR 3 MONTHS I HAVE BEEN ON ORATANE FOR 4 AND A HALF MONTHS AND AT 3 MONTHS MY SKIN WAS ONLY JUST STARTING TO IMPROVE. TAKE A PHOTO NOW AND THEN COMPARE IT IN 2 MONTHS. YOULL FEEL MUCH BETTER WHEN U CAN LOOK BACK AND SEE THE DIFFERENCE.

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From: amanda in oklahoma. A 12 year old female.
Subject: acni
Date: 23/06/2004 at 14:54 - Message #94

Hello i have acni really bad I really dont Know how to git rid of it i tried every single kind of medicine but my mom says it is a stage in life every one goes through it so everybody calls me dot or dot-to-dot or pimp i just ignore them i had them in 5th grade and this kid wouldnt stop making fun of me every day then in 6th grade he had them to i said you know now hopw i felt he said yes and i dont like it i said i bet in the next 3 years i bet i will see my face clear up and every one will have them but i shouldnt make fun of them but you dont think boys ever will like you well you are wrong boys ask me out all the time boys dont care how you look its how you dress bye

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From: laura in Canada. A 16 year old female.
Subject: POST-ACCUTANE
Date: 14/06/2004 at 19:15 - Message #93

Hello everyone, hope ur all good
I started using accutane in october 2003 and took it for 5 months long.I TOTALLY LOVED IT...nothing ever ever ever EVER made my skin look this good, and before it, i had never went with clear skin for such a long time, even after finishing the treatment (on march 2004). i was then pimple-free for 2 or 3 months, until end of may 2004, and then i started breaking out again AND I WAS REALLY PISSED OFF....since then i still break out and i ***** hate it...i just wanted to know if its possible to retake accutane,for a second time, and will the good effects continue for a long time ,like 10years as i was told by a friend, this time..?? please answer,im really upset i totally haaattteeeeee pimples!! thank you very much,lauraxxxxxx

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From: Mitcheh in qld. A 16 year old male.
Subject: about the outbreak
Date: 14/04/2004 at 20:50 - Message #92

Hey guys, i just started the roaccutane yesterday, and i was informed on all side effects etc.. my derm did say that you will quite offen have a break out before it gets better ( 2weeks-> month ). he said this is due to the roaccutane TOTALLY blocking off your pores. While the pores are blocked all the gunk n shit in your face/back/wherever comes out over the month or so. after that the skin heals and cleans up quick fast and in a hurry. The dry skin and lips is due to the sweat glans being blocked and taking away the oily skin. When your body doesn't produce sweat, your skin is vulnerable to sunlight so slip slop slap.
ALSO I AM ALREADY EXPERIENCING BLURRED VISION A LITLE BIT AND DRY LIPS AND ACHES AFTER ONE DAY HEHE. email me mitch_smith_16@hotmail.com with your recommendations to beat the side effects.
cheers

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From: Chris M in Canada. A 29 year old M.
Subject: Accutane + depression
Date: 29/03/2004 at 19:22 - Message #91

So... I have a mild case of acne on my back apparently. Nothing too fierce or angry, but enough to make me self conscious of not having a nice smooth clear back - there's some marks from previous zits and lumps'n'bumps and stuff, leaving my back looking a bit "marked".
I got prescribed Septra DS, which is some antibiotic + sulfur combination product. Today, my new doctor has extended that for a month and put me on 10mg Accutane for a month.
The warnings about depression and stuff have me shit scared - I was depressed about 5 years ago and took Prozac for 6 months. I've been a bit under the weather lately, unsettled due to job changes and stuff.. I think I have some issues to work out there already, with general mood/happiness etc.. I'm just worried/concerned that I may have an adverse reaction to the Accutane.. any thoughts/advice? emails ok :-)

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From: Rachael. A 19 year old female.
Date: 08/12/2001 at 12:43 - Message #90

Hi guys, I was wondering if you could help me?
I have suffered acne for very long now and am about to get on roaccuntane but i am mainly hesitant becasue i have this distinct fear of hair loss? I have alwaays had really thin hair and haven't been the healthiest peron, I was womdering if the hair loss is very bad and whether t would persist. I am really scared that i will go bald!

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From: Rachael in australia. A 20 year old female.
Subject: help
Date: 08/12/2001 at 12:37 - Message #89

Hi guys, I really need a little help. I have not always physicallly been a healthy perosn, I have acne problems and want to get on roaccuntane. my biggest worry is hair loss. I have really really thin hair and i don't want to lose too much of it while on roaccuntane. do you guys knopw whether or not it;s really bad for someone with thin hair? Does it persist? and has it made anyone go bald?!

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From: Britta in US. A 26 year old F.
Subject: Hey Clue
Date: 04/12/2001 at 03:00 - Message #88

Clue- sounds like if you don't do it via doctor, you at least need to read up some more if you are so blase about it as to ask us. Accutane can be great, but it can seriously FUCK you up if you aren't really careful. The clearest most beautiful skin and the confident person waiting to come out inside isn't worth liver failure, or worse... good luck!

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From: Paul in US. A 19 year old male.
Subject: Need help getting accutane
Date: 29/11/2001 at 10:05 - Message #87

I've had severe acne since I was 13 and have never seen my face clear since. I have gone to the dermatologist was put on antibiotics which had little to no effect. Eventually stopping since none of the treatments he offer helped. My younger brother has also gone to the dermatoligist and was started on accutane, which I attribute to his going after me after accutanes success was better known. Since his course of accuntane hes been clear meanwhile I'm still left to suffer, hes 16 I have 4 years on him and still havn't been givin a treatment to help. I can't stand going out. For the past year I've been self studying for IT certifications which has dropped me from my parents insurance (and to think part of the reason I couldn't stand public education was because I couldn't take going out in public). I cannot get an appointment with a dermatoligist because they all state I need health insurance first which I don't have since I'm not covered under my parents plan since I'm not pursueing my education in the standard practice. I havn't the money to buy health insurance as I'm still a student w/o a job. It seems so unfair that my brother has been clear for almost a year now and I've been suffering for 7 years I know what will cure it and I because of my chosen path of education can't recieve it (I would be covered if I did the regular college route). Is there any possible means for me to get ahold of roaccutane, accutante or even is topical gel varients. I've tried everything including b5 at 10grams a day for long periods of time nothing works, I eat clean since I sort of enjoy bodybuilding (when I can drag myself out of depression) at this rate I feel like k***ing myself because its scarring my face so horribly by the time I get treatment I am going to still have horrible scars. Life isn't any fun I hate waking up I h@te looking in the mirror I h@te seeing other people even including family. I'm extremly envious of my brother who is perfectly clear and happy w/ his girlfriend meanwhile it hurts to open my mouth to eat. I can't smile or grimace w/o causing pain from the swelling of the acne.
Please help

I've had severe acne since I was 13 and have never seen my face clear since. I have gone to the dermatologist was put on antibiotics which had little to no effect. Eventually stopping since none of the treatments he offer helped. My younger brother has also gone to the dermatoligist and was started on accutane, which I attribute to his going after me after accutanes success was better known. Since his course of accuntane hes been clear meanwhile I'm still left to suffer, hes 16 I have 4 years on him and still havn't been givin a treatment to help. I can't stand going out. For the past year I've been self studying for IT certifications which has dropped me from my parents insurance (and to think part of the reason I couldn't stand public education was because I couldn't take going out in public). I cannot get an appointment with a dermatoligist because they all state I need health insurance first which I don't have since I'm not covered under my parents plan since I'm not pursueing my education in the standard practice. I havn't the money to buy health insurance as I'm still a student w/o a job. It seems so unfair that my brother has been clear for almost a year now and I've been suffering for 7 years I know what will cure it and I because of my chosen path of education can't recieve it (I would be covered if I did the regular college route). Is there any possible means for me to get ahold of roaccutane, accutante or even is topical gel varients. I've tried everything including b5 at 10grams a day for long periods of time nothing works, I eat clean since I sort of enjoy bodybuilding (when I can drag myself out of depression) at this rate I feel like k***ing myself because its scarring my face so horribly by the time I get treatment I am going to still have horrible scars. Life isn't any fun I hate waking up I hate looking in the mirror I hate seeing other people even including family. I'm extremly envious of my brother who is perfectly clear and happy w/ his girlfriend meanwhile it hurts to open my mouth to eat. I can't smile or grimace w/o causing pain from the swelling of the acne.
Please help

I've had severe acne since I was 13 and have never seen my face clear since. I have gone to the dermatologist was put on antibiotics which had little to no effect. Eventually stopping since none of the treatments he offer helped. My younger brother has also gone to the dermatoligist and was started on accutane, which I attribute to his going after me after accutanes success was better known. Since his course of accuntane hes been clear meanwhile I'm still left to suffer, hes 16 I have 4 years on him and still havn't been givin a treatment to help. I can't stand going out. For the past year I've been self studying for IT certifications which has dropped me from my parents insurance (and to think part of the reason I hated public education was because I couldn't stand going out in public). I cannot get an appointment with a dermatoligist because of this they all state I need health insurance first. I havn't the money to buy health insurance as I'm still a student w/o a job. It seems so unfair that my brother has been clear for almost a year now and I've been suffering for 7 years I know what will cure it and I because of my chosen path of education can't recieve it (I would be covered if I did the regular college route). Is there any possible means for me to get ahold of roaccutane, accutante or even is topical gel varients. I've tried everything including b5 at 10grams a day for long periods of time nothing works, I eat clean since I sort of enjoy bodybuilding (when I can drag myself out of depression) at this rate I feel like k***ing myself because its scarring my face so horribly by the time I get treatment I am going to still have horrible scars. Life isn't any fun I hate waking up I hate looking in the mirror I hate seeing other people even including family. I'm extremly envious of my brother who is perfectly clear and happy w/ his girlfriend meanwhile it hurts to open my mouth to eat. I can't smile or grimace w/o causing pain from the swelling of the acne.
Please help

I've had severe acne since I was 13 and have never seen my face clear since. I have gone to the dermatologist was put on antibiotics which had little to no effect. Eventually stopping since none of the treatments he offer helped. My younger brother has also gone to the dermatoligist and was started on accutane, which I attribute to his going after me after accutanes success was better known. Since his course of accuntane hes been clear meanwhile I'm still left to suffer, hes 16 I have 4 years on him and still havn't been givin a treatment to help. I can't stand going out. For the past year I've been self studying for IT certifications which has dropped me from my parents insurance (and to think part of the reason I hated public education was because I couldn't stand going out in public). I cannot get an appointment with a dermatoligist because of this they all state I need health insurance first. I havn't the money to buy health insurance as I'm still a student w/o a job. It seems so unfair that my brother has been clear for almost a year now and I've been suffering for 7 years I know what will cure it and I because of my chosen path of education can't recieve it (I would be covered if I did the regular college route). Is there any possible means for me to get ahold of roaccutane, accutante or even is topical gel varients. I've tried everything including b5 at 10grams a day for long periods of time nothing works, I eat clean since I sort of enjoy bodybuilding (when I can drag myself out of depression) at this rate I feel like killling myself because its scarring my face so horribly by the time I get treatment I am going to still have horrible scars. Life isn't any fun I hate waking up I hate looking in the mirror I hate seeing other people even including family. I'm extremly envious of my brother who is perfectly clear and happy w/ his girlfriend meanwhile it hurts to open my mouth to eat. I can't smile or grimace w/o causing pain from the swelling of the acne.
Please help

