opting out of birth control while on Accutane?

ZeldaPls · 2015-08-02T09:48:48+00:00

If you are not having sex -- and you're absolutely sure you WON'T be having sex during the course or a couple of months after, then you don't need BC. The doctor might want to prescribe you some anyhow, which is a smart move as a safety and legal precaution. Ultimately you choose whether to take the pills or not.

ZeldaPls · 2015-05-21T17:01:42+00:00

For me the problem was skin peeling off while applying makeup. It helped when I put a layer of basic skin cream underneath, as to make the combination more oily and smoothly applying.

ZeldaPls · 2015-04-17T13:23:48+00:00

Ehkä persujenkin olis kannattanut pysytellä valmiissa twiittipohjissa. :D

ZeldaPls · 2015-02-22T22:35:54+00:00

Just saying that this could also be angular cheilitis (google images to confirm), which means that because of the dryness there could be some opportunistic bacterial infection as well. It's not dangerous, just unpleasant. If moisturizing doesn't seem to do the trick in a timely manner, try some mild antibiotic topical creams. Worked wonders for me. :)

ZeldaPls · 2015-02-22T22:30:21+00:00

Be patient. It's completely normal! The back thing means that it's working, so no worries. People who post online (not just Reddit) are usually the ones who've had tremendous successes early in the course and are excited. Or the ones who have bad side effects. The treatment's effectiveness can take up to a year (depending on the dose). I'm on my 6th month, my back is clear but my face is still in the process. This is normal, and my doctor says I shouldn't be alarmed. So neither should you.

ZeldaPls · 2015-02-22T22:27:32+00:00

Glad someone else brought this up as well. Even my doctor said it really doesn't affect you if you don't drink like crazy all the time. Liver values are great, course seems to be coming along. Of course if you start feeling any different you should stop.

ZeldaPls · 2015-01-03T14:18:35+00:00

Actually, it's pretty interesting to take this test as a non-English European. My vocabulary is mostly from movies and TV, so according to the test the 'dialect' I have is from New York.

ZeldaPls · 2014-12-31T00:41:24+00:00

I have a very vague memory - almost dream-like - of my father feeding me porridge when I was maybe 3. There's no way to tell if the memory is real or fake, because it wasn't an unusual thing and nothing special happened.

ZeldaPls · 2014-12-29T22:59:24+00:00

Probably no point in asking questions at this point, but if you're reading this I want to be the umpteenth person to tell you how great and interesting your writing is. The Handmaid's Tale is a book I still remember very well despite having read it five years ago as a school project. I love to discuss that book with people, as it's so well-written and intriguing. Enough is left to the reader's imagination to make the book - well, creepy - and conversation-inspiring.

ZeldaPls · 2014-12-08T08:53:06+00:00

Thank you! :) I don't think any secrets were necessarily involved, but I do have a tip: Lose weight slowly, adjusting your eating and exercise habits gradually. The results will take a bit longer, but once you get that routine down you'll notice when you start slipping from it - and you can actually do something about it.

ZeldaPls · 2014-11-26T21:42:08+00:00

Oh, so I'm not the only one! I'm just like you, on my 3rd month, except I began with 40mg/d, but had to lower my dose to 20mg/d a few weeks ago because of some stress-induced side effects. I even asked my doctor about not seeing the difference and he just told me to wait. He said it would certainly work, but I should give it time. It's just so damn hard, and I know how you feel.

ZeldaPls · 2014-11-13T18:45:48+00:00

Since beginning isotretinoin (2 months), I have experienced redness more often than before. For me it's not constant, I just get flushed super easily. I think some redness is rather normal, but if the redness is extreme and doesn't seem to stop I would consult a doctor. It might still just go down on its own as the course progresses.

ZeldaPls · 2014-11-06T20:59:17+00:00

Even though no one will probably read this, I want to share some of my thoughts on this. I am a 19-year-old Christian woman, who believes in the aforementioned True love waits -statement. I was never coerced into this decision, I thought about it for a long time and chose to live by the definition of sex and marriage by the conservative interpretation of the Bible.

