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[CarrieOkey]

I have been taking spiro for a month now and have started feeling a lot worse in general over the past few weeks. I have sometimes been nauseous several days in a row (not immediately after taking the dosage) and have had pains in the left side of my chest most days. I've also been breaking out into really small rashes sporadically throughout the day. This is the weirdest side effect but the arches of my feet have been killing me and this has never happened before...Also within the past like two weeks (at least that's when I started really noticing it) I have definitely gained a fair amount of weight. Right now I am taking 100 mg for my acne which only seems to have gotten worse. I took accutane which took care of my cystic acne for a while but I recently started breaking out a bit so my dermatologist prescribed spiro to help. I eat a diet really high in potassium (I eat like 2 large salads w/ tooons of veggies every day) so could these be side effects of hyperkalemia (really high potassium levels)? I was pretty wiling to accept all of these symptoms until I started gaining weight since my diet hasn't really changed...thoughts??? Help! I take ortho tri-cyclen bcp right now and am considering changing if it might help regulate my hormones...

[CalypsoStorm]

I've only been on Spiro for about 2.5 months so I'm still quite new to it but from what you've described, it sounds like you're having a reaction, quite possibly an allergic reaction. Personally if I were you, I'd go back to my doctor and tell him/her about it. You might have to stop taking them.

As for hyperkalemia symptoms, there rarely are any but if you do show signs of it, it's normally slow/irregular heartbeat and muscle weakness. There are some people here that have been on 200mg of Spiro for well over a year and they've never had any problems with their K levels.

Sorry if that wasn't of much help.