I've had severe acne since I was 13 and have never seen my face clear since. I have gone to the dermatologist was put on antibiotics which had little to no effect. Eventually stopping since none of the treatments he offer helped. My younger brother has also gone to the dermatoligist and was started on accutane, which I attribute to his going after me after accutanes success was better known. Since his course of accuntane hes been clear meanwhile I'm still left to suffer, hes 16 I have 4 years on him and still havn't been givin a treatment to help. I can't stand going out. For the past year I've been self studying for IT certifications which has dropped me from my parents insurance (and to think part of the reason I hated public education was because I couldn't stand going out in public). I cannot get an appointment with a dermatoligist because of this they all state I need health insurance first. I havn't the money to buy health insurance as I'm still a student w/o a job. It seems so unfair that my brother has been clear for almost a year now and I've been suffering for 7 years I know what will cure it and I because of my chosen path of education can't recieve it (I would be covered if I did the regular college route). Is there any possible means for me to get ahold of roaccutane, accutante or even is topical gel varients. I've tried everything including b5 at 10grams a day for long periods of time nothing works, I eat clean since I sort of enjoy bodybuilding (when I can drag myself out of depression) at this rate I feel like killling myself because its scarring my face so horribly by the time I get treatment I am going to still have horrible scars. Life isn't any fun I hate waking up I hate looking in the mirror I hate seeing other people even including family. I'm extremly envious of my brother who is perfectly clear and happy w/ his girlfriend meanwhile it hurts to open my mouth to eat. I can't smile or flinch or grimace w/o causing pain from the swelling of the acne.
Please help

I've had severe acne since I was 13 and have never seen my face clear since. I have gone to the dermatologist was put on antibiotics which had little to no effect. Eventually stopping since none of the treatments he offer helped. My younger brother has also gone to the dermatoligist and was started on accutane, which I attribute to his going after me after accutanes success was better known. Since his course of accuntane hes been clear meanwhile I'm still left to suffer, hes 16 I have 4 years on him and still havn't been givin a treatment to help. I can't stand going out. For the past year I've been self studying for IT certifications which has dropped me from my parents insurance (and to think part of the reason I hated public education was because I couldn't stand going out in public). I cannot get an appointment with a dermatoligist because of this they all state I need health insurance first. I havn't the money to buy health insurance as I'm still a student w/o a job. It seems so unfair that my brother has been clear for almost a year now and I've been suffering for 7 years I know what will cure it and I because of my chosen path of education can't recieve it (I would be covered if I did the regular college route). Is there any possible means for me to get ahold of roaccutane, accutante or even is topical gel varients. I've tried everything including b5 at 10grams a day for long periods of time nothing works, I eat clean since I sort of enjoy bodybuilding (when I can drag myself out of depression) at this rate I feel like killing myself because its scarring my face so horribly by the time I get treatment I am going to still have horrible scars. Life isn't any fun I hate waking up I hate looking in the mirror I hate seeing other people even including family. I'm extremly envious of my brother who perfectly clear and happy w/ his girlfriend meanwhile it hurts to open my mouth to eat. I can't smile or flinch or grimace w/o causing pain from the swelling of the acne.
Please help

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From: Kev in UK. A 22 year old Male.
Subject: Today is the day...
Date: 28/11/2001 at 19:22 - Message #80

Hey everyone. Today is the day I start Roaccutane. I went to see the derm today and he prescribed it (a little too??) easily. Said it would cure my skin, said a blood test was unnecessary and that in four months my skin would be perfect.
Mmm. Confidence in a product or what?
Anyhow, I weigh about 75kg and he's recommended 65mg (1mg per kg - 10) a day which I've just took. I've read all the comments on here over the past couple of months while waiting to see the derm and despite reservations I though, sod it, just go for it.
I've got my lip balm and moisturiser and am ready to face the worst! I start a new job in six weeks a long way from home so I hope it doesn't get too bad.
I'll keep you all updated. Good luck to everybody and feel free to email me.

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From: drdoom in UK-Linconshire. A 19 year old male.
Subject: duno
Date: 23/11/2001 at 23:14 - Message #79

Im using DoxycyclINE. been on it about 2 months whatever that is the doctor says its working but i dunoo....its definitly beter than it was since yers ago but still annoing and its geting me really pissed off iv had acnie since i was 14... and i just wish it wouldd go too, its left some scars...there less red tho but the doc says theres laser treatment now... ooo
anyway think im going to burn my face off
:-(

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From: GW in Aussie.
Date: 20/11/2001 at 23:48 - Message #78

Hey, I'm an argumentative bugger, what can I say?? Go ahead, suggest, suggest, suggest all you like, that's what this board's for (obviously). I wasn't criticising the suggestion so much as the way it was put across (as a miracle). We all know this to be untrue. What she should have said was something like this......"I have found something that may work for people with mild acne........bla bla bla." This way you run less of a risk of getting people's hopes up when we know full well that the only answer for people with severe acne is oral medication. No worries anyway, it wasn't a personal attack.......good luck everyone....and David, answer those questions mate.

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From: GW in Australia.
Subject: Angie
Date: 14/11/2001 at 01:11 - Message #77

Angie, whats up!! I cant believe u remembered that!! You're a fucking legend!

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From: Bboy sam. A 17 year old male.
Subject: Roaccutane
Date: 13/11/2001 at 22:30 - Message #76

I've tried every single crap for my face to clear up, cream, face wash, skin support pills and shit.
But i have to say that the only cure for it is roaccutane, lot of u peeps think its just another waste of money but, if u ask people who have been on roaccutane, 90% of them will say its the best treatment ever. This is true.
Acne is caused by dead skin cells clogging the pores up. cream called Benzoly peroxide is ok, it peers the skin to unclog the dead cells that are blocking the pores but, it doesnt go deep enough, this will work for most of the people out there but for me it kinda worked. but Roaccutane is the BEST, it works ony our blood stream and unclogged every single dead cells , this is why u have dry skins and dry everything. with unclogged pores, its not possible to get pimples. so Theres my advice for u, if u tried everything and nothing seems to work, try roaccutane its the best treatment now days.

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From: Michael in Australia. A 30 year old Male.
Date: 18/10/2001 at 12:13 - Message #75

Howdy all. May as well add my tale to the list. :)
I've had acne for the past 15 or so years I guess - since high school anyway. It was the usual story of thinking it would clear up by itself, but of course it didn't. Various GPs gave me firstly Vibratabs and then Minocyline, which I've been taking for the past 4 or 5 years. Apparently you're only meant to take this for short periods because it MAY have some kind of long term effect. Still, any doc that told me this would inevitably prescribe it again when I'd say "Yeah well, I already KNOW the long term effects of acne, so gimme something for it" :)
So, the minocyline worked kinda well (I also get rosacea which is treated by antibiotics like minocyline and apparently reponds to Roaccutane as well) but finally I decided that there must be something better and got a referral to a GP.
I pity all those in the UK that say they have to wait 10 months to see one - I had to wait 2 months and that felt like forever. Within 60 seconds of seeing him, he was prescribing Roaccutane. I'd had a blood test a few weeks before (to see if I still had a liver after all the minocyline) and that came up completely normal, so with no real mention of any side effects I got a tiny little into booklet and off I went.
Lulu: Like you I was pretty worried about the initial breakout. The other side effects like dry skin, cracked lips etc. all seemed to pale into insignificance next to the thought of my skin being even WORSE than normal. I considered taking time off work and actually delayed starting the treatment by a week because I dreaded the zit-fest so much. Anyway, finally gave it a shot, waking up each day dreading to look in the mirror. The first week there wasn't much difference, but by the second week, my skin was marginally worse. (not sure if this was Roaccutane kicking in, or the effects of the other stuff I was on wearing off). Still, it was mainly concentrated around my nose which makes me think it was more rosacea that acne. But, it wasn't horrible like I feared it might be, so as much as you're dreading starting, just remember the longer it takes you to start it, the longer it'll be before you finish it. Since about the 2nd or 3rd week, it's been progressively better.
Some things to note though are that with my male bravado and memory of only cruddy, grease-laden skin, I figured I'd never need to use moisturiser. I was also gulping back handfuls of vitamin B5 (works well incidentally) with dried your skin as well. So after a week ro so I had dry and flaking skin, and very dry lips. I also had a very red and inflamed neck for a couple of days, until I saw a GP and got some cream called Sigmacort which worked miracles. (also stopped taking the B5). Anyway, so get a chap-stick or something and use it from the time you start, and some mousturiser and be prepared for the dryness.
Also, don't mess with any zits that come up. Picking and squeezing makes them a lot worse when you're on Roaccutane, in my experience. If I get one, I still dab some Benzol Peroxide cream on it, and it helps it dry up, but generally the cystic zits I git before are nowhere near as bad. ie, before I used to be able to feel them brewing a day or so before they appeared, then they'd hang around for a week or more like an unwelcome great auntie. Now, there are much fewer, and they're a smaller, less nasty type that just kind of lamely try to appear, and then just weakly fade away as the mighty Roaccutane assaults them.
As for other side effects, there were a couple of days in the first few weeks where I had a slight headache, and fever-like symptoms. (weak, runs, headache, tired). Apparently these are signs of an enlarged liver, but that lasted only a couple of days - the derm said it was nothing to worry about (dunno if he'd got any real idea actually :) and I've felt fine ever since.
Ahh yeah well, pfft, that's almost my life's story so that's all.
I'm on week 5 now, so I'll let you know how it goes. Good luck everyone. :)

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From: Michael in Australia. A 30 year old Male.
Date: 18/10/2001 at 12:11 - Message #74

