I’ve recently been put on the drug and I think it would ease my mind if I knew how it actually worked.
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Please take great precaution to not get pregnant while taking Accutane. Take more than one pregnancy test and stop if you suspect you might be pregnant.
My wife was on it for her acne. Before getting prescribed, they did a quick pregnancy test using the kind you can get at a store. Some time after, she didn’t like taking the pills for some odd reason and stopped. It wasn’t long that she discovered through ultrasound, to be a couple of weeks pregnant.
The doctor told us there was an extremely high chance the baby would be born with problems. We decided to keep her and face whatever may come together. She was born with part of her brain deformed. She cannot communicate and is at the absolute mercy of whoever is watching her as she cannot feed herself and is in diapers. She has a sleep schedule that would torture the bravest souls as she can never sleep more than a few hours.
She is now in her twenties and of average health. She is happy more often than not and usually wants of nothing other than keeping the room temperature at 75f or lower. She’s currently awake as I write this and Hammer House Of Terror is playing in the background. She does require constant vigilance and guesswork to figure out what she wants.
Although her smile and laughter will turn our crappy days upside down, the responsibility and dedication necessary are far beyond what an average kid requires. She’s not on meds or machines. We got lucky.
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