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Reviewer: 19-24 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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While this drug did help clear my acne it also caused benign intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri). Basically the drug caused me to have symptoms like having a brain tumor, but in fact I did not have a brain tumor. After about 3 months on this drug I started getting severe headaches and my vision started to become blurry. I went to see my eye doctor who told me my optic nerves were very
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This medicine made me feel extremely depressed. I can't explain it very well, but I just felt lethargic and apathetic when I was taking this. If I could go back in time and never have taken this drug/medicine I would. It wasn't very helpful at all and actually created some other problems in the future.
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Reviewer: 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I've only been on this med for 3 days now and am already seeing a difference. I'm 32 and my acne is worse now than when I was a teenager. I'm hopeing that this med will clear my acne up and I'll look like a normal person again.
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Reviewer: unknown, 13-18 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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the doctor prescribed this to me and sed take two 500mg pills at 7 am and 6 pm a total of 2000mg a day. A month later i am in a hospital with pancreatitus for tw weeks and i couldnt eat for a whole month. i also had a feeding tube by the way im only 15 my body cant handle that amount of medication the doctor almost killed me. The dosage that i listed was my starting dose.
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Reviewer: 45-54 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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I was in my late 30's and early 40's and developed a severe case of acne. My dermatologist put me on this medication along with the topical medication Benzaclin. It took a good month or so to start working and then I took it for a few years. It worked wonders. When it was time to try to get off, I did ok. I believe it was from some type of infection going on in my body. I don't n
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