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[quote=Anonymous]I went on accutane when I was 25. I remember being so upset after it worked so well at all the previous dermatologists I went to starting at age 12. It really was awful going through high school and college with acne.

So when my son started going from a couple of pimples to acne the summer before 9th grade I was going to have him immediately start on accutane. He was around 5’3”. I waited until he turned 16 and was 5’7”. We are a short family so every inch counts.

He started on 10 mg and now is on 20mg which is a low dose and I won’t let him go up frim there even though they wanted to start him at 30 amd go up to 40.

Anecdotally a friends husband thinks accutane stunted his growth. I didn’t think much of it but he is 5’8” while his brothers are over 6 feet. and his wife is 5’5”. Both their sons are over 6 feet. My cousins boys took accurate. The one who started accurate at 14 instead of the other 2 boys who started at 16 and 17 is far shorter than his brothers.

These examples could all be a coincident but that and reading some journal articles and online discussions convinced me to delay accurate for my son. [/quote]

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