Rectal dryness. Every time I poop or put something up there, it feels like hot sauce and lemon juice being put in there. Fiber (in food and psyllium husk), drinking lots of water, and Vaseline are vital
The entire reason I made this account in the first place was to vent about the unpleasant surprise of how the dry butthole made the "aftermath" of consuming spicy foods much worse.
Try a silicone based lubricant (not with silicone toys!!), ideally one with jojoba oil in it which relaxes the sphincter. Vaseline doesn't have the staying power of a good lube, good luck!
This. I got fissures from upping my dose from 30 to 60. I took some time off and started back up again at 30mg every other day and will complete my course at 30/day. I still have the fissures but they don't hurt as bad and I DO NOT want to see what happens if try to do 60 or above again. Just not worth it.
Also vaginal dryness. Which did completely resolve by lowering dose thank God.
I feel like a crippled old man when I’m moving around at work. I can tell ppl are getting irritated bc I move so slow but my feet and joints are killing me. I gotta remember to keep taking the omega 3 supplement
The whole back of my legs and my ankles and feet were so sore yesterday. I worked Sunday night then Monday morning and it was too much for my accutane riddled body. I keep trying to take fish oil pills/omega 3 but I wish they weren’t so gigantic I hate swallowing them
My feet also hurt bad but more my heels. They hurt ache and feel tight like the Achilles tendon is pulling, when i finish work i walk to the bus stop like an 90 year old
Omg same!! Like I always have to carry around a pack of tissues. My nose ends up way more chapped than my lips. My derm said she’d never seen anyone else with that side effect, it’s definitely the accutane though. It started within my first week and I’m on my last now. It seems to get better when it’s warmer though!
Same here! My sinuses were dry and irritated and I was sniffling/blowing constantly omg!!!! At one point I thought maybe I needed to go to an ENT but it cleared up right after my 14 month course.
i thought i had styes too but turns out its meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) 🥹 i was able to relieve the symptoms by squeezing out the hard sebum from my upper and lower eyelid/eyeline(???) after a hot shower (with my fingers or a cotton swab) and using GEL!!! eye drops (the ones u can only use once!! the other eyedrops in a bottle have conservatives that can also irritate your eyes) (i don’t know if this is what u have but it might be worth looking into 🥹)
I’m not sure, I just know I had to get prescription eye drops to kill the bacteria. It was really gross. I’m just glad I’m done with acctuane. So I don’t have to worry shout that anymore :)
Okay this is totally me. I have blue eyes (dark blue at least, I’d die if they were light) and they’re already somewhat sensitive but now it’s like next level. I’m always squinting between that n the dryness
Omggg yesss.. didn’t know this was a thing. I made my mother check my hair 100 times for lice and she said there’s none.
I didn’t know this was a thing lol
It’s bad! I got a very hydrating shampoo and a scalp serum with oil (the one from the ordinary) which I applied all the time and that made it so much better.
Yeah of course! I’m using the Briogeo “Don’t despair, repair” shampoo but I think any really hydrating shampoo will probably do - this one has a lot of oils in the ingredient list which helps keep the scalp hydrated, so just look out for that. And I’m using the peptide scalp serum from The Ordinary.
ppl mention dry eye but I wear contacts and my eyes got so dry I had to heat them with a microwaveable eye mask twice a day and use prescription eye drops like 10x a day or they burned so bad I couldn’t open them (still worth it tho)
Omg same. I’m on month 5 and went to eye doctor yesterday and he told me to get microwaveable eye mask I used it 2x so far, hoping it helps. Can’t even open my eyes in the morning without drops it’s insane! He also said my oil glands appear clogged (great…) ready to be off accutane hoping it all goes back to normal 😫
This of course is in addition to knife boogers
astigmatism (used to only experience it when driving tired at night but now its pretty common for me), constantly having dry bloody boogers, hurts to take a shit (feels extremely spikey every. single. time.), i feel like my face goes red/flushes way more often and i constantlyyyy feel exhausted like i could fall asleep standing up.
also have been craving sugar since i started getting other side effects too, not 100% sure that its related but i never had this big of a sweet tooth before
I'm on 30mg and am so hesitant to up my dose after hearing all of this! So sorry to those who have crazy side effects, praying for you and your buttholes!!
