Reported Accutane Side Effects

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Lupus
• Psychiatric Disorders
• Birth Defects

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease is a group of disorders causing inflammation or ulceration of the digestive tract. Accutane side effects have continued to widen and may include such disorders as inflammatory bowel disease. Although no study has definitively proven that there is a link between Accutane use and inflammatory bowel disease, it has been recognized that Accutane patients seem to develop inflammatory bowel disease. Read More...

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Lupus

Lupus has been linked to medication use. Although a more rarely discussed health condition, lupus affects many more people than even multiple sclerosis, leukemia, and muscular dystrophy. Lupus is an autoimmune disease so an individual’s body’s defenses against infection attack a person’s own tissue, causing inflammation. Read More...

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Psychiatric Disorders

In 1985, Accutane packaging inserts included information that Accutane patients have reported instances of depression. In August 1996, Accutane manufacturer noted that Accutane patients that reported depression while using the medication had no psychiatric disorders when Accutane was discontinued. However, any psychiatric disorders were once again experienced when beginning Accutane therapy again. Read More...

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Birth Defects

Accutane birth defects have been a well-known Accutane side effect, however Hoffmann-La Roche failed to strongly emphasize the dangers that Accutane can cause in pregnant woman. Well before Accutane received FDA approval, the manufacturers knew about the birth defect risks that could occur with use, causing them to delay marketing pursuits for over ten years. Following FDA approval in June 1982, the FDA received three reports of birth defects linked to Accutane use by July 1983, resulting in Public Citizen consumer group petitioning the FDA to require birth defects warning labels on Accutane. Read More...