How long have you been taking it?
i got zero serious side effects the only annoying one is dryness
I use epiduo on bare skin 6x a week and azelaic gel 15% in the AM every daySides are real not fearmongering. Dry lips and skin is pretty much guaranteed, joint pain and liver/lipid hits at higher doses are common which is why you get monthly bloodwork, and hair shedding and brain fog happen to enough people that it's worth knowing about going in. Before jumping on it exhaust topicals first, tret 0.05% at night, benzoyl peroxide wash in the morning, azelaic acid 15% for inflammation, and clean up your diet by cutting sugar and processed garbage. If none of that works after a few months then accutane makes sense but it shouldn't be your first move
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You doing a micro dose or regular?
Nothing will happen (probably). Accutane like a lot of other treatments are known as "dangerous" by normies when it really won't do shit to you, you probably won't even dose it hard enough for it to have an impact on your liver. Just moisturize that's quite it.
If you're already on epiduo 6x a week and azelaic 15% daily and it's still not clearing up then yeah accutane is your next step, you've done the topical route properly. Start low dose like 10 to 20mg daily, a lot of people clear up on low dose with way fewer sides than the standard 0.5 to 1mg for kg dosing derms push
I changed to epiduo and added azelaic pretty recently so ima give it a few months probablyIf you're already on epiduo 6x a week and azelaic 15% daily and it's still not clearing up then yeah accutane is your next step, you've done the topical route properly. Start low dose like 10 to 20mg daily, a lot of people clear up on low dose with way fewer sides than the standard 0.5 to 1mg for kg dosing derms push
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is ur skin still not getting better? epiduo is p decent
I did a 3 month course of doxycycline finished it around April and continued with buffered epiduo and it didn’t clear me fully and then like 2 weeks ago I gradually started epiduo bare skin 6x a week and bought a bunch of azelaic gel 15 at Poland when I was there to use every day AM
you cld try tret, but imo just try get to a derm for accutane if doxy and epiduo didnt work, its worked well for me and Ik theres other antibiotics you cld take alongside it but if u cba then
I think I’m just gonna try the routine I got now and tret is less effective for acne than epiduo
prob ur best bet to js continue, improvements for skin can take awhile, and ye ur right abt the epiduo. js see how it goes, accutane isnt gonna dissapear
Dryness and sun sensitivity is the only issues. use Aquaphor for your lips and id recement the La Roche Posay lipikar AP+Max triple repair moisturizing cream with any type of sun cream as well.
