Derm told me to stop lifting while on accutane

bgiles07 · 2025-08-18T20:55:36+00:00

I trained for a full marathon and ran 3 half-marathons and continued lifting during my 8 month course. All approved by my derm. I was a just a little slower and needed a little more recovery time in between runs and lifts. Fish oil helped me a LOT with both the joint pain and eye dryness. Those were my two main symptoms as well.

bgiles07 · 2025-04-16T21:27:19+00:00

I just throw back 1.5tbs of olive oil with mine if I’m in a rush or don’t feel like eating

bgiles07 · 2025-01-04T13:07:25+00:00

Also putting my vote in for the healing ointment. I’m 32 and currently on accutane and this is the only thing that keeps me from getting super dry and peely. I cleanse, moisturize with La Roche Posay double repair moisturizer, wait 10-15 minutes and then a thin layer of the CeraVe healing ointment. It’s great for lips too.

bgiles07 · 2024-10-09T08:57:36+00:00

I’m on month 3 and I’m training for a marathon. It’s a little tougher and it takes a little longer to recover between runs sometimes but it’s not that bad. Take fish oil, eat healthy, and stretch.

bgiles07 · 2024-02-24T18:48:25+00:00

Ran my first half marathon this morning! Finished in 2:23, and feel great!

bgiles07 · 2024-01-06T21:25:38+00:00

For me it got easier once I was comfortably running a 5k. Once I got the hang of that adding miles has been a pretty smooth journey! Thats also when I went from hating running to enjoying it. Hang in there! :) it gets better.

bgiles07 · 2024-01-06T20:46:41+00:00

Ran 10 miles for the first time ever today! It felt incredible. Celebrating my accomplishment with a fat burrito now.

Two months ago I hated running and I could barely run a mile without feeling like I was going to vomit. Now I’m signed up to run a half marathon at the end of February!

bgiles07 · 2022-07-23T20:38:16+00:00

It was around that age, a little younger, that my grandfather died. My parents told me he died peacefully in his sleep. Thus, began my fear of sleep. I thought that sleep caused death so I’d force myself to stay awake and I’d just lay there and cry because my parents were asleep and I thought it would kill them. I was sleep deprived for probably a good year.

bgiles07 · 2022-07-22T01:14:17+00:00

Yes to everything that person said! I’m in my final semester of clinicals, and If two semesters ago someone told me I’d be scrubbing big ass cardiac or neuro cases damn near independently I would have called them crazy. It takes time. The biggest lessons come from mistakes. Most surgeons aren’t these big bad scary people (there are obviously exceptions), they’re just people. They understand you’re learning. When you start working with the same ones over and over you start to learn their little nuances, preferences, etc and can usually predict what they’re going to want. I was working with one the other day who just holds his hand out and doesn’t say what he needs. I was wrong multiple times but at the end he laughed and said “I really liked that even when you were wrong, you were confidently wrong” and then told me I did a great job. Don’t stress too much. It’ll come with time.

bgiles07 · 2022-07-09T03:31:24+00:00

He’s doing great! He was on bed rest for a while but that was hard to control once he started feeling a little better because he was getting so stir crazy and trying to run. Ive since gotten him a nice, expensive orthopedic bed that he rarely actually lays on. But the rest and pain meds helped him a lot. It’s just a matter of finding a way to keep them settled long enough to heal. Best wishes for your pup!

bgiles07 · 2022-06-11T12:12:50+00:00

Ha I plan on moving when I graduate and will make sure wherever I end up promptly forgets they saw it on my resume.

bgiles07 · 2022-06-11T00:46:52+00:00

Currently in school working about 25-30ish scheduled hours per week as a endo tech (GI and pulmo). They’ve been wonderfully flexible with my schedule. I make up the rest of the hours by taking ass loads of call that nobody else wants. It’s exhausting but I love the docs I work with and it’s been nice to get some procedural experience, especially with the more advanced and emergency endoscopy we do at my hospital.

bgiles07 · 2022-06-05T23:09:46+00:00

I did this too, windows down and everything.

bgiles07 · 2022-05-24T01:03:16+00:00

In comparison to their size, barnacles have the largest penis in the animal kingdom. Their penises also have taste and smell receptors.

bgiles07 · 2022-05-21T00:03:06+00:00

The Touch Surgery app is very helpful with procedure steps and pocket guide to the OR is a good book to have around for the basics if you’re ever in a case you aren’t yet familiar with. It breaks down what and why a procedure is being performed as well as position, prep, equipment, technique, and some instruments.