Howdy all. May as well add my tale to the list. :)
I've had acne for the past 15 or so years I guess - since high school anyway. It was the usual story of thinking it would clear up by itself, but of course it didn't. Various GPs gave me firstly Vibratabs and then Minocyline, which I've been taking for the past 4 or 5 years. Apparently you're only meant to take this for short periods because it MAY have some kind of long term effect. Still, any doc that told me this would inevitably prescribe it again when I'd say "Yeah well, I already KNOW the long term effects of acne, so gimme something for it" :)
So, the minocyline worked kinda well (I also get rosacea which is treated by antibiotics like minocyline and apparently reponds to Roaccutane as well) but finally I decided that there must be something better and got a referral to a GP.
I pity all those in the UK that say they have to wait 10 months to see one - I had to wait 2 months and that felt like forever. Within 60 seconds of seeing him, he was prescribing Roaccutane. I'd had a blood test a few weeks before (to see if I still had a liver after all the minocyline) and that came up completely normal, so with no real mention of any side effects I got a pissy little into booklet and off I went.
Lulu: Like you I was pretty worried about the initial breakout. The other side effects like dry skin, cracked lips etc. all seemed to pale into insignificance next to the thought of my skin being even WORSE than normal. I considered taking time off work and actually delayed starting the treatment by a week because I dreaded the zit-fest so much. Anyway, finally gave it a shot, waking up each day dreading to look in the mirror. The first week there wasn't much difference, but by the second week, my skin was marginally worse. (not sure if this was Roaccutane kicking in, or the effects of the other stuff I was on wearing off). Still, it was mainly concentrated around my nose which makes me think it was more rosacea that acne. But, it wasn't horrible like I feared it might be, so as much as you're dreading starting, just remember the longer it takes you to start it, the longer it'll be before you finish it. Since about the 2nd or 3rd week, it's been progressively better.
Some things to note though are that with my male bravado and memory of only crappy, grease-laden skin I figured I'd never need to use moisturiser. I was also gulping back handfuls of vitamin B5 (works well incidentally) with dried your skin as well. So after a week ro so I had dry and flaking skin, and very dry lips. I also had a very red and inflamed neck for a couple of days, until I saw a GP and got some cream called Sigmacort which worked miracles. (also stopped taking the B5). Anyway, so get a chap-stick or something and use it from the time you start, and some mousturiser and be prepared for the dryness.
Also, don't mess with any zits that come up. Picking and squeezing makes them a lot worse when you're on Roaccutane, in my experience. If I get one, I still dab some Benzol Peroxide cream on it, and it helps it dry up, but generally the cystic zits I git before are nowhere near as bad. ie, before I used to be able to feel them brewing a day or so before they appeared, then they'd hang around for a week or more. Now, there are much fewer, and they're a smaller, less nasty type that just kind of lamely try to appear, and then just weakly fade away as the mighty Roaccutane assaults them.
As for other side effects, there were a couple of days in the first few weeks where I had a slight headache, and fever-like symptoms. (weak, runs, headache, tired). Apparently these are signs of an enlarged liver, but that lasted only a couple of days - the derm said it was nothing to worry about (dunno if he'd got any real idea actually :) and I've felt fine ever since.
Ahh yeah well, pfft, that's almost my life's story so that's all.
I'm on week 5 now, so I'll let you know how it goes. Good luck everyone. :)

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From: Suzzy in Perth, WA. A 20 year old Female .
Subject: Minocycline and hirtuism
Date: 16/10/2001 at 18:46 - Message #73

I've always had acne since 13 but it got worse at 18.
I had tried a number of dermatologists but as usual after a period of success the acne would return at times not as severe
Anyways I was finally put on Minocycline. FOR ANY OF YOU ON THIS DRUG ESPECIALLY FEMALES-----BEWARE OF FACIAL HAIR!!!! I was unaware of the fact that this drug could cause an increase in the growth of unwanted facial hair. I was under it for almost a year and my dermatologist never warned me...Asshole!

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From: Meaghan in australia. A 34 year old female.
Date: 15/10/2001 at 13:14 - Message #72

My acne started when i was about 25. My older sister always had shocking skin and we have both been diagnosed with polycystic overies. This condition is caused by a slight elavated male hormone level which in turn can does the following. BAD skin, weight gain, excessive hair growth i.e face, irregular/no period and fertility problems. I have the shit skin and I never get my period unless I am on the pill. Polycystic overies are also linked to diabetes. Infertility in woman has been treated using "metforman" (spelling?)which is the tablet they give type 2 diabetics in the early stages of the disease.
My sister first wnet on roaccutane and has had good success but will require another course, she is also on the mini pill which she seems to think has also helped. I am tolerating roaccutanne incredably well with no major side effects. If you have history of depression jsut hit the anti Depressants before you start the course.
ROCK ON I am nearly makeup free!!!!!!

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From: barry in Ireland, live in US. A 24 year old m.
Subject: accutane experience
Date: 06/10/2001 at 23:53 - Message #71

I have not looked at this site in almost a year. I took awccutane about two years ago for six months, 80mg a day as far as I can rememeber. It didnt really work to tell you the truth, it did clear my skin up but I ended up having to take another treatment. This time things were very different. The side effects were terrible but about threee months into the second course, my skin was looking good, I ended up finishing the course and almost died when about three days after finishing it I had a breakout. Thankfully things settled down again and about a year later, I am acne free. I feel bad because I remember when I checked this every day and wondered if it ever really worked, but let me tell you that despite the side effects in the long run you will be so glad that you took this pain in the ass drug
if anyone has any questions or needs a little support feel free to contact me with any questions you have
irishbuachaill@hotmail.com
hang in there

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From: james in london. A 22 year old m.
Subject: over
Date: 05/10/2001 at 11:31 - Message #70

The course has finished a while ago. And now i have the feeling that my normal being is gradually returning. Naivety and inexperience led to me to draw premature conclusions of accutane. The four months of treatment were symptomised by depression, lethargy and irritability. Admittedly it had the desired effects on the disease. Now i realise that the side-effects were too much to take, too much of a sacrifice for the disappearance of the disease for a given time. I was simply not able to function. And even now a month after finishing i still feel a degree of lethargy and depression which i hope will quickly alleviate itself. Normal functioning, friendships, relationships, sport, behaviour, actions, thoughts were impossible for me on this drug. I am grateful for the positive effects it has had but i would not consider another course purely for these reasons. I honestly think that i put myself in danger and only now am beginning to see how foolish i perhaps was. I was unable to think clearly.
Whether or not this is individual to me, or particular to my manifestation of the disease would be impossible to say or determine. At the moment my skin remains in a good condition and i enjoy this. However i know that with the return of my normal self - which i crave since it will allow me to reurn to normal life - the disease could reappear. This now seems less daunting a prospect. I have learned a lesson in humiliation. That everything has its price and in my vanity i came close to fucking up quite seriously.

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From: Yasmine in michigan, usa. A 17 year old female.
Subject: To take or not to take?!!!
Date: 25/09/2001 at 23:35 - Message #69

Hey guys, what's up? well i guess here's the short version of my story, i've had acne since like my early teens. I've been on termendous amounts of treatment and have tried EVERYTHING. i'm on new medication now which is totally killing my skiin, two 500 mg pills of an antibiotic, one vitamin for acne, and differin gel in the morning, and bervoxyl at night. my skin is actually looking better, AND GOD BLESS MAKE UP!!!!!! but today my mom informed me that a lot of her friends friend's have tried it and they were pleased. i agreed that i would take it, but then decided i would do my own research, and HOLY SHIT, i'm scared now! i mean i don't know if it's worth the risk ya know? so hey e-mail me if you have any suggestions. and oh yeah , i just wanted to let whoever out there that has acne know that yeah, it sux, it sux bad, because i'm a very social and self-confident person, or at least i'm trying to still be. because this horrible pain in the ass is really bothering me. but pleeeeeeeease don't get down on urself , because hopefully if we all have high hopes , God willing, we'll get through it! and oh yeah thanx for all the messages on the board, very helful opinions:) PeAcE!

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From: Sean in Auckland, NZ. A 16 year old Male.
Date: 25/09/2001 at 01:21 - Message #68

Well, I have been on [ro]accutane for a few weeks now and i've never been so happy. I think this stuff is great. Although my lips are dry, i use Chapstick and that solves that. Sometimes i get dry skin so i use Cetaphil Moisturising Cream which works well too. Those are the only side affects that i get really. I have had a sore knee (maybe unrealated) but it was nearly to the stage where i couldn't move it. With regards to drinking alcohol, I've had a few beers and stuff and i'm still fine although it isn't good for your liver (so i'm told) - thats why we get blood tests taken right..? :). After the first week my chest cleared up and now my back is just about back to normal. I am on 60mg per day (I weigh 64kg). And you SHOULDN'T double your dose and its done in regards to your weight - with any medication for that matter. Plus this stuff is strong shit. I do occasionally get dry nose but no bleeds. Feel free to contact me with anything

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From: dianne in vancouver. A 30 year old female.
Subject: first month
Date: 11/09/2001 at 03:35 - Message #67

It has been a scary month. Like everyone else, I dried out, flaked, peeled, picked (take my advice, don't pick), cried, hid in my house with cream all over my face, cleared up a bit, smiled, broke out from PMS, felt shitty all over again...the only thing that has helped during all this has been this message board. Not that it makes me happy to know that others are suffering, but there is a certain relief in knowing that I'm not the only person dealing with this stuff. When I was in high school, my boyfriend had horrible cystic acne and ended up on accutane. It worked for him, but he was left with keloid scarring all over his chest (his face was fine, thankfully). Has anyone else heard of this happening? Another friend in university went on it and suffered the worst acne she had ever had. It also left her with deep scars on her face. I am a little worried about this, although I want the acne to go away, will the accutane increase the likelyhood of serious scarring???????

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From: rach in new zealand. A 17 year old female.
Subject: ex pizza face
Date: 09/09/2001 at 09:47 - Message #66

well like most people who have written in, i got acne around the age of 12 and it really wasnt that bad, and there wasnt much i could do about it, coz mine was hereditary. wen i was 15 it got REALLY bad, so bad people would call me pizza face and really nasty stuff like that, so i went to the doctor and he put me on diane 35 and minocyclin and boy did they suck. so after a year of a discusting face caked with thick makeup (which costed an arm and a leg) i went to a dermatoligist and he put me on roaccutane. ive been on it for 3 months now, and 2 weeks after i started i noticed a difference. my skin has completly cleared and its really nice wen people make comments on how nice your skin is, it sends a little buzz down to your tummy. im so glad i went on roacctuane. now wen i go out im not in the bathroom every hour caking on makeup which looked just as gross!! dont ever get into the habbit of wearing makeup everyday TRUST ME you will regret it coz u get to the stage where u cant even go to the letterbox widout wearing makeup. so please guys and gals if u got acne seriously do sumthing about it, my only regret is i wish i had done sumthing bout it earlier and didnt wait till it was severe til i got off my ass and fixed it! yay for roaccutane :) :)

well like most people who have written in, i got acne around the age of 12 and it really wasnt that bad, and there wasnt much i could do about it, coz mine was hereditary. wen i was 15 it got REALLY bad, so bad people would call me pizza face and really nasty shit like that, so i went to the doctor and he put me on diane 35 and minocyclin and boy did they suck. so after a year of a discusting face caked with thick makeup (which costed an arm and a leg) i went to a dermatoligist and he put me on roaccutane. ive been on it for 3 months now, and 2 weeks after i started i noticed a difference. my skin has completly cleared and its really nice wen people make comments on how nice your skin is, it sends a little buzz down to your tummy. im so glad i went on roacctuane now wen i go out im not in the bathroom every hour caking on makeup which looked just as gross!! dont ever get into the habbit of wearing makeup everyday TRUST ME you will regret it coz u get to the stage where u cant even go to the letterbox widout wearing makeup. so please guys and gals if u got acne seriously do sumthing about it, my only regret is i wish i had done sumthing bout it earlier and didnt wait till it was severe til i got off my ass and fixed it! yay for roaccutane :) :)

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From: Stephen in Inverness,Scotland. A 17 year old Male.
Subject: roacc update
Date: 31/08/2001 at 20:20 - Message #64

well,since my last post things have got so much better!i had a big cyst then,now thanx2an injection it is gone+not even a pitted scar!wow!now i am almost spotless on my face after 18 weeks,though my back+chest are pissing me off coz they rnt doing what they are supposed2!neways,im 18 weeks in and thingz are getting ther-the marks are annoying though! ALSO!it was on the news-apparantly they may have found an actual cure4acne-its the NLite laser-and they are currently testing it-they say that acne sufferes may need2get a laser treatment maybe 3 or 4 times a year and will never get acne ever again if they do this-so the news said,but the tests are still beibg done,so it may not happen. neway,it gives some back up IF roacc doesnt do its job 4 long-which hopefullly it will!email me if u want2ask nething.stephen

