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 Hair in the Wrong Places/Hair Loss
 Hi, i'm new and i'm struggling with hair growth...
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EmeraldSky New SoulCyster! Posts: 2 |
posted 05-05-2002 06:05 AM
Hi, i'm new here. It's such a relief to find there are women that suffer the same problems as i do. I feel less freaky. I can deal with the weight problem, and the other stuff like an irregular mentstrual (sp?) cycle, but i'm struggling hard with the hair thing. I have had a beard since i was in junior high. I used to get the gillete song sung to me, and people told me to "go have a shave" which distressed me very much Thanks for listening, sorry for rambling.. Peace and love [This message has been edited by EmeraldSky (edited 05-05-2002).] [This message has been edited by EmeraldSky (edited 05-05-2002).] IP: Logged |
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jenniferinsweden Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 21 |
posted 05-05-2002 06:53 AM
hi! i am new also, but thought i would say hello. i also feel as if i have to hide my face. (along with 9/10th of my body, but that's another story). i don't shave, but i do bleach and find myself forever standing in front of mirrors with tweezers. i was recently visiting my stepmother and father. my sm made a comment to my family, and i heard it through the grapevine. apparently she thinks i am "horribly hairy". and i "should NEVER wear my hair tied back." wow, did that hurt. it is something i have been dealing with for years and am terrified of wearing my hair back. anyway, just wanted u to know u r not alone. guess that means i am not alone either  jennifer IP: Logged |
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Moonchild Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 190 |
posted 05-05-2002 11:48 AM
I totally understand your pain! I shave also and hate every second of it. What's worse is I get really bad razor burn so my face is always red & bumpy and it is very painful to shave. I wish I could hide my face! I did in high school. I had my hair long and kept my head down all the time. I never looked anyone in the eye. I started shaving when I was 17. I guess i was in denial until then. I dropped out of high school because of it. I never left the house. After I started shaving I was happy cause the hair really wasn't that much and you couldn't tell I shaved. But I only did it on the days I would go somewhere. Other days I just stayed in my room. When i finally got a job and had to shave every day it when it got really bad with the razor burn. I have to shave in the shower so my DH won't walk in and see me. I have never talked to him about it and am totally freaked cause he want's to go to my next endo appt and my dr always asks about it. I know people can tell I shave but no one has ever said anything to me about it. I guess I am lucky in that way. I tried to wear make up but it made me break out really bad. It is without a doubt the worst thing that has ever happened to me. So you are not alone. I am sure alot of others feel the same way. Sorry to ramble. Take care ------------------ Symptoms since 12yrs IP: Logged |
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tornillitos New SoulCyster! Posts: 4 |
posted 05-05-2002 01:12 PM
Hi! I went through the same ordeal. A few years ago, when i was opening my gifts at a birthday dinner with friends and family. i opened my mothers gift...a home electrolysis kit. Needless to stay i died of humiliation---i thought i had done such a good job with the shaving and make up. she couldn't believe i walked out of the party. Another time a drag queen rubbed my face an told me it was time for a shave. So much for self-esteem... Last year i started laser treatments. yes its a bit expensive, and can be uncomfortable but my face is finally smooth and im not stretching my turtlenecks half way up my face. Im also off of the anti depressants. Good luck and know that you are not alone! IP: Logged |
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Eva34 Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 1988 |
posted 05-05-2002 04:12 PM
Hello I hate the hair too!! Have you been able to try Spiro - I have that, and since then it isn't so strong - but the hairs still there. Hope this helps Eva ------------------ DX pcos Jan 2001 "She is buffeted by the waves but she does not sink" [IMG]http://www.bestanimations.com/Cartoons/Simpsons/Homer/Homer-03.gif[/IMG] IP: Logged |
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utopia4all24 Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 77 |
posted 05-06-2002 01:48 AM
