The redness will not go away, and will get worse as you get older. I'm a 35 year old male in FL and took Accutane for 6 months in my early 20's (in college no less). I *thought* I had bad acne. But turns out, taking accutane was the worst decision of my entire life. I wish I could undo it. This drug is a powerful life changer. It is poison. It permanently shrinks your oil glands to where your. Hey, guys! Tomorrow is my last day of a five-month long course of Accutane. My skin isn't horribly red, but it is red nonetheless. My doctor told me that my side effects would go away within 2 weeks of finishing my last dose. Best Answer: There may be some residual hyperpigmentation (the redness you refer to) after your course of therapy is complete. This is not a failure of the Accutane; Accutane it designed only to treat acne -- not the after-effects of it, also by reducing the acne, it does help to reduce *some* f the redness. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. I could only answer if in fact the acutane did cause it, even after med is out of her system does not mean joint pain will go away, sense its first unknown if this is the cause, its not necessarily going to go away when drug is out of her system. I've always had bad skin, recently it got much worse. The doctor called it rosacea. After trying antibiotics he put me on Accutane. I'm in month 3, my face has def gotten better, but the redness doesn't seem to go away. Will Accutane Make the Redness Go Away That Has Been Present with Nodular Acne? Also, patient on heart transplant list with elevated labs for liver disease. Is it okay to proceed with Accutane? Also, patient on heart transplant list with elevated labs for liver disease. But now that the jig is up I might as well increase my dose and go full steam to get this Accutane thing over with as quickly as possible. And no, I'm not prone to flushing or facial redness. I've never had any problem of the sort until now. When it comes to Accutane, the dryness really makes the redness appear more red than it really is, since i had severe acne does that mean that the redness is gonna take even longer to heal and go away Anyway, Please help me, this is very depressing, i need all the advice i can get. The redness and pigmentation is called post-inflammatory pigment alteration and this is a result of the inflammation of your acne not of accutane treatment.