Aldactone?

HOLLAND · 09-27-2006, 10:35 PM

Someone in my family has been given this for hairloss. Have any of you had success with this?

Any info would be great!!!

Thanks

DollFin511 · 09-27-2006, 11:11 PM

I looked it up on www.webmd.com, and it says it is a testosterone inhibitor. Here's the link for you: http://www.webmd.com/content/article/64/72248.htm

They have information about the side effects, too: http://www.webmd.com/content/article/51/40672.htm

Not a big drug person myself, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, right?

HOLLAND · 09-28-2006, 03:17 AM

Thanks so much for the information!!!

We sure do miss you on the other thread!!!!!

Allison. · 09-28-2006, 03:03 PM

I have been on it for over three years. It hasn't helped with the hair loss. It did make my skin beautiful. I am now taking Flutamide to help with the hair loss. I started in June. I haven't had any more hair loss cycles. I recently started to see new hair regrowth at the temples. This is my last hope..., as I've tried everything.

HOLLAND · 09-28-2006, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Allison.

I have been on it for over three years. It hasn't helped with the hair loss. It did make my skin beautiful. I am now taking Flutamide to help with the hair loss. I started in June. I haven't had any more hair loss cycles. I recently started to see new hair regrowth at the temples. This is my last hope..., as I've tried everything.

Thanks so much for sharing. I will pass this along to the person I was asking for.

Thanks again!!

Eva37 · 09-28-2006, 05:54 PM

hi

ive been on spiro 5 years. Hasnt done anything for hair loss. But my skin is sooo clear now.
eva

kristinenicolle · 09-28-2006, 11:51 PM

ive been on it for a week now..so i dont know..but its a bummer that after years of useage it doest help with the hair loss

shucks

for the ladies on it:
i know that aldactone/spironolactone is water based...and i should be peeing more..but im not peeing any more or less than i was prior to taking this medicine...could it be because ive only been on it for a week?

thanks!!

Ameliab2006 · 10-01-2006, 10:31 PM

See? These are the kind of threads that discourage me. I don't understand why is it that Spironolactone or one specific anti-androgen medication doesn't work for some people. Isn't all hair loss related to PCOS or similar symptoms as PCOS all in the end because of excess androgens? I don't get it! I don't get it! Are you people older? Is this the reason? Or are you suffering from something else that is underlying that maybe you aren't even aware of??

Sometimes I keep thinking Spiro isn't gonna work for me and I haven't even tried it. I hate hearing of things such as Propecia and Flutamide because these medicines make follicles dependent. If you go off them, all your hairs will fall out again. I don't want to be dependent. I want to eventually improve so that I may not have to take medicine for the rest of my life. I want to be able to go out there and not have to feel this damn anxiety that kills me when I try to talk to people. This is why I don't have any friends or I can't even concentrate in school.

I don't even know if Spiro will be a successful medicine for me because it seems that my cortisol is the problem. It is 4x's the normal amount and even with birth control my testosterone isn't going down on my doctors words. All my symptoms including arrhythmia seem to spring because of stress. In the end, whatever it may be, whether it be my cortisol or PCOS, I'm still being attacked by excess testosterone or androgens!! What I don't get is that I've told my doctor that I've had PCOS symptoms all of puberty, but it never affected my scalp before, only after the events that unfolded just recently did I begin to have hair problems!! Only now after some bloodwork has arrived is my doctor beginning to see some possible reasoning behind my words. She kept telling me it was the PCOS all along (just after 2 visits) and there was nothing I could do about it. In actuality, none of my PCOS symptoms were ever that severe.

zorah · 10-01-2006, 10:36 PM

[quote=Ameliab2006I hate hearing of things such as Propecia and Flutamide because these medicines make follicles dependent. If you go off them, all your hairs will fall out again.[/quote]

Really? I did not realize that. (How depressing!) Do you have a source to point me to so I can learn more about that effect?

Thanks!

Ameliab2006 · 10-01-2006, 10:56 PM

No, I dont' have source except my doctor. She told me this. Especially in older people, but it can happen with younger people too.

**Over here is says that prednisone increases the risk of atrial fibrillation (or irregular heart rhythm) no matter what the reason for treatment it may be. I don't understand much of this medical mumbo, but I think that dexamethasone is predisone, is it not? I am being tested with 2mgs/for 2days of dexamethasone for a Cortisol DHEA blood test. I don't know if I have atrial fibrillation, but what I do know is that I have irregular heart rhythm and ALL of these symptoms are stemming together. If my cortisol is the problem I suppose that I have heard dexametha is a treatment for that, so what does this article mean??

I dont' get why my doctor is testing me with more glucocorticoid if my levels are already high??!!

I'm confused!

zorah · 10-02-2006, 12:19 AM

Dexamethasone, like prednisone, is an altered version of cortisol, but they are not the same. I have no idea whether dexamethasone raises the risk of atrial fibrillation.

The dexamethasone suppression test you're doing may help your doctor to figure out the source of your excessive cortisol levels. "If there is not a normal response on the low-dose test, abnormal secretion of cortisol is likely (Cushing's Syndrome). This could be a result of a cortisol-producing adrenal tumor, a pituitary tumor that produces ACTH, or a tumor in the body that inappropriately produces ACTH. The high-dose test can help distinguish a pituitary cause (Cushing's Disease) from the others."

Unfortunately, depression (or obesity) can also cause people to fail dexamethasone suppression tests, which I would think would lower the test's diagnostic utility in PCOS patients, since so many of us are depressed. I happen to think it's no coincidence that depression and PCOS both involve dysregulation of the hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenal axis, but sadly I don't really know of anything they can do about that.

Ameliab2006 · 10-02-2006, 01:14 AM

I am always an odd case. Even my doctor told me so. I am not overweight and I was told I had PCOS although I didn't know one cyst would make a difference. I've never had hair loss related to PCOS before, not before the events that I underwent during a year in school, when I even stopped eating well. I have had this hair loss for about a 1 1/2 yrs, it hasn't slowed down, but at the same time I haven't been placed on any significant medication nor has my anxiety issue stopped. If this is TE, it has persisted too long.

This is my thread into what I have been experiencing.

If you have some success with the Yasmin

blackcherry2002 · 04-27-2009, 01:02 PM

wow it's the yaz that is making your hair fall out. I was just reading about it last night. On top of that Yaz actually INCREASES cortisol. As I was trying to research because I only took it for 3 months and it was horrible, mood swings, acne breakouts, HORRIBLE acid reflux everyday that would bring me to tears. Do some research into. I think it's the yaz that is the cause of your problems.

Also on your other thread you said something about having problems with shedding all over...I'm on a cushing's site as well and many people talk about this..I believe it's a sign of adrenal problems which can in fact be caused by yaz. I would def. do some research and bring this all up to your doctor...