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Completely anecdotal, personal experience. It wasn't Accutane but when I was a pimply teen, in an effort to remedy the acne, I was prescribed doxycycline and an

Completely anecdotal, personal experience. It wasn't Accutane but when I was a pimply teen, in an effort to remedy the acne, I was prescribed doxycycline and another topical antibacterial ointment; in any case, I never had heartburn or experienced depression prior to that but a few months after starting those meds, both started. It's likely unrelated but whenever I read how crucial biomes are - I can't help but wonder. For the record, I preferred the acne.

gr1zzlybe4r 6y ago
Anecdotally I wonder about this sometimes too. I took Accutane mostly because I had a parent that really drove me to take it (I think projecting some of their own issues with acne onto my completely normal amount of teenage acne) and I definitely feel like it changed my mood during and after taking it. I didn't drink at all on it either. It's a drug that you shouldn't be able to have a teenager take unless it's approved by a panel of dermatologists or something. I had no idea of the severity of the side effects from it when I took it.
- fraudsyndrome 6y ago
  I took this when I was a teenager too, acne was horrible even with a proper skincare routine. Getting access to Accutane was easy, only took 1 session with a Dermatologist who asked me basic questions on what my routine was. In hindsight I wonder if this should have been harder to access. Of course it worked and I feel like I gotboff relatively lucky with the side-effects. One benefit was dry(er) skin/hair, which sounds bad but oily skin/hair was relatively worse to live with. I also never knew how bad some side-effects could have been which is why I said I was lucky. However what I'll never know is - whether I'd be different if I never took it. Some side-effects are so out of the ordinary that even if I have it, I'll never effectively be able to say "yes, that was because I took Accutane when I was younger". Even being lucky, I still wished I just let the hormonal acne play out. Edit: I just had a quick glance on the list of side-effects and for example, I've had back pain since I was a teen, and I thought it was just my form that was the cause even though I'd watch tens of hours of videos on proper form, people I know would use way worse form and never suffer an injury. Minor anxiety and even being susceptible to being sick. Some of these apply but they are also very common in those taking Isotretinoin (besides the anxiety; 1/1000-10000) but sadly I can't ever know whether the cause was due to the medication.
codesnik 6y ago
oh my, I was prescribed a course of doxycycline once, and those were gloomiest and angriest couple weeks of my life. I felt like I'm a sociopath, just didn't care about people emotionally. And that bitter taste all the time, like my saliva just become bitter.
james-bcn 6y ago
Interesting. I took oxytetracycline for acne for several years as a teenager in the late 1980s. I wonder if anyone has done a study on the long-term effects of that.
dralley 6y ago
Oh wow, this happened to me too. Not depression, but severe GERD that started after a course of doxycycline prescribed for acne. It's not as bad now as it used to be, but I don't remember having these issues at all beforehand.

gr1zzlybe4r 6y ago

Anecdotally I wonder about this sometimes too. I took Accutane mostly because I had a parent that really drove me to take it (I think projecting some of their own issues with acne onto my completely normal amount of teenage acne) and I definitely feel like it changed my mood during and after taking it. I didn't drink at all on it either. It's a drug that you shouldn't be able to have a teenager take unless it's approved by a panel of dermatologists or something. I had no idea of the severity of the side effects from it when I took it.

fraudsyndrome 6y ago
I took this when I was a teenager too, acne was horrible even with a proper skincare routine. Getting access to Accutane was easy, only took 1 session with a Dermatologist who asked me basic questions on what my routine was. In hindsight I wonder if this should have been harder to access. Of course it worked and I feel like I gotboff relatively lucky with the side-effects. One benefit was dry(er) skin/hair, which sounds bad but oily skin/hair was relatively worse to live with. I also never knew how bad some side-effects could have been which is why I said I was lucky. However what I'll never know is - whether I'd be different if I never took it. Some side-effects are so out of the ordinary that even if I have it, I'll never effectively be able to say "yes, that was because I took Accutane when I was younger". Even being lucky, I still wished I just let the hormonal acne play out. Edit: I just had a quick glance on the list of side-effects and for example, I've had back pain since I was a teen, and I thought it was just my form that was the cause even though I'd watch tens of hours of videos on proper form, people I know would use way worse form and never suffer an injury. Minor anxiety and even being susceptible to being sick. Some of these apply but they are also very common in those taking Isotretinoin (besides the anxiety; 1/1000-10000) but sadly I can't ever know whether the cause was due to the medication.

codesnik 6y ago

oh my, I was prescribed a course of doxycycline once, and those were gloomiest and angriest couple weeks of my life. I felt like I'm a sociopath, just didn't care about people emotionally. And that bitter taste all the time, like my saliva just become bitter.

james-bcn 6y ago

Interesting. I took oxytetracycline for acne for several years as a teenager in the late 1980s. I wonder if anyone has done a study on the long-term effects of that.

dralley 6y ago

Oh wow, this happened to me too. Not depression, but severe GERD that started after a course of doxycycline prescribed for acne. It's not as bad now as it used to be, but I don't remember having these issues at all beforehand.