Erudite Relics of Loc Huu Ho

Ya…it’s been a while since I posted something about this, but so far 2/3 done of the first month…and I’m constantly getting chapped lips now (sometimes very severe) and my face hurts quite a bit from all the tightening and dryness even with the mosterizer on… Haven’t been very depressed lately though I should be soon from seeing my results from my midterms, but there’s still plenty of hope. Going to be in super stress mode soon though. Let’s see how my breakouts hold out while I’m on the drug.

So it’s been a whole week since I started now yay…3 more weeks to go till I get to get a blood test and see if I should continue on the toxicating drug. Today, I bought myself some Cetaphil mosterizer lotion since hell my face is getting dry and painfully tight…I’m frequently thirsty…damn wish I didn’t through my water bottle away at that concert last week. Other than having Martha, make fun of me of possibly being depressed and giving birth defects…which I don’t just to make sure that noone gets the wrong idea but so far nothing out of the ordinary has happened and I hope to keep that way. Note: Don’t use face paint + washing it away with soap when you’re on this unless you like pain lol, like I did on my Halloween last night…

Alrite…now I’m starting to feel the effects. Well obvious ones are that my skin is a lot more drier and redder (sensitive to UV?) than usual. The not so obvious is that it’s getting harder to go poop so I assume I need to start drinking more liquids and getting more fibre into my system on a daily basis. All of this was expected of course…I just need to go invest in some Cetaphil lotion and vaseline when it gets a lot more drier and the winter weather isn’t helping that either.

I’ll probably update this whenever something major happens rather on a daily basis like I mentioned before.

So first day officially intaking Accutane, downed one of each 40mg and 10mg after my dinner at 7PM. Going to try and make it consistent timing…so 8am (one 10mg), 1PM (one 10mg) and 7PM (one 10mg and one 40mg). Gonna be staying off multivitamins until I confirm if it’s safe to take those along with these meds.

So my final decision is to take Accutane to deal with my increasing bad case of acne. I’ll be keeping a daily tab of any side-effects I may experience while on Accutane. I would also like to mention that in my current state, I’m perfectly healthy (even though I just recovered from a cold).

So I just got the pills from the pharmacy today, which consisted of the following:

• 30 Capsules of 40mg Accutane Roche 40 (1 capsule taken a day)
• 30 Capsules of 10mg Accutane Roche 10 x 3 Packages (3 capsules taken a day each after a meal)

Monthly Dosage

I will be starting on the pills tomorrow since I need to leave a day for all the antibiotics I have been taking to pass through my system.

I really hope I do not run into any of the severe side-effects due the extreme toxicity of this medicine. I’ll briefly post what was written on Accutane’s consumer information. Please note that the information copied here are the latest as issued of August 2006 so there may be updates to the information when you receive your Accutane. Check out www.rochecanada.com for the full product monograph. Read the rest of this entry »