I am totally with you. I have been shaving since 15 too. I tired bleaching before then, but it just was too much. I had a razor thrown out me in high school. Kids can be such asses. I have tried about everything to shave with and I have come up with somthing that works for me. I have very pale, sensitive skin and dark hair. I have been through those horrible razor burns and heat rashes on my neck from shaving. I now shave with noxema instead of shaving cream. Actually I use the Wal-mart brand cream for sensitive skin. It doesn't have the horrible odor that noxema has. I also use the Gillette plus razor. The most important thing I use though, is Amens powder. When I am done shaving and dried the area I put a little medicated powder on. I haven't broken out in ages. It works wonders and it is very cooling. I use the Venus razor for everything else, but I didn't think it worked well for the neck area. Happy shaving!!! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Moongirl Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 96 |
posted 05-06-2002 02:20 AM
Hello EmeraldSky! I love that name!  I can sooo feel your pain......I do not go out often, and when I do I ALWAYS feel like people are staring at me! I haven't worked since my last job, where I was whispered about, and when I came to work, people would stop talking when they saw me coming. I used to be so outgoing and full of life....but now I hide out because I feel like a freak. Logically, I know this isn't my fault, but how do you convey that to strangers as they judge you? I am getting alot better with the depression that comes along with this. I chose to go the no medication route, for depression, and I can honestly say I wouldn't be depressed at all, if not for the hair, and the shaving. Like you said, the weight etc. can be dealt with. If you want to e-mail me and talk, feel free, I have a good ear! You are not alone and this site is so important in my life! Sorry so long........but I can SOOO relate! -------------------------------- SYMPTOMS: since age 17 SX: Overweight, FACIAL/BODY HAIR - all unwanted Ha Ha!, Acne(upper back), No periods without BCP, Major Fatigue...No cysts though...yet. HEIGHT: 5'4" & 1/2 PETS: 2 cats, Munchie (male Maine coon) & Nellie (female shorthair)
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Appollonia Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 147 |
posted 05-06-2002 11:02 AM
The way you are being treated is pure awful. I wax my face, I get thick hairs on my chin and sideburn area and thinner, dark hairs on the beard area. Pluck the chin, wax everywhere-else using Nair wax strips and am delighted. Spiro is also fantastic, 200mg daily. I would seriously think of saving up for laser if I were you, just to give you more confidence. IP: Logged |
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TennGirl Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 147 |
posted 05-06-2002 05:00 PM
There are so many cruel people in this world, and it's so sad. You go to school to learn and instead end up traumatized. You go to work to make a living, and dread getting out of bed in the morning. It's not right.  I hate being in "natural light" or daylight. I shave so it stays smooth, but I still have those little black dots on my chin that no amount of makeup will cover up! And my arms are pretty bad too. I hate wearing short-sleeved shirts. So, you're not alone. Just try to hang in there. It sucks, but you'll get through it! IP: Logged |
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DMRDSBAKD Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 12 |
posted 05-11-2002 10:10 PM
I'm totally glad that I am not alone in this. I have been hairy since I was 14. The first place that I got hair wsa on my lower stomach. Now I have a beard, hairy arms, legs, back, stomach, chest, and breasts. Come to think of it I don't there is a place on my body that's not hairy. I can't wear shorts because even after shaving my legs are stubbly. I want to get laser, but I'm afraid that it will be a waste of money. I'm a struggling college student already, but the beard has to go soon. I shave every morning in the shower. People can tell, but no one says anything to me about it, but I can see it so i know they can. One kid I worked with said something about it once, so I know everyone else is just being nice. i also get the reddness and the razor burn. It's definitely the worst problem of PCOS. IP: Logged |
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GorillaGirl New SoulCyster! Posts: 1 |
posted 05-13-2002 01:51 PM
