Your Side Effects May IncludeMinoxidil tablets side effects
This side effect is printed on the FDA label for Minoxidil tablets. It was a question in our daily quiz, where you pick the real side effect from four choices.
Thicker, darker hair all over your body
It happens to about 80% of people who take it. That's how the same drug ended up as Rogaine.
“Elongation, thickening, and enhanced pigmentation of fine body hair are seen in about 80% of patients taking minoxidil tablets.”
The hair usually goes away after stopping, but don't stop blood pressure medicine without your doctor.
295 reports to the FDA's adverse event system mention excess body hair. A report is not proof the drug caused it. See the query
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