Hi my beautiful angel besties 💌 I hope this video of my month 2 accutane update is helpful for you! I honestly have felt so frustrated this past like month and a half because I feel like my skin looks worse than when I even started? lol – I am sorry about not updating as frequently this month but definitely doing what I can and being hopeful for a good outcome! Acne struggles can be hard but we are so strong, here for you if you need me – I love you
Okay today is august 13th and i got my accutane month 2 on august 11th so i’m three days into my month two everything feels the same but so about two weeks ago i don’t think i ever recorded it because i didn’t feel like it had anything to do with accutane but about two weeks ago i got like a small little eye style which i never really get and i just thought it
Was a weird coincidence and it went away about like a day later but i have another one and it hurts really bad and i looked it up and accutane can cause eye size just because your eyes are so dry and it hurts so bad so it started off today like my eye felt fine and then throughout the day my eyes started hurting so bad and then i can see it coming in right now i
Literally couldn’t even take my mascara off on this eye because it hurts so bad so i am going to put a warm washcloth on it and hope that it goes down by tomorrow but this is what my skin looks like it looks a lot better today hi everybody today is august 15th and i only took 30 milligrams of my accutane today because during the night time i when i’m supposed to
Take my 20 i didn’t have it with me and then when i got home it was like too late so i was about to like i’m about to go to bed so i was like i’ll just not take it today my plan is to just catch up obviously like to mom and i just take 50 and then the next day but at the end of the month if i’m in the waiting period where i’m waiting for a new prescription i’ll
Just take that 20 milligrams that he didn’t take today but anyway my skin feels so sensitive today like as if i just started accutane again i don’t know why um i have some breakouts looks like i’m getting like some cysts here and then this is what this side looks like and my forehead is pretty clear um my eye style went away i’ve been doing eye drops and just
Like making sure it’s super clean and yeah i have this like eczema spa or something like dry patch on the back of my arm it’s new and it hurts it’s like very very dry i think it’s been rough okay today is august 16th and this is what my skin looks like i feel like it’s a little bit more red right now because i just put like a serum on um um but i did get this cyst
Right here and this one right here these pimples around my lips always hurt so i’m really upset about that um yeah my face is still very red i haven’t really noticed the difference in that oh my gosh you guys today i put on hand sanitizer on my hands and my hand rash started burning so bad this is what it looks like so that was burning it’s just like super dry um
I’m still putting eye drops on my eyes i’m gonna keep doing that super consistently because i do not want my eyes to dry out but other than that that’s pretty much it hopefully these two pimples look a little bit better tomorrow fingers crossed hi today is august 21st i’m so sorry i’ve been so bad about updating i think it’s just been hectic i feel like and i just
Haven’t had the opportunity or i’m just super tired at night um but my skin is being really frustrating and i’m getting huge pimples you could see i have pimples like all around here i have aquaphor up my nose it’s pretty much the same um i feel like i’m having a little bit more frequent of nosebleeds which kind of sucks even when i put aquaphor out my nose so
I’m just trying to be like very like i’m trying to be a lot better about putting more aquaphor at my nose obviously i can’t but like a bunch but i try to do as much as i can i am just so ready for my skin to start clearing up and to look different okay today is august 24th at night i just put um my moisturizer on so my face gets a little bit red but this is what
It looks like um i have like another a new pimple on my forehead right here i like started breaking out along my hairline which is kind of weird um everything else looks the same i’m like i don’t even know if my i feel like my face kind of looks the same kind of getting really frustrated the patience is key i guess with this i hope i start to see results soon
Okay it’s august 26th and my skin looks pretty good today to be honest no new pimples actually besides this whitehead over here but i have like that rash in my arms his back how do i show you can you even see it okay you can see that yeah that’s on both my arms and it burns if i put lotion on it also i just realized i have like cat scratches everywhere because i
Feel like my skin is just getting like so sensitive so like it just gets cut really easily or whatever also i have this like do you see like the that thing on my eye it’s not a stye i don’t know what it is i’m like not okay today and it was weird because like all day i felt fine and then like i got i started getting ready for bed and yeah also this wrinkle is
Like really bothering me i’m so i feel drained right now i can’t wait to be done with accutane it’s just like so annoying to have to deal with these like side effects you know but i’m hoping it’s worth it i’m hoping it’s the last time i have to do this foreign okay today is august 29th and this is what my skin is looking like i have i just put moisturizer on
