Tag: isotretinoin

  • Au revoir, Isotretinoin

    Isotretinoin, how you’ve changed me these last seven months. You’ve vastly improved my acne while drying me out to where if I don’t clean my face every few hours and re-moisturize I start to look like the desert floor. This morning was my last Isotretinoin pill. While I can’t wait for my natural oils to…

  • Running Is Hard

    As I continue on my medication for my acne treatment, I am finding running to be harder for various reasons but I’m still going strong. Today was Spring Fling at Purdue which is an afternoon of activities in appreciation of staff and faculty. After lunch with some coworkers I had a French tutoring session with…

  • Sophisticated Surfer

    In January of this year I started taking Isotretinoin (commonly known as Accutane).  I knew from the start that I would have dry skin and that has certainly been the case.  Since my dosage was recently increased from 40mg per day to 60mg dryness has increased again with some side effects that I wasn’t expecting.…

  • Isotretinoin – Week 4

    This post is a bit late and I see that I skipped last week’s post as well.  However, better late than never. My treatment with Isotretinoin is progressing.  In the last few weeks I’ve gotten old-people hands as I’ve affectionately referred to them.  Effectively this means that my hands are quite dry and get cut pretty…

  • Running is now work

    Today was the first time in two weeks that I have actually ran at all.  I ran one mile tonight on the treadmill that my parents brought down last weekend (thanks Mom & Dad!) While I only ran one mile and (including a slow one minute warmup) it took about nine minutes to run, I couldn’t…