Week 1 - Day 5

I woke up this morning with partially dry skin. My dry throat from a few days ago has been slowly going away. I still feel something there, but it's less dry than when it started. This is starting to look more and more like another side-effect. My nose and eyes are also becoming drier slowly but surely. I'll be putting on my contacts soon. I'm going to take my eyedrops to school with me this afternoon.

After I took a shower this morning, with fairly hot water, a few more of my pimples burst. They seemed to have dry patches of skin covering them, so those came right off. I pushed a little and the white stuff spewed out. I very carefully shaved, and washed my face with Cetaphil. It feels ok, but still a bit itchy. I suspect this is from the dryness, so I'll wait an hour or so before putting on lotion. This is to give those pimples that popped a chance to heal a bit.

UPDATE: I didn't have any problems with wearing the contacts. They didn't get extremely dry, and the eye drops weren't even needed. I ended up driving at night, which I was hesitant to do. One of the side effects of Accutane is diminished night vision, so either it hasn't hit me yet, or it's not going to. Again, since I'm only in the first week of this treatment, it's too soon to tell.