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Hello everyone,
I am just wondering if anyone is taking spironolactone. My doctor put me on it in late september. At first I felt okay on it, I did have a stomach ache and heartburn but that seem to go away after awhile. I upped the dose to 50mg around the 2nd or 3rd week of October. When I upped the dose I was starting to get migarines. At first I thought it was my period. It took over a week for the migarine to fully go away. Then I was feeling ok again. I upped the dose to 100mg on Thanksgiving then that Saturday I ended up getting another migraine. I do suffer from them, but I have never felt like one like this before. I very sharp pain on the right side of my head, it hurt so bad I started crying. Then it moved to the left side. I used an ice pack then took something for it. It seemed to go away but ever since then it has been back and forth. I have also have been feeling very dizzy. I said up and I feel like I am walking funny and my blance seems off. Then when I sit down I feel like the room is spinning. I tried to make a doctors appt today but I couldn't get out of work to go to it. I am hoping to make one for tomorrow or Friday, I am just wondering if any one had this problem, if so did it go away? Or what did you do for it?
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I am just wondering if anyone is taking spironolactone. My doctor put me on it in late september. At first I felt okay on it, I did have a stomach ache and heartburn but that seem to go away after awhile. I upped the dose to 50mg around the 2nd or 3rd week of October. When I upped the dose I was starting to get migarines. At first I thought it was my period. It took over a week for the migarine to fully go away. Then I was feeling ok again. I upped the dose to 100mg on Thanksgiving then that Saturday I ended up getting another migraine. I do suffer from them, but I have never felt like one like this before. I very sharp pain on the right side of my head, it hurt so bad I started crying. Then it moved to the left side. I used an ice pack then took something for it. It seemed to go away but ever since then it has been back and forth. I have also have been feeling very dizzy. I said up and I feel like I am walking funny and my blance seems off. Then when I sit down I feel like the room is spinning. I tried to make a doctors appt today but I couldn't get out of work to go to it. I am hoping to make one for tomorrow or Friday, I am just wondering if any one had this problem, if so did it go away? Or what did you do for it?
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I've been taking 100mg spironolactone daily for 15 years and I've never had an issue with headaches (I always joke that I GIVE headaches, I don't GET them :)
I'm having kidney issues and the doctor suspects it's the spironolactone (he's setting up an appointment for me to see a kidney specialist). I tried going cold turkey but my acne comes back with a vengeance, but three tablets a week is the minimum I can take and still get the acne benefit.
Would you be willing to cut back how much you're taking? I wish I had more answers for you, but since I don't, I'm hoping this helps.
Hope you feel better soon.
The main effect I noticed was with my acne. I used to have pimples on top of pimples in the WEIRDEST places, and it was like they vanished overnight. The beard growth took much longer to decrease, but it never went away completely. My endo told me last month it will probably never completely go...which I sort of already knew, looking at my mother and grandmother, but still, it was tough to hear.
As for weight loss, no, the spironolactone didn't help. Neither did the metformin. Nor the green tea. Nor the exercise. Nor the diet. That's my main issue at the moment: NOTHING is helping. I do weights and cardio, the only carbs I eat are whatever is in veggies and apples, I drink plenty of water, but the weight won't come off. My family doctor is stumped, as are my gynecologist and endocrinologist. I have another appointment with yet another specialist next month, hopefully she has answers for me
haha, sorry, didn't mean to go off on a tangent there. It's a sore spot. A big sore spot. A big fat sore spot. A big fat sore spot I can't get rid of no matter what...
oops, there I go again :)