Spironolactone and trying to conceive

Thank you for the different opinions on the spironolactone medicine. With God all things are possible.

Hi. I am experiencing the same situation as you listed above. It just dawned on me and I'm freaking out. Were you ever able to get pregnant?

Did you have any breast tingling while on spirinolactone? I started taking begining of November and had no side effects until February 15 my breast were little sore when touched, since then they tingle and the shower really irritates them. I feel different, hard to put a finger on it as I'm tired and not really hungry, even if I am and make something by time it's done cooking I'm not able to eat it. Just out of curiosity I took a HPT on February 15 when my breast was first little sore, negative.

Has anyone hear suffered from acne once they stopped taking spironolactone and became pregnant?

Did your doctor place you on a different medication for acne once you were pregnant? What did you use to help maintain clear skin, during your pregnancy?

Thanks so much! :)

Very helpful read! Thanks!

I am having the exact same problem.... Doctor never said this could effect fertility and I'm highly upset by it.... This is something a doctor should say before you start ANY medicine

I m taking spironolactone aldactone my doctor prescribed me and normoz also

Hello. I have been taking spiro (100mg)for over 2 years and now my husband and I are going to try to conceive hopefully within few months. I am so happy to hear that all your kids are healthy and do not have any issues. My doctor (gynecologist) told me not to get off it until I am already pregnant. But I am going to ask my dermatologist as well and see what he thinks maybe he will be able to lower it to 50 and then I will get of it once pregnant. Also do you have boys and girls? or just girls? I am very concerned about comments that if you are having a boy it might be very dangerous

I can't take birth control pills as well due to optical migraines. I do want to conceive, so is there anything else I can take, to your knowledge, that would help me now get my period every other week

I also was taking spiro and then found out I was pregnant - I found out at about 2 weeks and stopped immediately - my doctor still had me to do the extra blood tests and I am waiting for the results, I am scared sh*tless as I had no idea. I really hope everything is ok.

Just to correct one portion of the response by Dr. Pavlinec (whether or not spironolactone increases your risk of breast or gynecologic cancers), here is the abstract from the article he cited (citation #3 in his response) - read the last line of the abstract below if you want to skip to the punchline (no increased risk of these cancers):

Abstract

Spironolactone, an aldosterone-antagonist, is associated with gynecomastia. Digoxin, which can also cause gynecomastia, has been associated with increased incidence of breast and uterus cancers. We therefore postulated that spironolactone use might also increase these cancer risks. Using a nationwide prescription drug registry between 1995 and 2010, we identified use of spironolactone in a cohort of Danish women (≥20 years old). In users and non-users, incidence rate ratios adjusted by age group and calendar-year examined risk of breast and uterus cancers, both estrogen-sensitive, and ovary and cervix cancers, both relatively estrogen-insensitive. As an added control exposure, risk ratios in women who used another diuretic, furosemide, were examined by the same approach. Among 2.3 million women (28.5 million person-years), risks of breast, uterus, ovary, and cervix cancers were generally increased about 10-30% in both spironolactone and furosemide users. In the first year of drug exposure, incidences were increased, especially for ovary cancers. However, incidence increases in the first year of use were not specific for estrogen-sensitive cancers, occurred with both spironolactone and furosemide, and were driven by exposures immediately prior to diagnosis. For drug exposure ≥1 years before cancer diagnosis, incidences of these cancers were not significantly increased. We conclude that associations observed with first use in the year immediately before cancer diagnosis were driven by reverse causality, i.e., because of treatment for symptoms related to the incipient cancer. With respect to breast, uterus, ovarian and cervical cancer, there is no evidence of increased risk with spironolactone or furosemide use.

If you have poly cystic ovary syndrome PCOS and not just cysts in your ovaries then that itself can be the cause of the both the long period and the old blood.

Is Mirena an option for you? I also can't take OCP but for other reasons, so I'm not sure if it's oestrogen that causes the migraines? But if so, mirena may be a good option. Doctors often don't want to use it for people who haven't had kids because of the insertion, but I haven't had any and I've had mirena twice without a problem.

My husband & I are planning on trying to get pregnant very soon. I asked my Dr & the pharmacist when I should stop taking Spironolactone (I've been taking it for 3 years). They both had the same answer: stop as soon as you find out you are pregnant & that it wasn't necessary to stop before then.