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From: Nado in Scarborough. A 18 year old Male.
Subject: Accutane
Date: 17/07/2001 at 23:34 - Message #63
Web Site: Act of violence

Man,acne sucks,i missed 2 weeks of college because of it and i might be getting kicked out now! Ive been on accutane for about 6 4 weeks now and the results are starting to show quite well actually,my skin is really flat and not mingin' and lumpy now and my skin is just red from recovering so im quite chuffed.Lets hope it continues.My advice to everyone in just get involved more in your favourite thing to take your mind off it.I just love music,heavy stuff Like Biohazard,Will Haven,Hatebreed, but also light stuff aswell,but anyway,the point is, everyone has a passion and if you can keep thinking of that thing to take your mind off the acne then it's cool - trust me, dont worry,everyone gets past it,its just different people have different cures.Its really fucking hard to leave your face alone though and not mess with it - but youve just gotta bite your tongue and bear it!! Cross your fingers for me my friends and i shall for you,were all gonna get to the finishing line - its just a matter of when!
nic

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From: pants in England. A 23 year old male.
Subject: RU58841
Date: 26/06/2001 at 15:16 - Message #60

Why do you still have Hirtuism/Acne/Hair loss (any or all of these 3 Androgenetic dependant conditions) in the year 2001?
Simple answer because the company (Roussell Uclaf) who own the rights to a topical antiandrogen (the mother of all antiandrogens) �RU58841�, developed by a Dr. Sewaya�.and I quote �Arent interested in curing these particular conditions�
Make no mistake �RU58841� will cure Hirtuism, acne and hair loss 100% without the systematic side effects associated with the drug accutane for acne or oral antiandrogens that can be a very dangerous drug. �RU58841� works in a similar
This is NOT a new treatment, in fact it has been in the possession of this company for over 10 years yet they do NOTHING with it, they will not even sell the patent rights to this treatment so no other company can pursue this product.
The reason for this a number of people believe is, if this treatment were brought out it would cure all androgen-dependent conditions (I.e hair loss and acne and unwanted body hair) not treat, CURE. And all the hundreds of acne treatments and hair loss treatments, hair removers that are sold to the public (that we all know DON�T work) would be put out of business, now that�s a MASSIVE turnover of money, we believe these company�s are paying Roussell Uclaf not to release this treatment.
So what does that mean? Your thinking �GREAT There�s a cure out there but, uh�.what the hell good is that to me since I can�t get it if they wont market it.�
This is where I come in and tell you I am going through the acne, Hirtuism and hair loss forums in an attempt to gain 1,000 traceable non web based e-mail addresses (in other words not yahoo, hotmail ect ect accounts that are internet based accounts) of potential consumers of this product should I find a legitimate supplier. Now a country like India is not subject to the patent laws that stop companies in other countries from making this drug and this is why they produce �generic� drugs, which are identical to other drugs but don�t carry the brand name, they are essentially rip off drugs because they don�t carry the brand name, much like rip off cloths.
These are high class respected and professional company�s, not kids whipping up drugs in there basements with bunson burners, one such company is http://www.cipla.com/ .
When we can achieve 1,000 traceable e-mail accounts I can begin looking or a supplier and show the petition as proof this stuff has large interested group, this will be an incentive for them to produce this topical for us, and as we are dealing not only in generic treatments but also in such a large group the price will be fairly cheap.
I shit you not, this will cure you of your acne and oil, the petition link is
http://mars.guestpage.com/home/view.rc?LoginName=bukem
Please add your name if you would be interested in a supply should we find a legitimate source willing to make this PROVEN treatment, below are a few links �RU58841� please read them and see for your self. And do a web search for yourself.
http://www.anagen.net/ru4.htm
http://www.karger.ch/journals/SPH/sph10-6/SPH0288.htm
http://www.brinkzone.com/hair.html
Why take the risk of accutane that can cause serious side effects like permanent hair loss (and I know of several people who have lost almost all there hair from this drug and NOTHING will work to re grow this lost hair) when you can use a topical with none of these side effects?
I will remove the names from the petition onto my hard drive on a daily basis.
P.S this is not illegal, it would be illegal for someone to make it in western countries but not India that is not subject to the same laws, nor is importing this stuff

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From: Laura in London. A 21 year old Female.
Subject: Help!
Date: 22/06/2001 at 15:32 - Message #58

Dear All
I'm 21 and have only been suffering with acne for the about a year, previous to that my skin has been fine. I don't know if anyone else has had the same experience with their skin as me but my acne is on both cheeks and nowhere else, my forehead, nose back etc are all clear. Also I haven't really got particularly oily skin (well it doesn't feel it). I've been to see a derma and she has put me on a 3 month course of Minocin which I am nearly at the end of and hasn't helped at all. My friends try and cheer me up by saying that "maybe its going to get worse before it gets better" but I am NOT convinced. My derma has told me that when I have finished this course (if there is no improvement) she recomends Roaccutane (3 month course). Without sounding crude the spots on my cheeks are like hard boils and have blood under the surface and not "pus" does anyone else have this? I am left with some scarring already so I am desperate to try something that works! I have read up loads on roaccuntane and I am nervous about it. Can anyone give me some advice?? I haven't been depressed as such about my acne but can get very self conscious and tearful when it is bad. I think I am starting to bore my friends aswell...... Any advice would be great. I am nearly 22 and I do feel like the best years of my life are being plagues by this disease! Chin up to all you sufferers out there.

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From: Kobe. A 19 year old Male.
Subject: For all the sufferers
Date: 27/05/2001 at 17:15 - Message #56

Hi all,
If you feel down, what you probably do otherwise you wouldn't be here, i can only give you one advice: use roaccutane. I also had real bad acne, and i mean real bad. Although i kept on going out and going to school, i was pretty depressed and my self-esteem was down in the dirt. But in september i went to the dermatologist. She prescribed me RoA. I came tot this a lot before i took it, so i knew what to expect, i knew what hell it would be. But hey what did i have to loose and went for it !
It's the best decision i made in years. But be aware, it's a rough ride !!!
In the beginning, first twelve weeks you feel terrible, your skin is very very very dry ! But if you use a moisturizer you break out ! I used Roc Enydrial or Adoussisant. Roc doesnt' clog pores, doesn't have alcohol in it, so it's the best to use ! You feel terrible, you feel depressed, you think it will never help you.
Then you find the ideal soap, moisturizer, razor for you. It's a bit experimenting with all the products. Don't forget to be responsible and take your dose daily and correct. It's all in the routine !
Normally i had to use it for like 36 weeks, about a half year, in my case at the end of my period i still had pretty severe acne. I say pretty, my jaws were ok, but the problemzones forehead, chin, nose still broke out. I felt depressed, i thought it wouldn't help. I took 80mg for 6 months, had nosebleeds, my bones hurt, my eyes were red, my lips were dry dry dry and my skin still looked terrible.
But now, after 9 (!) months i'm acnefree. I get one every week but it's a small one. My self-esteem is very good, i meet lots of girls with who i talk without holding my hand for my mouth. I'm a changed man, and i know every one who's reading this will be to. It works, you have to be patient but i will !
To all those who have doubts, go for it. I looked like shit, i skipped some days in school but i told my friends about it. Now they are all jalous! One of them also suffers bad acne, he doesn't want to take it. Now, he does !
So, go for it, lots of succes !
-Kobe-

Hi all,
If you feel down, what you probably do otherwise you wouldn't be here, i can only give you one advice: use roaccutane. I also had real bad acne, and i mean real bad. Although i kept on going out and going to school, i was pretty depressed and my self-esteem was down in the dirt. But in september i went to the dermatologist. She prescribed me RoA. I came tot this a lot before i took it, so i knew what to expect, i knew what hell it would be. But hey what did i have to loose and went for it !
It's the best decision i made in years. But be aware, it's a rough ride !!!
In the beginning, first twelve weeks you feel terrible, your skin is very very very dry ! But if you use a moisturizer you break out ! I used Roc Enydrial or Adoussisant. Roc doesnt' clog pores, doesn't have alcohol in it, so it's the best to use ! You feel terrible, you feel depressed, you think it will never help you.
Then you find the ideal soap, moisturizer, razor for you. It's a bit experimenting with all the products. Don't forget to be responsible and take your dose daily and correct. It's all in the routine !
Normally i had to use it for like 36 weeks, about a half year, in my case at the end of my period i still had pretty severe acne. I say pretty, my jaws were ok, but the problemzones forehead, chin, nose still broke out. I felt like shit, i thought it wouldn't help. I took 80mg for 6 months, had nosebleeds, my bones hurt, my eyes were red, my lips were dry dry dry and my skin still looked terrible.
But now, after 9 (!) months i'm acnefree. I get one every week but it's a small one. My self-esteem is very good, i meet lots of girls with who i talk without holding my hand for my mouth. I'm a changed man, and i know every one who's reading this will be to. It works, you have to be patient but i will !
To all those who have doubts, go for it. I looked like shit, i skipped some days in school but i told my friends about it. Now they are all jalous! One of them also suffers bad acne, he doesn't want to take it. Now, he does !
So, go for it, lots of succes !
-Kobe-

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From: Marcus in England. A 23 year old male.
Subject: RU58841
Date: 18/05/2001 at 11:29 - Message #53

Why do you still have acne in the year 2001?
Simple answer because the company (Roussell Uclaf) who own the rights to a topical antiandrogen �RU58841�, developed by a Dr. Sewaya�.and I quote �Arent interested in curing these particular conditions�
Make no mistake �RU58841� will cure acne and hair loss 100% without the systematic side effects associated with the drug accutane that can be a very dangerous drug. �RU58841� works in a similar way to accutane in that it will shrink your sebaceous glands but without the side effects, more effectively and in a quicker time frame, unlike with accutane it can also be used on a continued basis.
This is NOT a new treatment, in fact it has been in the possession of this company for over 10 years yet they do NOTHING with it, they will not even sell the patent rights to this treatment so no other company can pursue this product.
The reason for this a number of people believe is, if this treatment were brought out it would cure all androgen-dependent conditions (I.e hair loss and acne and unwanted body hair) not treat, CURE. And all the hundreds of acne treatments and hair loss treatments, hair removers that are sold to the public (that we all know DON�T work) would be put out of business, now that�s a MASSIVE turnover of money, we believe these company�s are paying Roussell Uclaf not to release this treatment.
So what does that mean? Your thinking �GREAT There�s a topical acne cure out there but, uh�.what the hell good is that to me since I can�t get it if they wont market it.�
This is where I come in and tell you I am going through the acne and hair loss forums in an attempt to gain 1,000 traceable non web based e-mail addresses (in other words not yahoo, hotmail ect ect accounts that are internet based accounts) of potential consumers of this product should I find a legitimate supplier. Now a country like India is not subject to the patent laws that stop companies in other countries from making this drug and this is why they produce �generic� drugs, which are identical to other drugs but don�t carry the brand name, they are essentially rip off drugs because they don�t carry the brand name, much like rip off cloths.
These are high class respected and professional company�s, not kids whipping up drugs in there basements with bunson burners, one such company is http://www.cipla.com/ .
When we can achieve 1,000 traceable e-mail accounts I can begin looking or a supplier and show the petition as proof this stuff has large interested group, this will be an incentive for them to produce this topical for us, and as we are dealing not only in generic treatments but also in such a large group the price will be fairly cheap.
I shit you not, this will cure you of your acne and oil, the petition link is
http://mars.guestpage.com/home/view.rc?LoginName=bukem
Please add your name if you would be interested in a supply should we find a legitimate source willing to make this PROVEN treatment, below are a few links �RU58841� please read them and see for your self. And do a web search for yourself.
http://www.karger.ch/journals/SPH/sph10-6/SPH0288.htm
http://www.brinkzone.com/hair.html
Why take the risk of accutane that can cause serious side effects like permanent hair loss (and I know of several people who have lost almost all there hair from this drug and NOTHING will work to re grow this lost hair) when you can use a topical with none of these side effects?
I will remove the names from the petition onto my hard drive on a daily basis.
P.S this is not illegal, it would be illegal for someone to make it in western countries but not India that is not subject to the same laws, nor is importing this stuff

