Originally Posted by joyblack

It may be that your doctor hasn't much of a clue in some areas -- but a replacement may be little better.

You've obviously thought things through very carefully and done your research regarding your increasing facial hair growth. You say your doctor is female -- she may never had developed any coarse hair on her own body and may have had no brothers, so may never have seen how the normal pattern for testosterone-influenced hair change is for fine hair to get longer, more pigmented and coarser over a period of years. That's what's happening to you and it's gone quite some way in just a few months.

She may know a reasonable amount about the endocrine side of things but little about the hair and may be regarding it as a cosmetic matter of no great significance.

The sort of benchmarks that most of the medical textbooks use for hair growth is based on the time for regrowth of facial hair after it's been shaved:

* shaving facial hair once per month is regarded as normal for a Caucasian female aged 15-45

* shaving once a week is regarded as heavy growth

* shaving once a day is regarded as normal for a male and unusual for a female.

If you don't have to shave facial hair more than three times a week, they're not likely to take much notice of the hair problem. If you do have to shave facial hair four or more times a week, then probably another doctor might pay a little more attention to it.