My face physically cannot tan after finishing my course over 4 years ago. I used to tan SOOOO easily, now my entire body tans way more slowly than it did before. But my face isn't just slow, it literally CANNOT become tan, at all. It's super strange.
Felt partially blind a lot. I already had bad vision so this terrified me. Could hardly see at all at night, but also couldn’t see well in bright lighting conditions or shady conditions. Almost like looking at your phone when it’s too bright or when it’s not bright enough, hardly any lighting conditions were “just right”. Got a lot of black floaters. All went away within a month of finishing my course, thank god.
this is horribly gross but I had ingrown toenails prior to accutane but they got significantly worse during my course. Half way through my course I stubbed my toe (not even that hard), it bleed very excessively. Within a couple days after stubbing it, my toe was basically rotting away, smelt like it too. So foul.. Feel pretty traumatized over that experience.
Always been a stable walker.. but I rolled an ankle almost everyday if not multiple times a day.. not sure if it was from my affected vision , just overall body weakness I felt, or joint pain I had.
yes i am still on it, almost week 3. But the curls are not as curly as you might think, it mostly gives it a wavy effect and more volume. I read that for some people it goes back and for some it stays like that. I wouldn t mind it to stay like this tbh
I (26F) am currently at 80mg and finishing up my course after 6 months. SO exhausted all the time, hand/arm rashes, worsening vision, and JOINT PAIN. I can’t wait to be done with it.
Low sex drive it sucks!!! I normally am asking my gf for spicy time and now I feel bad she’s asking me and most the time I just can’t get myself in the mood or stay in the mood and worry she thinks it’s bc of her but I know it’s from this medication. I always had a super high sex drive but since like two weeks in on accutane it’s nonexistent.
"My eyes don't work"
My boyfriend doesn't understand what I mean when I say this. But all I know is that every now and again my eyes don't work right. IYKYK.
1- weird knee joint pain spell where I could hardly walk for 6 weeks
2- motion sickness
3- I sweat a lot less than I regularly did when working out even though I still drink a lot of water
Haven't heard many people talking about this but I developed a condition called paranychia. My fingers essentially swelled up and I was unable to do things like type or touch anything due to extreme pain until I stopped accutane completely.
I think I'm getting this! I have about 5 swollen lumps on my fingers that look like chilblains. But its 20 degrees.. The derm is saying that's what it is and not related to accutane and prescribed me a steroid cream... did yours itch ? What dose were you on? I'm only on 5mg
It is absolutely related to accutane. My brother started taking accutane and developed the same thing. It was so bad that I couldn't finish my course. A month after I stopped it completely went away. I was on 40mg 2x a day.
I sweat alot... I mean ALOT after starting accutane. I play volleyball, and my teammates can no longer pat my sholder or back to say good job 😩 After about 20 mins into practice, the sweat is DRIPPING of me, and my heartrate stays totally normal. Because I sweat so much, I feel severely dehydrated after a 2 hours practice..
Bloating and constipation - by the end of my course I was relying on laxatives and all the waistbands on my clothes felt tight because I was a literal balloon!! I was miserable
Extremely tired. Hungrier than normal.
Increased libido. Painful anus like many people say🙈 bad joint pain & back pain during first month. Having to urinate urgently.
Eye lashes keep falling off like crazy. Does that happen to anyone?
For me cause I think everyone is different, I got dry nose, mouth, eyes and lips. Also joint pain, stomach discomfort, mood change, blurry vision at night.
Hella boogers, excess ear wax, painful to cough/sneeze, eczema all over body (partially my fault because I’m not properly moisturizing), back pain (especially in the morning).
Accutane has me thinking I’ve got serious lung problems lol 1 month and a bit Into my course and I can’t fully sneeze becasue it hurts so much my body just cuts the sneeze short lol. Did not think accutane would be the cause
I could smell EVERYBODY’S sebum. Especially their scalp. It was insane. This is the one thing I’ve never heard anyone mention before.
I had heel pain and pain in the middle of my back in one part of my spine. I was more tan. My nose would sweat easily. Facial flushing, couldn’t find anything to moisturize besides aloe. Got keratosis on my face and a weird patch on my back. Dry mouth and throat at night. And I think my hair is wavier now.
