Re: Dr. Sam: Any ideas for PCOS hairloss?
From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel ?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:17:32 +0100
Hi Fergus,
Basically if you ttreat the cause of PCOS (IR) it will help with all the other problems (androgen side effectsm, hypertension infertility, etc.)
Sam
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> From: "Zalányi" <zalanyi.samuel@drotposta.hu>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS-MEDICATION"
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> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Dr. Sam: Any ideas for PCOS hairloss?
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> > Second: spironolactone is one of the weakest antiandrogens, in fact it is
> a diuretic with a-a side effects. If you live in a country where Diane or
> Androcur are available or Finasteride, they are much stonger a-as.
>
> I understand that spironolactone also treats hypertension. I realize that
> this is probably not much of a selling point to people with normal blood
> pressure, but my partner suffers from PCOS and high blood pressure. Do any
> of these other three drugs combine the anti-androgen and blood pressure
> effects of spironolactone? Thanks.
>
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