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From: Alastair in Manchester, England. A 17 year old Male.
Subject: Pantothenic Acid
Date: 16/05/2001 at 16:17 - Message #51

Hi everyone
Before I begin this posting on Pantothenic Acid can I just say - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL EVER TODAY!!!! My formal education is now completely over. I have exams (A-Levels) coming up, but that's it. Roll on university.
Here's an update on my skin, taking 7.5g of Pantothenic Acid a day. Since last time it's pretty much unchanged, that is I seem to have at least one growing spot on my face at a time. There tend to be 2 or 3 others healing, with nasty looking scabs. Now, this is definitely a VAST improvement from what it used to be before I started on B-5. If you scroll down to my first post here, on the day that I came on the net in desperation to find some miracle cure I had 3 or 4 very large whiteheads, with a great deal of redness. My temples were also one big blotchy mess. That's faded a bit now, and the spot that I currently have seems to be only a re-infection of an old one - nothing too major.
Nevertheless, I haven't had a 100% remission of my acne, and am not at the stage where I'll go to bed without my face covered in creams (which I really hate). The thing is, I don't think I should be expecting that after only 3 or 4 weeks. The study by the Chinese doctor said 6 weeks, and that was on 10g a day (I'm on 7.5g). I think I should at least give it 8 weeks, especially as the improvement is already very noticeable. By the way, did I mention that my chest, having previously been covered in big red welts and bumps, is virtually perfect? It's really fantastic. My back is clear too.
To sum it up... going well. It's a little disappointing when I see the odd spot or two, but I just have to keep reminding myself that
a) it's 10 times better (80/90% clear?) than before I started on B-5, and
b) it hasn't been long enough yet for me to expect no spots at all.
For anyone considering Pantothenic Acid I'd definitely recommend it. The only thing you might get pissed off with is that you'll find yourself turning into a skin perfectionist, like me :P As a reminder I'm taking 15 500mg tablets a day - 3 with breakfast, 3 at 11am, 3 at lunchtime, 3 at dinner, and 3 before bed. I buy the slow-release ones from Holland & Barrett, and am considering ordering in bulk from an American website (�8.95 for 100 500mg tablets - SO expensive!).
Best of luck to everyone - I'd really like to be kept updated as to how you're all going.
Regards
Alastair

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From: Kamren in London, West. A 25 year old Male.
Subject: 8 years of hell...
Date: 11/05/2001 at 23:17 - Message #50

Hiya,
Well it was fantastic to come across this web site and be able to read sutff by other acne suffers like myself, I thought people like us were the forgotten ones. I mean every newspaper, TV show, Magazine, and discussion at work or in the pub seems to be based aroud being overweight or underweight, I mean does anyone stop and think about people like us who have to walk around 24/7 and try to live a normal life with spots/pimples/cysts/scars all over our faces? Know who has the short straw?
I hate to sound like I am moaning, but I am!! lol. I mean when was the last time you saw a person on Bitchard and Broody (alias, Richard & Judy), talking about the hell of living with acne and how best to deal with it and help others? Unless I have been on a space mission with Tito, NEVER!!
I have had acne for 8 years now, I have tired so many durgs and lotions that I would fail every urine sample in the 2004 Olympics games. In 3 weeks time I will finally be given my first dose of Roaccutane and I know the risks and side effects and am willing to take them. I mean can it be worse then waking up every morning, looking in the mirror, and hating everything that I see? I dont think so; so what if my lips dry out and parts of my hair fall out, if it clears up this face then its worth the risk.
Over the past 2 years the acne had got so bad that I had to give up work and University; I have only just returned to University and its been hell, thank god I only have 3 weeks left and hopefully I should graduate. I still have not got back into work and I actually gave up a really good job, oh well who knows I may get a second bite at the cherry.
I get told my friends and family that my acne is not as bad as i think and I am a good looking guy, I even get asked out but I just think people are being nice to me and that I am an ugly beast, I refer that to me and nobody else. Who said beauty was skin deep? In my case acne's skin deep and nothing else!!
We all have to fight acne in our own personal way, this is how I see it, some people are born short, tall, slim, overweight, dark, fair, cute, unattractive; we are born with acne and thats that, I dont plan on worrying about it anymore I mean where the hell has that got me over the past 8 years? No where!!
If u have to struggle in life it makes u stronger and more determine, lets try and use this positvely! After we all appreciate a lot more then non-acne suffers, just waking up with a clear face would put aneternal smile on our faces!!

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From: Tim.
Subject: b5
Date: 08/05/2001 at 22:08 - Message #49

I spoke too soon - woke up this morning with two new spots on my forehead. One's really big too -what a bitch.
Alistair, I know what you mean tho - just knowing that if that spot and that spot went, then I'd be almost clear (except for the red marks). But then another one comes along instead and ruins it. Still, I'm hopeful that the b5 will work better at 7g a day and I'll stop seeing the new ones appearing.

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From: stephen in georgia - USA. A 18 year old male.
Subject: mad
Date: 30/04/2001 at 22:07 - Message #47

ahhhhh! i am so pissed. i started my accutane treatment on february 8, 2001. i've been taking 80 mg/day. it would be a lie to say that i don't see any improvement, but i still look terrible. it will have been 3 months on may 3 that i have been on this stuff. that's over halfway through my treatment because i am supposed to quit taking it after five months. i am not exaggerating when i say that i am NOT happy with the results. my cystic acne has diminished, which is a good thing (those suckers HURT). however all of the little bumpy whiteheads on both my cheeks (my problem area) have just exploded into huge red pustules. it has been so painful and depressing for me and i am really hoping that things get better soon because i only have until the beginning of july before my treatment is over! my lips are dried out, my face is dried out, my eyes burn : this stuff sucks. and unless i see some freaking improvement really soon i am going not going to recommend accutane to anyone. i am so embarassed of myself i won't even leave my dorm. this really is a pain. well, good luck if you are on accutane; i hope you are having better luck than me. oh! and please email me if you have any advice.

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From: stephen in georgia - USA. A 18 year old male.
Subject: pissed off.
Date: 30/04/2001 at 22:06 - Message #46

ahhhhh! i am so pissed. i started my accutane treatment on february 8, 2001. i've been taking 80 mg/day. it would be a lie to say that i don't see any improvement, but i still look terrible. it will have been 3 months on may 3 that i have been on this stuff. that's over halfway through my treatment because i am supposed to quit taking it after five months. i am not exaggerating when i say that i am NOT happy with the results. my cystic acne has diminished, which is a good thing (those suckers HURT). however all of the little bumpy whiteheads on both my cheeks (my problem area) have just exploded into huge red pustules. it has been so painful and depressing for me and i am really hoping that things get better soon because i only have until the beginning of july before my treatment is over! my lips are dried out, my face is dried out, my eyes burn : this stuff sucks. and unless i see some freaking improvement really soon i am going not going to recommend accutane to anyone. i am so embarassed of myself i won't even leave my dorm. this really blows. well, good luck if you are on accutane; i hope you are having better luck than me. oh! and please email me if you have any advice.

ahhhhh! i am so pissed. i started my accutane treatment on february 8, 2001. i've been taking 80 mg/day. it would be a lie to say that i don't see any improvement, but i still look terrible. it will have been 3 months on may 3 that i have been on this crap. that's over halfway through my treatment because i am supposed to quit taking it after five months. i am not exaggerating when i say that i am NOT happy with the results. my cystic acne has diminished, which is a good thing (those suckers HURT). however all of the little bumpy whiteheads on both my cheeks (my problem area) have just exploded into huge red pustules. it has been so painful and depressing for me and i am really hoping that things get better soon because i only have until the beginning of july before my treatment is over! my lips are dried out, my face is dried out, my eyes burn : this crap sucks. and unless i see some freaking improvement really soon i am going not going to recommend accutane to anyone. i am so embarassed of myself i won't even leave my dorm. this really blows. well, good luck if you are on accutane; i hope you are having better luck than me. oh! and please email me if you have any advice.

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From: Murray in Australia. A 29 year old Male.
Subject: Test
Date: 08/03/2001 at 09:50 - Message #42

Hi, just testing this thing. I missed the whole period during which the discussion board changed.
I have been on roaccutane for 16 months now
I started at 20mg/day (my mass is approx. 78kg) and then switched to 20/2nd day, now 20/3rd day.
Things are ok I guess although I do have (what I consider, others probably don't straight away (I hope) scars. They piss me off.
Ahhh life s_ucks having to worry about your appearance. Why couldn't I be one of those guys that wakes up each morning, has a shower (doesn't count all the hair he loses each morning (MPB mind you, unlikely a result of Roac.), drys up, gets dressed, brushes a nice full head of hair and goes off to work where girls get all weak at the knees when I walk past, d_
amn that would be nice for a change.......

Hi, just testing this thing. I missed the whole period during which the discussion board changed.
I have been on roaccutane for 16 months now
I started at 20mg/day (my mass is approx. 78kg) and then switched to 20/2nd day, now 20/3rd day.
Things are ok I guess although I do have (what I consider, others probably don't straight away (I hope) scars. They piss me off.
Ahhh life sucks having to worry about your appearance. Why couldn't I be one of those guys that wakes up each morning, has a shower (doesn't count all the hair he loses each morning (MPB mind you, unlikely a result of Roac.), drys up, gets dressed, brushes a nice full head of hair and goes off to work where girls get all weak at the knees when I walk past, damn that would be nice for a change.......