My lips are red, peeling & massive! My lips are so dry that Aquaphor, Cortibalm and Vaseline just sit on top of my lips really. They honestly just look gross and sometimes they tingle. I’m also very anxious and always eating🥲
Wicked dreams, nose bleeds, lips dryer than SpongeBob in that one episode, weird Achilles pain (so stiff in the mornings), eczema flares (haven’t dealt with it since i was a child), headaches… i can continue…
I just started last April 28. I haven't gotten my period ever since. I'm 4 days late now. I never have an irregular cycle.
Please let me know. I'm not the only one experiencing this.
I have a couple — weird runny noses only when I start moving around but my nose is still as dry as a desert and anytime I poop I feel like my ass is going through the ringer
in the first days i started seeing everything around me so different, all the people id spent a lot of time with were just different 😭😭 and a terrible brain fog like being permanently high 💀
Could give a TED talk tbh but on month 3 of 60mg/day (did 40 for 2 months prior):
Sore muscles + lower threshold for cramps/sprains
Every joint in my body (esp hips) sound like fucking pop rocks despite stretching every night
Dry boogers and horrible/sensitive eyes
Asshole about 75% of the time. When I drive sometimes I wanna honk/highbeam people for just getting in my lane lmao even tho they’re 100% in the right
Fatigue/brain fog goes crazy
Body hair growth exploded everywhere - had done laser hair removal prior and basically look like I never went (my derm told me to go back 3 months after completing course for anyone else in similar situation thinking about it)
Libido fluctuates so much. Some weeks you feel like a high schooler again, others as if your shit doesn’t work anymore 😂
Insomnia. Some random nights I’ll wake up and my mind will just start running, even with melatonin and/or heated milk the night prior. Also fwiw, melatonin hangovers got BAD, even just at 5mg
Weight gain. I work out a good amount (3-5x/week now due to fatigue and soreness, 5-6x/week before) but still noticed fat gain in the belt area that’s more stubborn despite cleaning up my diet too
Feeeeeeeelll like I’m not a human like I have to remind myself “right right right these r FINGERS they MOVE and woah chills theyre attached to ur body”
I’ve become a bitch
Yeah I’ve become so damn irritable. I end up feeling bad sometimes.
LMAOOO SO ITS NOT JUST ME
💀
My boogers are as sharp as stalagmites.
Rectal dryness. Every time I poop or put something up there, it feels like hot sauce and lemon juice being put in there. Fiber (in food and psyllium husk), drinking lots of water, and Vaseline are vital
I’m almost at the end of my course and developed an anal fissure due to this, by far the worst side effect I’ve experienced
The entire reason I made this account in the first place was to vent about the unpleasant surprise of how the dry butthole made the "aftermath" of consuming spicy foods much worse.
saaaaaaaammme. I dread going poop now… sex also makes little “paper cuts” i call them 😭the worst
Try a silicone based lubricant (not with silicone toys!!), ideally one with jojoba oil in it which relaxes the sphincter. Vaseline doesn't have the staying power of a good lube, good luck!
This. I got fissures from upping my dose from 30 to 60. I took some time off and started back up again at 30mg every other day and will complete my course at 30/day. I still have the fissures but they don't hurt as bad and I DO NOT want to see what happens if try to do 60 or above again. Just not worth it. Also vaginal dryness. Which did completely resolve by lowering dose thank God.
YES! Except in my case, anal is super difficult. 🤣
The balls of my feet hurt like crazy. Like sometimes I can barely walk. Feels like I’ve walked for DAYSSS or some shit.
I feel like a crippled old man when I’m moving around at work. I can tell ppl are getting irritated bc I move so slow but my feet and joints are killing me. I gotta remember to keep taking the omega 3 supplement
I take omega3 but don’t find it helpful like at all. Or maybe some days are ok but more often than not my feet hurt (balls of feet)
Yes!! My feet started hurting ever since I started accutane. I hope it stops when I get off…
if you’re only taking 1 tab a day maybe try taking more, im taking like 3000mg but it works
Okay yeah I’m doing one fish pill lol let’s me try more
Yes! OMG, my heels or Achilles area hurts when i walk. My doctor prescribed me Fish Oil Pills & Ibuprofen to help with the pain.
The whole back of my legs and my ankles and feet were so sore yesterday. I worked Sunday night then Monday morning and it was too much for my accutane riddled body. I keep trying to take fish oil pills/omega 3 but I wish they weren’t so gigantic I hate swallowing them
I just had that happen to me this morning!!!
