Vitamins and Accutane

I am scheduled to begin taking Accutane in a couple of weeks. Accutane is a very high dosage of Vitamin A used to treat acne and while on it, patients are not allowed to take any additional vitamin A, including multi vitamins. I checked with my pharmacist to see if there are any multi vitamins without vitamin A, but there is not. I also spoke to my surgeons nurse who recommended that I purchase my vitamins individually while I am on the accutane, but this could be very costly. Does anyone have any ideas about what I could do about my vitamins for the five months I am on Accutane? I take my vitamins daily and nver miss them, so this is a concern for me. Also, do people think that I could get away with purchasing some of my daily supplements individually and just take those and if so, which vitamins would you think would be the most crucial to take during the five months? I will also call the nurse again to see what she thinks would be the most important ones, but thought some of you might know. Thanks

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