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.
Posted by canefan17 (Member # 22149) on :
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
Posted by dan67 (Member # 20344) on :
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.
Posted by dan67 (Member # 20344) on :
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.
Posted by Garden (Member # 31671) on :
Hmm, I did several rounds of accutane in high school myself, after months of tetracycline.
Shame they didn't have ProActiv back then.
Posted by miapiaface (Member # 31679) on :
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.
Posted by kidsgotlyme (Member # 23691) on :
My daughter has never taken Ac****ane and she has been sick for 10 years.
Posted by WhitneyS (Member # 25666) on :
Just to give a good picture. No accutane for me.
Posted by joalo (Member # 12752) on :
No accutane here. I had to google it to see what it was........
Posted by jalama (Member # 14600) on :
Yes, accutane, wish I never took it.
Posted by jkmom (Member # 14004) on :
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.
Posted by Elaine G (Member # 20735) on :
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.