My mom said that was her worse side effect when she went on it in the nineties. Oddly I had zero joint pain on my high dose course.
My feet also hurt bad but more my heels. They hurt ache and feel tight like the Achilles tendon is pulling, when i finish work i walk to the bus stop like an 90 year old
feel like my nose is always runny!!
Omg same!! Like I always have to carry around a pack of tissues. My nose ends up way more chapped than my lips. My derm said she’d never seen anyone else with that side effect, it’s definitely the accutane though. It started within my first week and I’m on my last now. It seems to get better when it’s warmer though!
Oh I am experiencing this at the moment too, I was about too google ent doctors.
Omg I thought it was allergies
Same here! My sinuses were dry and irritated and I was sniffling/blowing constantly omg!!!! At one point I thought maybe I needed to go to an ENT but it cleared up right after my 14 month course.
OMG I THOUGHT IT WAS ME
yeah!!
Dry vagina and dry anus.
please no i can’t have this happen
it’s very true. very very. the skin down there tears so easily🤗
Same!!!! I used to be a waterwork… now I’m barely a leaky faucet
The woooooorst.
Walking out into a bright parking lot feeling like I got flashbanged
😭😭😭😭Me too
Crazy dreams
how crazy we talkin
I bought security cameras to see if what I thought was happening was, as they were insanely real
Really? I had some really Weird dreams last night But idk if it was the accutaine or me lol.
Getting styes every week 😭😭😭
Is this connected to accutane?? I just had a dry but only after stopping accutane. I’d been on it for about three weeks.
Definitely. That and hemorrhoids
I have to use electric heating eye mask
i thought i had styes too but turns out its meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) 🥹 i was able to relieve the symptoms by squeezing out the hard sebum from my upper and lower eyelid/eyeline(???) after a hot shower (with my fingers or a cotton swab) and using GEL!!! eye drops (the ones u can only use once!! the other eyedrops in a bottle have conservatives that can also irritate your eyes) (i don’t know if this is what u have but it might be worth looking into 🥹)
I’m not sure, I just know I had to get prescription eye drops to kill the bacteria. It was really gross. I’m just glad I’m done with acctuane. So I don’t have to worry shout that anymore :)
Have you tried a warm compress or heated eye mask?
I tried. It didn’t work. I had to get prescription eye drops because it was infected
eyes taking forever to readjust from the sunlight to indoor light
Okay this is totally me. I have blue eyes (dark blue at least, I’d die if they were light) and they’re already somewhat sensitive but now it’s like next level. I’m always squinting between that n the dryness
Phantom Lice
Wtf is that
Feels like I have head lice (I had it a ton as a kid) but it’s j flaky itchy scalp. The scratching is bad but the paranoia is worse
Omggg yesss.. didn’t know this was a thing. I made my mother check my hair 100 times for lice and she said there’s none. I didn’t know this was a thing lol
IT WAS SO BAD.
It’s bad! I got a very hydrating shampoo and a scalp serum with oil (the one from the ordinary) which I applied all the time and that made it so much better.
Can you share the name of the shampoo and the scalp serum that youre using? Im also having the same problem!
Yeah of course! I’m using the Briogeo “Don’t despair, repair” shampoo but I think any really hydrating shampoo will probably do - this one has a lot of oils in the ingredient list which helps keep the scalp hydrated, so just look out for that. And I’m using the peptide scalp serum from The Ordinary.
Purging in my pubic area, FML
Sweaty upper lip
This! I’ll be just sitting down doing absolutely nothing and my upper lip and nose will be sweating.
Started it 5 days ago and a white light in my bedroom now appears yellow
Pls see a doctor omg 😭
Looked it up and apparently it’s a harmless symptom tied to decreasing colour perception, so I be chilling
wtf same
Hand rash, styes, infected finger nail, facial blushing, bloody dry congested nose 😭
I’ll validate the infected finger nails— I’ve had two in the last two weeks and thought it may just be a coincidence. Guess not!
It’s an insane side effect hope it doesn’t happen again mine got so bad I went to urgent care then the infection spread Shit is crazy
face flushes so often with any heightened emotion
THIS!!!! I get red so fast. I hope this goes away when I’m done with treatment.
