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I'm just wondering if anyone else out there experienced the behavior that I did while on Accutane. My grades and golf scores went down the toilet and I engaged in very self-destructive behaviors. Does anyone else have a similar experience?
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I don't play golf or go to school. My experience, is one of cyclic severe depression. I'm convinced accutane really screwed up the way my brain chemistry reacts to hormonal changes.
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I was 25 when a dermatologist first prescribed Accutane. I had been breaking out moderately to severely from age 12. While taking Accutane, I experienced no serious ill effects, other than the usual dry skin, lips, etc. As a matter of fact, I never felt and looked better! Especially when I saw the rapid improvement in my skin.
Now, 4 years later, I have not had one breakout and people often remark on how nice my skin is.
I think accutane is a miracle drug. I feel great sympathy for people who have not had a positive experience while on it.
I am wondering though, if the depression side effects are related to the age of the person on the drug? Like I said, I was a grown woman when I first started to take it.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: kr625 on 2003-01-06 09:42 ]</font>
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I struggled with really really bad skin during puberty. I was on this drug for about 18 months which I think is a faily long time in comparison to others. I had the usual side effects (dry skin ect) but don't feel I suffered much in the way of depression or modified behavior. Taking into account I was on it at the age of 17 so depession and abnormal behaviour can just be a part of growing up and wouldn't really stand out anyway.
Any depression I felt was outweighed by the comfort of having clear skin. Sorry to hear that other do not feel the drug was a positive thing for them.
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Unfortunately my son almost took his life due to the depression brought on using Accutane. Luckily I found the note he wrote and we went immediately into therapy. After 1 1/2 years he is doing better and understanding how depression brought him to that terrible point.
p.s. Yes he also had dry lips, etc.
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i am glad that some people have not experience any ill side effects while on accutane. but i was one of the many unlucky ones out there. not only did i have extremely dry lips to the point of blistering all around my mouth, but i became extremely depressed, neglected my house and my kids, i went from a 4.0 to making F's in school and had to drop out of nursing school. i also begin engaging in extremely self-destructive behaviors. i am very ashamed of my behavior now that i have my mind back. but i suffered all that for nothing! within about 10 months, my cyctic acne came back! and it came back with a vengeance! so the past 6 years after taking accutane, i am still fighting this ailment with all sorts of antibiotics, creams, etc. i want my money back, plus compensation for all the pain and suffering my family and i had to go through.
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I was 25 years old when FIRST perscribed Acutane, it was for severe Acne on my back. I was in the Military stationed in Monterey, CA. I was a stelar performer and had a VERY prommising career, Never been reprimended at all, was on the fast track of the promotion ladder. I went to see a Civilian Dr. out of pocket for the military did not help with severe forms of skin disorders, It was sugested I go, At first it was dry skin, lips, bla bla, bla............. for 4-5 months, I started suffering from SEVERE head aches and was advised by my doctor to discontine the medication imediatley, and DO NOT use it again. All was well after that. in 1997 I was transfered to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, I started becoming very depressed, I really liked the isolated duty but the depression was overwhelming, suicidal at times. I was medivaced to a military hospital and found unfit for overseas duty. I did love the military lifestyle but left it after 10 years and 6 levels of rank, only to go into another branch and accept only 2 levels of rank after completion of recruit training, all this at 28 years old, this was not easy, all my peers were 18 years of age. I left the Navy only to join the Marine Corps. I was allways depressed during this time of my life, taking chances, after serving 8 years in this branch of the service I became so depressed that I found myself wanting to atempt to hurt myself with a weapon. I was once again placed in a hospital, I was found disabled, and retired from my career, at 18 years. The Veterans Administration found me 100% disabled and totally unemployable, Social Security agreed. My depresion worsend over time and I found myself heavely medicated at times unable to deal with anything at all, I was evaluated by social security and found very qualified as well due to this disability called depresion, I am still taking medication and only able to do meneal simple jobs but not for an extended period of time. Life is hard now at 41, I try yo make due as best I can, I often wonder if I would not have lost my career if I had not taken this medication called Acutane, I was once a proud man and a great defender, you see, I was a Marine!
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I can understand most of your complaints, however where is the link?
How do you guys know for sure that Accutane had caused your illness?
I underwent the use of accutane at the age of 16, I at the time was unaware of the fact that it was an anti-depressant. I felt that I was misguided by my parents who were aware of its full use. I have had suicidal thoughts, and a feeling of deppression ever sense the use of the drug. However I have no actual, physical link to the fact that it was the medicine and not my own life causing these feelings. I can definitely understand that some of the ones that have commited suicide should feel some remorse towards accutane, however where is the will power? Where were the parents to notice these things? I dont see how you can blaim accutane at the point in time in which you realize that you are having adverse effects and you knew about the warnings pre hand to taking the drug.
