I know I’ve said this a hundred times, but that’s
okay, because when I went on Accutane, I would have
loved for someone to tell me all of this. Since you’re
just starting, I’ll tell you about when I was just
starting. My doctor never put me on birth control. I wasn’t
sexually active, and he trusted me, so he never put me on
it. He also said that the side effects shouldn’t be
too bad, that I could handle them. My starting
cholesterol was 185, and it’s highest point during my
treatment was 285, but nothing more than "I might want your
next blood test to be a little sooner than one month,
just to be safe." was said. But what I have found is
that you can’t compare treatments. Every person and
doctor is different, and every treatment is
individualized. Trust your doctor, they know what they are doing.
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