So it looks kind of weird but i have three huge whiteheads here and then like a pimple here um this side is pretty clear except for this like white head that i have right here as well hi today is september 7th i have been so bad about recording i have an explanation okay well first of all i just like i feel like there has been absolutely no changes like i still
Break out clearly um and then i’m just super dry and i just like there’s just been a lot going on so it has just been hard for me to be updating easily and it’s just been hard for me to like get the motivation to update because i just felt like i was just getting really repetitive i feel totally fine um i just have like still like eczema on my arms practically
Like just dry patches and i’ve been putting aquaphor up my nose and yeah so nothing has changed so that’s why i felt a little bit discouraged to update honestly i’ve been feeling a little bit discouraged about my skin in general because like i just have not noticed any changes like i don’t know like i’m still getting these breakouts and it just doesn’t look that
Different to me i actually had like a little breakdown tonight i just like was looking in the mirror i’m just tired of dealing with acne i just feel like these past couple of years have been such a roller coaster on and off dealing with acne and worrying about my skin and you know it’s just so draining so yeah so i’m sorry for not updating a lot um i am almost
Done with my month to pack i have about three left but i had my dermatologist appointment yesterday for my month too so um i kind of like explained to him how i was feeling my dermatologist and he was like well you’re only 40 done with your you know treatment so he said that to him it looks a lot better it’s like well are your pimples like turning over faster and
I was like yeah and he was like see like it’s working and he we took like before pictures before i started accutane and yeah i guess i saw like a slight difference but i don’t know i think i’m just being a little bit impatient with my skin so that’s that but yeah like i said nothing has changed everything is fine i don’t know if my skin looks better to you guys i
Think like my forehead and stuff has definitely cleared up it’s just like this part i’m just getting like still super cystic pimples that i didn’t even have before accutane i feel like i don’t know if i’m like still purging or what i’m not really sure you guys i don’t know um but still doing 50 milligrams a day and my labs came back normal thank god i’m drinking
Tons of water staying hydrated using lots of aquaphor i feel like i’ve been using hyaluronic acid on my face and i feel like that’s been helping with like moisturization which is super nice and yeah we’ll see i feel so i don’t know i feel bad because obviously you guys know i try my best to update but i just felt i just have felt like a little bit discouraged and
I feel like that’s a part of it too you know just like coming in waves of how i feel about my skin at the end of this i hope i look back and i’m like okay well i get why i was feeling that way but it ended up being a way better outcome than i expected i try to be a positive person but at the same time like when i get upset about my skin i think it’s important for
Me to like let it out and let the frustration out and my feelings out because like i have validity and why i feel that way you know um and i feel like crying about it or whatever helps me talking about it venting about it really helps me so yeah at the end of the day i’m thinking about my side and i’ll just dryness on my like skin and i can just just moisturize
Um and i’m thankful that my dermatologist sees improvements and i’m thankful that my lab work came back totally fine and i’m thankful that i’m able to go into month three and i’m hopeful that things are going to get better it’s september 8th i’m back i have these like two cystic pimples here and then this big cystic one and then i still have this like comedones
The rest of my face um looks about the same i did get like a pimple right here and i don’t know if you can see but i have this like pimple here kind of too i think my forehead is really smoothed out though um yeah i’m so super dry i put the aquaphor on my nose on my lips throughout the day this part of my skin like cracks because it’s so dry and i wear makeup so
That kind of sucks but other than that no differences i have to pick up my accutane tomorrow i still have a few um pills left for this month though all right today is september 10th and this is what my skin looks like i don’t know i don’t know if it looks any better um i think the rest of my face definitely is like evening out like like i don’t have texture but
My chin area is something that just like looks the same to me i also have like rash on my arms and it came back on my hands it was gone for a few days and then it came back let me show you it’s just like dry skin basically i think it’s just from washing my hands it’s so weird today i took just the 20 milligrams to just finish off and make the packs even so i will
End my month to here um i’m just thankful that my side effects don’t feel too bad and that i see some type of improvement i’m hoping that next month is a little bit better when it comes to like just redness and improvement on my acne but we’ll see and yeah i’ll see you guys next month
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My accutane journey (round 2): Month 2 By Liliana Madrigal
