Spironolactone ... hair is worse ... and CAH, AME and GRA ... Cushings??

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In a message dated 11/8/2006 8:18:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, kathy11961@... writes:

I don't understand this either! But from some reading I've done, it does work both ways. It also says that it doesn't cause re-growth, wanna bet it does? LOL! Since I've been taking Spiro my hair has been growing faster than normal -- my nails too. I suffered from TE last

I was given Spironolactone because of my beard with the side effect to be helping my BP. That is my doctors being scared on what is causing my BP. She stopped all my medications and my Kdur and gave me 25 Mg of Spironolactone. That was Jan 2006 until late Jul 2006. I think the hair on my chin got better during that period ... but I still needed to shave it. I read it will stop NEW growth but that existent hair needs perhaps electrolysis, plucking or shaving.

Okay, I am female. My first reaction to Spironolactone was breast enlargement. Which then went away! Next, my hips finally got better curves. To me my figure was acting like I was a male taking this medication to become more female. The most amazing effect is how my face got more feminine. Next my skin got thinner and I started having GI ruptures and vein ruptures. This presumedly due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). As I struggled to keep taking the medication, I got "back of knee vein rupture", wrist vein rupture -- all from tight BP wrist cuff. Most recently I had an eye vein rupture. Always it is my veins. IMHO, I need my testosterone. It might be making my collagen stronger. Only genetics will tell me this. When my BP spiked about ten days ago, I felt the eye pop. Since I have insensitively to pain, I did not bother to even look at my eye. Hours later it was blood red. But in less than two days, all signs was gone. That is typical of my accelerated healing. <<Another reason I will be seen by the head of genetics>>.

Next: I found if I have EDS I am NOT supposed to take steroids. And, Spironolactone I read is a steroid! Oh well. I stopped the medication on July 26, 2006. First because my low labile BP was now ridiculously low -- like 74/46. My high BP is really due to my dysautonomia or dysreflexia. The slowed healing from the Spironolactone just made things worse.

As I was now off of the Spironolactone, (for three months now) my beard is back ... !!!!!! and I feel it is WORSE! All the better to show genetics when I tell them to test me for nonclassic CAH, AME and GRA. The doctor I am going to, was formerly at NIH and is an Adult genetics & EDS specialist. She is Dr. Francomano.

My beard ... I have handlebars!!!! My Testosterone was low when tested in 2000. It was abnormally LOW!! But they did the test on my third day of Prednisone IV (Medrolsolu?) for bronchospasm. I feel that totally disrupted the result ... considering I might have GRA. Caro