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- billllyboobs34, on 04/18/2008, -15/+238So wait, I can no longer tell my girlfriend that acne medication comes out of my penis?
- DeskFlyer, on 04/18/2008, -1/+116This would have came in handy about 15 years ago.
- sealhands, on 04/18/2008, -3/+111lets be honest, you dont have a girlfriend
- ColorBlind, on 04/18/2008, -3/+84That is correct, but seeing how this new drugs stops the flow of oil to the skin....she'll be needing some moisturizing lotion.
- JayG25, on 04/18/2008, -0/+44Damn it, Why does all the good stuff get invented after I dont need it anymore!
- verkon, on 04/18/2008, -1/+38Dude, I wouldn't brag about my girlfriend having severe acne problems and low IQ.
- MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -1/+37... or a penis.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -10/+44LOL......Geeks all over the world will rejoice!
- moosepants, on 04/18/2008, -21/+53It's not a cure if 30% of patients don't respond to the treatment.
- schnikies79, on 04/18/2008, -0/+26It's an excellent treatment but they won't prescribe it except under the worst circumstances.
Accutane causes a huge amount of birth defects (while you are taking it and in almost all pregnancies), so there is the program you have to go through called iPledge which is a pain. Guys have to go though it too for some reason. Let's face it though, not all females are ready to get pregnant at any given time.
I work in pharmacy btw. - liljay2k, on 04/18/2008, -0/+25...or acne medication
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -1/+26Yes, since geeks are the only ones who get acne..
- jazboy, on 04/18/2008, -0/+23The article said 30% don't respond to retinoic acid which is better known as accutane. That statistic doesn't reflect the effectiveness of the new drug.
- kilgoretrout88, on 04/18/2008, -5/+28Roaccutane draws attention of the acne sufferer to their problem, and exacerbates the problem for a while by drying up areas of the face, causing pain, bleeding, constantly peeling skin. On top of this, they're reminded several times a day (when they take the medication) that the conformist, beauty-obsessed culture we live in considers them a freak. THIS can lead to suicide.
Roaccutane does NOT contain a special chemical that makes you want to hang yourself. - tattertech, on 04/18/2008, -1/+23This study was solely done as digg bait.
- MikeSD34, on 04/18/2008, -1/+21Acne is a very generic term, there are several forms of it, and several things that cause those forms. There's also the fact that not everybody responds to drugs in the same way, we're not all 100% the same. 70% is a damned good result, even if it's not perfection.
- Shakermaker, on 04/18/2008, -2/+22Not really...I've heard that it's salty.
Oh wait.... - BryanG412, on 04/18/2008, -3/+22If you have really bad acne go to your dermo and get Accutane...I had really bad acne and nothing worked for me until this...I mean it's a little extreme you have to get blood tested once a month but it cleared me up and four years later it's still gone!
- DOCKAUF55, on 04/18/2008, -1/+20Awesome, thanks helpee helperton.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+18"It is a major drug, but we cannot reveal its name or the condition it currently treats."
From oxfordshirebioscience: "its an off-patent small molecule drug that has a long, established history of safe use. The Company has a strong patent position to protect the use of SMT D002 in these new indications"
So its something that is already available and cheap - they just need to get a patent for its new usage and charge 10x more? - ligyron, on 04/18/2008, -2/+19Because we all know geeks are the only humans that have a skin type prone to acne ....?
- w00tdigg, on 04/18/2008, -0/+15Quick, somebody get Jessica Simpson on the line, I smell an endorsement deal.
- guyinjapan, on 04/18/2008, -0/+15I turned out just fine. In fact, there's little or no real scientific evidence to support any "bad mental effects" of Accutane. As far as I'm concerned, it's the holy grail of acne medication. I took it, it cleared me up, and I haven't looked back. As a guy below me said too, it was the single greatest thing I've done for my happiness.
- w00tdigg, on 04/18/2008, -0/+14Good thing it still enlarges breasts.
- freshyill, on 04/18/2008, -0/+13I love the no babies symbol that Accutane uses, like Ghostbusters, but with a baby.
- davefin, on 04/18/2008, -1/+13Ectoplasm
- VyRuZ, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12He said he hasn't seen acne for 4 years now. It takes half a year, most. :)
- sealhands, on 04/18/2008, -3/+15if that were true ron paul would have tested the medication while rick rolling the RIAA, guy
- Jwoey, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12Yea like the drug that turns infants into superheroes.
