Reply #24: Yeah, I had cystic acne as a kid (high school) and the only thing that ever healed it was accutane. [View All]

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Fortunately for me, it was on my back/shoulders so my face wasn't scared. But I went through high school/college embarrassed to remove my shirt in public. My brother had the same problem.

To this day, when I see a kid with severe acne I want to tell them to take accutane so they won't have to go through what I did. But there is so much negatives in the press about accutane I don't know what to believe. I had no long lasting side effects. The effects while on the medicine were high sensitivity to sun burn (normal like with the anti-biotic) and some muscle soreness (expected) but that was probably from heavy exercising - which I wasn't supposed to do but did anyway.