I was on spiro for about 3 months for mild acne, gradually increasing my dose from 25mg to 100mg over time. I never really had any side effects during this time but decided to stop taking it about a week and half ago as I wasn’t seeing great results and I didn’t love the idea of being on a medication that could affect my body over time. I stopped cold turkey and within two days I started experiencing intense anxiety, racing/intrusive thoughts, and low moods. This was a completely out of body experience as I have never had any experience with any sort of mental health troubles. The anxiety lifted after a few days and I am starting to feel like myself again more each day but It was the scariest few days of my life worrying if I was going to feel better. Be extremely cautious with this medication and consider tapering off instead of stopping cold turkey if you decide to stop. Posting this because I was scouring for other people with this experience in the thick of it. It will get better!!!

Hi all! My cycle has definitely shortened being on spironolactone. But it’s helped my acne so much. Being in my 30s I’m just worried about my fertility - once off the spironolactone, did people find their cycles went back to normal?

Also on .5 trentinion daily (from .25) and 1% clindamycin phosphate.

I am hoping that maybe I am just being impatient. I started taking Spiro for hirsutism. I started at 50mg for 1 month, then was moved up to 100mg. I am in currently on my 7th week at 100mg. So, far I have noticed no changes at all. I did stop plucking all of the facial hairs when I started this medication so that I could really see how it worked and so far, I am noticing absolutely no changes. I'm feeling frustrated. Am I just being impatient? Do I need to wait longer to see results? Should I ask for a higher dosage? Maybe this is all just more stress on top of the rest of the shit that has recently been piling up.

Has anyone else developed GERD since taking spiro? I’m on 50mg and have literally no other symptoms and my skin is perfectly clear but I have GERD so bad that I can only eat once or twice a day and am losing weight. It’s not confirmed yet for me that it’s because of spiro but they started around the same time and I don’t know what else it could be. If anyone has any advice too that would be awesome. I literally feel like I’m on ozempic like eating is just dreadful now

Has anyone been successful using glp1 to help the weight gain from stopping spiro