- surKaz, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12Even death.
- BritishGolgo13, on 04/18/2008, -0/+11And still find time to rickroll the Mets.
- geoken, on 04/18/2008, -2/+13Scathing insult.
I'm sure all Obama stories will be buried today as the 'butt boy crowd' members sit in their rooms sobbing over the emotionally crippling verbal attack you launched at them. - inactive, on 04/18/2008, -2/+12Accutane has gotten a bad reputation, but I'm not sure why. I took it for like 6 months and have never had acne since. Probably the single best thing that I've ever done in my life for my happiness and I think anyone with serious acne problems should go get it!
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -1/+11if Benzoyl Peroxide/Retin-A/Differin/etc worked in anything other than the most mild cases, nobody would ever take Accutane.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+10I found accutane so awful I had to stop. I had mood swings, couldn't sleep (dry eye so bad my eyes would be stuck OPEN when I woke up), my mouth and nose would constantly cut and bleed... lets just say no, never again. Plus, despite all that, my doctors are now convinced that even a full course of it wouldn't cure my acne due to my underlying conditions. I'm nearly 25! Anything that I can put on my face to control my acne safely would be a blessing from GOD (yes, it would encourage me to believe it GOD, thats how badly I want this medicine... NOW NOW NOW)
- voxtarri, on 04/18/2008, -4/+13then what is that stuff?
- surKaz, on 04/18/2008, -0/+9Yes, you should've figured that out by now...
- kamau84, on 04/18/2008, -1/+10This is not a cure. This is what happens when copy editors choose the headlines.
- inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+9Acne has been linked to suicides among acne sufferers. I know I felt a lot less depressed towards the end of my treatment. However, I did develop chronic joint pain which still lingers more than 10 years after I stopped taking it. Beats having acne though. I already have enough scars from it, I only wish I had started taking it earlier (they were reluctant to give me Accutane, so wasted several years trying stuff that didn't work)
- Berkana, on 04/18/2008, -6/+15Accutane already does this, doesn't it?
Other acne cures have been around for a while already. Acne bacteria are anaerobic; anything that generates oxygen in the pores will kill them. Hydrogen peroxide and benzoyl peroxide have both proven to do this pretty well. - shadowspawn, on 04/18/2008, -2/+11Dugg because for some reason I'm getting acne again. Only during the summer, tho.
- kinerry, on 04/18/2008, -0/+8this is also the same fluid that lubricates the vagina
women that take this will have to take lube, and no I'm not kidding - kilgoretrout88, on 04/18/2008, -0/+8Yes, because being a 'geek' and having a medical condition are mutually exclusive.
- guyinjapan, on 04/18/2008, -0/+8When I went in to get consulted for Accutane, they warned me that it might make me depressed. I just started laughing, because, hell, the whole reason I was there was because I was already depressed, because my face was covered in ***** acne. I figured that this medication couldn't really make me feel any worse, and you know what? I was right. Incidentally, I feel great now, and I didn't kill myself. Surprise, surprise.
- Myonosken, on 04/18/2008, -4/+11Just shut the ***** up and take your petty political stances elsewhere.
- TheUngod, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8It's not that only geeks have skin problems, it's just they tend to shower a little less than the rest of the world.
- iknowbob, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8i have a feeling that this "Major Drug" they are keeping a secret is viagra...
- AussieFox, on 04/18/2008, -0/+7He said four years later it's still gone.
Meaning he hasn't had it since he took it. - inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+7Yeah, unless you have a MEDICAL condition that causes you to produce too much oil... like genetic adolescent oily skin... or like me, polycystic ovaries. Don't you think that if it were as easy as washing our faces and eating zinc we wouldn't have acne! Bloody hell, by the time I'm up to trying acid peels, dermabrasion and accutane (which was a fun trip through the list of possible side effects, of which I unluckily got a handful) I sure as hell had tried something and moronically easy as cutting out greasy food...
- tobsterius, on 04/18/2008, -1/+8diet can only help so much. Some people just have excessively oily skin. Accutane was the only thing that really cleared up my acne when I was a teen.
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