I can see your points if you didnt know that accutane had side affects such as these but at the point in time you knew about them, how can you blaim the drug?
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Why does everybody instantly blame accutane for their depression? There are hundreds of different causes of depression in teenagers and young adults, people need to take responsibilty for their actions and not go blaming Accutane at the drop of a hat.
Although I do agree that the side effects of the drug need to be investigated further, and do feel sympathy for those who have suffered the rarer side affects of the drug (eg. Ulcerative Colitis), the people who are calling for the drug to be pulled from the market do not realise what positive life changing effects the drug has had on millions of people all over the world. I am on my 3rd month of Roaccutane treatment, and my face has improved out of sight. My friends say that I look so much happer since i started my treatment, and my unversity marks have improved because I feel more confident and I no longer stay inside because my acne was 'too bad'. If your class action was to succeed, and Accutane was forced from the market, you litigious american bastards will have denied millions the right to have a clear face. Think of the people (like I was) that were too scared to leave the house because they looked like a freak, who were too scared to talk to people because they knew that others would just stare at their face.
As for the pregnancy issue, all you have to do is use two forms of contraception. There is no way that somebody should be able to sue because they fall pregnant, given the amount of warning on the packets and the avalibility of reliable contraception.
I wish you all the best with your problems, and urge you to consider the implications of a law suit against accutane.
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Vootas, you speak with a blind ignorance regarding the drug and why people want it off the market. It has been proven that it causes depression, I didn't immediately blame the drug, in fact didn't even think about accutane for 10 years after taking it. I was just as you are right now, happy to have such a clear face. But right now, I would go back and not take it because it has SEVERELY altered my future. I had my neck looked at recently due to pain and the doctor was in shock. I had spurring and degradation of my spine that he can not explain. I was hopitalized with Thrush and esophogitis for 7 days without being able to eat or drink and was tested for aids due to a "Immune Deficiency" that again was unexplained in a 29 year old healthy male. Looking back at my college years with my wife whom I have been with over 10 years now, we see what Accutane did to me. We passed off extremely aggressive and angry behavior of mine as stress related to school and tests. I was out of control and a 4.0 college student....I didn't make sense. I, for the only time in my life sat time and time again with the desire to die and make the "noise" in my head go away. I was told dry lips, nose bleeds, and headaches...and got all those, what I wasn't told is that I may kill myself, degrade all my organs and bones, and live a much more painfull life at age 30 with 3 young children that I would love to grow up with and be playing sports with in my 40's. I was told this won't happen with the condition of my neck. 10 years ago, they didn't know this of the drug, now they do and people like you spout curse words to those of us trying to stop the money grubbing drug companies from destroying lives.
If asked the following, how would you respond.
I can give you a clear face, but you may die or be physically handicapped with that clear face...Do you want this drug or to try a different one?
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[quote]Vootas, you speak with a blind ignorance regarding the drug and why people want it off the market. It has been proven that it causes depression, I didn't immediately blame the drug, in fact didn't even think about accutane for 10 years after taking it. I was just as you are right now, happy to have such a clear face. But right now, I would go back and not take it because it has SEVERELY altered my future. I had my neck looked at recently due to pain and the doctor was in shock. I had spurring and degradation of my spine that he can not explain. I was hopitalized with Thrush and esophogitis for 7 days without being able to eat or drink and was tested for aids due to a "Immune Deficiency" that again was unexplained in a 29 year old healthy male. Looking back at my college years with my wife whom I have been with over 10 years now, we see what Accutane did to me. We passed off extremely aggressive and angry behavior of mine as stress related to school and tests. I was out of control and a 4.0 college student....I didn't make sense. I, for the only time in my life sat time and time again with the desire to die and make the "noise" in my head go away. I was told dry lips, nose bleeds, and headaches...and got all those, what I wasn't told is that I may kill myself, degrade all my organs and bones, and live a much more painfull life at age 30 with 3 young children that I would love to grow up with and be playing sports with in my 40's. I was told this won't happen with the condition of my neck. 10 years ago, they didn't know this of the drug, now they do and people like you spout curse words to those of us trying to stop the money grubbing drug companies from destroying lives.[/quote]
Ahh woops, now i get it.
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> vootas wrote:
> Why does everybody instantly blame accutane for their depression? There are hundreds of different causes of depression in teenagers and young adults, people need to take responsibilty for their actions and not go blaming Accutane at the drop of a hat.
I do not agree with this at all.
I've dealt with severe depression for a LONG time of my life
I have been hospitalized for suicide
I used to be on anti-depressants. I know what depression was like.
I haven't had depression for THREE years.
Recently I got put on accutane, and I wasn't worried about the depression factor.
I've been to therapy, and I know very well how to cope with problems that come my way. I'm huge into cognitive therapy
But now I know that accutane is the cause of my new-formed depression
I'm sitting here crying RIGHT now. And I have NO idea why
I'm an extremely BUBBLY person, but everyone has noticed a change.
