thanks for posting your story sounds alot like me I am 21 and started to get acne when I was 19 I had perfect clear skin all through high school and then all of the sudden I started to get bad acne at 19. Right now I am on Yasmin and 100mgs spiro and my skin is clear, my derm wouldn't perscribe it but my GP did because she thought it would help with water retention from birth control pills and my acne. I too have no side effects. If anyone out there is thinking about spiro then do it, its way better than accutane, which didn't work for me.

I take 150mg and I saw results after on month and was clear in two months, I am still taking it along with Yasmin birthcontrol because it can mess with your period cycle. You have to keep taking it its not like accutane where you take it for a certain amount of time then stop, it will stop working if you stop taking it. As for the hair no I have not noticed that my hair grew a lot, the hair on my head is the same, I have slightly less body hair but I never had excessive body hair to begin with. For me Spiro has very few side effect far less than Accutane which dried my skin so bad it hurt, lots of bloody noses and bloody lips and gave me awful headaches and after all that my acne came back in 6 months.

did you drink lots of water and did the yasmin make you moody? yasmin has 25mgs of spiro in it. does that mean you really take 175mgs? also how do you take it each day? do you divide it up? did it lower sex drive. just curious. thanks

karm is right men should not take spiro, sry I didn't notice you were male. I had remarkably fast results my doctor was amazed, though, I had been on the yasmin for a while which helped alot so when I started the spiro my acne wasn't as bad as usual, Yasmin cleared my cysts, the spiro got rid of the rest of the pustules and white heads. I honestly didn't have to try to drink a ton of water because it make me thristy so I wasn't keeping track of the water I drank I was just drinking when I was thirsty.