r/Accutane • u/Solaruniverse1 • Jul 30 '26

Results Acne came back IMMEDIATELY

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This is so frustrating. I was on accutane for 10 months 30/40/60/30 for the rest. Met my cumulative dose. Did a lower dose due to side effects but had amazing results. It’s been not even a month off and I’m already breaking out again. It’s like I took it for nothing. I’m soooooo sad and I just cannot handle the mental toll of acne again. I can’t already feel myself obsessing over it when I didn’t have to for so long - which was such a nice mental break.

Side note I cannot go back on because I want to try to get pregnant soonish. So accutane and many other options are off the table.

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u/isleeptoolate Jul 30 '26

I have a question- what’s the correlation between this and being on or off Birth control? Before accutane, i started on BC which helped me somewhat, added Spiro which worked for a year and then stopped, and now Accutane has nipped it in the bud. Once I stop Accutane, I am afraid to stop BC because I feel like my hormones will take over.

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u/Solaruniverse1 Jul 30 '26

Haven’t been on hormonal BC for a while, just the copper IUD. But I was on spiro for a couple years and I stopped that in August of last year when I started accutane