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Re: Spironolactone vs. Aldactone?
From: Anne (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:58:49 -0500 (CDT)
I found his on the website for Consumers’ Protection.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/health/generic.htm
Maybe the author had had something to gain from saying that (endorsement
of brand-name drug)…
Or maybe he knows something that we don’t…
At Thu, 28 Jun 2001, jodi wrote:
>
>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outdated, but only in that it is not the whole picture...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
>
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