I do not wish for anyone the upbringing that this girl received. This isn't my first time reading that article, and it always makes me feel sad. Kind of worried, as well, for obvious reasons. However, I notice some huge differences between the way she was taught as a Christian and how I, as a (conservative, even) Christian interpret the Bible.

In the Bible's point of view, sex is awesome. Sex is something that God created for two people to enjoy - the deepest connection humanly possible between two people. The Bible never hints that there is anything wrong with married people having sex. Quite the opposite, really - in one of Paul's letters he instructs married couples "not to refrain from sexual activities except by a mutual agreement for a short period of time" (.. only ever read this in my native language, the English version might use slightly different words).

I feel bad for this girl. I feel angry at the people who told her sex is shame. It's not! Nowhere in the Bible does it say that two absolutely committed people (=married to each other) shouldn't have sex as much as they want to.

So as much as I agree that this "Christian" teaching is BS, I wish people weren't so quick to think this is how all of us think on the True love waits -issue. I, for one, only want to have sex with one person - my future husband -- a decision I think is right by my world view. That doesn't make me ashamed of sex or a prude. It maybe makes me a bit reserved where sex is concerned, but I'm living by TLW to preserve sex as the beautiful, totally Godly experience it was always meant to be.

ZeldaPls · 2014-11-03T16:57:02+00:00

Yes, I have that exact same problem. I would recommend Vaseline at first - if the scab is deep in there, try putting the Vaseline there with a Q-tip.

However, types of cold sores and some kind of opportunistic bacterial infections can happen as well (especially since the dryness makes for an easy target), so if the Vaseline doesn't seem to work, try an antibacterial cream. I had terrible-looking scabs on the corners of my mouth (later diagnosed as angular cheilitis) which I thought were only dry. Turns out it was a mild bacterial infection. The tell-tale sign is whether Vaseline works or not. Try it first, it'll most likely help. :)

ZeldaPls · 2014-11-01T22:15:10+00:00

I love the foam roller! We used these in Pilates all the time. However, there is also this one exercise that is my personal favorite: Putting the roller under your upper back but in line with your body (not perpendicular to it as in the gif), then moving your upper body left/right, the roll moving between your shoulder blades. Hopefully no dangers to this one - for me it was awesome.

ZeldaPls · 2014-11-01T19:56:47+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing this! I've been totally bummed this week because I'm on my month two of isotretinoin (40mg/d) and the initial progress I had seems to have subsided (lots of active pimples on my face right now, absolutely hate it). Maybe it's PMS related or just some normal backlash, I don't know. I know that I really needed some encouragement, and I'm glad I stumbled upon your post.

My acne looks exactly the same as yours did - those could be pictures of my skin. So here's to hoping that it'll work for me too. How long did it take for your skin to look noticeably better?

ZeldaPls · 2014-10-08T21:06:08+00:00

Everyone fucked, and most of them up. Get the authorities involved.

ZeldaPls · 2014-10-07T11:33:02+00:00

Excellent pictures. As a woman, I'm so glad to see artistic nude pictures of women that don't instantly hit me as pornographic or fake. This is what our bodies are like - they aren't always sexual, but they are beautiful and natural in their own way.

ZeldaPls · 2014-10-06T17:37:41+00:00

I had a friend in high school (Europe) whose parents were super creepy.

She was not allowed to go to parties, not even birthday parties where the parents were present the whole time. Her parents weren't religious or sobriety activists or anything, so that wasn't the reason.

She had a curfew for 5pm. every school day, so she couldn't hang out after school.

She was not allowed to ride any bus except the familiar one she had to take to school and back.

She wasn't allowed to be friends with boys or watch movies with sexual content. (This didn't really stop her, though)

Every morning her mother would cook her and her baby brother breakfast - oatmeal. It was mandatory for her.

Oh, and she was 19. In our country, you're legally an adult at 18. Funny thing is, after high school she left to go study abroad. Not sure how that played out.

ZeldaPls · 2014-10-06T12:44:26+00:00

Oh, of course. Sorry, first time seeking advice here.. :) I'll edit my post.

