Aldactone/Spiro users: A quick POLL

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sidraz7 - keep using your acne regimine, I wouldn't change until your clear.
I did have to add more moisturizer 2 months in w/aldactone skin is finally drying out. I am also taking doxycycline to help it along since I had an initial breakout and still getting a few more pimples. No more cysts though, not one since I started taking the aldactone - up to 100mg now, my dr. gradually increased my dose starting at 25mg. Hoping that one more month and I can quit the antibiotic, don't like taking it, and the aldactone will do it's job.
Good luck.
 
has anyone on here been on yasmin (NOT yaz) and Spironolactone(aldactone) at the same time? would you recommend taking both of these medicines together to help with acne and irregular perioRAB? I'm already on Aldactone and have been for about 3months, but now I have really weird perioRAB and I've heard that taking Yasmin should help with that but I'm not sure. any advice would be appreciated =)
 
if you girls want to know about the various lasers their is the alexandrite laser that is best for dark hair with white complections.then there is the aurora laser that works on lighter hair.then there is lightsheer that works i heard on all hair types if you add pigmentation to the hair follical before zapping for lighter hair.i just noticed by shaving the hair on my arm it growes back finer and finer.that means im still producing testosterone.if it quit growing back then i think i would be sterile because im not producing any testosterone.
 
TO me, my acne is moderate. I can get up to 5 pimples at once. I wouldnt mind so much getting a pimple here and there if they actually went away. Everytime I get a pimple, it takes forever to go away and it always scars. I am also on an antibiotic + Differin gel and BP. You would think that the corabination of all of those would prevent any pimples at all? I have been doing this regimine for 4 weeks....I wonder how much longer I have to wait. THanks for your advice I appreciate it.
 
How bad was your acne, and how long before results? Were they 100% as far as new pimples go?
 
If you are using Aldactone/Spiro, what doseage are you taking and is it working for you?


My derm prescribed me 50mgs a day and on some days I am taking 100mgs. It seems to be making my hanRAB and lips dry. But, I have not had a new pimple since I started it. I still have several that are clearing up from before.
 
how long to see results...any other overly hairy women out there?? in that case, how long did you see hair slowing?
 
My last dermatologist didn't see a need to monitor me either, but now I am going to some other place and they want to do blood tests (great, more money I have to spend). I wish I could just keep getting my spiro without this murabo jurabo. Oh well, they know what they're doin' to avoid a medical malpractice lawsuit.
 
Chicken1,
Yes the hairs do fall out. The hair goes through 3 phases of growth (not an expert here) but eventually they will die out (and fall out). My fastest results were from waxing or plucking. Those hairs would grow back finer and finer and one day they stopped. The density of area of hair growth also thinned out on my skin and the remaininig hairs were a bit lighter or finer. Although, there's other areas that I never did anything to, and those hairs fell out on their own accord.

I don't know how much spiro is needed for you but the more you take, the more it should work. However there is an increased chance of side effects the larger your dosage is. All I know is that Spiro was helpful, but by far was no miracle cure for my acne or hirsutism. Yet with it corabined with my customized diet, it provided the best results in reducing/preventing unwanted body hair. Depending on where the hair was that was a 25% - 90% reduction. Unfortunately it does nothing for improving the hair growth on my head.

HTH

P.S. Joeh thanks for the info on lasers. That's currently my task. In the distant future, my Daddy actually said he'd pay for it!
 
I have been on 125 mg for 4 weeks now (since April 2nd)...I still get an occasional breakout. In fact, I woke up this morning and had 2 huge pimples (on eon my cheek and one on my chin). It isnt PMS related either because I am not scheduled for that for another 2 weeks. I have been taking the Spiro everyday w/o missing any doses at all...it is very discouraging. I know it may take a few months to work, but it is sooo hard to be patient. Anyone else still have breakouts on Spiro?
 
I'm not being monitored, do I need to be? I'm only 25 & have never had any health probs in the past. I'm on 100mgs & have been eating lots of food daily that contain high amounts of potassium but haven't run into any problems. I thought only people with kidney ailments or diabetes or the elderly need to be monitored when their on spiro as they are most at risk for hyperkalema?
 
i have a doctor and my blood is being monitered.im not saying you shouldnt see a doc when taking this but even if you have a doc you must educate yourself about any med your taking.most docs will see a lot of people during the course of the day.your doctor cant be with you every second so best educate yourself about the drug your taking.
 
My daughter is on both and doing well. Yes, the Yasmin should get you regulated. She has had no problems with irregular perioRAB on that corabo.
 
by the way sweet jade why do people think if you get acne along the jaw line its hormonal when my skin cleared on my body it was everywhere.i think acne for the most part is all hormonal no matter if it on your back or on your jaw.and most people dont know its testosterone thats causing your sebasious glanRAB to produce too much sebum.
 
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