HATE: the crazy side effects- dry skin, chapped lips, "allergic" to sun, extreme heat, and cold. thinning eyebrows(i breakout in an ugly rash type thing)... my monthly routine (more about that later) brittle breaking nails, dry skin and chapped lips (that deserves to be listed twice. most people are on accutane for 5-6 months. i've been on it for 11 1/2 months. WOWWWW. i want to be done
LOVE: lack of acne.... nuff said ya'll. i've fought with it since like 7th grade and this actually works!! i actually go to work without makeup every day. and i wouldnt be way embarassed if my friends or a cute guy sees be w/o makeup. even if i had to take this pill forever i would (until i was ready to have a baby) and supposidly once i finally get off the accutane, my acne will be GOOOOONE and wont come back. ooh happy day
every month-
-drive to hospital to see dr pepper (thats my doctors name)
-pee in a cup (pregnancy test)
-sit in waiting room, then see dr for like 30 seconds
-go home and log on to the ipledge program
-enter my two forms of birth control (abstinence doesnt count)
-take the little quiz thing to make sure i know about the drug and whats going on i guess....
-take prescription to pharmacy
pick up within 7 days of seeing doctor
thats just every month, it's not hard. as long as i get my prescription in to the ppharmacy a day or 2 after i see the doctor. one time i forgot and didnt get it back on time. i had to make another appt with my doctor to get a new prescription. i could have gotten pregnant in those 7 days i guess!?
at the beginning of this whole thing, i had to read (skim) this big inromative book with chapters and everything. then i had to sign like 3 contracts saying i wont give blood or get pregnant. then i had to wait a month for my birth control pills to start working before i starting taking accutane. this drug is SERIOUS!!! hahaha. it sounds scary right?? but i wish i could have taken it a loooone time ago. like... before highschool.
it seems like the hate would over weigh the love..... but really it doesnt at all.
22 hours ago
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Yeah, I know what you mean. Fortunately, I didn't have to go through all that you have (since my doctor WOULD take abstinence as my form(s) of birth control. lol). And I didn't have to be on it for a year like you. But my face/lips were WAY more chapped than yours--they were practically falling off and it sucked. I hated it, but felt much more confident once I was done with it. I'm surprised you don't have to take a blood test every month. I did. (They had to check my cholesterol, etc--since accutane raises cholesterol).
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