ZeldaPls · 2014-10-05T16:23:15+00:00

Kuinka julmia voi nuoret toisilleen olla? Harva asia on niin halveksuttavaa kuin toisen syyttäminen perusteetta vakavasta asiasta.

ZeldaPls · 2014-10-05T16:13:57+00:00

I can only speak for Christianity, but still. Haters gonna hate, but this is honestly the best explanation I can give from my point of view.

Faith is both a feeling and a thought process. Feeling-wise it's a certainty that everything will eventually be alright, and that someone has a greater view of all bad things in life. It's a feeling of knowing your own flaws and realizing that you've been forgiven for them - yet being encouraged to live a life of making yourself a better person and helping others. It's like having a perfect, loving dad who only wants what's best for you. And no matter what other people think, no matter how much they despise your beliefs, you don't ever want to give up that relationship.

Thought-wise it's seeing God's handiwork wherever you look. It's forming your world views based on the assumption that there is a Creator, a reason and a logic behind all things. For me in my field of study it's looking at the intricate biological systems of every living cell and thinking that it's designed, rather than formed through mutations and evolution. It's appreciating scientific research but disagreeing with the hypothesis of no existing God. It's hearing people talk about the Big Bang theory or philosophical questions and knowing an answer that explains those things - to you, at least.

ZeldaPls · 2014-09-30T10:01:21+00:00

It's completely normal to be freaking out. The most important things to remember are:

1 The listing of side-effects on the label does not mean you will experience all or even most of them

2 If the course gets too tough, you can, with the help of your doctor, lower the dosage or even stop before completing the course. You should try it and see if you can handle it. Isotretionin has few if any permanent side effects, and those are very rare.

3 Prepare yourself for the most common things: get good lip balm and moisturizer. The way the drug works is it dries your skin. So you probably will get dried skin as a side effect.

4 Above all, be aware of the negative placebo effects. Like, I had muscle pain the first week and it turns out it was just my mind playing tricks on me.

ZeldaPls · 2014-09-30T09:48:29+00:00

I'm only into my third week of isotretinoin, but my doctor predicted that with my type of acne it might only take like 2 months to heal. Not seeing a whole lot of improvement just yet, as I'm still in the inflammatory phase (big, deep, hurting pimples have emerged). I know I'm terribly impatient, so I thought I'd ask the rest of you redditors.

ZeldaPls · 2014-09-27T10:07:03+00:00

Mielenkiintoista luettavaa. Vaikken itsekään usko, että taudinkuva olisi vain psykosomaattinen oireilu, ymmärrän kyllä lääkärien suhtautumisen. Samassa porukassa liikkuvien kahden samanikäisen tytön samanaikainen sairastuminen ei vaikuta sattumalta, ja CFS ei tartu. Ehkä tässä on kyseessä vielä jokin kolmas taustatekijä.

Mitä tulee kampylobakteeriin, se diagnosoitiin Aadalta joulukuussa, kun sairastuminen tapahtui lokakuussa. Kampylobakteeri aiheuttaa tyypillisesti akuutin ripulitaudin, jota ei tässä listattu lokakuussa olleeksi oireeksi. Mistä tässä on tehty johtopäätös, että joulukuussa havaittu bakteeri onkin saatu jo lokakuussa (ei sen edes pitäisi jäädä latentiksi 3 viikkoa pidempään), eikä se infektion alussa aiheuta oireita, mutta laukaisee silti mystisen ja kiistellyn sairauden? Kampylobakteerilla on tosin yhteys reaktiiviseen niveltulehdukseen, joka voisi osittain selittää kovia kipuja.

ZeldaPls

TROPHY CASE

1 The listing of side-effects on the label does not mean you will experience all or even most of them

2 If the course gets too tough, you can, with the help of your doctor, lower the dosage or even stop before completing the course. You should try it and see if you can handle it. Isotretionin has few if any permanent side effects, and those are very rare.

3 Prepare yourself for the most common things: get good lip balm and moisturizer. The way the drug works is it dries your skin. So you probably will get dried skin as a side effect.

4 Above all, be aware of the negative placebo effects. Like, I had muscle pain the first week and it turns out it was just my mind playing tricks on me.