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Hey all,
I'm a retired user, been on Spiro for 2 years now and my skin is crystal clear.
I have been taking 200 and then 100mg/day although I've never been strict enough about it - I sometimes skip days, etc.
Recently I noticed a couple veins becoming more prominent on my tummy/thigh (I'm very fair skinned anyhow) and I wonder if I can attribute this to Spiro? I hear steroids make the skin thinner. I somehow think this is Spiro related as I recall reading from a lady who struggled with something similar. Can any of you relate?
Anyhow, I'm now trying to decrease my dosage to avoid long-term side effcts like this. What would you think is a reasonable maintenance dose to keep my skin clear? As I said, it's perfect on 100mg-s, and I'd have to skip about a week for tiny blemishes to crop up.
I'd very much appreciate your help - don't want to make a choice between cystic acne and my body looking like a map of rivers!
Thank you
I'm not sure I can help with your question, but I having been dying to know the answer on the reverse. I am currently on 75mg of spironolactone and have been since July. I still get small pimples. Some take weeks to go away and sometime improve for a day or two and then get worse and then get better. It's so strange. I also use differin .3 I'm trying to decide whether changing topicals makes sense or if adding 25 mg of spironolactone so the total is now 100mg makes more sense.
When you note you get small pimples if you stop spironolactone for a few days, I can't help but wonder if the reverse would work for me.
Thoughts?
Hey!
Do these veins look like varicose veins? Or are they just normal (by "normal" I mean not tortuous, twisted veins)?
I got some visible veins on my leg and I think I got them from taking birth control. Since spiro decreases androgen levels and, therefore, up the estrogen, it might have some relation, but I'm not sure.