Dr. Samantha Ellis
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Apr
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But also if you tend to have low blood pressure.
Like if you could feel fainty when you say that.
You have to make sure you're staying really hydrated on the medication.
So if you easily get dehydrated or you're not good about staying up on your water intake, that can be really important.
And then some people will get breast tenderness.
Some people can get headaches, but it's,
really uncommon.
I would say for every hundred people that I prescribe spironolactone to, there's just a handful that might have an issue with it.
And sometimes we just reduce the dose or we adjust how they're taking their medication and they are able to tolerate it.
And that makes a world of difference in terms of how confident they are in their skin on a day-to-day basis.
To some degree, but I would say that PCOS is a little bit different because it directly impacts the hormones that are most triggering to acne.
So whether you have like other hormone issues, whether it's thyroid, things like that,
those are less important or less well associated with acne.
So it wouldn't be something that I would necessarily do as a dermatologist.
But sure, it helps to have all aspects of your health aligned when you're trying to treat any skin disorder, including acne.
What do you think about blue light therapy?
I'm okay with blue light therapy.
I think the devices you use in an office are usually more powerful or potent than what you could do at home, but blue light kills acne causing bacteria.
So anytime you're reducing at least one arm of sort of the acne causing quad, that's going to be helpful.
What do you think people get wrong when treating their acne?
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