Is anyone on both Yasmin and Spiro? My endo said that I would have to go back to Ortho tricyclen lo if I start Yasmin. I know that Yasmin has some Spiro in it, but is it enough to lighten my hair? I just finished my last OTL pill today, so I'll start the Yasmin in a week.
Yasmin, as I understand it, has a progestin component that is essentially spiro that has been tinkered with somehow. I don't think it is *just* spiro, I think they do something else to it. At any rate I have read that if you take yasmin, you are either getting 25mg of spiro, or getting something that is LIKE taking 25mg of spiro. I have read it both ways so I don't really know which it is or if it matters. At any rate, you can take up to 200mg/day of spiro for androgen issues, so I don't see why you couldn't take both.
I did find Yasmin alone seemed to make my leg hair grow slower/finer, but it had no effect on head hair loss - it seemed to make that worse. Facial hair stayed about the same.
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You can take both but your Potassium and Sodium are supposed to be checked for the first month or so. Not a lot of doctor's do it but they are supposed to.
I can't help with much more because I just had to stop my first pack of Yasmin in the middle. I threw up for a week straight on it. Yuck.
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No, I took the pills every day, but I just started them without AF (tired of waiting, didn't want to induce) and I guess I ovulated shortly thereafter. Should have used back up method for a month but oh well! Can't exactly say I have any regrets.
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I take yasmin and spiro 50mg 2x/day. I've only been taking this combination for a week-and-a-half, and notice no real differences as far as the androgen-blocking properties, but it takes long time to see results anyway. i've found that the yasmin/spiro combo has made me really emotional and kind of in a brain fog.
i'e been on 100mg spiro and yasmin for just about 2 and a half years. i've noticed no affect to my hair. i had lots of acne on my face and it's 99% clear, though I do get an occasional pimple. i also have cystic acne but that's been drastically reduced since taking this combo. the only negative part is that i think it's decreasing my sexdrive, which sucks since it was pretty much nonexistent from the get-go anyway. poor hubby.
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when you say it had no effect on your hair, do you mean the hair that was already there hasn't gotten better since you were on the spiro, or has it gotten progressively worse? because the hair that's already there may not be improved, but spiro is supposed to prevent NEW growth i think. right?
hair was only a minor issue, but hair that was in odd places (tummy) hasn't really changed... it definitely hasn't gotten thicker, but it hasn't gone away, either.
Yasmin and Spiro 
