PCOS Messages for October, 2001: Re: Hairiness was Re: 2 Questions...

Re: Hairiness was Re: 2 Questions...

From: Dona (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:58:45 -0600 (CST)

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HI Jodi, My doctor had told me that my hairiness was do to 2 factors. 1st being genetic..I am hispanic and hispanic woman tend to be a little hairier and 2nd I had very high free testosterone and DHEA which I did not always have. I did not always have this excess hair.It only started to get bad the past 3 years or so.I am 36 this Wed.I also just startd to notice the other day when I went for a hair cut that I have thinning hair on my head now to were I had a ton of very thick hair on my head. My beautition even mentioned that I am starting to loose some hair.So I guess the answere to your question would be yes.Some PCOS symtoms can get really bad as your PCOS worsens and I had noticed the hair thing worsening.It seems to me that it is a progressive disease or at least it has been for me.I recently started taking metformin about 7 weeks ago so hopefully I will stop loosing my hair. I won't know for sure for a couple of more weeks when I go back for follow up testing.I dont want to take spiro because I want to get pregnant. I had laser done on my face this past spring and summer and it worked well so I do feel a bit better about my face. as far as hair on my legs..I wear pants all the time so it dosent really bother me. My husband is like Sonnets he wouldnt care if I am hairy and bald,he loves me for who I am not what I look like. I am more critical of myself than he is of me.Take care,Dona

>At Sun, 28 Oct 2001, jodi wrote:
>I was thinking of posting this the other day but I stopped halfway
>through because I thought it was stupid. But who knows...
>
>Does anyone know if how much excess hair you have actually has anything
>to do with how bad your PCOS is? Sonnet, you say your body hasn't become
>hairy yet... that implies it could become hairy... but is that really
>a possibility? I guess what i mean is, since not all women with PCOS
>have the excess hair, the excess hair is thought to also have to do with
>how sensitive a given person's hair follicles are to excess androgen. so
>you could have really bad PCOS but very insensitive (unsensitive?)
>follicles, so little or no excess hair. Or you could have very mild
>PCOS but very sensitive follicles, and tons of hair.
>
>Does that make sense?
>
>I always feel like, OK, PCOS sucks, this excess hair sucks... but if it
>never gets any worse, I can deal with it. I have chin hair, bad upper
>thigh hair, mild/moderate under bellybutton hair... but I do not have
>chest hair or back hair. (I have butt hair but I can't see my butt so
>it doesn't bother me unless I god forbid have to put on a bathing
>suit...)... I always wonder if the hair will spread to these unhairy
>areas in time, or if the follicles that are gonna get hairy have already
>done so by now?
>
>Re: upper leg/thigh hair, though... lots of girls I know do not have
>hair there. Boy, does that tick me off. There's just no justice in
>this world... :-)
>
>- jodi
>
>At Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Sonnet wrote:
>>
>>Randi I'm not sure about the upper leg hair. I have very light fine
>>hair up there, but I'm lucky in that my body hasn't become hairy yet -
>>just my face! So maybe it is normal??
>>

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