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joyblack · 05-09-2008, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tres_chick

I see your last post to this thread was a couple of weeks ago, so not sure how things are going, but still wanted to share this...

When I went on spiro (100 mg), once it started working, it worked on virtually ALL my excess hair. The weirdest thing, and what I never expected - it slowed the growth of my armpit hair!! The hair there had always been about the same, as long as I can remember.

Also, hair on my chest area and right above my waist had started to darken in recent years (I'll be 37 next month), but was still very fine. That may have been the first hair affected by the spiro. I would depilatory it every so often (like, a few months) but then eventually I didn't even have to do that. It just didn't grow back in like that anymore.

The hair on my lower cheek/jaw/sideburns started growing in more slowly and lighter - some completely blond/almost white. It also slowed the growth of my upper lip hair, which I have had since I was 13 - and it was always fairly fine (in contrast, I have hairs at the edge of my upper lip/corners of my mouth, and THOSE are coarser than the rest of my upper lip hair).

I think the only part that I didn't notice a big difference was my chin/under chin area, and that is where my hair is the coarsest. However, it may have at least slowed it a bit, and maybe lightened it some.

So in my case, it actually worked on the finer hairs BETTER than the coarser hairs.

That all makes perfect sense. The hairs that had responded least to testosterone were the easiest to reverse the higher growth rate of. The hairs that were longest and most firmly established in their male-pattern growth were least affected. So the areas you still have male-type growth in are the outer edges of your upper lip and your chin. These are very often the areas in which women who have no other male-type hair growth will develop male-type hair, especially the outer edges of the moustache. When my moustache first started growing I had coarse male-type hair at the outer edges of it long before I had anything growing right across from side to side. In fact, I was shaving every day for years before I had to shave a complete moustache from side to side.