PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for January, 2001: Re: giving up on Spiro

Re: giving up on Spiro

From: jane (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:53:09 -0600 (CST)

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Thanks for your advice, but I can't handle 200 mg /day as I have abnormally low blood pressure to start with and it makes me dizzy when I tried increasing dosage. I was taking 100 mg/day now( 25mg spread out over 4 times a day as it is). I've cut back down to 50 last 4 days and my skin isn;t as dry. After accutane, by skin totally dried up and no moisturizer works. It's the clogging and ingrown hairs which bring on the big cysts along the jaw.. And dermatologist wants me to cut back and reduce dosage on minocin as I've been on it for 8 months now as well. That's in addition to using retin a and cleocin and glycogic cleanser.

At Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Sue wrote:

>Spiro is really an effective drug, but you haven't given it long enough
>(you might need a higher dose as well). Most of us do pretty well at
>200 mg per day; to see optimal results, you must wait at least 5-6 mos.
>At that "magical point" for me, it was amazing--the hair stopped falling
>out of the top of my head and I definitely had slowed growth on my chin
>and neck.
>
>I, too, was on minocyn but couldn't handle the indigestion (and
>involuntarily "revisiting" my meals--if you catch my drift), so I
>switched down to another antibiotic. If your skin is dry, then you need
>to consider a moisturizer. Contrary to popular belief, acne isn't so
>much affected by something "clogging" your pores from the outside (like
>makeup or a moisturizer) as it is from bacteria and stuff clogging them
>from the inside of your body--as evidenced by the fact that antibiotics
>work well to control it.

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