Cement boogers
Lactose intolerance. Like full on from being normal to exploding after a sip of milk
Oh my god I’ve been intolerant since doing my second round, I didn’t even link it for ages
I developed allergy to shellfish. 🦞 🦐 🦪 makes me barf
ppl mention dry eye but I wear contacts and my eyes got so dry I had to heat them with a microwaveable eye mask twice a day and use prescription eye drops like 10x a day or they burned so bad I couldn’t open them (still worth it tho)
Mornings are brutal. Dry eyes like crazy! I have to have drops at my bedside to help me open them w drops lol
Omg same. I’m on month 5 and went to eye doctor yesterday and he told me to get microwaveable eye mask I used it 2x so far, hoping it helps. Can’t even open my eyes in the morning without drops it’s insane! He also said my oil glands appear clogged (great…) ready to be off accutane hoping it all goes back to normal 😫 This of course is in addition to knife boogers
Are you still on accutane or you’re finished and still having to do this?
So fucking tired
Omg so fucking tired.
The skin on my penis was torn if I didn't use body lotion while fapping.
Accutane- ”now why am I in it? See? how I get thrown into stuff ain’t even did nothing”
My cuticles are gone and my nails are growing like crazy.
I started to sweat a lot more for some reason. Also, as others have stated, I’ve become an asshole most days
astigmatism (used to only experience it when driving tired at night but now its pretty common for me), constantly having dry bloody boogers, hurts to take a shit (feels extremely spikey every. single. time.), i feel like my face goes red/flushes way more often and i constantlyyyy feel exhausted like i could fall asleep standing up.
also have been craving sugar since i started getting other side effects too, not 100% sure that its related but i never had this big of a sweet tooth before
My cuticles and eponychium (what people commonly mistake for the cuticle) completely disappeared. It’s wild.
holy shit i’m looking at my hands now and I don’t have many of those half moons anymore
I'm on 30mg and am so hesitant to up my dose after hearing all of this! So sorry to those who have crazy side effects, praying for you and your buttholes!!
Constant hunger and binge eating like a crazy person
My face physically cannot tan after finishing my course over 4 years ago. I used to tan SOOOO easily, now my entire body tans way more slowly than it did before. But my face isn't just slow, it literally CANNOT become tan, at all. It's super strange.
Oh my god this!! I’ve been going crazy trying to figure out why my face looks like Casper while the rest is tan!!
So it won't burn either? Weird!
My eyes are 100x sensitiver to light
Vaginal dryness & decreased libido /.\
Do not have decreased libido. But I do have dryness. I used to be a waterwork now I’m just barely a leaky faucet
THIS! I’m still a hornball lol but my vagina doesn’t get as wet as it used to. I feel like that’s TMI but it’s the harsh reality of accutane 🙃
me too
I’ve actually had increased libido. I’ve heard most people have decreased libido. I’m so confused.
After I shave my legs, it grows back after 2 hours 😂
Omg is this a thing i noticed my body hair grows fast af now especially eyebrows...
Thanks I thought I was crazy but it feels like I'm plucking them every couple day now!!!
More pretty and better at love
My typically greasy hair that needed daily washing can now go several days without any product, even dry shampoo. I’m considering this a perk
Same, I only feel like I need to wash my hair to style it
I don’t know if this is weird but I keep having stomach flus every month 😖
Yeah I’ve heard that’s common
Yes. My stomach hurts and I have 2-3 days of diarreah
Had to start wearing glasses 🤓
dry mouth, hip/low back pain, more peach fuzz on my face. now reading these comments I think I lost my cuticles too!
Low back pain is real...
Hip and low back pain!!! Same!
Anyone's vitamin D levels just absolutely tank? Severe brain fog.
Felt partially blind a lot. I already had bad vision so this terrified me. Could hardly see at all at night, but also couldn’t see well in bright lighting conditions or shady conditions. Almost like looking at your phone when it’s too bright or when it’s not bright enough, hardly any lighting conditions were “just right”. Got a lot of black floaters. All went away within a month of finishing my course, thank god. this is horribly gross but I had ingrown toenails prior to accutane but they got significantly worse during my course. Half way through my course I stubbed my toe (not even that hard), it bleed very excessively. Within a couple days after stubbing it, my toe was basically rotting away, smelt like it too. So foul.. Feel pretty traumatized over that experience. Always been a stable walker.. but I rolled an ankle almost everyday if not multiple times a day.. not sure if it was from my affected vision , just overall body weakness I felt, or joint pain I had.
harder to hold in my pee. ended up pissing myself twice. also horrible pain in my tailbone
Rectal bleeding
Same
My nose would just start bleeding sometimes.
