Accutane Long Term Side Effects (Page 36)
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I have a son that took accutane 60 mg a day for six months in a row three years ago. Now after many trips to doctors over strange medical problems, it seems accuatne is the culprit medication that has caused servere joint and muscle pain, severe dry lips, redness in face, eye infections of own immune system attacking itself, systems of osteoarthritis in both shoulders, both wrist and right hand, blood in stool, possible hair loss, abnormal liver function test results in AST and ALT. My son went from being a high school football and track athlete while taking this medication three years ago to someone that is in constant pain just washing a car. After I have researched this drug extensively, I can't believe that the FDA allows this drug originally made for cancer patients to be marketed for teenagers with acne. All one has to do is look online what vitamin A overdose does to someone and then you have the results of what this medication has done to my son. This drug needs to be taken off them market ASAP and the drug companies that make it need to compensate all teenagers that they have possible ruined their future. Shame on them! What is going on here?

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I am concerned about my son who has taken the generic for accutane (Apsorica).. i was never informed of side effects except for the dry skin/lips..suicide debate was side stepped; i was told by the nurse practioner that people are most likely depressed because they have acne and contributes that to the suicide... my son was taking 30 mg. . 2 times a day... he took it for a total of 47 days..little over 6 wks... i have been researching on how and if i still have time to detox or something.. he is having stomach cramping now but i am not sure if it is from the mild all body detox product that i am giving him... does anyone know if i can still try to get this out of his system before it does more damage? I am not going to stop until i have informed every single person who will listen..

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I'm truly warning you, Do not take this medication! I was prescribed accutane in March 2012. I took it for 3 months and stopped after experiencing extremely dry lips and migraine headaches which I haven't had in about 11yrs. It cleared up my acne 100%, but gave me health problems I'd never experienced within this past year like bloody stool, joint problems in my wrists, hands, hip, knees and elbows. I'm a 32 year old Army Vet. and a active Cop, with a great health history until now. Last week my Dr. referred me to a rheumatologist to be evaluated as he is puzzled. Clear skin is amazing, but their are other ways to clear it with a little patience. My career may get cut short as a result of these newly discovered possible long term effects from Accutane. Definately not worth it!

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To johntorontocanada;
John, I don't laugh at anyone who has a health problem. They can laugh at me all they and you want and claim that my 25 years of studying Homeopathic medicine is a joke, like what you just accused me of. The wine i drink has kept my heart in good shape and my cardiologist said the pictures of my last nuclear stress test look great and no reason to put stents in my heart arteries.
You "skimmed" through my last remarks. Most fat people in Europe are half the size of morbidly obese Americans who need to purchase 2 airline tickets to fit in an airplane, not to mention all the extensions for the seat belt. The Mediterranean diet with olive oil keeps their hearts more healthy. You SHOULD know by now that Europeans drink plenty of red wine. Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek and any nation that is NOT Islamic. That's where you will find healthy FAT people. What do you mean, "some fat American kid's diets are bad?" ALL of them are!!! Hereditary my ASS!!! I bet you ate your share of chocolate and greasy fried food and don't have a clue that it caused your acne. I DO NOT sit and laugh at people who are suffering. I give them advice that can help them and STOP their suffering and it's not my fault you ended up with acne and tried Accutane before being harmed with acne, and EVEN IF you would have read my prevention directions, you would have picked Accutane before trying what i have been trying to tell you about. I can NOT take the blame for stupidity when God given help is turned away by someone who KNOWS IT ALL!!! EVERY single person who i have met with acne, I have told them the same thing I have posted here, and their acne has disappeared, and they DID NOT try harmful products like Accutane. I DO NOT take credit for their healing. They can thank God, NOT ME!!!!
My advice to the young generation is: Stay OUT of fast food restaurants!!!! Give UP Soda's and drink only pure fruit juice. Stay away from chocolate until you are in your mid-twenties. DO NOT listen to johntorontocanada, unless of course you want acne and obesity.

