I want to share with you some negative experiences about Accutane. I have never taken Accutane, so I can only give you some experiences from people who had tried it in the past.
As I understood, in some cases Accutane caused heavy and irreversible damages, so I am asking myself, is it worth to risk one’s life like this?
Guys, I discourage you to follow this way – search for different therapies recover from your acne. Believe me, I fully understand sometimes anguish can push you to opt for strong methods, but it is not always true that something strong is something right.
I have do Internet researches and I have found some negative experience to be share with you.
I will be happy if I could receive your experiences or ideas back.
If you had negative situations, I will be glad to know them; I would like to share them with who suffered from the same problems and with who could suffer from one day if deciding to take Accutane.
2.000 cases of depression, about a thousand of suicides and suicide attempts have been advised due to Accutane. 6.000 instances of psyche disorder have been considered.
These data are contained in a database of side effects by the World Healthcare Organization and are related to the medicine produces by the Swiss multinational Roche. Pursuant to American authorities, these numbers should be multiply per hundred – because just one per cent of the side effects are signaled. According to the reports, Accutane has caused / is causing a massacre. The drug has been a blockbuster for Roche for two decades – the licence expired in 2002 and nowadays many generic medicines can be found in the market. The biggest consumers are teenagers. According to Falò inquiries, a Ticino program, doctor and healthcare authorities are unaware of Accutane risks. But 152 side effects have been identified. The upsetting results based on the medicine studies and even a case of suicide occurred during the Accutane test have always been hidden from Roche. From Ticino to Unites States, from Ireland to Switzerland victims, layers, scientists and Swissmedic are talking about Accutane. The big absentee is the Swiss multinational: Roche is not issuing statements about Accutane.
Bad experience with Accutane
I know how devastating it is to have bad skin. I've had horrible acne for 12 years now. I thought Accutane was going to be my miracle cure. I was scared because of all the crazy side effects, but I thought that NONE of them could be worse than having acne. Unfortunately, I was wrong. See, Accutane affects everybody differently, but I literally starting going mental on this drug. Only while on day 10 was I hallucinating and having fits of intense and disabling paranoia. I was so scared to leave my bed that I peed in the cup on my nightstand. I couldn't drive because I was afraid that someone was going to jump out from behind my seat and I had a reoccurring vision of a woman choking me that I would get flashbacks of from time to time. I began to become afraid of everything. I even wanted to work overtime at work because I was afraid to go home by myself. Never ever have I had psychological issues such as these ones and I never saw day 11 of Accutane. My doctor immediately took me off the drug and I am currently waiting for the drug to run its course through my body. Does this happen to everyone? Absolutely not. However, do your research because I wouldn't wish my experiences on anybody. Type Accutane and Hallucinations in the same search engine and see how many articles come up of cases such as mine. Look at the # of suicides and psychotic episodes of people taking Accutane. It is most definitely a miracle drug for acne, but in my experience--beauty was not worth my mental health. Good luck to you.
Horrible Experience on Accutane - Still Having Side Effects
I started taking Accutane last September to deal with my back acne. Two days into treatment I thought I had a bout of severe food poisoning. I was throwing up every hour all night. I stopped taking Accutane for a week to get better from my “food poisoning” which I no longer believe was food poisoning just my system rejecting the drug.
Anyways I went back on Accutane for the next few months having really dry lips, dry skin, dry hair (no hair loss), and mild headaches (these are the only symptoms I was warned of and they seemed pretty reasonable and normal). I suffered from constipation to the point where I saw some blood after going to the bathroom (was not warned of this by my dermatologist and when I told her about it she didn't think it could be related). I also had really dry eyes with a sharp pain developing in my left eye. In December my dosage got increased.
A week or two after the dosage increase I started having very vivid dreams and nightmares and waking up drenched in sweat. I started feeling sinus and head pressure similar to a bad sinus infection but I did not have a sinus infection (I was checked by a doctor). I started having darker urine that had a smell it never had before and in January I was rushed to the ER because my heart was pounding, I couldn't breathe, I had difficulty swallowing, and I couldn't stop shaking. At the ER I was diagnosed with a panic attack (something I have never had before in my life) and sent home. I had made mention that I was on Accutane but the doctor didn't say anything about it or that it could be the cause (the doctor didn't really seem to know what Accutane was).
While at home the body spasms and shaking, nausea, head pressure, and fatigue wouldn't go away and I assumed it was a bad virus. I stayed home from work all week in bed (not having any energy to get out of bed or appetite to eat). During this week I stopped taking Accutane to let my body recover from this “virus” and it did, well almost (At this point I still didn't even think Accutane could be the cause of all this, it sounds stupid reading all these symptoms back but I really didn't). I wasn't completely better but at least I had some of my strength back and could manage driving to work again. I was feeling better so I went back on the Accutane.
This is where I finally made the connection. Shortly after starting the treatment again I was feeling exactly the same way as I did when I was rushed to the ER in January. I called my dermatologist immediately and she said I should get off Accutane completely (but did not offer any advise of how to treat the symptoms or who to see). I stopped the Accutane treatment immediately.
That was almost six weeks ago. Most of the symptoms have lessened since I stopped the treatment but I am not ok. In the weeks following, I continued to have daily panic attacks, horrible vivid nightmares, fatigue, weakness, and emotional instability. My body has not been able to relax since this all started. I am always in a state of panic where my body is locked up and everything feels tight or I feel weakness and faint. I have to take tranquilizers everywhere I go still because I’m scarred that I will have an attack. Although I’m still having side effects from the Accutane ,the sinus pressure, constipation, dark urine, dry eyes and pain, dry lips have all returned to normal since I've stopped taking the Accutane.
I also think it’s important to note that I was diagnosed as having migraines with aura (seeing flashes of light or a blind spot in your line of vision before the pain starts) before I started taking Accutane and the occurrence of auras has increased dramatically (my head doesn't hurt but I see small flashes of light for about 3-4 seconds once or twice a week). I’m really hoping that these symptoms won’t be permanent.
The worst part is the lack of support to treat these symptoms. My family doctor didn't know anything about Accutane until I suggested that maybe all these symptoms are from the drug. She said maybe and went on to do a Google search about the drug. My dermatologist was also fairly useless and besides telling me to stop taking the Accutane, has not suggested anything I should do or anyone I should see to help treat these symptoms or find out what happened to me. Sorry for the long post but I hope that anyone considering taking Accutane are aware of the side effects and that they are not as rare as you think.
I’m not against Accutane. I think it could do wonders for people with severe acne but it should not be a drug that’s taken lightly. People need to realize that some of the more severe effects occur more frequently than you think and happen to people that are generally healthy. Personally if I knew all this was going to happen to me I could have lived with the acne. I wish I could just go back to normal and have my life and body back.
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