Thank you so much for your reply to why you regretted taking Spironolactone. I didn’t know if you might have had a bad health issue from it. You cleared that up for me in your explanation. Thanks again! I can justify taking Spironolactone because I do have high blood pressure and I am older. My dermatologist recommended that I take it for hairloss and high blood pressure, but my regular doctor does not recommend it. The sad part is I have no way of telling if my hairloss will speed up if I stop taking Spironolactone. I also will never know if it is helping my hairloss. We have so many decisions to make with hairloss, and yet we will never know if it was the right one. That is just one of the unfortunate situations we have to face with hairloss.

Hi Joann – I just answered above 🙂 xoxo

Hi Judy –

The answer to this could be a video in itself or a post, but to summarize, and this is just my personal feelings and experience, I never felt good about taking a high blood pressure pill when I was 22 approximately) – I didn’t have high blood pressure. The amount I was put on was HIGH, it was 200mg, and I was told that by the doctor , that was the only amount where efficacy could be seen, any less less was pointless basically (according to him). I was young, desperate and scared about what was happening. So I took it. I cannot say I ever saw results from it to my knowledge, and the reason why I say it in that way, is because the truth is, I have no way to know how my hair loss would have progressed had I not taken It. But I can say my hair continued to massively decline. I would experience lightheadedness which I’m sure was due to taking a diuretic high blood pressure pill at an age my body didn’t need it. I felt trapped on this because I knew that there was a risk of shedding if I STOPPED taking it, and I didn’t feel I could emotionally sustain that. So I was stuck on Aldactone for approx 13 years, regretting it the WHOLE way through, wishing I never took it, and kicking myself for every taking it. Just what we need when we grabble with hair loss. I only felt strong enough to risk the shed and get off of it AFTER I started wearing wigs. I honestly felt I was compromising my health and I also wasn’t seeing any visible notable gain. Hence I ended up starting to wear wigs in 2012. With all that said, I have heard from women who have indicated they did feel they saw benefit from it. This is just my thoughts and experience. You can definitely have shedding from stopping Aldactone, also any benefits (IF ANY) received from the usage would also disappear if you stopped taking it, that’s true for any hair loss treatment.

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