Help Patients Start and Stay on Isotretinoin for Acne

December 2021

Questions are coming up about how to manage expectations with isotretinoin (Amnesteem, Claravis, etc) in patients with acne.

Continue to consider isotretinoin for patients with severe cystic or nodular acne...or with less severe, scarring acne when first-line meds (topical retinoids, etc) aren’t enough.

Educate that acne may worsen for 4 to 6 weeks before it gets better...and it may take the full 15- to 20-week course to see benefit.

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