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#1 · April 18, 2021, 8:55 pm

Quote from nicopickle on April 18, 2021, 8:55 pm
Ever since taking accutane 60mg/day for ~3 months, I started to feel funny, I instantly stopped taking it. As good as I can remember all of my symptoms from the high VA from accutane subsided. 6 months later, my acne returned, my brothers friend was like "you should go back on that medication you were taking." A month later I got another prescription for 20mg/day. Within less than 5 days taking it I started to feel sick. I had no idea what was going on, this was during a difficult time in my life and with the feeling of being sick, and being incredibly anxious, hypochondriac Nico became a thing and the stress I was going through sent me into a pretty dark depression. As time went on the depression slowly subsided. but a year later I still felt a bit depressed. I ended up seeing a therapist which helped tremendously. But even after that I had this feeling like my emotions/everything was suppressed in a way, my relationships with family just don't feel the same. Even things that are painful are slightly less painful. Its almost like everything is just lessened and I hate it. I noticed a few months ago that my hair was getting so thin, I started by taking a multivitamin(unfortunately), I was taking these for a couple months, ended up switching to just a biotin supplement (B7) and my hair has been getting thicker and thicker every day.

Started my no/low VA diet on April 14.

Within these past 4 days, I've already had this feeling like things are shifting. I had symptoms like a had a very slight cold, slight headache, stuffed nose. one of the mental ones is that I've been getting angry over basically nothing. My muscles were super sore these past few days. I don't know if this is relevant, but I've always gotten slightly irritated when I see someone wearing or doing something where they want to look cool, but they just look dumb. This is a feeling I haven't felt in a couple years since taking accutane.

I'll keep updating as I notice more things.

I just wanted to thank everyone involved in this forum, especially Grant for being the pioneer he is.

Ever since taking accutane 60mg/day for ~3 months, I started to feel funny, I instantly stopped taking it. As good as I can remember all of my symptoms from the high VA from accutane subsided. 6 months later, my acne returned, my brothers friend was like "you should go back on that medication you were taking." A month later I got another prescription for 20mg/day. Within less than 5 days taking it I started to feel sick. I had no idea what was going on, this was during a difficult time in my life and with the feeling of being sick, and being incredibly anxious, hypochondriac Nico became a thing and the stress I was going through sent me into a pretty dark depression. As time went on the depression slowly subsided. but a year later I still felt a bit depressed. I ended up seeing a therapist which helped tremendously. But even after that I had this feeling like my emotions/everything was suppressed in a way, my relationships with family just don't feel the same. Even things that are painful are slightly less painful. Its almost like everything is just lessened and I hate it. I noticed a few months ago that my hair was getting so thin, I started by taking a multivitamin(unfortunately), I was taking these for a couple months, ended up switching to just a biotin supplement (B7) and my hair has been getting thicker and thicker every day.

Started my no/low VA diet on April 14.

Within these past 4 days, I've already had this feeling like things are shifting. I had symptoms like a had a very slight cold, slight headache, stuffed nose. one of the mental ones is that I've been getting angry over basically nothing. My muscles were super sore these past few days. I don't know if this is relevant, but I've always gotten slightly irritated when I see someone wearing or doing something where they want to look cool, but they just look dumb. This is a feeling I haven't felt in a couple years since taking accutane.

I'll keep updating as I notice more things.

I just wanted to thank everyone involved in this forum, especially Grant for being the pioneer he is.

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#2 · April 22, 2021, 7:54 am

Nico,

I’m curious when did you stop taking the Accutane (on the second round)?

#3 · April 22, 2021, 9:43 am

Quote from Rachel-2 in Colorado on April 22, 2021, 7:54 am

Nico,

I’m curious when did you stop taking the Accutane (on the second round)?

It's been almost 2 years now. I only took the second dose for a few days before stopping because of how it made me feel. I believe it was late July, 2019.

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