Accutane And Infertility (Page 4)
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I took accutane almost 14 years ago as a teenager. I am now a 32 year old woman who has just been diagnosed with infertility that they believe is linked to autoimmune issues. I truly believe that accutane is the cause of this; from the research that I have done it seems that accutane has been linked to other thyroid-related diseases, but that they have not yet been able to prove a link between accutane and infertility. There are, however, actually more people like me out there than I originally thought. Being diagnosed with ovarian dysfunction has been a horrific, horrific blow. And while there was plenty of information about accutane and birth defects, no one ever mentioned a possibility of future infertility. I was a teenager! This is a tragedy and I believe something should be done about it. If you too have been affected diagnosed with infertility and have taken accutane, please email me. There are plenty of suits against accutance. If there are enough of us, we can come together to do the medical research and get the help we now need.

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Hi, I took roaccutaine from 1999 through to 2005 on and off prescibed by a dermatologist. I have struggled with infertility since soon after and was diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve and had failed attempts at IVF. I have always suspected that roaccutaine has had a major impact as no one in my family has had any issues. I have since under gone premature menopause at 41. I believe that this medication should be banned and some one needs to be held accountable. I would never have taken it had I known the implications and all the hardships I have undergone.

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Have you given a semen sample? And if so, what were the results. I have no sperm whatsoever. I had a testicular biopsy done, and the doc said I flat out don't have the glands that make them. All my testosterone and stuff is fine though.

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It's the same for me. I took it as a teen. I'm 40 now. I've not been able to get my wife pregnant and the doctors can't explain why. Of course accutane may not be the cause. But I can say for certain that it has made my skin thinner permanently. So the effects were not limited to the acne. I would not take it again if I had know the risks.

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I took Accutane in 1991 I can't get pregnant. Im,42 now haven't been on birth control for 15 years

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I have been trying to get pregnant for 4 and a half years. Have had all tests possible done and my primary care doctor and ob say everything looks good. I have tried iui with 2 different specialists. My primary care and one of the specialists are shocked at my AMH levels and say that the test must be wrong. My ob told me that I probably have PCOS. She gave me Clomid and Metformin which didn't work. I am 38 and took two rounds of Accutane. One when I was 22/23 and the other when I was 27. I cannot stop thinking that because of Accutane my dream of being a mom will never come true. I am completely devastated.

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I have been trying to get pregnant for 4 and a half years. Have had all tests possible done and my primary care doctor and ob say everything looks good. I have tried iui with 2 different specialists. My primary care and one of the specialists are shocked at my AMH levels and say that the test must be wrong. I am 38 and took two rounds of Accutane. One when I was 22/23 and the other when I was 27. I cannot stop thinking that because of Accutane my dream of being a mom will never come true. I am completely devastated.

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Many gals get pregnant while used accutane.Pregnancy is usually connected with mental health.so first come out from that dilemma.eat good diet add excercise daily.And take clomid and prime rose it will give you positive sign

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I am 42 years old and not been successful at getting pregnant. My brother also took it back in high school and he cannot get his wife pregnant. I have been off birth control for 15 yrs, tried ovulation tests and nothing! I had my hormone levels checked and thyroid checked. Both normal.

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Ok. Will do. This is all really hard to believe. Thankyou.

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Thankyou for your reply. So in lame men terms. What does this mean?

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Let us know what you find out! I have been assuming that my sterility was a genetic thing. Thanks.

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Thankyou angel. I'll do more research. From what I'm seeing it might be best to be infertile after taking this drug do to the defect that are most likely to happen if I were to have kids. I can't believe this. Thankyou for your reply

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I am sorry Curtis. If you did happen to get your girlfriend pregnant in the future, you may have a perfectly normal healthy baby but there is no knowing for sure. This drug has permanent effects on the body and it is a tragedy that anyone has been prescribed this drug. A lawyer would be best to contact to see if it is even possible to sue Roche for your side effects. I believe the only conditions that you can file an Accutane legal case for is if you have been diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Ulcerative Colitis.

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This is a devasting blow. I didn't expect your reply to be so extreme. So even if I still tried and was successful the odds are he/she would have birth defects. I'm just really angry now. Is there any way to sue for this? Or some type of compensation.

