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[kcr]

I'm in the process of weaning off spiro, down from 100 mg to 50mg right now. I'm experiencing serious bloating ever since lowering the dose and wonder if it's related. Can anyone out there who has taken spiro and stopped it share any experience with what happened when you got off it? Did you get bloating or anything like that?
Thanks!

[peachy_D225]

just curious...why are you stopping spiro?

[sophiena1143]

no side effects, really.. definitely no bloating that i remember.. i just remember breaking out a little bit from the transition

[kcr]

Hi peachy, I'm stopping because it didn't really do much for my skin and the derm thinks it may actually be the cause of my recent hair loss. It's very likely that it's not the cause, but since it didn't really make my skin impressively better it's better safe than sorry.

Thanks for the reply sophiena! So far after a week of cutting the dosage in half (and skipping a few days of taking it) my period is 3 weeks late, though I had some spotting for a day or two, and I'm bloated. No breakouts so far, which is good!

I'm guessing the bloating might be the fact that I'm not getting the same diuretic effect I was getting and hopefully it'll level out at some point. I'll stay at 50mg for another few weeks and then drop down to 25mg and eventually stop taking it for good.