everyone is different, but honestly, I don't think your getting acne due to the manufacture (or ug lab) quality. It's coming from the dosage - which obviously corresponds to the severe acne: High amounts of steroids = high amounts of acne. Now, you will break out more on one type of steroid - for instance, maybe you'll break out severely with test, but not as bad as primo. I know for a fact, that I break out horribly on test vs. eq or something else, but nonetheless, I break out no matter what I take.
You have to realize that when you inject steroids into your body, your causing your oil glands to go into overdrive. They get bigger and they pump more fluid out. Now depending on how you broke out as a teenager is a good way to gauge how you will break out on steroids. There are lots of guys who didn't have any acne while they were a teenager and now that they are doing steroids, they don't break out at all or as much as others like you or I would break out. Also, if you are genetically inclined for acne breakouts, you also have a deformity in your tubes that extend from your oil glands to the top of the derm layer and also a deformity in the pore itself. A healthy pore is circular by design, while those, like us who break out, they aren't circular, more oval shaped and that tube that I mentioned should be straight, but for those like you and me, they are wavey shaped. What happens is that when those oil glands go into overdrive- the oil pumps more slowly to the top through those wavy tubes and gets blocked by bacteria and skin falling off those oval shaped pores.
So how do you juice and not break out? Simple.
Accutane - 20mgs to 40mgs a day or 20mgs to 40mgs e0d through your cycle.
I usually start to break out around week 4-5 when the gear starts kicking in. About this time this is when you should start your accutane cycle.
I would probably start out at 40mgs a day for 2 weeks. Once you are visibly "dryer" - eyes will start to dry out, lips will dry and you will notice that your skin and hair won't be oily. You could continue at 40mgs throughout your cycle, but if you aren't trying to correct the problem permantly then go with the 20e0d or 40e0d or 20ed throughout your cycle.
Now if you want to correct your acne problem permantly, stop using steroids for 6 months, and invest some time and money and see a dermatologist. If you can't afford retail accutane (about 400-500$) - no ins, then go the ag-guys way - so here's the plan.
you want to run 50mgs a day for the first 2 months. If you don't see on your forearms a rash, then you need to increase your dose to 80-100mgs a day for 6 months. The key here is it has to be atleast 50-60 a day with a 'accutane rash' or 80-100 a day . Dermatologists look for this rash. It looks like a heat rash that forms on your fore arms. It tells them that accutane is correcting those skin flaws and that you are at the appropriate dosage. I was under the care of a derm and this is what he told me. I found my perfect dosage to be at 80mgs a day , even though I could have stayed at 60mgs throughout the cycle. I just didn't want it to come back. You can safely stay on accutane 100mgs a day (preferably 80mgs) without liver problems. But, if you can afford a dermatologist, accutane - liver blood tests - this is the route you should go - by all means. but if you don't have ins. go with the research grade 50-80 a day for 6 months. It will stay in your system for another 2-3 months. I've been off since April and I have probably had about 6 zits, even with a short 6 weeker of test. If you have any other ?s, i'd be happy to answer your questions in a pm.hope this helps
