"i am currently into my second month with accutane. i first took it to get rid of a few really deep pimples on my back; my face was almost perfectly clear. after starting accutane, however, my face broke out horrifically. it looked like i wasn&#039;t on any medicine or washing my face at all. i kept persisting, hoping that it would clear up, meanwhile my social confidence dropped a ton. i still find new, deep, cystic zits when i wake up in the morning, despite taking accutane faithfully, exactly to my dermatologist&#039;s instructions. i finally decided about 2 weeks ago to use a salicylic acid scrub along with accutane, and that has seemed to help a lot. however my back is still developing deep zits. i just hope in the end that accutane will start working."