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Re: more hairy issues
From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:32:09 -0600 (CST)
To address just one point of that note! :) No, at least where I am
doctors do NOT get scripts back like canceled checks. It is posible
that the doctor could call up your pharmacy but that would involve
he/she knowing where your pharmacy is, and that's unlikely - especially
if your physician has no reason to suspect that you wouldn't fill the
prescription. You may meet with resistance from your pharmacist, as any
well trained pharmacist would also try to make sure you were on some
form of birth control. I don't know one way or the other whether it
would be safe to take aldactone without the bcp, seeing as it's usually
prescribed because of its high success rate in preventing pregnancy.
Maybe other forms of birth control would be okay if you were very
diligent about them, I don't know! Just some info about the scripts...
At Wed, 28 Feb 2001, jodi wrote:
>
>i seem to be having increased hair problems as of late...
>
>i always seem to notice this before a period. some women break out... i
>get hairier. i actually seem to develop new terminal hairs at this
>time!!!
>
>i understand that progesterone can act as an andorgen in the body...
>which means that break outs and hairiness both make sense from that
>aspect. since progesterone is high after ovulation... well, this all
>makes sense.
>
>making sense, however, does not make it any more comforting.
>
>my doctor prescribed for me 1500mg og glucophage a day as of january
>19th. so far, well... i think i'm gonna have a period soon. i'm
>hoping. it feels like it... so hopefully, something good is going on.
>
>i have an appointment for april 20th, and at that point she said i can
>try "triple therapy"... the pill, aldactone, plus the glucophage.
>
>she will not give me the aldactone without the pill because of the risk
>of birth defects. (i have also had extended bleeding episodes from
>aldactone, making me relauctant to take it without the pill from that
>standpoint... at the same time, i am dead set against the birth control
>because i want my body to work, not be turned off. i can accept that
>there is a risk of birth defects with aldactone... but i think a
>women's means of birth control should be left up to her. does anyone
>know if docs get scripts back, like cancelled checks, so they can check
>up on if you've actually filled them?? i could always take both scripts
>but only get the one filled...)
>
>my hope was for the glucophage to reduce the PCOS symptoms on its own,
>so that i would not want or need to take the aldactone and birth
>control.
>
>but i'm getting hairier here... and it's annoying me. i feel like,
>even if i get the testosterone levels and insulin levels down, and have
>periods, i'm gonna get hairier every month because of progesterone!!!
>anyone know if this is a possibility??? or could it be that my
>testosterone is still really high and the progesterone on top of that is
>causing this?
>
>i have actually been considering asking for the aldactone after all...
>this hair is too much to deal with. but i don't want to be on it
>indefinitely... so i don't know if i should bother. does anyone know,
>if you take aldactone, and get the hair growth to go away or slow down,
>if you stop taking it does the hair grow back EVEN IF YOU HAVE ADDRESSED
>THE UNDERLAYING HORMONAL IMBALANCE?
>
>it seems like it SHOULDN'T... but i bet it does. blah. but i can't
>afford the laser treatments... or at least, i don't think i can...
>
>at my last blood draw, my 17-hydroxyprogesterone was really, really
>high. if it's still high, i'm gonna get tested for adrenal components
>of this, but my doc doesn't think i have those since my DHEAS was
>normal. can THAT cause hairiness as much as the testosterone? ugh!
>help! any imput on progesterone and hairiness would be appreciated... as
>would anyone knowing if docs get prescriptions back like cancelled
>checks... as would anyone knowing if hair slowed down by aldactone
>comes back even if you adress the underlaying cause... but for that
>matter, does aldactone make you appear to have a normal level of
>testosterone in your blood during tests, meaning you'd never know if
>your levels were normal while on it? or does it merely block the action,
>not the production? i thought it only blocked action, but who knows. i
>loved what it did for hairiness while i was on it, but i didn't like the
>bleeding... or the fact that it made me numb from the waist down, if
>you catch my meaning...)
>
>- jodi
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