I started with 10mg a day for 2 weeks and I’ve been on 20mg since then. It’s working at this dose, so I feel no need to go higher.
Yeah 20mg seems to be a good dose . You having problems with dry skin at all?
I started with 10mg a day for 2 weeks and I’ve been on 20mg since then. It’s working at this dose, so I feel no need to go higher.
Nice, what's your dose?
I started with 10mg a day for 2 weeks and I’ve been on 20mg since then. It’s working at this dose, so I feel no need to go higher.
Not everyone gets sides, but they do occur on a small percentage of the population and when they do occur, they are bad.Did 40 mg/d for a while then switched to 20 mg/d. No dry skin at those doses. Barely even got chapped lips.
I think the nasty sides are pubescent kids with cystic acne doing 80 mg/d.
Not everyone gets sides, but they do occur on a small percentage of the population and when they do occur, they are bad.
I was only doing 10 mg/d, but after about a week, I started getting severe liver/stomach pains. Like I was stabbed. The pain went away after stopping.
Just to be sure, I started it again to see if it was actually the isotretinoin, and not something else. Sure enough, a few days after starting, the pain returned, so I stopped.
Although small, there is a risk that people need to weigh against the reward.
I found an alternative, which was benzoyl peroxide + Adapalene (differin). This worked for me, while isotretinoin was terrible so I am biased.The simplest way to asses that is to slowly titrate, as I described above, if sides are intolerable, drop, if not bad, increase. The tend to worsen when initiating a new dose, then diminish Splitting the dose makes a big difference.
They're not terrible for most, and the payoff can be a permanent end to acne, if you reach a sufficient cumulative dose over 4-9 months.
I found an alternative, which was benzoyl peroxide + Adapalene (differin). This worked for me, while isotretinoin was terrible so I am biased.
Isotretinoin makes a lot more sense for body acne. The dose seems high but as long as you’ve done the research. Good luck, Healthy looking skin = attractive skin.I find the endless battle using topicals to be intolerable, only to see it return. I'll be happy to see the end of it for good. Though I don't have the horrific cystic acne of soen teens and young adults, I've been battling back, shoulder, chest acne for decades, and gear only poured fuel on the fire.
Alas trunk acne is the most difficult to get permanent relief from, so success is most often found at the highest cumulative dose ranges. Based on my research 150mg/kg is the dose that'll give the most reasonable certainty of a durable cure. I want to get it over with quickly, hence my reason for trying ever higher daily doses. I read of several dermatologists that do the same with their patients, going up to 200mg+ a day, provided their patients can. tolerate it.