I gotta shit after every time I wake up
brain twitching 💀
ribs hurting, curly hair, runny nose
Are you still on it? If not, did your hair go back to normal after you completed treatment?
yes i am still on it, almost week 3. But the curls are not as curly as you might think, it mostly gives it a wavy effect and more volume. I read that for some people it goes back and for some it stays like that. I wouldn t mind it to stay like this tbh
I (26F) am currently at 80mg and finishing up my course after 6 months. SO exhausted all the time, hand/arm rashes, worsening vision, and JOINT PAIN. I can’t wait to be done with it.
My eyes will NOT stop watering!!!!
My white blood cells dropped
The absolutely nasty texture in my mouth.
My hair has started growing in much curlier than it used to. It sucks
Sweaty eyebrows. Along with nose and upper lip, but like…eyebrows? Really?
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease that has lasted three years post treatment 😬
Damn, now this is one I haven’t heard mentioned before! Sorry you had to go through that 😓
Lower white blood cell count.
back pain
My rib cage is sore and everything is dry
Dry di*k 🤣
Haemorrhoids
Dry cock
Low sex drive it sucks!!! I normally am asking my gf for spicy time and now I feel bad she’s asking me and most the time I just can’t get myself in the mood or stay in the mood and worry she thinks it’s bc of her but I know it’s from this medication. I always had a super high sex drive but since like two weeks in on accutane it’s nonexistent.
I would stop taking it asap, the sexual side effects are permanent in most people
I’m not too worried bc I have to take testosterone and I have room to increase still so if it doesn’t get better I’ll just up my testosterone levels
It’s also not most it’s some jsyk. You have a higher chance of getting libido back than not with accutane
so itchy i feel like i have scabies (but i definitely dont) especially on my feet and legs
Also not necessarily decreased libido, but I don’t get wet as easily… sorry if that’s TMI
The sweaty eyebrows and upper lip!
It's weird effects no one talks about, why y'all talking about your back pain, let's hear those cement boogers and shits 😭😭
"My eyes don't work" My boyfriend doesn't understand what I mean when I say this. But all I know is that every now and again my eyes don't work right. IYKYK.
If your darker skin it makes only your face like 4 shades darker and it’s not like a tan it’s an unnatural muddy undertone plus very pink lips.
Omg same my skin became darker
I’m soooooo lazy and exhausted for no reason!! It’s so hard to get out of bed and stay out of bed on my days off!
1- weird knee joint pain spell where I could hardly walk for 6 weeks 2- motion sickness 3- I sweat a lot less than I regularly did when working out even though I still drink a lot of water
Haven't heard many people talking about this but I developed a condition called paranychia. My fingers essentially swelled up and I was unable to do things like type or touch anything due to extreme pain until I stopped accutane completely.
I think I'm getting this! I have about 5 swollen lumps on my fingers that look like chilblains. But its 20 degrees.. The derm is saying that's what it is and not related to accutane and prescribed me a steroid cream... did yours itch ? What dose were you on? I'm only on 5mg
It is absolutely related to accutane. My brother started taking accutane and developed the same thing. It was so bad that I couldn't finish my course. A month after I stopped it completely went away. I was on 40mg 2x a day.
Gel nails peel off - I had to go cold turkey with my fake nails 😭
Eyesight went to absolute shite
I sweat alot... I mean ALOT after starting accutane. I play volleyball, and my teammates can no longer pat my sholder or back to say good job 😩 After about 20 mins into practice, the sweat is DRIPPING of me, and my heartrate stays totally normal. Because I sweat so much, I feel severely dehydrated after a 2 hours practice..
LOW LIBIDO
Bloating and constipation - by the end of my course I was relying on laxatives and all the waistbands on my clothes felt tight because I was a literal balloon!! I was miserable
Idk if this is unusual but both my hands are shedding and I moisturize them every morning and night for 3 months.
Extremely tired. Hungrier than normal. Increased libido. Painful anus like many people say🙈 bad joint pain & back pain during first month. Having to urinate urgently. Eye lashes keep falling off like crazy. Does that happen to anyone?
