My DD has suffered from bad acne for a couple of years. She also had very heavy prolonged periods/bleeding and tried many contraceptive pills to try and treat both. Nothing really worked so she had a mirena fitted in December last year. It has been utterly brilliant for her periods but..... her acne has got worse and was not responding to antibiotics so the dermatologist put her on spirolactone. Within a couple of weeks her skin improved but has got worse again. At the moment she's on 25mg/day - I'd like to increase it to 50mg and see if that works - we're waiting to see the dermatologist to ok this.
Has anyone else had a positive response to spirolactone and at what dose?
P.S. she can't take roaccutane
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Spironolactone for hormonal acne
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Localher0 · 25/05/2022 12:27
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