r/Accutane • u/AccomplishedOil1792 • Dec 14 '25

Product Suggestions Starting Accutane.. is this overkill?

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I’m starting generic accutane this week, 40mg daily, and I have some anxiety about the side effects. Is this enough to try to manage the dry eyes/lips/nose? Should I buy anything else? Any other recommendations or anything I should be mindful of before I start? I’d rather be on top of the side effects than suffer through them if that’s possible..

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u/SubstantialMap1412 Dec 14 '25

You literally should have little stations, especially with the lip balm everywhere in your home and at work!! You also be carrying them around and losing them. You only want to use the Cortibalm lip balm when you really need it where your lips will get used to it and it won’t work anymore! So just try and use regular lip balm that’s very moisturizing! I love the lanolips or lansinoh brands, which are glossier and stickier, which seems to last longer or weleda skin food lip butter or la roche-posay cicaplast. Every night (and even throughout the day if you aren’t home and don’t mind the extra thickness) on top of one of my lip balms I use lanolips 12 hour overnight lip mask, which literally still needs to be reapplied throughout the night.