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[Ivy.]

So my derm told me to take 100mg of spiro for 8 weeks and go back and see her.

1. To me spirolactone at 100mg is to high of a dose for me, because I am 85 pounds.
2. Spirolactone probably wont do anything in 2 months from what MOST people say about it, (maybe it would at a higher dose who knows).
3. The side effects; headaches, blood pressure, water intake, dizzyness....I don't want to deal with that crap...I am a college student, i'm 20 years old...I have job pacements for school...I cant feel like crap all the time.
4. I am TERRIFIED of an initial breakout.... I have been on minocycline for 3.5 months and I don't think it is working anymore because I have quite a bit of back acne and chest acne which I hardly ever get.....if I take the spiro now the antibiotics MIGHT delay the initial breakout but it is doubtful.
5. If I go on spiro and stay on it for 8 weeks and my face just gets WORSE from the spiro then i'll feel absolutly terrible.

I have mild-ish acne on my face...mainly i'v just been taking the antibiotics for the cystic acne I get on the right side of my face.....

I do NOT want to make myself have more cysts than I already get every month because of spiro

[Prettywords]

You can start off with a lower dose that you feel comfortable with to see how you do.Try half (50) or even (25). If it's one 100 mg pill get a pill cutter at the pharmacy and cut it in half.