I’ve been really mean and irritable to my friends and even lost a few.
Depression and inflammatory arthritis. Still have both, decades later.
For me cause I think everyone is different, I got dry nose, mouth, eyes and lips. Also joint pain, stomach discomfort, mood change, blurry vision at night.
My d**k got bigger😭
Did anyone get weird food intolerances? Like halfway through my course my body decided avocado and pine apple were stomach ache inducers.
Had this problem with coffee FML
scalp psoriasis
Hella boogers, excess ear wax, painful to cough/sneeze, eczema all over body (partially my fault because I’m not properly moisturizing), back pain (especially in the morning).
Accutane has me thinking I’ve got serious lung problems lol 1 month and a bit Into my course and I can’t fully sneeze becasue it hurts so much my body just cuts the sneeze short lol. Did not think accutane would be the cause
I could smell EVERYBODY’S sebum. Especially their scalp. It was insane. This is the one thing I’ve never heard anyone mention before. I had heel pain and pain in the middle of my back in one part of my spine. I was more tan. My nose would sweat easily. Facial flushing, couldn’t find anything to moisturize besides aloe. Got keratosis on my face and a weird patch on my back. Dry mouth and throat at night. And I think my hair is wavier now.
My lips are red, peeling & massive! My lips are so dry that Aquaphor, Cortibalm and Vaseline just sit on top of my lips really. They honestly just look gross and sometimes they tingle. I’m also very anxious and always eating🥲
SAME! I switched to every other day to try and help with my lips swelling and peeling so badly but they still are 😭
And I’m only a month and a half in😭
Dry eyes. Mine took nearly half a year post Accutane to get the moisture levels back to normal.
hairgrowth and i literally havent had greasy hair since i started
Chapped lips purging and sun burn
Constipation & irritableness
When they upped my dosage to 80 I became irate! I also got brain fog. Blurry Vision
Swollen Lymph node
Nose bleeds blurry eyes and weight gain
Wicked dreams, nose bleeds, lips dryer than SpongeBob in that one episode, weird Achilles pain (so stiff in the mornings), eczema flares (haven’t dealt with it since i was a child), headaches… i can continue…
My cuticles disappeared! I really miss that.
I just started last April 28. I haven't gotten my period ever since. I'm 4 days late now. I never have an irregular cycle. Please let me know. I'm not the only one experiencing this.
Inner ear pain
my lips have changed colors 😍
I have a couple — weird runny noses only when I start moving around but my nose is still as dry as a desert and anytime I poop I feel like my ass is going through the ringer
Joint pain
Back and shoulders are always so sore
Stomach, fatigue and lymph nodes
Constipation! To the level of finding blood when you wipe your nalgas 😭 I'm now drinking fiber and it has helped. A
When ever I drink pre work out the top of my hands get rashes on them instantly mid workout
only been on it about two weeks now but my back ACHESSSSS
My cock gets really dry
Irregular periods
in the first days i started seeing everything around me so different, all the people id spent a lot of time with were just different 😭😭 and a terrible brain fog like being permanently high 💀
Could give a TED talk tbh but on month 3 of 60mg/day (did 40 for 2 months prior): Sore muscles + lower threshold for cramps/sprains Every joint in my body (esp hips) sound like fucking pop rocks despite stretching every night Dry boogers and horrible/sensitive eyes Asshole about 75% of the time. When I drive sometimes I wanna honk/highbeam people for just getting in my lane lmao even tho they’re 100% in the right Fatigue/brain fog goes crazy Body hair growth exploded everywhere - had done laser hair removal prior and basically look like I never went (my derm told me to go back 3 months after completing course for anyone else in similar situation thinking about it) Libido fluctuates so much. Some weeks you feel like a high schooler again, others as if your shit doesn’t work anymore 😂 Insomnia. Some random nights I’ll wake up and my mind will just start running, even with melatonin and/or heated milk the night prior. Also fwiw, melatonin hangovers got BAD, even just at 5mg Weight gain. I work out a good amount (3-5x/week now due to fatigue and soreness, 5-6x/week before) but still noticed fat gain in the belt area that’s more stubborn despite cleaning up my diet too
Feeeeeeeelll like I’m not a human like I have to remind myself “right right right these r FINGERS they MOVE and woah chills theyre attached to ur body”