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@ Jim .. I roughly skimmed through your response.. Yes , some teenagers diets are bad.. Fat people in America .. I get it !! But I know fat people in Eroupe and that are also unhealthy..

Your theory sucks!!! Your sitting back laughing at kids with acne drinking your wine with a clear completion... Lol .. Buddy your messed.. I know kids that eat junk food and drink nothing but soda and have perfect skin and are ripped in great shape.. It's heredity !! End of story!! I eat grapes and blueberries everyday, never drank soda in my life and I had acne.. Just like so many other people I know..

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Dee,
So weird, it's like I'm talking to myself! I'm going to get my records from my dermatologist tomorrow and try to figure it out. I'm not sure, could have been 18-15 years ago.

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Guys I posted a reply that's coming, but I want you to keep in mind when you avoid sugar your body goes into ketosis. This means it starts eating the fat away for energy(not necessarily bad). I'm on an extremely high fat diet right now(coconut oil or mcts.) Anyways, my thoughts on sugar are coming. Not that I'm an expert. :)

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Guys I'm feeling good so I don't really feel like debating anymore. haha. I can tell you though just say no to drugs. Sugar is fermentable and is bad. I've been learning or healing from the best natural doctor in the business. Stop sugar stop cancer. stop sugar stop ulcerative colitis. It's all about bacterial exchange, but don't kill to much or the histamines will ravage you like wildebeest. Anyways, I think my suffering is almost over. Grape cure for acne... that's kind of like the miracle juice diet. Real science not the fake pharmaceutical science that says diet doesn't mean anything dictates that sugar causes fermentation and food for bacteria. If you have acne which as we all know is caused by hormones and poor eating habits not "genetics" as the wacko jacko doctors say then just eating alkaline foods should help. Zinc is another legitimate treatment. I would say just topical herbs would be good as well as trying to create a more alkaline system. Not sure of this science behind grapes. I mean yeah resveratrol is a antioxidant, but not sure that would target and kill bacteria survival in an acidic condition. The crazy thing is that teenagers have out of wack hormones due to the milk and meats laced with hormones. Ah man to go back and not have any antibiotics, hormones, or immunizations. It would be a dream world with low crime and happiness everywhere. The birds would chirp and the trees would dance. Our wonderful politicians leaving their mark on generations by allowing poisons to destroy our society. It makes for a wonderful elitist industry, but for angry neurotic and short tempered idiot buffoons. Well I've done my nightly rant. Stay away from lead, fluoride, bpa, arsenic, mercury, hormones, gmo's, and antibiotics. Remember you can crush the industry by avoiding this stuff. Now they will force you to have insurance before they crumble from no customers. Rant over!

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To johntotontocanada: I beg to differ with you about sugar.
The natural sugars in fruit do not harm the body. It's all the refined sugar that is added to everything. Please look around you. Every teenager has a huge glass of soda which has been supersized. All the frosting on cakes and sugar filled snack food and the preservatives that is in baked sweet food is harming our youth. After you look at all those whom you see eating and drinking all that stuff, take the time to check their faces and you will see more ZITS than you can count. I have tried to stress that anything made from the grape PURIFIES the blood. IF kids snack on donuts, cake that has a half inch of frosting, sweet rolls, and eat absolutely no fruit that is the source of natural sugar, they turn out to be obese with acne. Not all end up obese, but since the introduction of all the chemicals that are injected into chickens & cattle to make them grow fast, and the preservatives put into baked goods, and then we had ALL the fast food places SUPER SIZE their menu, so that now, America has the most morbidly obese people on the planet. When i grew up, i saw one lady who weighed 600 lbs. Now, just go to any Walmart and every single electric scooter has a 700 or 800 lb person sitting in it and the poor transmission is smoking trying to struggle to move them around the store. I go to the VA Hospital and I never thought I would live to see electric scooters in the hallways the size of a John Dere tractor. Fast food before they removed trans fats, were poisoning people to make them become addicted to SUPER SIZED burgers & fries & sugar laden drinks. Now, grade school & preschool kids are morbidly obese and suffering bullying. By the time they are ready to get married, their only choice is another morbidly obese partner, and one wonders how on earth they will manage to have a family. Plus, they have made their life expectancy drop to zero. Exercise has been replaced with video games and high calorie snacks that give ZITS. Pretty soon, our military will be full of FAT people who are only able to push a button. On a battle field, American troops will be sitting targets, the largest targets on earth. Use Doctor Peter Gott's diet of NO SUGAR, NO FLOUR, NO WHEAT!!!! In the mean time, I don't have ZITS or acne because I did it the Homeopathic way of letting ANYTHING from the GRAPE purify my blood. I will sit back and enjoy my wine and listen to sob stories about people who are suffering from acne and got poisoned by Accutane. I may have Parkinson's, but I'm having it with a beautiful complexion.

