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Accutane and facial hair

by liverpool_fc, Nov 01, 2008 08:44PM

Hi, i am on my 5th month of accutane and i have had amazing results because of it..zero acne and i havnt had one pimple come out in half a year. The problem i have is that i am east indian and both of my brothers have alot of facial hair. Im 18 and i have not that much facial hair where all the guys in my family especially cousins, uncles etc have a ton of facial hair. I know people are going to say i regret wishing for more facial hair but i am wondering why i have little facial hair compared to my peers? I have heard that accutane causes pores to shrinke, as a result causing facial hair to be delayed in growth because of the smaller pores. If anyone has information regarding this please fill me in!

Thanks in advanced

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