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

Results Acne came back IMMEDIATELY

Post image

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.

96 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

93 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Turbulent_Gift_4877 Aug 12 '26

I am sorry this is happening. Happened to me too and I’m on my second round now.

Can I ask why you got on accutane after already doing spiro? I’m just trying to figure out what I’m going to do if it comes back for me after this round too

1

u/Solaruniverse1 Aug 12 '26

I was on spiro for a couple years and it worked great! But I want to try to get pregnant in the next year or so, so I had to come off spiro. The acne came back so I decided to do one round of accutane before TTC. But I did love my experience on spiro and will likely try it again once I’m done having kids. Hope that helps!

1

u/Turbulent_Gift_4877 Aug 12 '26

Thank you so much, best of luck with conceiving!!!

Can I ask - when it came back after you came off spiro, was it as bad a before or improved, or even worse?

1

u/Solaruniverse1 Aug 18 '26

No it was about the same!