I am taking spironolactone for adult female hormonal acne. I currently take my full dose in the evening. I now have to discontinue my birth control pill because I’ve turned 50. I am worried about hormonal breakouts. Would it be better to split my dose of spironolactone rather than take it at once? I am on 200mg/day.
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Spironolactone has a half life of about 16 hours for the active metabolites of the drug. This means that it would take about 36 hours before traces of spironolactone should not be detected in your blood. Hope this helps.
Dear patient, Obviously it is exceedingly difficult to answer your questions without knowing more about your past medical history, type of acne and other medications or concurrent conditions. Having said that I would consider discussing your side effects with your prescribing doctor right away....
Hormonal acne is a real beast and something that requires proper understanding to conquer. HEre we go. Hormonal cystic acne is dominated by bacteria, testosterone abundance, and believe or not, dryness NOT oilyness like it looks like. So these are the areas that should be tackled to fix it. ...
