I've had pcos for some time but managed to control most of symptoms with pill untill told by doc to come off the pill - 3 months down the line symptoms are coming back acne, oily skin, no period. Doc said if I lost 10 pounds or so in his opinion all symptoms would go away. And as said in previous post i'm trying to do this (with some encouragement from cysters). Everything was fine until today when I found my first thick black hair on my chin (have loads of fuzzy white hair already) I'm just so annoyed and feeling a bit down about it. All this trying and still solving it seems far away.
Sorry for the moan just don't have anywhere else to vent it where people will understand.
Aww I know how you feel. I came off the pill about 6 months ago and slowly thicker darker hair started to appear, it really gets me down. Now I have to pluck them daily and it gets to me every time! Am now being referred to the gynaecologist to try and find something to help as due to other medical reasons I can no longer take the pill so fingers crossed they recommend something to help.
Why has your dr told you to come off the pill? Is he going to try anything else to help with your symptoms?
If you ever want someone to rant to about how you're feeling then feel free to msg me x
Aww I know how you feel. I came off the pill about 6 months ago and slowly thicker darker hair started to appear, it really gets me down. Now I have to pluck them daily and it gets to me every time! Am now being referred to the gynaecologist to try and find something to help as due to other medical reasons I can no longer take the pill so fingers crossed they recommend something to help.
The problem is that when you start the pill your body detects the rise in estrogen and reduces or shuts down your own natural production of estrogen. When you come off the pill your body doesn't always restart or increase the production of estrogen quickly though your testosterone production remains steady. The result is that your hormone balance is more testosterone-dominated, hence the beard growth.
Feeling much better about it all today, just really gets you down sometimes. Doc told me to come off pill as I was having side effects from it, plus i've been on the pill for a very long time. As said I know my hormones will be out of whack just hoping that they will eventually balance. The other option is maybe naturally I'm just destined to be hairy. Have been on the pill since I was about 13 so maybe i've never allowed my body to settle at what it is naturally. In the meantime stepping up the excercise/healthy eating. May as well be the healthiest I can be and just let my body be how it wants to be.
Feeling much better about it all today, just really gets you down sometimes. Doc told me to come off pill as I was having side effects from it, plus i've been on the pill for a very long time. As said I know my hormones will be out of whack just hoping that they will eventually balance. The other option is maybe naturally I'm just destined to be hairy. Have been on the pill since I was about 13 so maybe i've never allowed my body to settle at what it is naturally. In the meantime stepping up the excercise/healthy eating. May as well be the healthiest I can be and just let my body be how it wants to be.
I think the question is one of whether the ultimate natural hormone balance is one which is
a) safe to live with
and
b) one that you can live with socially and emotionally.
For myself, the fact that I was able to conceive naturally with my natural hormone balance was the important thing. Since I could do that, I didn't see the need to interfere with it, because there's no such thing as a free lunch and any treatment would have side-effects which I would find worse than the problems of not interfering. By nature, I've got a hormone balance which gives me male-type hair growth. And the fact of the matter is that it hasn't caused me in practice the problems that as a teenager I imagined it would. In fact, looking around me, I reckon that I've been far more successful in my relation with my DH and indeed nowadays with men in general than most of the girls I knew as teenagers have been over the intervening years. I shave every day, like guys do, but it doesn't dominate my life and it hasn't spoiled my life.
First black hair! 
