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[Nivim]

 This thread has started cycling; find a new angle.

[G-Flex]

Nobody was saying that he should make a habit of taking risks like that, nor that he should engage in other risky activity. He asked for advice about a single decision, and possible trends of risky behavior have no impact whatsoever on whether or not he should make this decision.

Okay, sure, if he's making an exception from reasonable behavior this one time.

Even then, 10% is a ridiculously high probability if the result is something chronic and bad happening. Then again, I guess most people have been trained by commercials to think that "90%" or higher is close enough to 100% that the remainder doesn't matter.

[forsaken1111]

This thread has started cycling; find a new angle.

Someone decided to turn a simple "What do you guys think of this?" into a treatise on risk management. 

[smigenboger]

Hey, try a steam room and changing your pillowcases out every day or other day. My acne goes away if I shower when I wake up, after work, and I don't drink too much soda.

[G-Flex]

This thread has started cycling; find a new angle.

Someone decided to turn a simple "What do you guys think of this?" into a treatise on risk management. 

It is about risk management.

[forsaken1111]

This thread has started cycling; find a new angle.

Someone decided to turn a simple "What do you guys think of this?" into a treatise on risk management. 

It is about risk management.

Perhaps for you. When the decision came to me I didn't even think about the risk, as it seemed pretty remote. The doc put me on a trial, I responded positively, so we went ahead with the whole package. He told me that if I had any adverse reaction of any kind, I should stop immediately and we'd try something else. I understand that your experiences have probably made you a bit wary of risk, but it turns out okay in the vast majority of cases and there are things they can do to limit the risk, such as the trial I mentioned.

[G-Flex]

This thread has started cycling; find a new angle.

Someone decided to turn a simple "What do you guys think of this?" into a treatise on risk management. 

It is about risk management.

Perhaps for you. When the decision came to me I didn't even think about the risk, as it seemed pretty remote. The doc put me on a trial, I responded positively, so we went ahead with the whole package. He told me that if I had any adverse reaction of any kind, I should stop immediately and we'd try something else. I understand that your experiences have probably made you a bit wary of risk, but it turns out okay in the vast majority of cases and there are things they can do to limit the risk, such as the trial I mentioned.

"My experiences"? I've never used Accutane. I'm wary of risk because it's the sane thing to do, especially in a situation like this, where it's plainly obvious you can't trust the drug involved very much at all.

As is easy to figure out just from reading this thread and doing some light research, the side effects from Accutane can be chronic, serious, difficult to detect even when your doctors are competent, and include everything from stunted growth (taking it as a teenager is probably a bad idea) to depression to bowel diseases to chronic dry eyes/skin, the chance of this happening is significant, and on top of that, the medical field isn't even entirely sure how bad the situation is. People have sued the producers of the drug and won multiple times.

[forsaken1111]

I meant your experiences in life, not with this specific drug.

Regardless, you're blowing this way out of proportion and frankly it's becoming tiresome. Yes, the drug can have bad side-effects. It can also do good things for you. The OP will have to read this and judge for himself whether it is worth the risk. I'm done here, enjoy your risk-free life.

[stuntaneous]

Lol, this thread has kinda taken a turn to nowhere but to say the significance of the risks have been blown out of proportion is very wrong in my opinion. Who, knowingly in their right mind, would use a drug largely for aesthetic value which has a real risk of destroying their quality of life? The issue is awareness of this horrible drug and that's what I sought and continue to seek promotion of. That's my bottom-line.

[Eugenitor]

It's about risk vs. reward, really.

Reward: You no longer have acne.

Risk: Maybe a 1/20th chance of having it fuck you over physically and mentally, ruining your fucking life more or less permanently.

Yeah, I'd pass. Scrub your face when you brush your teeth and keep a supply of pillowcases on hand so you can wash them once a week but change them daily.

[G-Flex]

Yeah, apparently I'm trying to lead a "risk-free life" by thinking it's a bad idea to take a drug for non-emergency and largely cosmetic purposes when it has a significant chance of causing serious, indefinitely-lasting, extremely-varied, sometimes poorly-understood side effects, especially when the marketers of it have been sued successfully at least three times. I'm not talking out-of-court settlements, either.

Some of the side effects would be difficult to detect even after the fact, like the fact that it can flat-out stop bone growth in teenagers.

[Helmaroc]

I have only been taking it for about a week now, and my skin and eyes are slightly dry, but it is nothing severe so far. Today my lower back has been sore, but I don't know if that was related to the drug or I just slept on it wrong etc. The plan is to up the dosage after the first month, and these effects may become more of a nuisance.

I will consider everything that has been said in this topic and have a discussion with my dermatologist. I'll try to find out things like out of the patients he has prescribed Accutane, how many have been successful/unsuccessful and in the latter cases what went wrong. The man has a young daughter and he has said if her acne was as bad as mine he would have prescribed it for her. A nurse at the office also told me she would trust it with her children.

10% may not be accurate, I double-checked the study I had been looking at, and the 10% were patients experiencing less critical side effects than I had thought, things like muscle and joint aches (that went away afterward) and very dry mouth. Extreme issues like the kind stunt described were more around 1-3%.

[Astral]

Again, my advice, if you're wary about taking full on Accutane, is to do a large dose of Vitamin A every day. I currently take 16000 IUs (perfectly reasonable for someone of my size) a day and it's definitely had a noticeable effect on my skin condition. I'm not sure of any side effects other than the drier-than-usual skin and occasionally dry eyes, but the research I've done into it shows nothing harmful in the long term.

[Vector]

Look up hyper-vitaminosis A, and then don't go that far.

[G-Flex]

Yeah, massive intake of Vitamin A is a little risky.

Of course, we get a lot of Vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene, which the human body doesn't synthesize Vitamin A from unless you actually need it.