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Danielle, How long have you been off the accutane? I am sure if I recall that at one time there was a class action law suit involving it. My son was adult and doing well so he would not partake of the suit. But we went through 2 years of hell as parents because of it. Sure would hate to know other teens suffer like he did..Let me know if I can help you.
Dee

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Brandy,

After reading this I have some very similar symptoms.
I'm going to get some information from my doctors to get some sort of time line going. I as well took Accutane when I was in my late teens or early 20's and had UTI's all the time after I stopped.
They went away for a while but in the past 3 years started more frequent and two years ago it was so bad, I had MRI, a scope up my bladder and other visits to have them determine nothing.
If you could share your email address with me I would really like to chat back and forth.
Danielle

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Jim.. I believe wine has helped u.. I don't discredit that.. But sugars arnt the cause of acne and wine and grape products most likely wont get rid of acne.. Exercising is healthy too.. I would recommend that for heart conditions before wine..

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To John Torontocanada:
I don't sell my wine. I buy it. Any red wine will cure acne, along with grapes, raisins, grape juice and any grape product. I have studied Homeopathic medicine for over 25 years. You asked me John, what I do for a living. I had to go on disability in 2003 for Parkinson;s that i got at an early age. When diagnosed, i was told that i had it for at least 5 years longer. Then, I remembered my first symptoms in 1992. Most people get Parkinson's in their 70's & 80's. I joined 5 different studies right away to help find a cure. I lucked out and had a nurse tell me to stay away from one drug that caused the horrible tremors that Janet Reno had. I listened and unfortunately, Michael J Fox didn't. I am still independent and plan on keeping that way via Homeopathic medical care which i found the ones that work the best. My neurologist told me that whatever I'm doing, to stick with it because it's working. When i first went on Parkinson's medications, I asked my doctors if I would have to give up my wine, because I refused to. I asked, them "what's it going to do, give me Parkinson's??? " I told them exactly how much wine I drink daily and I'm NOT about to give up what gives me pleasure and is a help to my heart condition. I'm still enjoying my independence and WINE daily for the past 10 years since my diagnosis in 2003. But, IF you count the time when I noticed my first symptoms in 1992, I'm going on 21 years. I told my neurologist to take me off all Parkinson's meds except one, because all the others gave me so many side effects that i would rather deal with the disease than the side effects of all the drugs. I got my quality of life back and have kept my independence and I KNOW that God gave mankind the knowledgement to find natural cures. I DO NOT sell anything to make money. I just spread the TRUTH for those seeking relief of illness. The wine I drink has NO sugar which will make acne worse. As teenagers, STAY away from SUGAR & CHOCOLATE!!!
I hope I have answered your questions John. I thank you for being honest, I was too.
Jim

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It is in my opinion, a very dangerous drug! My son is now 43, but took it when he was 14 or 15 and, he had almost 2 years of seizures, and was a horrible nightmare for several years after! The neurologist could never explain the reason. After a couple of years being on anti seizure med they stopped, and he has never had another one! We blame it on that drug! I would never recommend it to anyone!

