HatinFakrz wrote:
>>The 10g/day will get rid of most of your breakouts for the first six
>>months. Odds are good, anyway.
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> Six months?! I thought "they" say to reduce your dose after 3 months? Do you
> reduce it only after you start clearing up really good?
Yes, after you've been clear for a few months to a year, should you go
to maintenance. (Of course, if you're having side effects or other
problems, one should go off it immediately. Or if you're hesitant to do
the high dose, you could drop down. But it takes much much longer to get
results at the lower doses for those with moderate or severe acne. )
Neither "I" nor "they" are authorities on this treatment, of course. But
I'm basing my thoughts on reading and observing and discussing this for
like 4 years or whatever its been.
And even then (after you're clear for a few months), one should drop
down slowly (500mg-1gram less a week), to find the maintenance dose that
will work. 2grams a day is just an arbitrary number, you have to find
your own maintenance dose.
Just numbers of observation, but it seems like 25% of people can drop
down to 2g a day and remain clear (after they have taken a higher dose
and stayed clear for a while). 25% of people never get clear, so they
give it up altogether. 25% need to stay on their higher dose (5 or 10 or
20g/day) and 25% need to go Higher in dose after 6 months or a year.
A lot of people jumped on the PA bandwagon 2-3 years ago. Those longer
time uses are beginning to report that it has stopped working altogether
for them.
So the 50% number that could maintain or drop down, may be a changin'..
fwiw, ymmv and all that
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