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From: Mr Who in AUSTRALIA. A 17 year old MALE.
Date: 04/03/2001 at 17:44 - Message #38

hi i just want to tell you my experince wif roaccutane.
ive just finished my treatment like 3-4 weeks ago. i started around last yr in june and finsihed in feb.. so thats about 8-9 months on 50mg a day.. i had real severe cyts all over my back n face.. wne i first started off i had to take these pills called dexmethosomes..these help smooth out ure skin and prevent scarring but it does not help the pimples go away..n e way wen i was taking this i i started to get stretch marks all over my hips down to mah knees.. i think this was due to the fact that these pills make ure skin swollen up.. n e 1 who have stretch marks please email me..i really like to noe ure experinces.. n e way wen i took accutane i didnt c n e signs for ages..i didnt break out becuz i was taking those dexethsomes pills wif accutane..wen i stopped taking those dex pills i broke out so bad..my face was covered up wif pus...so i went back on dex..until around 3-4 months later i went off it n it was normal.. my face was so red and my lips cracked so bad.. i had to peel the skin off my lips cuz it lookes so bad... wen u eat the skin cums off cuz u stretch ure lips..wen u shower ure lips get all wet n then the skin peels off..n e ways i now mah face is pimples free but wif a few scars..i have scar tissues on my jaw line and my back..these r like lil lumps which look like pimples but r hard...i had my doctor inject a needle wif sumting into them to make it softer n speed up the process..well after 2 weeks on finishing my treatemnt my lips have gone back to normal n my face is still a bit red but my doctor said give it 2 months b4 it becomes normal...n e ways i noe how all u feel wif pimples..all i can say is TAKE THIS DRUG cuz it really works..the side eefects r worth it ..trust me...n too all those pplz who say ure skin is so bad n u shood wash it n stuff...FUCK THEM they dont noe SHIT.. they just make u feel more emotionally sad..just keep up ure head n neva give up... hopefully ull find the rite person to love u for who u r..not wats on the outside..n e Q just email me...thnkyou all 4 ure surrport

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From: alice in london, uk. A 30 year old female.
Date: 02/03/2001 at 16:06 - Message #37

This is my third month on Roaccutane now. The derm initially said that it would only be a three month treatment but I've since been back and another Dr has said I have to take it for at least 6 months. I'm not sure I would have embarked on it if I'd have known it was going to be so intrusive and lengthy a treatment.
I've had really aching bones esp. my back and heels (!), my periods all over the place (about every two weeks - with loads more PMT), and I really really want to go out and get completely pissed. Have had the odd glass of wine, coffee, and a bit of splif, drunk lots of water afterwards and my liver is Ok, according to the tests. However, the doctors now told me that my blood fat is high so I have to go on a low fat diet as well - seeing as I was already on a fairly low fat diet I think this means I've got to be extremely abstemious.
Also, I'm a bit worried about potential long term side effects. That said, my skin has mostly cleared up. Still a bit spotty on my neck and it's very sore - I really can't do any snogging without getting loads of stubble burn. Can't really tell if I've had mood swings or anything. Is it right that you can't go in the sun while taking this stuff? How long do I have to wait before I can go out and get a tan? I'm so white that all my scars are blazing like beacons.
All the best to you, I'm sticking with it for the next month I think.

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From: stacy in usa. A 23 year old female.
Subject: acne
Date: 25/02/2001 at 17:32 - Message #36

HI EVERYONE, I NEED SOME ADVICE. I TOOK ACCUTANE, 80MG, FOR 5 MONTHS. I GOT OFF IT IN NOV. AND MY ACNE STARTED TO RETURN IN JANUARY. MY DERM WANTS TO PUT ME ON A SECOND TREATMENT BUT MY LIVER COUNT IS TOO HIGH - SHE HAS ME TAKING A BLOOD TEST EVERY TO WEEKS TO SEE IF IT IS NORMAL. IT GETS LOWER EVERY TIME - BUT NOT "NORMAL". SHE WON'T PUT ME ON ANYTHING ORAL B/C SHE DOESN'T WANT IT TO EFFECT MY TESTS. SHE GAVE ME AN OINTMERT BUT IT DOESN'T WORK WORTH A SHIT. MY FACE IS REALLY BAD ( PLUS I AM ABOUT TO START MY PERIOD) AND I NEED HELP ASAP!! WHAT ABOUT BUYING ACCUTANE ONLINE W/O A PERSCRIPTION? ANY SITES OUT THERE TO DO THAT? IS THERE ANOTHER DR. I SHOULD SEE - SINCE IT GETS REAL, REAL BAD AROUND MY PERIOD? PLEASE HELP - I'M REALLY DEPRESSED.

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From: Enrique in SA. A 21 year old Male.
Subject: READ....
Date: 06/02/2001 at 19:49 - Message #35

STOP!!! -READ THIS-.
You know, i've just spent an hour or so reading through all the messages on the board and i think GOD WHAT A BUNCH OF CONTRADICTING USERS!!!. You have acne most of your life with "SIDE EFFECTS" -excuse the pun- like no social life, wanting to commit suicide, hating yourself etc, and know after taking Roaccutane and seeing significant improvements, you still bitch about the side effects you went through. I'll use my brother as a perfect example. He had severe acne. And I mean bad. He started with Roaccutane and now has near perfect skin. Ok, so he took a dose for 8 months and still takes one every six days and he had dry skin/lips and liver pains, but who gives a RATS ASS. He now has an amazing social life, scores with beautiful chicks whom he'd never thought would happen in his wildest dreams, is in a steady relationship and is living life to the fullist.-and scoring more- Then I started taking Roaccutane. Wow!! I don't mean to sound rude in anyway but I even got laid. Yes I had the usual "side effects", my liver was especially painfull after a heavy night of drinking,-especially during the new year period- but I don't give a s#!%. Dry lips, back pain/joints yes I have it too, but come on, get real, a little pain's worth it. No pain, no gain. To have the confidence to hit on a girl, it's so cool. - or a guy if you a girl'. I'm from South Africa and Roaccutane seems now to be the "IN THING" all my friends are taking it. Everybodys cool and alive. So stop worring about all the "side effects", YOU LETTING YOUR IMAGINATION RUN WILD. SIDE EFFICTS WILL SUBSIDE AND IF YOUR ZITS REAPPEAR, GO ON A DOSE AGAIN. --YOU WILL PREVAIL-- feel free to e-mail me with any comments, advice. You'd be amazed how beautiful you really are once you are clear.....

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From: Stanley in London. A 21 year old male.
Subject: Roa victim?
Date: 30/01/2001 at 21:55 - Message #34

hi people
here in the UK we hear of another supposed Roaccutane death, a person on the drug contracting a very rare brain disease. I heard it on the radio and not much other than what i have said above was mentioned, apart from the possibility of the drug being banned. Does anyone know any more about this particular story or another involving people on roa getting a brain disease? I dont know why i want to know because it really scares the shit out of me. I have been on it for 4 weeks only, and noticing no improvements yet and suffering most side effects. including brown fingertips? hadnt heard of that side effect. and with the hope of not sounding mad, seeing things that arent there, mainly things in the corner of my eye that catch my attention and turn out to be...well nothing. So going along with what catherine said below, definitely staying away from any illegal stuff.
thanks for the reply philip, yes that was the meaning of my message, I really believe diet plays an important
part in the condition of our skin. I see it this way: If oil is coming out of our skin(blocking pores,causing problems) look at the only thing we take in to our bodies, air, water, food. the oil can only come from one of those three. Unfortunately the body can convert pretty much whatever food we eat into the oils which it thinks it needs, its just a case of cutting down on oils which the body easily converts i suppose. i dont know. im no expert, but i have read a lot on it and found that my diet(i wont lie: its boring) has greatly improved the condition of my skin, and would recommend to everyone to start checking fat and sugar levels in all the foods you eat.
wishing everyone the best of luck.
StanleyLewis1@hotmail.com

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From: Anon in Australia. A 18 year old male.
Subject: Acne
Date: 19/01/2001 at 05:27 - Message #33

How you all going, reading the messages here i feel pretty lucky. This does not mean to say that i dont have pimples. I first started getting pimples 4 years ago and it didnt really seem to worry me, however 2 years ago they started to get bad i would wake up and touch my face which would cause huge pain. With this i want to the doctor and asked if he could prescribe some minomyocin (the drug that cleared every single pimple off my freinds face) however jack shit happened to me. I would go through good and bad patches where i thought that the drug was starting to clear my pimples up but no sooner had i felt this they would come back. At this stage i was becoming desperate and decided to use anything that said could be beneficial for the treatment of acne. Minerals such as Zinc magnesium and Vitamins A and B6. These really didnt do anything but still scared that my pimples might get worse if i stopped taking these tablets i remained with them. this is costing around $50 a month. However recently i have been applying some facial wash that contains tea tree oil and Benozyl 5% which seems to be doing the job okay. THe skin dries goes red and peels however the redding subsidies if i dont apply it for around 4 days. Now i bacially stop getting pimple (only about 3 new ones a week) however i still have red blemishes where pimples once were. My solution for the last problem is to get a real dark tan on my face. So far so good you can hardly notice the red blemishes.
my advice for all you who are still desperate is dont give up the fight against acne, try anything and everything soon enough your bound to find something that will work for you

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From: Grant in Australia. A 23 year old Male.
Date: 15/01/2001 at 07:14 - Message #32

This fu#k#ng board sux. No one ever seems to answer questions, and everyone rattles on about how hard everything is, and poor poor pity me. Wake up, you are not your skin! What about the millions starving to death every day around the world. I have severe acne too, big lumpy sh*t*ers that I hate, but I dont lose perspective. I have a skin disease, yeah its fu#*ing hard and Ill share my soul with you, and tell you how simply horrid its been and you can do the same with me, and then we'll cry and e-hug and whacko, everything feels a little better. Do you people realise there are sites such as this focused on severe diseases such as cancer and AIDS that have a whole less self pity expressed? Dyibg people have more dignity thAN US fucking first world whingers who'll never be in Vogue or the movies because their skin looks 'positively awful!'.
Life is not about skin and the perfect face/body/job/girlfriend/boyfriend/car whatever.
Stop whining you f*c#ing pussies, 11 years I've 'suffered' with this disesase. And Im alive and I dont bore the shite out of every bastard telling them how hard it is. Because maybe they've got a wife who has just been killed in a car wreck or a kid who has to have chemo. Get some perspective yopu bunch of First World head in the sand, spiritless, undignified, weak di*ks. Live or dont live, everone has got their problems, be thankful yours is nothing serious. Youre all just f*c*ing fodder, fertile ground for the cosmetics industry.
Shut your cakeholes

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From: Grant in Australia. A 23 year old Male.
Date: 15/01/2001 at 07:13 - Message #31

This fu#k#ng board sux. No one ever seems to answer questions, and everyone rattles on about how hard everything is, and poor poor pity me. Wake up, you are not your skin! What about the millions starving to death every day around the world. I have severe acne too, big lumpy sh*t*ers that I hate, but I dont lose perspective. I have a skin disease, yeah its fu#*ing hard and Ill share my soul with you, and tell you how simply horrid its been and you can do the same with me, and then we'll cry and e-hug and whacko, everything feels a little better. Do you people realise there are sites such as this focused on severe diseases such as cancer and AIDS that have a whole less self pity expressed? Dyibg people have more dignity thAN US fucking first world whingers who'll never be in Vogue or the movies because their skin looks 'positively awful!'.
Life is not about skin and the perfect face/body/job/girlfriend/boyfriend/car whatever.
Stop whining you fuc#ing pussies, 11 years I've 'suffered' with this disesase. And Im alive and I dont bore the shite out of every bastard telling them how hard it is. Because maybe they've got a wife who has just been killed in a car wreck or a kid who has to have chemo. Get some perspective yopu bunch of First World head in the sand, spiritless, undignified, weak di*ks. Live or dont live, everone has got their problems, be thankful yours is nothing serious. Youre all just fuc*ing fodder, fertile ground for the cosmetics industry.
Shut your cakeholes

