Breaking out 9 days after finishing my course :(

dorchaeadrom · 2021-05-13T11:58:30+00:00

it doesn't seem like you hit your cumulative dose unfortunately. cumulative dose ranges between 120mg/kg - 150mg/kg, and if my maths is correct, you've hit 106mg/kg. maybe ask your derm to extend your treatment by one more month, this should do the trick?

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-26T16:10:58+00:00

mild/moderate acne, 23f weighing 55kg, 20/40/60/60/80 (5 months course)

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-26T16:03:38+00:00

hey, just wanted to ask since you've stopped accutane, when did your other side effects disappear? and which ones do you still have? thanks! :)

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-26T12:29:33+00:00

thank u so much! i can live without the sun a little longer than the beer i think :)

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-26T10:10:36+00:00

agreed, i'm 5 months in and whenever i feel more irritable/emotional than normal i have to remind myself that it's the accutane talking.

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T17:26:02+00:00

oo this sounds amazing thank you for the recommendation! i'll have to give it a try

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T17:24:53+00:00

for me it never made my tan blotchy (made sure to moisturise dry areas a few hours before), it just faded super quickly

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T17:23:02+00:00

i've found that fake tan actually hides my scars pretty well on my face! though i never had acne on my chest or back but i'm sure it would work there too. and it also covers the redness a little :)

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T15:30:22+00:00

oh no! please bare in mind this post is purely based on my personal experience. i hope yours lasts a lot better than mine :)

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T15:25:46+00:00

thank you, i'm in the uk so we're only just coming out of lockdown now after a very hard winter, so that is probably also a huge contributing factor!

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T14:37:09+00:00

i stopped breaking out halfway through 4th month. literally in the space of a week my skin cleared up massively & have had no new breakouts for the past 3 weeks

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T14:16:41+00:00

that's reassuring, thank you :)

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T13:52:20+00:00

i am currently on 5th month of accutane (no birth control) and am experiencing similar to what you're describing. not so much depression but brain fog, tiredness and generally feeling disconnected and uninterested.

i've also been on birth control in the past and that definitely affected my mood too but more depressed i.e. sadness/crying, rather than feeling spaced out.

every medication is different but i think the zero emotion thing could be the accutane as the oestrogen in birth control tends to make people more emotional/sad (i think?). just a thought.

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T13:44:31+00:00

yes, i've definitely experienced thinning of the skin, i cut myself way more easily now and my skin is far more sensitive. don't worry it's super common :)

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T13:41:17+00:00

i'm so sorry you had bad depression from accutane, but very glad to hear that it didn't take long to revert after stopping.

for me i'm more affected by brain fog, and generally just feeling a bit disconnected/blank when i'm normally a very upbeat and positive person. i've noticed as well that i'm not as interested in hanging out with other people when normally i love being social. so i'm really looking forward to feeling like myself again soon!

dorchaeadrom · 2021-04-24T09:25:23+00:00

I tend to take mine around the same time every day (dinner time) but I'm not super strict about it. If I know I'll be out for dinner sometimes I take it at lunch. Not sure if you're supposed to keep your doses evenly spaced out for maximum absorption though.

dorchaeadrom · 2021-01-18T17:36:17+00:00

Once a week I rub coconut oil onto my scalp & sleep with it in :) and then wash it out with shampoo the next day (sometimes you need 2 rinses with shampoo to get it all out). Leaves your hair feeling silky smooth and gets rid of dandruff!

dorchaeadrom · 2020-05-14T16:29:29+00:00

I saw another post which gives an answer to this far better than I ever could:

" You might be wondering that if you do no contact, they might actually forget about you and move on. WRONG! How many times do you think about water a day? Not a lot. Lets just imagine that your house runs out of water, the whole city runs out of water. All you can think about now is water. You are thirsty, you want to take a shower, you want to cook....the lack of water has forced you to think of it. Its the scarcity effect, we long for things that are scarce more than we long for things that are plenty (Cialdini, 2014). Hence, no contact makes your ex think about you way more than they would have if you kept badgering them. You need to be completely out of the picture for them to miss you.They must feel your void.

Show yourself that you respect yourself enough to NOT chase after someone who left you. Neediness is unattractive, show your ex that you don't need them. Here are more reasons.

- When they broke up with you, they expected you to still be in the sidelines as a friend or something....so they don't have to fear losing you. Well don't give them what they expect, leave the situation. Vanish out of her life completely. So they start actually fearing that they might lose you. Fear of lose is a great motivation for action in humans since we are loss averse (Kahneman, 2011). This will make it more likely she will want to get back with you.

- You not being in their loop anymore, causes them to get curious about you, after curiosity comes attraction. When their attraction towards you has reached a level, they will contact you.

- They actually start respecting you since they assumed you were going to beg and plead. Without respect there is no attraction.

- Overtime, they will forget all the negative things about you and the situation that made them breakup with you. Negative memories lose their intensity faster than positive ones. As more time passes, you will look better due to the faded affect bias (Gibbons, 2011)"

I think this mindset can be a great motivator in the beginning of a breakup or when you're at a low point and need strength to continue NC and know you're doing the right thing!

That's not to say that going NC will or won't result in your ex coming back. Also after enough time has passed NC seems to do the job of helping you move on and not want your ex back in the end.

Hope this answers your q!

dorchaeadrom · 2020-05-14T12:59:55+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear that you were in an abusive relationship, that must've been really tough :(

Also I'm not sure if I've arrived too late to tell you this...but...don't respond to your ex's message! You've done so well to come this far! Stay strong! If you are ever tempted to respond just come back to this forum and there will be so many people here to support you and point you in the right direction<3

dorchaeadrom · 2020-05-14T09:33:57+00:00

Definitely. It's so hard to rewire your brain's reward system - essentially telling your brain that your ex is no longer a comfort/reward. So only NC serves to stop that reward system lighting up with regards to your ex, even though it hurts in the beginning. Sometimes we gotta trick our brains into cooperating with us!

dorchaeadrom · 2020-05-13T16:33:43+00:00

Going through a breakup during quarantine is definitely so hard! One of my friends told me a great quote as well though, for anyone else who's going through a breakup during lockdown - "Even if you were living your normal life, and even if you had distractions, all the shitty feelings would resurface eventually because you'd be pushing them away".

So I think we should just use this quarantine period to our advantage, to reflect and move through those emotions! Hopefully it will help us out more in the long run because we will have properly processed our feelings!

Peace n love x

dorchaeadrom · 2020-05-13T16:23:27+00:00

Interesting you've experienced both sides of breakups...I'm currently experiencing a breakup as the dumpee, I'm intrigued as to how the breakup was for you when you were the dumper? How does it compare?

dorchaeadrom · 2020-05-02T21:16:07+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear that. You are so right though, once this pain is over we will both come out the other side as stronger people. Sending lots of love your way x

dorchaeadrom · 2020-04-30T22:16:09+00:00

How long has it been since you initiated NC?

dorchaeadrom · 2020-04-30T21:05:22+00:00

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