The extra hair growth wont stop ie you wont stop getting the extra hair where it began to grow ie chin or extra on legs, arms or whereever but the hairs themselves may thin and be slower to grow.
Unfortuantely male pattern thinning usually continues once its started but again when you are less insulin resistant because you are healthery, lighter, perhaps low GI ing and on metformin - the growth may slow but not stop.
I am in the same position - lost lots of weight due to metformin and low GI carb diet but still have the hair problem just grows slower... my hair still falls our more than normal and getting thinnner but perhaps the processs is slowing... but I know it wont stop. Its like with men - once something is triggered it continues
NOTE: this only happens if you have the hairloss gene - combined with high insulin there fore high free testosterine. If your hair is falling out for other reasons it could well stop but the reason hair falls out in PCOS is usually because
1) they have the hairloss gene
2) Their hormone levels ie higher free testosterone caused by high insulin triggers th hair loss gene to start thinning the hair (its the SAME process that happens to men0
Women with PCOS who never lsoe hair simply don't have the hairloss gene so will never lose hair for this reason -same with men - there are men in their 60s and 70s with full heads of hair. they Have the same levels or testostrone as balding men but the hairloss gene is not there. So there Testosterone doesn't trigger hairloss to happen
My dad and mum seem to be like that. The are in mid 60s with FULL heads of thick hair. |