8 March 2010: Have now taken 240mg of Isotretinoin in total and can definately feel it within me. My lips are now really dry and begin to crack, without the use of vaseline. My skin feels more fragile - when I apply moisturisier it stings a little (the way it used to when I first started using benzoyl peroxide) and I can see now why the dermatoligist wanted me to stop all other treatments.

 Last week I suffered from a few minor headaches. I think this may have been whilst I still had moderately high doses of tetracycline in me, which increases the risk of “idiopathic intracranial hypertension” - basically headaches. These have now ceased, which has pleased me since it suggests that it wasnt accutane alone causing them.

Positive: My acne has not broken out as badly as I expected. I expected that it would return, as it was before christmas - severe nodulocystic. However since starting accutane I haven’t had a single cyst develop (on my face anyway - I don’t look at my back). I have had a lot of new spots come, but they are small, come to a head and heal very quickly. Much quicker than I think they would if I was not taking isotretinoin.