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From: Grant in Australia. A 23 year old Male.
Date: 15/01/2001 at 07:12 - Message #30

This fu#k#ng board sux. No one ever seems to answer questions, and everyone rattles on about how hard everything is, and poor poor pity me. Wake up, you are not your skin! What about the millions starving to death every day around the world. I have severe acne too, big lumpy shit*ers that I hate, but I dont lose perspective. I have a skin disease, yeah its fu#king hard and Ill share my soul with you, and tell you how simply horrid its been and you can do the same with me, and then we'll cry and e-hug and whacko, everything feels a little better. Do you people realise there are sites such as this focused on severe diseases such as cancer and AIDS that have a whole less self pity expressed? Dyibg people have more dignity thAN US fucking first world whingers who'll never be in Vogue or the movies because their skin looks 'positively awful!'.
Life is not about skin and the perfect face/body/job/girlfriend/boyfriend/car whatever.
Stop whining you fuc#ing pussies, 11 years I've 'suffered' with this disesase. And Im alive and I dont bore the shite out of every bastard telling them how hard it is. Because maybe they've got a wife who has just been killed in a car wreck or a kid who has to have chemo. Get some perspective yopu bunch of First World head in the sand, spiritless, undignified, weak di*ks. Live or dont live, everone has got their problems, be thankful yours is nothing serious. Youre all just fuc*ing fodder, fertile ground for the cosmetics industry.
Shut your cakeholes

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From: Grant in Australia. A 23 year old Male.
Date: 15/01/2001 at 07:11 - Message #29

This fucking board sux. No one ever seems to answer questions, and everyone rattles on about how hard everything is, and poor poor pity me. Wake up, you are not your skin! What about the millions starving to death every day around the world. I have severe acne too, big lumpy shitters that I hate, but I dont lose perspective. I have a skin disease, yeah its fucking hard and Ill share my soul with you, and tell you how simply horrid its been and you can do the same with me, and then we'll cry and e-hug and whacko, everything feels a little better. Do you people realise there are sites such as this focused on severe diseases such as cancer and AIDS that have a whole less self pity expressed? Dyibg people have more dignity thAN US fucking first world whingers who'll never be in Vogue or the movies because their skin looks 'positively awful!'.
Life is not about skin and the perfect face/body/job/girlfriend/boyfriend/car whatever.
Stop whining you fucking pussies, 11 years I've 'suffered' with this disesase. And Im alive and I dont bore the shite out of every bastard telling them how hard it is. Because maybe the've got a wife who has just been killed in a car wreck or a kid who has to have chemo. Get some perspective yopu bunch of First World head in the sand, spiritless, undignified, weak dicks. Live or dont live, everone has got their problems, be thankful yours is nothing serious. Youre all just fucking fodder, fertile ground for the cosmetics industry.
Shut your cakeholes

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From: Cat in Singapore. A 27 year old female.
Subject: To Yvette in Singapore
Date: 09/01/2001 at 17:50 - Message #28

To Yvette.
Do not be discouraged by what others have to say about you! I am going through this same problem right now and can you imagine how shit I feel as I'm with SQ? I used to have very clear and flawless skin and would have never thought of such things to have happened to me. And it's really bad to have to put on heaps of makeup to cover all those flaws.
I'm on Roaccutane for 3 weeks now. The side effects that I've got are dry lips (kinda get worse when I'm onboard and long flights)and joint aches.(Gosh, imagine having to stand most of the times during work)I have to applied lip mosituriser to appease the problem. It works, anyhow.
Let's hope that our condition will get better as days goes by and Roaccutane will work it's miracle soon!
Happy Chinese Lunar New Year to you and to all!

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From: Joven in Canada. A 20 year old Male.
Subject: Reply to Mathew
Date: 27/12/2000 at 14:02 - Message #27

I am about 180 lbs. and on 80mg/day for my second month. I was on 65/day before but after reading some of the posts on this site i asked to have that increased. I heard you have longer lasting effects that way. Since my last post my things have gotten better. But I still have a ways to go yet. It seems like the breakouts take forever to heal now. A big red mark hangs around long after the zit has gone. One more thing, could someone email me there daily routine. I mean like when you wash and with what. I am just praying that i dont have anymore new breakouts because I am supposed to go to a phat news years party.
Well guys, we've gone through alot of shit, a few more months isnt a big deal. Take it easy troopers.
Joven.

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From: Mattias in Sweden.
Subject: To Cat:
Date: 27/12/2000 at 12:53 - Message #26

Diane 35 and Dianette are the names of to contraceptive pills that help for acne caused by hormon changes. Remember those because you might want to try those in case accuntane doesn't work. Anyway, I think you should talk to your derm about those products.

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From: Mattias.
Subject: To Cat:
Date: 27/12/2000 at 12:53 - Message #25

Diane 35 and Dianette are the names of to contraceptive pills that help for acne caused by hormonal changes. Remember those because you might want to try those in case accuntane doesn't work. Anyway, I think you should talk to your derm about those products.

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From: Mattias.
Subject: To Cat:
Date: 27/12/2000 at 12:53 - Message #24

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From: justin in malaysia. A 15 year old male.
Date: 24/12/2000 at 08:41 - Message #23

Ever since I started having acne,people have been treating me as if it is my fault that I have ugly skin
and that I deserve to have acne.They give me all sorts of advise (often useless) and walk away feeling damn good about themselves.I am sure many of you have experienced this some time or another.lets not let ourselves be effected by these sons of bicthes.what do those bastards know anyway?it may or may not be our fault but we certaintly dont deserve or want acne .Just becouse they have clear skin does not mean they know everything.
Just remember we are not inferior to anyone.

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From: ItalianBoy in Italy. A 27 year old Male.
Date: 21/12/2000 at 09:08 - Message #22

'Common People' will never be able to understand us..understand what suffering from acne really means..when you have to wake up every morning and look at yourself in the mirror..and you see something you would never see..and you say:"that one can't be me..it can't be true.." and you feel like wiping out that fucking image from the mirror..feel like crashing that mirror with a punch..crashing everything around you..CRYING SHOUTING WONDERING WHY it had to happen..what's your fault..what's your sin..WHY? WHY? WHY? looking for an answer..that no one can give you..you alone with your sorrow..drowning in the sea of your tears..but still and forever hoping tomorrow will be a better day
LET'S NOT SURRENDER

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From: Mattias. A 21 year old male.
Subject: Peels or sunshine
Date: 19/12/2000 at 14:57 - Message #21

To Susie: Sun will accelerate the process of peeling. The good thing is that may help to get rid of old skin, redness and some scaring. However, sun also accerates the aging of your skin, in other words: Too much sun will make your skin, and you, look older...
To all of The Accutane/Roccutane users out there. Wait atleast 3 month with peels after you get of the medication, accuntane makes your skin thinner and more sensetive. For more information, see official information from Roche.

To Susie: Sun will accelerate the process of peeling. The good thing is that may help to get rid of old skin, redness and some scaring. However, sun also accerates the aging of your skin, in other words: Too much sun will make your skin, and you, look older...
To all of The Accutane/Roccutane users out there. Wait at least 3 month with peels after you get of the medication, accuntane makes your skin thinner and more sensetive. For more information, see official information from Roche.

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From: Marcus in England. A 23 year old male.
Subject: Petition
Date: 02/12/2000 at 22:05 - Message #19

Hi I used to post a lot on this board last year after going on accutane, which only helped, for a short time� I then managed to clear my skin after doing some research on the ROOT cause of acne, which is D.H.T which basically is a more potent form of testosterone.. After learning this I began to take several supplements which block the formation of this and cleared my acne up� However this is quite an expensive approach and have been awaiting the release of a drug called Dutasteride which would basically clear up all our acne problems and could be taken by other people who suffer from D.H.T related conditions such as hair loss and increased body hair� The problem is the manufacturers of this drug �Glaxo Welcome� have been piss balling about with it for so long now that there�s a chance it may never see the light of day� One of the reasons is they don�t feel there is enough interest in the drug from the public to make it profitable and therefore not worthwhile marketing.. This is REALLY bad news as it could help a hell of a lot of people both acne and hair loss sufferers.. SO I have just created an online petition and will collect as many entries as possible and submit it to Glaxo to show just how much interest their really will be if they market it� the web link is above so please take two minutes out of your life to fill in the �name� and �e-mail� fields and help yourselves and other people in the process� thanks!!

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From: Rob in uk. A 16 year old male.
Date: 29/11/2000 at 13:51 - Message #18

hi everyone, i just wanna say that i've been on 40mg of Roaccutane for about 6 1/2 weeks and things are starting to look up. Things were really shitty in the first month but it does get better. My face is still messed up but i can c it is gettin better :)

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From: msic in canada. A 16 year old m.
Subject: stuff
Date: 28/11/2000 at 20:37 - Message #17

hey luke
i also have a cyst beside my nose
they are bastards
and justsit there
i have no clue as to how to get rid of them but im currently on accutane im hoping itll take care of my cyst
its been there 2 monthes
ps-ne one experience ne back pain while on accutane?

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From: vantmas in southern cali. A 18 year old male.
Subject: after treatment
Date: 15/11/2000 at 01:34 - Message #16

hey all, just finished second course of accutane, my first course was horrible because i treated my body like shit, i treated it much better so i feel i have better results. one question i hope people can please answer, how long after you finished the treatment did your side effects go away? thanks a bunch.

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From: Mia in Australia. A 20 year old Female.
Subject: Roaccutane
Date: 05/10/2000 at 08:37 - Message #15

I started on Roaccutane just under a month ago. My acne isn't terrible and I wouldn't call it severe, but the fact is I've had it for about 5 yrs now and its gradually got worse. Its where the surface of the skin is quite lumpy because of stuff sitting under the skin. I put off going on Roaccutane but after going to to doctors numerous times and trying what I thought was everything possible from creams to antibiotics to going on the pill I decided that I no option. Creams did nothing, antibiotics cleared it for the time that I was on it but just returned as soon as I stopped it, and I didnt' want to be on antibotics for long periods of time and I found I stacked on the weight when I was on the pill and it didn't have great results either. So after going to the derm and him suggesting it was my last option, I started on Roacc. I'm on 40mg a day for the next 6mths, so I just keep thinking that its only 6 months of my life that I'll be experiencing these shitty side effects. I know I'm only just starting my course of it and there's probably heaps worse to come but so far I've just had the dry lips, dry skin and a blood nose (never had one of them before). My skin is extremely sensitive to moisturisers or washes with acids or alcohol in them, so I have to use the mildest of products. I work in an office so make up is a must for me, I don't like to wear much as I know it clogs pores and stuff but can anyone recommend a suitable brand that is fairly light but still does the job?? At the moment I wear Revlon oil-free which isn't too bad. I drink at least 2 litres of water a day and my diet is pretty good, so I'm hoping these will contribute to good results. I'm not sure when I'll see results as everyone is different, but my skin does look worse than normal at the moment so I'm hoping this is the 'coming out' stage and that its not going to get much worse. I've also realised that your skin is so much more sensitive and that is takes double the time to heal. Heaps of people said to me the acne is hormonal and that it will go away over time, well I wasn't prepared to wait and see how long that would be, so I'm really hoping roaccutane will do the job. Although I'm going to be on it right through summer so god knows what that's going to be like????? Anyway thanks for listening, this website is excellent.
PS. I hope all those people with flawless skin know just how lucky they are to have it.

