Day 12 – Losing my lips!
April 8th, 2008
Since starting this course, I have not stopped slathering my lips with whatever I have to hand, usually Blistex or Carmex, or Vaseline if nothing else is around. Even so, I woke this morning and when I opened my mouth my lips split…Ouch! They were so dry, even with the lipbalm on. Anyway, over the course of the day the whole top layer of skin has come of, they feel allot better now! I think it will happen again as I can feel another little split on the top lip.
Well apart from that, I have been waking up with a splitting headache. I think it is due to the fact that I am not drinking water through the night, I usually wake up a few times in the night so I am going to try to drink when I do. My eyes are still super dry which is probably a bit too blame too.
I must say my skin is looking pretty good! I have no active spots at the moment, only the last remains of a couple from last week. My skin does seem to have a grainy texture, all over, I am not sure what that is and I hope it goes. Though I would rather have that anyday than a face full of painful cysts. I look like I have had a face peel, my skin is red, but my husband said it looks really healthy.
My face isn’t reacting so badly to temperature changes in my body, when I did my exercise class tonight it didn’t become red so quickly and was not sore at all after, so that’s good news.
I haven’t had too much trouble with flakiness the last couple of days either. I have found that if I cover my face with a thin layer of Vaseline (I can’t believe I’m smothering my face with that stuff, I would not of put it near my skin before I started this!) before I go to bed and also in the morning (If I’m not leaving the house) and it seems to be keeping it under control.
Despite all the little problems, I am so glad I decided to do this and I am, at this point, feeling really positive. I think 6 months of discomfort for the chance to have good skin is, for me, well worth it. It is hard to grow up with acne as it affects so much of your life, I wish I could have done this years ago. That said I don’t know If I would have managed so well back then.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I’m very excited for you. I too am just about to start Isotretinion and am excited. I took it over ten years ago as a teenager and had amazing results. I guess the results wore off, as I have been victim to Adult Acne now for a couple years. But I am confident that another round of treatment can hopefully last me another happy decade or more! Isn’t it frustrating to be battling acne as an adult?
Heres to our good results and our success and to an ability to handle all the potential yucky side effects!
April 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Thanks for your comment Beth, Its nice to know some one is reading! I look forward to hearing how you get along too. By the way, when your acne returned was it gradually or all at once? I wonder if you will have different symptoms this time…Or maybe none at all!
April 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
thank you so much for putting up your experience on here. you and i have pretty much the same acne/skin type. mild-to-moderate but persistent acne. recently though, my blackheads/whiteheads have blown up and i’m getting scarring around my jawline. i’m going to be starting accutane in a couple of weeks. i hope to learn from your experience. again, thank you so much for sharing this with people on the web.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:18 am
the grainy texture is probably your blackheads/whiteheads pushing out of your pores. =]
i’ll be starting accutane in a month.
i hope you get good results!
April 15th, 2008 at 11:28 am
i have a telephone consultation this thursday for troaccutane, hopefully i’ll be prescribed it some point over the next 4 weeks. i’m male 22 and had spots since i was 11. whilst my face is a lot better now than it was at 14/15, the amount surface area which my acne covers has inceased in time. so much so that now i get “moderate acne” on my chest, shoulders, back, stomach, groin tops of legs/arms. basically the only place i dont get regular acne is the bottom half of my legs & arms & even there I’ve had the odd 1! I was always put off roaccutane by the potential side effects but i’ve had enough now. It’s obvious they arent going anywhere soon and cream/washes/antibiotics are doing next to nothing these days. I’m finding your story reasurring, that the negative side effects seem to be going away after 1-2 weeks & hope i’m the same. Please keep up your stroy…