I have tweezers stashed throughout the house. I think my husband would help keep my face less like asto-turf if something happened to me. The other day he was so sweet, he saw one that I missed, and he got the tweezers and said, be still, and got it for me. Used to be a time where that might have mortified me, now I just know he knows how much I try to keep hairless. No one else in my family knows about my battle of the hair.
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It makes me nervous too. It gets really bad when and if I meet a guy I'm afraid of him touching my face. It gets so embaressing. Or when someone looks closely at me I have really dark hair and the hairs are dark on my chest stomach and chin. I feel that people stare at the hairs on my face and my sideburns are really long.
i think that finally after 4 years of marriage and 11 years of being together that my husband is aware that i pluck my chin every day because i've become a little more open about it since i got my PCOS dx, but i am still horrified at the thought of being in a coma or something and not being able to pluck it myself.... i don't know if i'd want him to do it or not. i think i'd try to talk a nurse into doing it for me if i was conscious.
ugh. scary scary thought!!!
here's some good karma for NO COMAS for anyone with PCOS!!!
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haha I TOTALLY have thought of this when watching Survivor!! haha
I went out of town for ONE night this weekend and on Sunday morning I was mortified...I had forgotten my razor AND my make-up and was scheduled to meet an old friend for brunch..... I was s.u.r.e. he was staring at my chin the whole time!
As for the hospital- I worked in rehab for a while (I'm an OT) and was the therapist for a woman after she had a stroke. She looked Pcos-y and a few days in started growing..... I asked her if she wanted it shaved in the gentlest, most respectful way possible....well, as nice as "Mrs. X do you usually shave your chin? Would you like some help?" ....or something liek that.....but she told me no and then I felt like an idiot. Remember there are some of us out there working in that setting
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I've thought about that too! I'm getting lasering now so hopefully it won't be an issue, but I would always think how embarassing it would be to have people come see me in a coma and see all this hair on my face!
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I passed out for no apparent reason and woke up in a hospital the next day. Talk about scary! The nurses saw me stirring and brought the doctor in, who explained that my blood sugar had been dangerously low when my close friend of five years brought me in. It took several IV drip bags of saline and glucose to get me to wake up.
Seconds after he left, I was suddenly gripped with fear. I gingerly swept my fingertip against my chin and realized that I'd gone 24 hours without shaving, and they were calling my friend into the room to see me. Those harsh flourescent lights they have over beds was beaming down on me full-bore. My friend walked in, relieved that I was seemingly okay, then he nearly shrieked a question so loudly that a nurse's head turned in our direction:
"ARE THOSE WHISKERS?!?!?"
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My friend walked in, relieved that I was seemingly okay, then he nearly shrieked a question so loudly that a nurse's head turned in our direction:
"ARE THOSE WHISKERS?!?!?"
Ouch! And hardly diplomatic of him, to put it mildly. But he was probably in a state of shock himself. Hope you had some sort of answer and at least he knows now. But best in my view, for those who still have the chance, to let the existence of beard growth be known to potentially significant others at as early a stage as practicable.
It's just awful. I mean, I get angry when I think about what we are faced with.
I've been in and out of the hospital so many times, I've now realized that whether I've shaved or not, it is still quite sightly & obvious, and the medical staff usually knows that you have PCOS, so not a HUGE surprise.
But when I was younger, and not yet diagnosed with pcos, I had a severe "aura" to a migraine (not yet diagnosed either) and my parents rushed me to the ER. The nurses had to undress me because I was freaking out, and when I saw the look on the nurses face that took my shirt off, I just about died. I mean, how dare she...but I guess she was shocked. She was such an unpleasant woman and made the episode so much worse then it had to be. Grr.
What I hate the most is there were times that I probably should have sought out medical care, and yet I haven't because I wasn't "ready." That is scary. I think I'm well beyond that now that I have kids, but to imagine the risks I've put myself under...it's just so not worth it.
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I gingerly swept my fingertip against my chin and realized that I'd gone 24 hours without shaving, and they were calling my friend into the room to see me. Those harsh flourescent lights they have over beds was beaming down on me full-bore. My friend walked in, relieved that I was seemingly okay, then he nearly shrieked a question so loudly that a nurse's head turned in our direction:
"ARE THOSE WHISKERS?!?!?"
There have been various threads on telling (or not telling) significant others about facial hair, though I'm not sure that I can remember any threads specifically on the subject of how significant others found out (if they did).
The fact that it's quite possibly a shock to the SO to discover that a girl has male-type hair growth doesn't necessarily mean that the SO is going to be hostile because of it or even dislike it. I think that most of the people who have written about their SOs on this board have found them very supportive as far as the male-type facial hair is concerned.
I know that in my own case my SO has told me that when he first met me he was shocked first of all that though I looked about twelve (flat-chested) other people were treating me as much older and he wondered could I really be so flat if I were the age that other people treated me like. Then he saw my coarse moustache stubble and realized I must be at least as old as they were treating me. Moustache stubble like a man did shock him. But it didn't scare him off. And nobody forces him to rub his lips lightly over my upper lip and chin in the morning just touching the hair, not the skin. He likes it -- it's part of me. It's part of an experience most women couldn't give him.
i just posted something else about this exact same thing! i forgot where.. oh well. i was sure that i was the only woman on the planet who thought about those same women on Survivor!!! i also never want to go camping with friends, or spend the night at a friends house after a long night of going out -- because i know that i'll need to shave under my chin in the morning. i would be mortified if any of my friends saw me or knew that i shaved. wow. i am so thankful im not the only one who has these concerns and worries about this on a regular basis!!! i'm not as anal about it as i used to be - its just become another habit..a daily ritual, like brushing my teeth in the morning. im still paranoid a friend will see me in bright lights tho. and its so hard to cover up with makeup! =(
Yup it scares me to death! I'm hoping that i never have anything happen to me for those very reasons!!! The other thing is i don't want to tell anyone about the chin hairs either it's a bit embarrassing. Spose i'll get over it soon?!!!
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The fact that it's quite possibly a shock to the SO to discover that a girl has male-type hair growth doesn't necessarily mean that the SO is going to be hostile because of it or even dislike it. I think that most of the people who have written about their SOs on this board have found them very supportive as far as the male-type facial hair is concerned.
One way that I "test" guys is that the first time I decide it's the right time to make out with someone I've been dating, I tell them "Just so you know, I've got a beard". I'm so forward and up-front about it, they're more caught off guard by my apparent lack of self-consciousness rather than the fact I have facial hair. The "keepers" are the ones that either shrug and say "Whatever!" or challenge me to a who-has-the-thicker-beard contest.
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I was put in the hospital for pre-term labor about a month ago. While I had my toiletries bag with me (which has a tweezer in it), what I didn't have was a makeup mirror. Using the bathroom mirror or just touch alone wasn't doing it. As soon as I got home, I spent about an hour in front of the mirror. So now in my hospital bag, I have a small makeup mirror, so that if I wind up in there again, I can tweeze away to my heart's content. I look at it as it would also be another way to kill time on bedrest! I'm okay for a day or so without tweezing, but being pregnant has really sped up growth on the chin and neck.
A semi-humorous observation -- always be with a guy with crappy eyesight. They're usually NOT wearing their glasses when they see you in the altogether, and they also don't care at that point. Really.
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Used to be a time where that might have mortified me, now I just know he knows how much I try to keep hairless. No one else in my family knows about my battle of the hair.
Remember there are some of us out there working in that setting 
