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xdenielx
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Hi guys,
Here's my background. Like so many people on here, I have the dreaded oily/flaky skin corabo. I have overactive sebaceous glanRAB, so I breakout from the excess oil (i get cysts but usually only a couple at a time). At the same time, the excess oil causes a condition called seborrheic dermatitis, which looks like dry flaky skin (but is actually a reaction to fungus that feeRAB on the oil). So i end up with irritated, dry, flaky oily skin all the same time, it's awful. People with this skin type usually have very sensitive skin as well. So if you treat the acne with topical treatments you aggravate the dermatitis, and vica versa.
My question is, has anyone used accutane to treat this skin-type, and what were the results? My reasoning is that since the seb-derm is caused by excess oil, accutane should reduce the oil and thus prevent the seb-derm, and obviously it's good for acne. I found a couple of studies quoted in the american journal of medicine done in other countries that propose using low-dose accutane as a solution for this skin-type. I started accutane about a month ago, and unfortunately had to stop about 3 weeks into my treamtent because I started losing hair.
I'm curious if anyone else has tried this as a solution to the oily/flaky skin? Did this aggravate the seb-derm at first (since it dries out your skin...it aggravated mine)? Was the seb-derm better after you came off the accutane than before you started?
If this is a solution I'm willing to risk the loss of hair, because I can't take all the itching from the seb-derm and the pain and self-consciousness from the cysts.
Here's my background. Like so many people on here, I have the dreaded oily/flaky skin corabo. I have overactive sebaceous glanRAB, so I breakout from the excess oil (i get cysts but usually only a couple at a time). At the same time, the excess oil causes a condition called seborrheic dermatitis, which looks like dry flaky skin (but is actually a reaction to fungus that feeRAB on the oil). So i end up with irritated, dry, flaky oily skin all the same time, it's awful. People with this skin type usually have very sensitive skin as well. So if you treat the acne with topical treatments you aggravate the dermatitis, and vica versa.
My question is, has anyone used accutane to treat this skin-type, and what were the results? My reasoning is that since the seb-derm is caused by excess oil, accutane should reduce the oil and thus prevent the seb-derm, and obviously it's good for acne. I found a couple of studies quoted in the american journal of medicine done in other countries that propose using low-dose accutane as a solution for this skin-type. I started accutane about a month ago, and unfortunately had to stop about 3 weeks into my treamtent because I started losing hair.
I'm curious if anyone else has tried this as a solution to the oily/flaky skin? Did this aggravate the seb-derm at first (since it dries out your skin...it aggravated mine)? Was the seb-derm better after you came off the accutane than before you started?
If this is a solution I'm willing to risk the loss of hair, because I can't take all the itching from the seb-derm and the pain and self-consciousness from the cysts.