Is Roaccutane making me dehydrated?
by amodelsroaccutanejourney
I had a hand modelling job yesterday so took off my engagement ring a good four hours before my call time. The indentation mark still had not disappeared (my ring is new and not too small-just in case that is what you were thinking ;p ).
I also noticed that when holding my phone for a very short while, my fingers were indented with dots from my faux diamond iPhone case!
I never used to have this problem. You know when you wake up from a deep sleep and have a crease from your pillow marking your face?!? Well, these marks used to disappear soon after I woken up and showered, whereas it now takes a lot longer to ware off.
I have been thinking and wondering if maybe Roaccutane is making my skin “thirsty” as such? The drug is making us drier all over our bodies and maybe we need to drink more water than we would normally to help our body hydrate like it would have in the past?
I know this post is a bit random and I haven’t heard of anyone else mentioning this. Has anyone else notice this occurring?
It’s a really normal thing, and more normal if you are taking more than 60mg/day. Isotretinoin affects our body making sebaceous glands smaller, and as a consequence we secret less sebum, this is the reason why the skin is drier and our hair finer. And of course, the effects are more notorius if you are taking more quantity.
Don’t worry, it’s normal! in your hands, arms, legs… I’m taking only 10mg/day and I can feel this effects too. And remember that you have a great skin:)
Thank you for your super informative message. I am indeed on a high dosage..60mg per day!
I go through phases of being dry. Some days I am not at all dry whereas if I’ve been outside in the cold for a while I am much more dry than normal.
Good luck with your skin
I’d just like to thank you so much. You are such an inspiration. Reading your blog has been getting me through my accutane journey. I am 15 and have been on accutane just under a year. My skin is finally clear but before I started it was terrible. I am very interested in edgy fashion but my skin was so bad that I started wearing the plainest clothes that I had so people wouldn’t look at me. I would wear my hair in a pony tail everyday because I used to think that there was no point trying to look good because the acne made me look so terrible I couldn’t fix it. When my acne was at its worst, I heard two girls in my class say that I should just cover my face in cement and start again. That’s when I decided to go on accutane. And now it’s nearly clear and I’m down to my last box!!!!! In the last few months I’ve been going out in the clothes I want to wear and not caring if it draws attention. I’ve also decided that when I finish I am going for a whole new look. I’m going to cut my hair short (maybe about Ashley Benson’s length) and I’m goi g to dye it – I can’t choose between red or blonde… And I’m going to finally get my second ear piercing done (I wanted it done about three weeks into my accutane course but couldn’t get it done). Anyways, I just wanted to thank you again. I think I may take up blogging…. I don’t really know what about yet. But keep doing what you’re doing. And to anyone out there, I would recommend accutane 110 million percent. It has seriously changed my life.
Xx good luck with your journey
Hiya Georgia,
That makes me so positive and excited 
Thank you so much for such a lovely message and I’m so sorry for my delayed reply. Thank you for saying I’m an inspiration, you are so lovely for saying so and I really hope I can be of any help you need.
It is so lovely to hear that you now have clear skin
I also went through a stage of sort of “hiding/camouflaging” myself so I wouldn’t draw any attention to myself. Now my skin is clearing I am gaining more and more confidence than I have had in such a long time.
I am disgusted by those foul girls that said such cruel things to you. Karma will bite them on the arse in the future and they’ll probably get acne later in life ;p
Let me know if you start a blog and keep in touch