PCOS Messages for June, 2001: Re: Spironolactone vs. Aldactone?

Re: Spironolactone vs. Aldactone?

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:42:42 -0500 (CDT)

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There is a book called "The Good News About Women's Hormones" ... I forget the author. It's kind of old so that a lot of the info is outdated, but only in that it is not the whole picture... it's copyright 1995 or so and you know how far info on PCOS has come since then!!!!!!!! BCPs and Aldactone are the treatments most discussed in this book...

ANYWAY it says that the name brand is better because of the formulation. Yes, the generic and name brand contain the exact some ingredients... but according to "Good News", sprio is very hard to absorb... and the formulation of the name brand is more easily absorbed. Since sprio/aldactone can take a while to work, it's best not to fool around with the less effective versionm which means it would take even longer to see (or not see) results.

in my own experience... i took the generic version when i was 16 or so. took it for one summer. noticed no effects whatsoever, good or bad. now, i don't recall how faithfully i took it... but i took it.

i have taken the name brand twice - for three weeks last fall, and for two weeks this summer. i noticed an increase in skin clarity (my skin is not very bad to begin with...) and a decrease in facial hair in that short period of time. however, i could not stay with the medication, because it makes me bleed... heavily, and all the time. even on BCPs, i had bleeding from aldactone.

luckily, met + BCP + exercise has decreased my hairiness by an amazing amount... i am wearing short shorts today and i have not shaved since SUNDAY. so i don't think i really need the spiro/aldactone anyway. but if i were to use it, i would say name brand, in this case, really is best.

- jodi

At Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Beth wrote: >
>I was wondering about that myself! I've looked high and low and haven't
>found anything that shows a difference between the 2.
>
>At Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Anne wrote:
>>
>>Someone wrote a while ago that Aldactone is more effective than
>>Spironolactone. My doctor said they’re the same, the only difference
>>being the price. If the original poster reads this: is there some info
>>you can offer to back that statement?
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--
>>Anne
>>
>--
>Beth
>Rockport, MA
>

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