I’m coming to the end of week 24… and I have had enough. I have 20 tablets to go, and I’m thinking about stopping.
I’ve done 125mg/kg and I can’t see how hitting another 3mg will help. My face has been clear for ages, my back is not giving me any new spots, I have scars and some absolute horror show spots which are (touch wood) finally healing.
My rationale for stopping is this – I have a massive occasion this weekend, I was meant to finish before now and I long to attend and be some form of normal, which I havent been for the last 6 months. I want to wash my hair, I want to be able to move, eat, digest food normally. I want arms that dont look like a dinosaur because of psoriasis, I want to be able to stay awake past 11pm without feeling tired. I wan’t to stop saying the sentence ‘I’m nearly there’.
On Saturday I was so close to flushing my remaining pills. At the moment I’m thinking that I will stop on Wednesday, when I will have 14 left. Then I might either stop, just take 20mg every other day for a bit, I don’t know. Have a dermatologist appointment next Tuesday and she gave me the option to stop last time, there’s no way I’m having another prescription again.
I’m sort of convinced I may need another course anyway, but even if that happens, I’m going to have to do some serious weighing up of whether all this is worth it, or if I should just try a bit harder to accept that this is the way I look.
Tags: Week 24
Nooooo you can’t stop
. . I’ve been off “R” now since the 17 January & my skin is continuing to improve ( I only had about 20 tablets left & still had many spots & thought no way are these spots going to go in a week but they did leaving only a couple) . . . you will still be able to enjoy yourself if you stay on them . . . if you come off them you will still have the same side effects for many weeks so you might as well stay on them & try and get through the final few weeks 
You’re almost there just hang on for a few more days, even if you stop now nothing will alter your weekend as the drug is in your system & continues to work for 5/6 weeks after you finish your course
I also had about 6 weeks left of tablets when I went to Lanzarote & as you know you’re not supposed to expose yourself to the sunshine . . . l we asked whether I should come off the tablets whilst I was away but my Derm said no because I was so close to finishing he said it wouldn’t make any difference to me because I had almost the maximum dosage built up in my body !!!
I hope that makes sense . . . at the end of the day the decision is yours but for the sake of a handful of tablets try & stick with it
My lips are still dry & slightly cracked and I’ve been off “R” for 33 days !!
- gigi on February 18, 2013 at 8:17 pm
I totally know how you feel. I had a derm appointment on the 21st Dec, my skin was clear (I started on the 17th Sept) and I thought I might be one of those “three months” people. She said no, continue for a bit longer, just to make sure, upped me from 60mg to 70mg, and my next appointment was today, around 10 to 11 weeks later. I thought surely this time she was going to say THE END. Just in time for my friend’s birthday next week too. But no, she has said another 8 weeks. I was so astonished. I too was considering the same thing. I actually had the convo with the pharmacist, about how many tablets I should take from them. But like the above poster rightly points out, the drug is still in your system. The symptons don’t go away that quickly. Skip them for a few days, take the weekend off, I felt little better when I did that over Xmas. (Maybe it was just in my mind!) The get back on it at the beginning of the week. Two weeks is such a short time, it seems such a shame not to complete the course. If you do you will know you did absoloutely everything you could. What makes you think you’ll need another course? Lots of people I’ve read about comment that they still get the odd break out (lots of them are girls so get a few around their time of the month) but nothing like what they’d had previously. Just a few “normal” spots that clear up in a day or two. Being older too (no offence!) I think goes to our advantage too. A few of the blogs/videos I’ve read/watched of people doing two courses did their first course as a teen, then had to go again in their mid-twenties. It not scientific fact or anything, its just what I’ve noticed from blogs or videos online about this. Anyways whatever you decide I hope you enjoy your weekend!
- Georgina on February 21, 2013 at 11:53 pm