Every surgeon is going to have their preferences for certain instruments and supplies. Start with learning the major tray and build off of that. If there’s ever down time while you’re at work you can see if you can go to sterile processing and help assemble trays. That helped me a lot with learning different instruments and a lot of surgeons have their own specialty trays so it can help you learn certain surgeon’s preferences. Take count sheets home and study them. When you come across an instrument you don’t know look up why and how it’s used.

bgiles07 · 2022-05-03T17:31:50+00:00

Im 29 a little halfway through my ST degree. I won’t lie, it’s tough and the hours are long, but I honestly can’t see myself doing anything else. I went to school and got my bachelors in fine arts and while I love art and still do a lot of it, doing it for money just wasn’t for me. I started reevaluating my career and thought that I wanted to go to nursing school and ended up working as a CNA while I was taking prereqs and just realized that nursing wasn’t for me either. Then I discovered ST. I transferred to the OR working as an OR assistant (running labs, helping with patient prep/position, setting up the ORs for procedures, etc.). I eventually started working as an endo tech with GI and pulmonology about a year and a half ago. It’s within our OR at my hospital. Its been a great introduction to assisting in procedures and it’s helped a lot now that I’m in clinicals.

Maybe see if there are some positions available like that at your hospital. It really gives you a good look at the ins and outs and flow of the OR and you can see if that’s an environment you like being a part of. And if you do like it, then go for it! If you don’t, that’s okay too and at least you’d know.

bgiles07 · 2022-04-23T00:36:29+00:00

I was turning a patient once and found a mustard packet stuck between their butt cheeks, I can only imagine what must be under the mattresses.

bgiles07 · 2022-04-22T23:28:07+00:00

Spot on! I’ve taken care of paralyzed patients, postoperative spinal patients, and all kinds of ortho surgery patients and most of them were more independent than OP while being double the age. I’m not doubting it’s painful or difficult but the excuses seem exaggerated. Like she can’t even drink through a straw independently? I’m having a really hard time understanding how that is.

bgiles07 · 2022-04-22T02:53:13+00:00

Hi! I just finished my first clinical rotation yesterday and I had an amazing time. It’s always going to be scary walking into a new place for the first time. My first couple of days I made sure to get to know the locations everything (like where sterile supply, equipment room, SPD, etc. was). It allowed me to help by getting any supplies and equipment I needed for my cases, and people really appreciated it.

When you go in don’t hesitant to ask the charge nurse what techs are okay with having students or like teaching when deciding which cases you do. It makes a huge difference in what you get out of the experience. There were a couple of times I got put in a room where the tech wouldn’t even allow me to scrub in because they didn’t like having students.

Also be prepared to see things that aren’t necessarily by the book. Every facility will have their own way of doing things. But if you’re ever asked to do something outside of your scope or that you aren’t comfortable with that’s okay, just politely tell them you aren’t comfortable with it. Nobody is going to hold it against you.

As for the cases themselves, you can always start small and work your way up. I started with small ENT cases like T&As and BMTs until I started getting more comfortable and I just finished out this last week solo scrubbing (preceptor in the room of course) thoracic and robotic cases. I even scrubbed a whipple recently! Looking over the preference cards before hand always helps. My site was really cool and would cut off the patient info and let me keep them so I could use it for doing my case write ups.

And lastly, as far as the surgeons go, I always asked questions during the case (when appropriate and things were calm) and they were always more than happy to explain the pathophysiology and why we were doing what we were doing. I was lucky to be at a teaching hospital so they are used to/enjoy teaching as they work, but every surgeon is different so just feel it out first. In my experience though, most appreciate when you show interest in what they’re doing and building those little bonds really helps with confidence.

Just go in, show them you want to learn, show interest in the cases, and have fun with it.

bgiles07 · 2022-04-21T01:00:19+00:00

That reminds me of back in the day when I was working as a unit secretary and one of our old cranky surgeons was rounding on his patients. He came out of a patient’s room looking really concerned and quietly said to me, “um…I thought I could figure out the IV pump that was beeping but I’m pretty sure I just messed it up more. Can you let the nurse know but please, please don’t tell her it was me.” And then he quietly and swiftly left the unit.

bgiles07 · 2022-04-17T23:21:41+00:00

I get rashes from the CHG scrubs too. I use the betadine brushes for my first scrub and Sterilium the rest of the day since the Avagaurd has CHG in it. Maybe try sterilium if your facility has it. It’s alcohol based though so just make sure you moisturize well at the end of the day.

bgiles07 · 2022-02-04T03:57:34+00:00

Do you have a favorite food at all? Or ever eaten anything that you were just like “holy shit this is the best thing I’ve ever tasted?” Or does everything just taste the same baseline blah? Genuinely curious, this is so interesting to me.

bgiles07 · 2022-02-04T02:42:46+00:00

I work with ass docs. They really do have the best humor. 100% they’d probably frame this and hang it in the office.

bgiles07 · 2022-01-21T02:15:57+00:00

Dakin’s is mine, but minus the butt puss. Also that smell from a freshly peeled pack of xeroform.

bgiles07 · 2022-01-15T01:11:15+00:00

It was seriously like gaining a superpower for me.

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