I was prescribed Aldactone for alopecia, but it caused me to develop interstitial cystitis. We recently tried a much lower dose of 25 mg, but I am not tolerant of spironolactone at all. I am already on a oral contraceptive and topical minoxidil. I am bummed because Aldactone worked so well to help my alopecia, I just cannot deal with the bladder issues. Is there anything that will do what Spironolactone does, but not cause me a side effect of interstitial cystitis?
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The answer is a clear no. Finasteride works well when you are young, but less well as you get older. Sooner or later, your genetic hair loss will prevail over the drug finasteride.
Receding hairline is not a hair loss because of ongoing process of androgenetic alopecia but a simple juvenile type maturing of frontal hair line. That is seen almost every young boys almost between 16-21 that have a very rounded hairline without recession in the corners. Recession i...