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To Jim.. Your a funny guy! What do you do for a living Jim ? I was wondering if you happen to sell this great wine that you speak of ? I actually happen to eat a lot of berries n grapes as it is.. It is good for you, I don't disagree.. When you have bad acne, No price to fix it is too much.. Hey! I am not knocking you.. Drink all the wine and grape juice you like.. I love my cheese and grapes!! I am just saying that I don't believe that wine cures acne.. I think consuming lots of antioxidants is a good idea in general though for anyone's skin.. Not enough to get rid of bad acne though..

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To John torontocanada: I will make a toast to you with wine, not to mock you but to hope that you and your future children, learn of the healing properties of God given natural cures. You DO NOT need dangerous chemicals to destroy your body when your Creator left you a planet full of natural cures that work just as well without destroying or harming your body.
When I grew up, acne was blamed on chocolate and greasy food. Luckily my family was used to treating disease and illness with Homeopathic medical cures that God gave us. ALL products made from the GRAPE cured my acne, my brother's and my 2 sister's acne. We didn't just sit around drinking wine all day like John seems to assume. We ate grapes, raisins, drank grape juice and wine. ANY source of the GRAPE. John can laugh all he wants, but it worked for my whole family and we didn't have to give a dime to a dermatologist. So John, LOL all you want, cause I have kept my money where it belongs, in my pocket and the grocery store. Who's laughing NOW???? Love those raisins! AND WINE!!! YUMMY!!!

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My advise for people out there that want it.. Goes like this.. # 1Be prepared to deal with accutane side effects long after you finish taking this drug.. If you already have suffered from bad acne a nd have scaring .. Don't take this drug.. It will make your skin look even older and uglier and make your scars stick out even more.. Your best bet is to ride it out .. You will have scars and zits but at least you won't suffer from the life long affects of tang.. Most people that I know that took accutane and have had good results caught it when it was early.. Just know that this drug is not like taking Advil .. It can be very dangerous.. It can possibly clear up your acne but will most certainly change your body in some not so likeable ways.. Good luck!! And I also don't recommend wine as a cure !! Lol @ Jim

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Like I said .. Did suffer from acne.. I took accutane.!!.My face is as clean as a whistle and its hard to tell I ever had zits .. I don't believe that the benefits out weigh the risk though.. That's why I don't support it.. My mom on the other hand only wish she took accutane sooner that way she wouldn't have as much scaring as she has .. compared to me were i have basically none.. My sister took it late and didn't finish the course and basically had no change..

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@jim
Actually mr Jim .. I am Italian!! My mom grew up drinking wine as well .. Shes from Calabria.. She suffered from acne just as my sister and I did. Also I am from Canada where the drinking age is 19 but I love America and think it is wise to push the age to 21. Everyone in my family is very healthy and has good hygiene.. I am also catholic and I totally disagree with your wine theory.. It's honestly the stupidest thing I have ever heard of!! Hey, maybe a glass of wine a day is good for you but its not the reason why you never had acne.. I grew up drinking orange juice, is that why i am ripped and your not ? lol.. If you didn't suffer from acne or ever take Accutane .. why are you even in this form? I can't wait to hear this ..

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Johntorontocanada: Good idea!!! I'm from Europe and thank God my parents got me drinking wine when I was age 4. It prevented me from having acne. If i would have had to wait till age 21 to drink like American kids, I would probably be a victim of Accutane. We didn't just go to the local bar as kids, we drank a glass of wine with dinner. Most Europeans do this and the kids don't abuse it either. Hard to believe for you, I know. On holidays we were allowed more.

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Hi Miranda, I am wondering if you have started having in side effects from the Accutane? My son took the medicine for 47 days and I am worried to no end if he will have any side effects. I did talk with the dr. and nurse practioner with very little worries but the dry face and lips... The suicide thing was all I was really told about and that was down played by saying the the person could have been depressed because of the acne... doesn't make since... if they were depressed before the accutane and the accutane is improving their skin... then why would someone want to commit suicide now that they are healing? I have been reading through comments and I am soooo soooo sad for what might happen... It would be great to hear that you are doing just fine..

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