Post-Accutane Night Blindness

[tanedout]

Who else suffering from post-accutane is night blind?!

This is a fairly common side-effect, and in my case I'm completely night blind - if there is no light source I can't see at all in the dark, my night vision doesn't work.

The assumption is it's something to do with vitamin A (as accutane is synthetic retinol), but I just got reminded at something interesting on my hair analysis regards my zinc/copper ratio;

Zn/Cu (Zinc/Copper) = HIGH (15.5 vs 8.0)

• Suggests severe copper deficiency or bio-unavailability of copper
• copper and zinc imbalance causes night blindness

TanedOut Hair Mineral Analysis

So potentially the copper deficiency, or bio-unavailable copper could be causing the night blindness it seems. I know one guy cured this by eating loads of beef liver for a couple of months, and the assumption was always that it was due to the high vitamin A content, but it's also got a very high copper content (about 4:1 against zinc, so this would improve Zn/Cu ratio). Maybe that's what helped and not the vitamin A..

Anyone else with night blindness have a hair mineral analysis? Assuming nobody with PFS, PSSD etc is night blind?

 

[MNK99]

I am not sure if accutane affected my vision, if it did it was minor bc I had near the same scripts minus astigmatism for like 14 years till quitting fin.
-Finasteride made it harder to see peripherally, got better a bit.
-It did make the difference between both eyes greater. My right eye was mostly fine.
-Now I really need to wear glasses to focus.
-And night vision is impaired.
-Fasting slightly improved these. And focusing my eyes together too. I can get around, but initially it was very scary.
-On SNRI my vision field would shift vertically or horizontally, like rocking side-to-side. It was occasional only. Went away.
-2/3 of them made me more sensitive to light, I can't remember not being sensitive to light, maybe I always was. I prefer not to have lights right above me

 

[Slayo]

i have exactly the same and i have pfs, can't see shit at night

 

[B_D_Acc]

@tanedout Do you have sexual sides from accutane?

 

[stupidfreak]

@tanedout Do you have sexual sides from accutane?

He does.You can read it in his log

 

[B_D_Acc]

He does.You can read it in his log

Cheers

I have similar PA symptoms but no night blindness.

 

[tanedout]

i have exactly the same and i have pfs, can't see shit at night

This is very interesting. I checked your hair analysis results, and you also have a high Zn/Cu ratio, it works out at 20:1, even higher than mine which is 15:1, optimal is 8:1.

So maybe you have bio-unavailable copper and I do also, and this is what is causing the night blindness (amongst other issues). Getting copper working again is probably absolutely key.