I have no emotion around people, no excitement.
Nothing is bringing excitement into my life anymore
I'm looking at life as so pointless, when I know it's not.
I know I used to look at everything with such point
I'm getting so scared right now, I don't want to do something stupid
But I'm afraid I might fly off the handle.
Not to mention, my skin is worse
My school will definetly be heading down, because I can't even concentrate on it right now
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True.images i know the pain your feeling... I have it now
I was on accutane for 4 months (Feb 1st 2008 to May 31st 2008) with no history of any kind of depression or mental issues in my life. Suddenly out of no where, when i was perfectly content with my life and where i was headed, i lost all form of pleasure and the only feeling i could feel was sadness and severe nausea. It was like someone turned my life upside down. I went to see countless doctors for blood tests and a diagnosis for my sudden change in behavior. Every doctor said I was perfectly healthy but i was completely miserable. When i mentioned i was on accutane they said, "it should have left your system 3 days after your last dosage".. and that was that. I went to therapists but nothing was helping. I felt like i was going mad, but i was "perfectly healthy" and i felt so F'ed up. After the month of doctors and searching for answers i crawled into a deep depression from being scared of losing the life i had to not giving a shit about life... I kept trying to figure out what the point to life was and started to freak out all my friends around me. I was no longer myself and worst of all there was no end in site. I had no choice but to seek more serious help and started an antidepressent called Remeron.. Ive been on it for about 2 months now and I have to say it hasn't done a thing except help me sleep and eat.
Now its coming to the end of September and I've been off Accutane for almost 4 months. I'm still struggling to find my way back to the life that i once was so proud of. If anyone has advice on a story like mine or know how much longer i have to put up with this please help i just want to feel life again any help is appreciated.
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Side Effects of accutane
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
More commo of accutane
Bone or joint pain; burning, redness, itching, or other signs of eye inflammation; difficulty in moving; nosebleeds; scaling, redness, burning, pain, or other signs of inflammation of lips; skin infection or rash
Rare of accutane
Abdominal or stomach pain (severe); attempts at suicide or thoughts of suicide (usually stops after medicine is stopped); back pain; bleeding or inflammation of gums; blurred vision or other changes in vision; changes in behavior; decreased vision after sunset or before sunrise (sudden or may continue after medicine is stopped); diarrhea (severe); headache (severe or continuing); mental depression; nausea and vomiting; pain or tenderness of eyes; pain, tenderness, or stiffness in muscles (long-term treatment); rectal bleeding; yellow eyes or skin
Incidence not determined of accutane
Attack, assault, or use of force; black, tarry stools; bleeding from sore in mouth; bloating; bloody or cloudy urine; bloody cough; bone pain, tenderness, or aching; burning or stinging of skin; chest pain; chills; confusion; constipation; convulsions; cough or hoarseness; dark-colored urine; decrease in height; difficulty breathing; difficulty in speaking; difficulty in swallowing; discharge from eye; dizziness; double vision; ear pain; excessive tearing; fainting; fast, irregular, pounding, or racing heartbeat or pulse; fever with or without chills; fractures and/or delayed healing; general feeling of discomfort or illness; heartburn; high blood pressure; hives; inability to move arms, legs, or facial muscles; inability to speak; indigestion; inflamed tissue from infection; irregular yellow patch or lump on skin; irritation; joint pain, redness, stiffness, or swelling; killing oneself; lack or slowing of normal growth in children; loosening of the fingernails; loss of appetite; loss of bladder control; loss or change in hearing; muscle cramps or spasms; muscle spasm or jerking of all extremities; muscle weakness; noisy breathing; pain in ribs, arms, or legs; pain or burning in throat; pain or tenderness around eyes and cheekbones; painful cold sores or blisters on lips, nose, eyes, or genitals; painful or difficult urination; pains in chest, groin, or legs, especially calves of legs; pains in stomach, side, or abdomen, possibly radiating to the back; pale skin; pinpoint red spots on skin; redness or soreness around fingernails; redness, soreness or itching skin; sensitivity of eyes to sunlight; shortness of breath; skin rash; slow speech; sneezing; sore throat; sores, ulcers, or white spots on lips or tongue or inside the mouth; sores, welting or blisters; stuffy or runny nose; sudden loss of coordination; sudden loss of consciousness; sudden onset of shortness of breath for no apparent reason; sudden onset of severe acne on chest and trunk; sudden onset of slurred speech; swelling of eyelids, face, lips, hands, lower legs, or feet; swollen, painful or tender lymph glands in neck, armpit, or groin; tightness in chest; unusual bleeding or bruising; unusual tiredness or weakness; unusual weight gain or loss; use of extreme physical or emotional force; watery or bloody diarrhea; wheezing
Other side effects of accutane may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. However, check with your doctor if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome:
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