Re: Hairiness was Re: 2 Questions...
From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:30:18 -0600 (CST)
Jodi, you're so cute!
To be honest I've got no idea about the answer, but I can tell you about
my body. My PCOS seems to be pretty severe. I weight like 370lbs and
the acne, my God, my entire face is one big blemish. (I mean that, in a
sense - hardly any skin on my face is not scarred or currently pimply,
it's worse than I have ever seen on anyone else I've met.) I don't ever
have any periods at all without provera, even BCP's don't give me a
period. Until I started treating the hypothyroid and was on Metformin
at the same time, my hair loss was so bad you could see big patches of
pink scalp all over. But, I have no body hair. I do have dark coarse
hair on my chin, the sides of my upper lip, and along my jawline. I
have sparse dark hair below my belly button. But that's it. And it's
nothing shaving every day or even every other day won't fix. Maybe it's
just genetic? I mean, no one in my family really has any very visible
body hair. Even my dad and brother have relatively smooth legs, for
example.
What do you think?
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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Sonnet Fitzgerald, PCOS Association, Online Community Liason. Email: sonnet@pcosupport.org
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