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Unfortunately, there are both men and women who are suffering from infertility issues due to prior Accutane use. Also, there are many men and women suffering from many other symptoms due to this devastating drug. It may be a blessing to be infertile after taking this drug because there have been children from both men and women who had previously taken Accutane that were born with the devastating side effects of Accutane. It did not matter whether the children were conceived one year after their parent took Accutane or twenty years after. The sad thing is we cannot prove the negative effects of this drug from studies because the pharmaceutical companies fund a majority of all clinical trials. Therefore, only positive findings of clinical trials are published and the negative findings are not. The pharmaceutical companies have been hiding these negative clinical trial results for a long time and it is just devastating that these drugs with so many dangerous and life-threatening side effects are given to people.

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RESULTS:
All of the spermiogram parameters changed positively (p? CONCLUSION:
Systemic isotretinoin has a positive effect on male fertility. Since the hormone levels did not change significantly, this positive effect of isotretinoin is not via the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis but can be due to its regenerative and proliferative effects on the testes.

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I've asked this same question to no avail. I tried for many years then found out that I am indeed sterile. But this thread has yet to Pointe in a direction of a study that includes males, though I may have missed it.

Best of luck, and please, keep me posted.

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I also took accutane as a teen. I'm a male who was suffering with severe cystic acne all over my face chest and back. I was on high doses for a long period of time. I'm now 37 and feel like accutane has played a roll some how with me. I've tried for many years to get my girlfriend preganat and. It successful. I haven't been seen by my doctor for it. It's just been on the back burner from this point. Are there males as well suffering with infertility issues do to accutane?

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I was prescribed isotretinoin by a dermotologist as a "vitamin cure" to clear up my slightly oily t-zone I had zero pimples but a slightly oily t-zone and easily greasy hair. I would have never considered to take pimple creams or antibiotics because I didnt have any pimples and I didnt want to take anything strong, but the doctor said this was a simulation of a vitamin that the body already produces. Stupidly enough I started taking this "supplement" without looking it up online, then after two months of taking this "vitamin" and losing almost all of my hair I went to a regular doctor to ask why I was losing all my hair and turns out it was because of isotretinoin (accutane). I immidiately stopped taking it but my hair has not grown back fully. I am a 27 yearold female who always got my period like clockwork but after taking this poison I lost my period for nine months once and it comes very irregularly and rarely now. Does anyone know of any link between the hair loss while on accutane and fertility issues? My husband doesnt want to try to have children until he is at least 35 which means Ill be 37 and Im worried it might never happen because of a lying dermatologist

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INATI, I am not going to waste my time trying to explain to you how isotretinoin can cause such a wide variety of permanent side effects. However, people all over this world are affected by this drug and it is extremely more common than whatever you may think. When my dermatologist prescribed this drug to me she said that the chance of having permanent side effects was 2% and she said that the people who were affected should not have taken the drug because they had preexisting conditions. This percentage is just what the manufacturer claimed. Of course she reassured me that I would not be affected because I was healthy. I told her about all my side effects during the course, the dry skin, the ankle pain, the back pain, the muscle pain, the skin sensitivity, the depression, the poor night vision and she told me that all of these are normal side effects. As for you blaming acne, what a bunch of nonsense, but you sound like the typical ignorant dermatologist. I had one measly pimple, not acne or whatever the definition of acne is, one pimple. She prescribed me 1.6mg/kg/day for 6 months which is a total cumulative dose of 289 mg/kg. You know why I am affected with so many side effects? Well, it’s quite simple. I ingested the drug. I will be permanently affected and will continue to get worse every day. There are many of us around the world. Also, I have no autoimmune diseases, and if I get diagnosed with one later, well, it will be caused by the Accutane that I stupidly took years ago. You see autoimmune diseases are fairly common in people who have taken Accutane. The honest rheumatologists will admit to a link between prior Accutane use and autoimmune diseases. Also, the honest endocrinologists will admit to a link between prior Accutane use and infertility in both females and males. And for doctors, I have been to plenty of doctors and have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on them. An endocrinologist you say? All they can do is prescribe hormones for my early post-menopausal range hormone values. And let me go ahead and stop you before you even start with babying your Accutane and claiming that my values were probably in this range before Accutane. I had hormonal diagnostics done about 6 months before the course, not because anything was wrong, but I was just curious and it was free. My hormones were perfect then. It was not until one month after Accutane that I aged at an accelerated rate and my hormones were perfect for an 80-year old woman. I have no idea why you are on this thread and posting insensitive and ignorant comments, but it needs to finally come to an end. We have enough problems to deal with from the devastating effects that Accutane has caused us.

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