Spironolactone and absorption after WLS

Hi all....Praying someone knows the answer.... For about 10 years or so, I had been on spironolactone for facial hair and felt that it did help with hair growth somewhat.  It didn't stop it but it surely slowed it down.  When I became pregnant, I was taken off the medicine and felt like I had become a hairy beast, especially my stomach!  However after going back on the medicine after delivering, the hair started to lessen again and it all fell out on my stomach, I could go longer with shaving my legs and with bleaching my facial hair.  Now, three months after surgery, the medicine doesn't seem to be working any more.  I am starting to notice more hair growth!!  Is my pouch limited on the amount I can absorb at once?  My current insurance does not cover an "endocronologist" so my primary doctor prescribes my medicine and I don't think he even knows.  Has anyone had the same problem or know about how it's absorbed.  I take 200 mgs twice a day. Lisa

Medication is absorbed in the small intestine...and maybe the part that it's taken up is now bypassed...kinda like the B12...where the area where B12 is taken up is bypassed?  Your doctor can run a blood level of the spiro to see what your absorption is.  I had this happen to me when my TB skin turned positive in 12/04 and although my chest x-ray is normal I had to take 9 months of INH (an anti-TB med).  Since they had never treated a gastric bypass patient before they ran a blood level test 1 hour after I took the med to see if I was absorbing enough of it for it to be effective.  Fortunately for me my level was 6.5 in a range 6-7.  It might be worth checking out. Good luck!

Thanks for the info!  I will be talking to my doctor about it but I don't' think he knows much about PCOS.  He just fills my prescription because I had been on them for years.  When I asked for a new scrip after surgery, he's reply was, "why do you want to go back on that"?  Yeah...time for  a new doctor maybe?!?

Does your insurance cover OB/GYN??  There are some out there that are well versed in PCOS and it's treatments.  See if you can find one.  Mine is the one who treats me for mine and helped me get my wls.  I've yet to have to see an endocrinologist because my OB/GYN is so knowledgeable.  It's worth looking into??