<p>I just read that it can cause hearing loss. Doctors don't mention that. Is it a 1 in 1000 risk? Does anyone know about it?</p>
<p>I have not heard that it causes hearing loss. All I can say that it has helped my daughter tremendously almost from the first dose. She has had amazing results and has only been taking it about a month, and then only three days a week. Now to get rid of all the redness and scars left behind. I sure hope it is permanent for her. I have heard some people say that the acne comes back when you quit taking it, but she has friends who have been clear for years after taking it. We will cross our fingers. The only side effects she has mentioned are dry lips and eyes and very light nosebleeds.</p>
<p>DS's cholesterol REALLY became elevated. He took Lipitor during much of his accutane treatment. BUT within three weeks after stopping the accutane, his cholesterol was fine.</p>
<p>I do remember that hearing loss as a symptom was mentioned to me prior to signing my son's iPledge paperwork. It listed all sorts of scary side effects, and it said that any of them could be permanent! But fortunately, I think most people don't experience all the possible side effects and that typically they aren't permanent. The scary part is that sometimes they are ... and the iPledge paperwork warns that you may not know until the damage is done. I only allowed him to take the stuff after nearly a year on everything else possible, with no improvement. So far, my son has not experienced any hearing loss.</p>
<p>I do know D's doc is watching her cholestrol level carefully. So far, so good. She just had bloodwork done again a few days ago and it is fine. She tried many topical treatments and various antibiotics for SIX YEARS before resorting to accutane. I am confident that nothing else was going to work.</p>
<p>Good grief. Six years?! Bless your daughter, and you!
It IS nice to see them clear up so quickly, isn't it?</p>
<p>Yes, six years and three different dermatologists. This doctor is fantastic, and the only one whose treatment helped her at all, but her face still wasn't completely clear. I believe accutane should be used as a last resort, but I also worry about her taking antibiotics for so long. And the results are nothing short of a miracle to me.</p>
<p>I began taking it, but I was worried that Accutane may have a permanent impact on my vocal health so I stopped taking it. My horrible acne has returned and I am REALLY desperate to fix my skin so I’m considering trying Accutane again. Can someone please advise me on the issue? Have the vocal troubles gone away for most people after a time or am I risking permanent damage?</p>
<p>It has been almost 11 months since my last post on this thread. wow–how time flies! My D just finished her accutane treatment about 3 weeks ago. Her dermatologist had her take it three days a week for almost a year. Her face cleared up almost immediately and still looks great. He did prescribe a gel (Epiduo) for her to use since she quit the Accutane, but it really burns her face. I’m not sure what it is for and she, at age 23, goes to see the doctor by herself and NEVER asks any questions. So unlike me. LOL. She did not mention any effect on her singing and she can hit really high notes. The low dose may have caused her to have minimal side effects. I am anxious to see if the results are permanent. Because birth control is required when a female takes Accutane, her dermatologist recommended Yaz. She had been taking it about 5 months before she started Accutane. Yaz is supposed to help moderate acne, so it may have contributed to her amazing results.</p>
<p>For the female vocalists, YAZ is a much better choice. It’s an oral contraceptive also used for severe PMDS (not PMS, more severe) and does not cause problems with the vocal cords. The hormone dosages are low, but it does amazing (good)things for acne!</p>
<p>It is hard to know if the Yaz alone would have had these great results, but I do think it probably helped. She will continue to take it as she did have severe problems with her period in addition to the cystic acne. If any of you decide to try Yaz, please give it several months before you give up on it. The first month or two, my D had even more severe cramps, but now everything is great.</p>
<p>D’s dermatologist is a big fan of Accutane, but we’ve resisted for a bunch of reasons. Yaz has worked well, especially in combination with amoxicillan for short periods. For my “other D” the Yaz had the opposite effect and she’s much happier now that she’s stopped it.</p>
<p>I am not a singer, but I took two courses of Accutane and it seems to have had no long-term effects for me, my hearing is fine. My acne unfortunately returned after the first course, but I have been clear for years after the second course. It’s probably different for everyone. If anything I probably wish I had been prescribed Accutane earlier, so that I could have escaped some of the scarring I have now. I do agree that it should be a last resort, because the dryness can be quite severe during the course of treatment and not very pleasant, but I definitely have no regrets at all about going on it. At the time it was something of a lifesaver, because nothing else had the slightest impact.</p>
<p>One of my daughters (not a singer) had some very alarming side effects during a course of Accutane; since then, dermatologists have recommended Yaz for her younger sisters. Not anything new that has not already been mentioned on this thread, but just chiming in with our own experience.</p>
<p>Wow. My thread is back! Cool.</p>
<p>My son continued on the Accutane a little longer after I posted this thread. Beginning fairly shortly after he started the Accutane, he was definitely losing his high notes. He felt that his voice was much less “loose” or “fluid” or whatever. His throat felt tighter and high notes that he easily reached before became very difficult to reach.</p>
<p>During this time, he was visiting voice professors at colleges that had accepted him so that he could choose a school. During the visits, he couldn’t reach the high notes that he had easily reached in auditions and other visits with these same profs. So the subject came up with a few of the profs. He told them he was on Accutane and that he thought it was affecting his voice. The voice professors were stunned. They very seriously advised him to get off the Accutane right away. They each knew of students who had ruined their voices with Accutane. They each also knew of students who had troubles with Accutane but regained their range completely after getting off of it. The one prof who was the most adamant about it seemed confident that my son hadn’t ruined his voice permanently yet, but that he should stop the medication beginning “today.”</p>
<p>He did stop that day, and maybe about two months later (can’t remember exactly), his voice fully recovered. From now on, he’s always going to ask about any prescribed medicine’s side effects for the vocal chords, as the voice profs advised. It makes sense that if Accutane is drying up everything else in your body, it’s going to at least temporarily, if not permanently, dry up your vocal chords, I suppose.</p>
<p>Sorry for the hikacking, SimpleLife! Obviously, your S doesn’t need Yaz! But for those who do, if you find out that your insurance company is no longer covering it- or, as in our case, raised the co-pay so high as to have put it out of reach, the generic version is only very slightly different and so far, seems to be working as well. I agree though that it’s necessary to give things several months to see how they play out.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the effects of Accutane and its impact on vocal chords is permanent or temporary? My daughter is in her last month of taking that medication and she noticed that she cannot hit the high notes she used to. She is a voice major in university and her exams are next week. She is worried.</p>
<p>soprano mommy…did your daughter get her voice back? I have been on accutane for a month and 2 weeks…my voice has lost it’s range and I can no longer sing certain songs. I want to know if this medication affects your voice permanently or temporary? Please let me know when you can. </p>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>soprano mommy…did your daughter get her voice back? I have been on accutane for a month and 2 weeks…my voice has lost it’s range and I can no longer sing certain songs. I want to know if this medication affects your voice permanently or temporary? Please let me know when you can. </p>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>vluvsong… I suggest you look back at simplelife’s most recent post… look’s like accutane’s affect on vocal folds can go either way…some have permanent loss of notes while others recover…</p>