We all know Accutane can thin your skin, how much depending on the dose. But is there a "safe" dose that is guaranteed NOT to do this?
This new 0.5 mg dose coming out soon for example sounds interesting!
Accutane "safe" dose?
We all know Accutane can thin your skin, how much depending on the dose. But is there a "safe" dose that is guaranteed NOT to do this?
This new 0.5 mg dose coming out soon for example sounds interesting!
Re: Accutane "safe" dose?
Originally Posted by andmag79
Excellent question. 10 mgs per day is a safe dose for most. It does not thin the skin. 5 mgs would be even better.
20 mgs does thin the skin. just shows you how much of a difference in accutane mgs. makes on skin.
When the 0.5 mgs comes out that will replace many rosacea oral medications if the company can get the FDA off their back on the bundle of paperwork needed by doctors to prescribe. Otherwise they wont.
I think that also answers my question if the 20 mg twice/day I took a couple of years ago did actully thin my skin.
I'm eager to move on and start the process on rebulding my skin again! What is the very best way for me to rebuild my skin again? You mentioned in another thread that using NLite could take quite a while and I don't know how many treatments to get something done. What about CoolTouch, any difference? I got hold of a doctor who had actully read your book, which convinced me she could be trusted!She said something about Restylane Vital, for skin rejuvenation. Could this be anything?
And the three V-beam treatments I had a few months ago, with thinned skin.. did it do more harm than good? It actully improved my skin, reduced redness and flushing and especially the pores, which was reduced to a "normal" state, invisible in other words. But here I am now severeal months later - status quo. And there's no way I can afford having a V-beam treatment done every quarter or so!
Dr. Nase - I'd really aprecciate your thoughts and comments on my situation described above.
The N-light and the YAG are the best rosacea dermal rebuilders. There are other ablative ones that do a great job, but not on rosacea skin. So, we are a little stuck. The cooltouch may help some. I would definitely not go with any pulsed dye laser because the thinned dermal tissue just cant take that heat and if you do go that route use subpurpuric levles.
Dont know about those topicals you mentioned. I have had my focus on EGF and the good TGF, etc.
If this helps, the theory is that you want to cause controlled mild damage to the dermis, this recuits more collagen and elastin and it build toward the superficial damage........thus thickening the skin. That takes some time though. Keep me posted on any other thoughts.
It does help, a great deal! But being a layman in laserland, which specific laser would do this best? Any special settings/filters I should keep in mind while doing this? And does thickening the skin works just like when having laser done for rosacea or can I go in without any special preparations?
This might be a dumb question, but when you're doing this, are you effecting the rosacea redness at the same time, or do you just go after thickening the epedermis? You can't do both at the same time, and get a "double effect"?
Thanks!
We dont really know which is better. There have been no head to head tests. The N-Lite is excellent, but you need so many treatments that the doc has to be close by and give you a prive break.
The 1064 YAG is also excellent. You can thicken the dermis superficially and in the deeper dermis by changing the settings. You also have the added benefit of treating the redness.
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