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From: Natalie in Australia. A 24 year old Female.
Subject: Life is Cruel
Date: 04/10/2000 at 01:29 - Message #14

Hello All,
My brother and I have had acne since our teens. While I had moderate acne (mostly on my back) my brother, David, had severe ance (he is now 26 and I am 24)on his face. I feel if it was not for his acne that he would have had a better social life, I worry and feel so sorry for him. He used to get panick attacks when his acne got particularly bad and would cry uncontrolably. I always ask him to come along to clubs and social outings but he usually would have an excuse. I know how he feels as I saw people with clear skin and thought why could I not be like that. At clubs while all the girls were wering small tank tops, I was wearing long sleeved shirts. But even with my acne I still had boyfriends and went on dates so there are some people out there who do not care how you look on the outside. David went to many dermatologist, some told him bullshit (excuse my language), he tried anything. Then about 3 years ago a doctor put him on Roacuttane, I think for a year. He had alot of dryness and redness from the medication. David's ance got worse then it got better but not totally. When my acne got to much to handle I went on Roaccutane for 6 months myself. The side affects are noticeable but in my case not so bad. First of all my face redened, then I noticed much more acne in the places I usually get it, had very dry lips they peeled like nothing else. At the end of my 6 month treatment I was very impressed with the medication as it worked (for me)I now only get some pimples around the time of my period. Its been about 2 years since I have taken Roaccutane. David is happier than he used to be. I am not an advocate for Roaccutane, I think the side affects could be too much for some but it worked for me. The point of this is to state that everyone is different and you need to do some research to find out is best for you. But never give up!!!! There is much more that I wanted to add but I don't want to take up all the space here.
Natalie
P.S. - I now wear tank tops.

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From: David. A 15 year old male.
Subject: linkz
Date: 17/09/2000 at 15:41 - Message #13

i highly advice EVERYONE to visit this site: "Larry Thiele controlled his acne with a strict diet" you can find it in the useful links on this site.
it talks about the truth that what you eat CAUSES acne!! it is sooo not a myth, no matter what some lame ass "experts" have said.
It opened my eyes!! I knew this the whole time, i just kept thinking that its just a myth so i ignored it.
Visit the site and read it thoroughly, and tell me that you aren't convinced.
Im already planning an appropriate diet. If i were u, i'd do the same.
==dave==

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From: Brett in Australia. A 15 year old Male.
Subject: Ross
Date: 13/09/2000 at 09:28 - Message #12

To Ross,
Yes the Ross who has been abusing people. I know who you are because you go to my school. Who are you to be teasing people you are the ugliest mother fucker I have ever seen. No wonder you spend all your time on a website that has nothing to do with you probably have no social life at all. I think you have a bad case of loser denyal. Me and all my mates (year 11) found out you were doing this and now are keen to smash you! No wonder you never hang around with girls they wouldn't go near you.
Brett
P.s. I'm going to get you!

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From: jason mandich in USA. A 16 year old male.
Subject: Acne/Accutane and this horrible disease
Date: 06/09/2000 at 01:49 - Message #11

Hi everyone. Well here is a brief overview. My parents both had acen growing up, my dad more than my mom which left more than considerable scarring on only my father. Though my sister did not get it, I was the one who contracted it, this horrible life-ruining disease. I haven't had a girlfriend since sixth grade( when i had a pretty face ) and my life has basically gone to shit ever since i got acne. In my freshmen year of high school I took a course of accutane(80mg/6 months). I would have to tell you that my acne cleared considerably, but left so much scarring. Well I started breakiing out my tenth grade year once again in horrible cysts and everything else. What sucks is that one day in drama we played a game where everyone feels each other's face and we try to guess whose it is. Well, in fear of everyone making fun of me I quickly said to myself I wouldnt do it and everyone else played except me, this disease is killing me. I look in the mirror and have a scarred, blotchy, pimply face which I know no one other than my family could ever physically love. I cannot even look in the mirror without making these wierd faces, which somehow make my acne look better, does anyone else do this? I cannot look anyone in the eyes at all, and i am currently on accutane again. I went on in late may so I have been on about 3 months and i just cant stand looking at some dried up shriveled face everyday. I hate it, I freaking hate it and I cant stand seeing kids my age with perfect skin, i know i sound mean when i say this, but its true. Anwyays, enough venting, I just wanted to say that acne has ruined my life and if anyone has any suggestions for things i may be able to use for my acne while on accutane or if anyone just wants to talk about this goddamn disease...

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From: Luc in Australia. A 25 year old male.
Date: 02/09/2000 at 01:48 - Message #10

Hi. I'm just on to my 9th week of Roaccutane and everything seems OK in general. The only thing that is bothersome is the splitting at the corners of my lips. Is there anyone who has a good product that helps the splitting actually heal or not occur? It's most embaressing and inconvenient while kissing the little lady and my lip splits and she gets a gob full of blood.
As for all the talk about alcohol and cholesterol and eating and stuff, personally I think it is overstated. Sure your liver funcyion may be down due to the action of the drug but a few beers ever now and then is hardly going to hurt. In fact I had this fact confirmed by the derm who advised me to behave as per normal as he was under the opinion that excessive fussing and obsessing with the drug was actually more harmful than a few drinks and greasy food. Unless you already have the makings of liver disease or something then moderate consumption of alcohol won't hurt. Which is of course not to say tht getting pissed every night is a good idea. But then again its not a good idea for anyone, not just people on Roaccutane.
One other question, and this one to any guys out there. You ladies are so lucky you dont have to shave your facial hair on this drug. Do any guys have any good shaving tips? Im constantly getting rashes and peeled skin and ingrown hairs whilst on Roacc.
Social isolation is a really scary thing. Due to periods of depression earlier in my life I isolated myself almost completely at times. No matter how tempting it is I suggest that periods of sustained cloistering and avoidance of social contact are much more harmful and serious than acne can ever be. Please dont descend into this spiral, make an effort to be with people and have social contact. People really arent there just looking to pick faults and poke fun at your acne. Oh well enough of the sermonising. I hope veryone s treatment is going well, and their lives in general are good.
Bye.

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From: Kate Gray in Australia . A 28 year old Female.
Date: 29/08/2000 at 10:22 - Message #9

Hi everyone. I am in week 8 of this drug roaccutane and I think I have gone through every poss side effect. I thought things were getting better but last week (that time of the month) my face reached a point of dissaster. The worst it has ever been. I normally break out this time of the month but that is why I went on this drug to stop this happening not make it worse. Shit...... I am so fustrated. Called my doc and he has now put me on Erythromycin as well which has made me feel so so sick. He told me there was no problem taking it with roaccutane but when my partner went and pick up the drugs for me the chemist made a comment that there could be side effects related to taking both these drugs and the same time. Could anyone help me with this and explain a bit more what Erythromycin does for you. I know it is ment to help with the face but what is it really doing?

I am such a mess I am just so close to stopping all the drugs I was expecting to see positive results by now not it getting worse.

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From: sally in Wales. A 26 year old female.
Subject: side effects
Date: 20/08/2000 at 17:42 - Message #8

My derm didn't tell me that I had to stop drinking alcohol, but it says on the leaflet that comes with the tablets that it's best not too, or "that you at least reduce the amount you usually drink while on treatment" so the amount of alcohol it is safe to consume varies loads from person to person, but let's bare in mind that less is better. Just a word to those who are feeling down and not going out, I KNOW only too well how that feels, but it's so much better to go out with friends (real friends don't notice & don't care what you look like) and enjoy yourself and not to dwell on your skin, I've found if I start thinking about how bad my skin looks all the time it just makes me feel worse, and no one wants to bother with someone who's miserable all the time! Please, please don't lock yourself indoors if you want to go out, GO OUT! The weeks will fly by if you have a laugh and before you know it your skin is ten times better, and you're tons happier. It's easy to let things get on top of you, I had depression for a number of years, tackled it, now I'm trying to get rid of my skin problem too and I've found being positive about it helps alot. Sorry if I sounded a little harsh but I can't stand the thought of someone not going out because other people can be wankers, ignore them, you're 10 time the person they are, there are pleanty of good people out there to have fun with so go and find 'em!

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From: Pamela.
Date: 07/08/2000 at 22:06 - Message #7

bugger the link didn't work!!! http://www.rocheusa.com/roducts/accutane/pi.html

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From: Jon in England. A 24 year old m.
Date: 27/07/2000 at 17:32 - Message #6

Hi everyone. I'm one month post Roaccutane an d am nearly 100 percent clear. However the red marks which the acne has left on my back mean that I am no closer to being able to take my top off in public(without feeling totally humiliated) than I was when my acne was bad. PLEASE can somebody give me some advice on how to get rid of these before the effects of Roaccutane wear off. I KNOW that roaccutane only works for so long after coming off it and am not dissillusioned by Roche's claims of an 80 percent "cure" rate. This is just total b.ullshit! Everyone I know who has used it has had their acne come back in the first two years but they were lucky enough not to have these damn RED MARKS. Will going on a sunbed help me? I have really fair skin and don't tan easily! Anyway, good luck to you all in your fight against the dreaded acne and PLEASE E-mail me with any advice.
Cheers.

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From: Jon in England. A 24 year old m.
Date: 27/07/2000 at 17:29 - Message #5

Hi everyone. I'm one month post Roaccutane an d am nearly 100 percent clear. However the red marks which the acne has left on my back mean that I am no closer to being able to take my top off in public(without feeling totally humiliated) than I was when my acne was bad. PLEASE can somebody give me some advice on how to get rid of these before the effects of Roaccutane wear off. I KNOW that roaccutane only works for so long after coming off it and am not dissillusioned by Roche's claims of an 80 percent "cure" rate. This is just total bullshit! Everyone I know who has used it has had their acne come back in the first two years but they were lucky enough not to have these damn RED MARKS. Will going on a sunbed help me? I have really fair skin and don't tan easily! Anyway, good luck to you all in your fight against the dreaded acne and PLEASE E-mail me with any advice.
Cheers.

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From: Maria in Finland. A 23 year old Female.
Date: 19/07/2000 at 11:17 - Message #4

Hello.Greetings from the rainy land, Finland...We have had 2 weeks rain, every day!!!Yoohooo, nice summer.I like when it�s raining, then you don�t have to be on the beach or somewhere outdoors, you can only be at home in the sofa or bed and feel misrable over your pizz-hut face!
I have a lot of spots around the mouth, and it hurts to smile and eat and even to talk...so i have stopped that.It hurts so badly, and i�m so fucking depresst...I am not glad that all of you suffers from acne, but it�s a release that i�m not the only one!!!Thanks to a great site, and take care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: Al.
Date: 13/06/2000 at 08:10 - Message #3

testing the fucking filter output again...