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I took accutane as a teenager and I am positive it screwed my body up, I'm just not sure exactly how. Just out of curiosity, I wonder if there are a higher number of accutane users among Lyme sufferers? Maybe the drug somehow disabled our bodies from properly fighting off these bugs.
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I took accutane in HS and became ultra depressed, quit the basketball team, and became anti-social.
My parents forced me off the med and I got my life back. (I had another friend get on accutane and had exact same effect)
Oddly enough - all of my chronic fatigue symptoms began shortly after.
Then came crashing down with Lyme exactly 6 years later
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If only we knew back then how insignificant a few zits are compared with what we are dealing with now. Ten thousand times less significant.
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cane, and by the way... my timing is similar. My fatigue and general malaise began about 6 years after taking accutane, too, and for a while I was still fully functional, but then came the Lyme spiral.
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Hmm, I did several rounds of accutane in high school myself, after months of tetracycline.
Shame they didn't have ProActiv back then.
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My symptoms also started within a month of stopping accutane. This is the same time I found a partially embedded tick on my arm. I've always wondered if there was an accutane connection. This is a very interesting topic, hope more will have input.
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My daughter has never taken Ac****ane and she has been sick for 10 years.
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Just to give a good picture. No accutane for me.
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No accutane here. I had to google it to see what it was........
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I took accutane in my 20's. It was more than 20 years for me to have very mild, intermittent symptoms. I don't think there is a connection in my case.
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I don't think accutane had anything to do with my adult son's lyme. He took it during his teen years. He has Lyme Babs and Bartonella and fatigue is not his problem.
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