Finally doing the before and after thing.

Remember when I was on accutane? Yeah, neither do I, it was kind of a long time ago. But anyway, I finally decided to get off my ass and do some before-and-after pictures. I've been off it about three months at this point, which is when you can really start to get an idea of what your skin's going to look like, so how about it! Let's see what I found on my hard disk from last January...

"Ew! Kill it with fire!"

"Much nicer! Wait, you mean that's the same person?!"

This, of course, coming on the tail of me being informed that they've just pulled accutane off the market again. Yes, it's a nasty drug. Yes, it has nasty side effects and people have experienced depression, psychosis, and liver damage. I still have some residual dryness on my face - but je ne regrette de rien. If I had to do it all over, the month of dryness and bleeding lips and itchy eyes, you bet I would. Accutane's a bitch while you're on it, but since I've done it, my quality of life has greatly improved.

For me, it was a miracle drug, and my only wish is that I hadn't waited as long to start on it.

For anyone curious of my dosages:

I did one month at 30 mg/day, one month at 40 mg/day, one month at 60 mg/day, and two months at 80 mg/day.

And while I tagged it as the 'tane diaries and called it accutane, I was actually taking Claravis, which is just another brand's name for Isotretinoin (aka, accutane!) Sort of how Advil and Motrin are just different brand names for Ibuprofen. They do the exact same thing.

Anyways, thus (really!) concludes the 'Tane diaries!

-Leez