Everything that you ladies have shared, I've been through myself. It's simultaneously relieving and distressing to hear my thoughts and experiences formulated through someone elses words. I just can't make myself have as great of a positive outlook on life as the rest of you. I tried, but all I did was fool myself. People don't let me forget for one minute how much of a freak I am. Now, I'm starting to lose my hair and I'm only 23. It's gonna be absolutely fabulous once the baldness is complete. I keep hoping someday things will change and the hair won't be here any more, but that day is never gonna come. I just want to disappear. I kept saying, I'm gonna get through school, get a job making good money so that I can afford lazer hair removal. But I have medium brown skin. I read that lazer hair removal on dark skin is not recommended because it bleaches the skin. So now I'm like, oh, great, I have nothing to look foward to. No way out of this hairy situation. I'm suppose to be moving out on my own next month. I'm having second thoughts, because I don't think I can bear to work anymore. I can't take the stupid comments. "Do you shave?" "Are you a transvestite?" "Are you butch?" If I have to endure it any longer, some blood is gonna spill, whether it be the blood of those with their witless insensitive comments or mine. IP: Logged |
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Moongirl Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 96 |
posted 05-14-2002 02:46 AM
Hi GorillaGirl! Boy people have some NERVE and some serious ISSUES to make comments like that..sadly I've been there too. I don't know what advice I can give 'cause I'm in the same boat you're in...but feel free to pm or e-mail me if you want to talk/rant!! Take care....Christine Moongirl@soulcysters.com ------------------ IP: Logged |
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kduettriche Honorary SoulCyster Posts: 25 |
posted 05-14-2002 01:09 PM
Hi, I'm the same as all of you. This may be a little long but please bare with me. First, I have hair everywhere. I shave my face everday. Everyday. There are no misses. And If I go out in the evening, I usually shave again just to be sure. It's very hard to cover it with makeup and it tend to hurt your face shaving so oftern. However, I found a great shaving lotion from Wal-mart called Hers. It has oatmeal in it which helps soften the skin. It's also oderless for those who have sensitive skin or intersticial cystitis like myself. I've tried waxing, it didn't get all the hairs. I've plucked and tweezed, which lasted almost an hour every day. Finally I broke down and shaved. Well, my most embarrasing mother lets everyone know my problems and I hear it from everyone. She made an appointment with the electolysist, which didn't help. She also made and paid for thankfully $1000 for 4 treatments of the laser. The deal was that I would go, if she would pay. My way of getting her back for embarassing me all these years. I had the laser treatment before being diagnosed PCOS. Well, first of all...you have to shave. And that is the only way they recommend you removing the hair if you are going to continue treatment. At least you didn't have to go in with a hairy face like you do an electro. That was a relief. Here's the bad part. It hurt like HELL! I have sensitive skin and it felt like someone was holding a cigarette to my face. It wasn't until my last treatment that they gave me a topical cream to put on before the laser to help with the pain. It basically numbed the skin. However, I was polkadotted when I came out of treatment. The treatments can discolor the skin and do not work on light colored hair or dark colored skin. Needless to say, that was over a year ago and I'm STILL SHAVING. So,what I learned is....if you have cysts on your ovaries, which is that we all here have, laser treatments will not work. Yes, it did help a little while, around my forth treatment. Although my hair didn't stop growing, it just stopped growing so fast. I shaved once a week instead, but still after stopping treatment which was supposed to be permanent, I'm still shaving everyday. And like you, I hate to go outside. I'm not even working anymore. I have a hard time facing the world and people knowing that I'm shaving my face. So embarassing. And I've only been on the gluc for about 2 1/2 months. So until my pcos is under controll, I probably won't put out money for the laser treatments again. By then, the hair might be under control fromt he gluc and I won't have to suffer that pain again either. And girls, It hurt. My mom is doing treatment and siad it didn't hurt her. Maybe I'm just a wuss or she just has tough skin. All I know is that I cried like a baby. It felt like my face was on fire! Not to scare anyone off from going, cause I hear that the treatment work for some. But I wouldn't recommend it having PCOS. Best of Luck to all of you. Now I'm trying Vaniqa and am not seeing results yet. But it's only a few weeks soo...we'll see. If anyone comes up with any miracles, please let me know. I'm tired of hiding and suffering. But I'm glad I'm not alone. Not that I would wish this on anyone, just glad that you are all out there to lean on. IP: Logged |
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