Accutane before surgery?

[JULIEM81 0]

Does anyone know if it's safe to be on Accutane prior to surgery? My lapbnd surgery is scheduled for October 3rd and I'd like to be put on Accutane now to work on my adult acne. My derm's nurse's practitioner was all for it until I mentioned the surgery and then said she wasn't sure if it was ok for this type of surgery. So she gave me about 7 other products that I've been using for almost 6 weeks and they've made my skin worse!!! :embaressed_smile:

[jjsmiles 3]

Don't start it until you have talked to your lap band surgeon. I don't know much about acutane other than it is a really really strong drug and you don't want to jeopardize your surgery. I was on a really low dose of prednisone and the anesthetist was not happy pre-surgery (gave me lots of grief actually about the potential complications to the surgery), and then I got sick after the surgery and stopped taking it, which apparently is a big no no - you have to be weaned off of it.

I am suspecting that accutane may have some serious potential side effects that you need to check out very carefully, with surgery upcoming.

[jjsmiles 3]

OK Julie -

I just googled accutane and OMG, the potential side effects are absolutely horrendous - includes mood disorders, psychosis, depression, suicide, increasing cholesterol, making your blood sugars hard to control, back pain, skin disorder, the list goes on and on and on. You need to be on 2 forms of birth control and have 2 negative pregnancy tests before you can be put on the drug.

Do you seriously want to put yourself at such risk a couple of months before major surgery? Can't your skin wait until you have stabilized from the surgery? Please consider this very carefully.