tricomb
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My dermatologist never warned me about this, although he was my friends dad so a family friend for many years, so our appointments were more on a personal level than professional, not to say that this is a result of negligence on his part at all, he didn't know this would happen, and he still doesn't know. I don't want to tell him that the drug he prescribed me caused this.
How did it happen? I developed symptoms right after stopping my second round of RX'd 40mg a day, even when I would routinely skip days and open the capsules to make the doses smaller, turning 1 x 40mg capsule into 2 piles of about 20mg powder each, which I would put in an empty temazepam capsule (since I take all benzodiazepines sublingually, and they are small capsules).
You're 8 days in? My advice is, if only I could have known this 8 days in. I've been at this screen thinking about how to respond to this since a few minutes after you posted, but it's been about a few hours and I still don't know what to say. I would give just about anything to be 8 days in, turn back the clock. But if I could go back in time, I would turn it back way further than Accutane but that's irrelevant.
There are so many things I would choose to have done differently and explored more options, instead of putting so much faith in this Snake Oil Accutane magic acne pill that was going to make everything better. Frankly, I'm disappointed to ever have put so much trust in a pharmaceutical company. I learned the hard way that it's nothing more than an industry, a business. Corporations are sociopaths, they don't have feelings, they don't care about anything more than your $$$. They don't know you, or give a flying fuck about your skin or any other part of your body.
Do you think that capitalism, for example the alcohol or tobacco industry gives a fuck that their product causes cancer and other debilitating, often terminal diseases? No, because they are compliant with the law. Pharmaceutical companies do the same thing by listing the side effects and everything listed in the prescribing information to satisfy the FDA, to satisfy the law. Remember that the law is not always right, it was not created by some supreme all-knowing being, it was created by men in a capitalist society. I have witnessed many situations where following the law put more people in harms way and caused more collateral damage than other options, especially in cases of domestic, physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.
So keep that in mind, it may be "legal" to give yourself these side effects, but that doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do. Often the right thing to do is more simple than you think, diet and exercise go so much further than isotretinoin, don't buy Snake Oil. There are medications that actually are okay to take and are effective for their purpose, but they are still sold by the same companies selling Snake Oil, and this medication is not worth the risk to reward ratio in my experience. Now I'm personally financing the same industry that sold me this shit everytime I go pick up my prescription opioid narcotics that I now require for daily pain management and have a somewhat "functional" life, which would not be possible for me anymore now without narcotics.
tl;dr the chances are much better that diet and exercise are actually better for you. Even though it requires increased effort vs using the 0.5 calories it takes to swallow a pill, it won't put you on pain killers for the rest of your life and hopefully you won't ever have to think or worry about somehow eating food knowing the pain it will cause you. The way you digest food is something I guarantee you are taking for granted.
I'm not even going to go all the way into the methamphetamine aspect right now, it's way too late, or early technically... but it's not going to help your acne, if anything the contrary. How do you consume your methamphetamine? If you already mentioned this, I'll review this thread tomorrow. I realllllly hope you aren't vaporizing that shit, I've noticed most tweakers that smoke it have the worst skin, tied with IV users if not worse.
How did it happen? I developed symptoms right after stopping my second round of RX'd 40mg a day, even when I would routinely skip days and open the capsules to make the doses smaller, turning 1 x 40mg capsule into 2 piles of about 20mg powder each, which I would put in an empty temazepam capsule (since I take all benzodiazepines sublingually, and they are small capsules).
You're 8 days in? My advice is, if only I could have known this 8 days in. I've been at this screen thinking about how to respond to this since a few minutes after you posted, but it's been about a few hours and I still don't know what to say. I would give just about anything to be 8 days in, turn back the clock. But if I could go back in time, I would turn it back way further than Accutane but that's irrelevant.
There are so many things I would choose to have done differently and explored more options, instead of putting so much faith in this Snake Oil Accutane magic acne pill that was going to make everything better. Frankly, I'm disappointed to ever have put so much trust in a pharmaceutical company. I learned the hard way that it's nothing more than an industry, a business. Corporations are sociopaths, they don't have feelings, they don't care about anything more than your $$$. They don't know you, or give a flying fuck about your skin or any other part of your body.
Do you think that capitalism, for example the alcohol or tobacco industry gives a fuck that their product causes cancer and other debilitating, often terminal diseases? No, because they are compliant with the law. Pharmaceutical companies do the same thing by listing the side effects and everything listed in the prescribing information to satisfy the FDA, to satisfy the law. Remember that the law is not always right, it was not created by some supreme all-knowing being, it was created by men in a capitalist society. I have witnessed many situations where following the law put more people in harms way and caused more collateral damage than other options, especially in cases of domestic, physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.
So keep that in mind, it may be "legal" to give yourself these side effects, but that doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do. Often the right thing to do is more simple than you think, diet and exercise go so much further than isotretinoin, don't buy Snake Oil. There are medications that actually are okay to take and are effective for their purpose, but they are still sold by the same companies selling Snake Oil, and this medication is not worth the risk to reward ratio in my experience. Now I'm personally financing the same industry that sold me this shit everytime I go pick up my prescription opioid narcotics that I now require for daily pain management and have a somewhat "functional" life, which would not be possible for me anymore now without narcotics.
tl;dr the chances are much better that diet and exercise are actually better for you. Even though it requires increased effort vs using the 0.5 calories it takes to swallow a pill, it won't put you on pain killers for the rest of your life and hopefully you won't ever have to think or worry about somehow eating food knowing the pain it will cause you. The way you digest food is something I guarantee you are taking for granted.
I'm not even going to go all the way into the methamphetamine aspect right now, it's way too late, or early technically... but it's not going to help your acne, if anything the contrary. How do you consume your methamphetamine? If you already mentioned this, I'll review this thread tomorrow. I realllllly hope you aren't vaporizing that shit, I've noticed most tweakers that smoke it have the worst skin, tied with IV users if not worse.
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