I'm now sure if their is a subforum for this somewhere but I just wanted to get my voice out... I was on this drug called acutane for acne. My docter had me and my family (I was 16) sign forms... I didn't really pay attention. After bout 3 months I started having sick panic attacks and ending up in the ER. After that I was diagnosed with ADHD, a panic disorder called "confusion" (no joke), and clinical below average memory loss. I have a right to believe that acutane caused all of this. I'm just warning if anybody is on Acutane to get off of it as soon as possible. It didn't ruin my life but now I've been on prescriptions for about 3 years now because of it. Just a warning if your on acutane.
You may have already had those. Drugs don't normally cause mental disorders, but rather, pull them out of hiding.
I believe acutane actually has been linked to causing depression though. I would avoid acutane at all costs.
I know people who have been on this drug for acne, and one of the side affects is depression. But that doesn't mean that every person on it will suffer from this. http://www.naturalessentials.com/accutane.htm there is some info on it and a list of side effects. good luck
I was on acutane for months. It is now blacklisted yet still possible to obtian by Rx. It even says in the Readme that comes with it that it can cause severe depression.
i was on this shit for a long time, about 12 months or more. (12 months being a long time to be on this drug.. in grade 9. dont remember being depressed, i remember you couldnt drink with it or youd get liver failure. the worst thing about it was the dryness of the lips, arh, i just rememberd my skin would change color within seconds of being in this one classroom (it was the lights in there). i turned bright red every lesson, so red that people asked me if i was ok inclluding the techer. then the second i walked outside i was totaly normal, not red at all. weird shit. but no depression or mental effects that i realised... oh, i remember finishing treatment and the last thing the doctor told me before i left was, "oh, you cant use sunscreen for the next 10 years". weird. wish he told me before treatment. (maybe that was a mental effect, ha.)
I was on that. The side effects were pretty minor. Though I think at points I felt not depressed but pretty low.
Kinda late, but I'd just like to say, if you have acne and no medical issues, take the shit. I had really bad acne back in 9th grade, now you wouldn't even know how bad it was. HORRIBLE. I had acne so bad I thought I was just going to have to deal with all the self conscious shit that comes with it for the rest of my life. Glad it's all gone, but from what I read if im lucky it gones for good if I'm not so lucky, give myself a year or two of freedom. Worst part for me was the dry lips, but acutane only enhanced the dry lips I'd get in the winter, any other time it was fine. Anyway that's all I have to say
well i posted her about a year and a half ago. but ummm. i took it cause i had alot of really big pimples on my shoulders aswell, and i still have scars from them. but i still get pimples somtimes. i still use this benzol peroxide cream that is the strongest you can get under the counter at the pharmacy. but i onyly use it when i get some. called benzac ac 10%. but i guess i dont get to many. they say you can allways go back on the treatment for an extra couple of months if there still there. but i couldnt be fucked goin thro that again. expecially now im at the drinking age.
