kmarie

i have read some stories about women doing great with diet and exercising and then saying their pcos symptoms are gone or cured. so my question is about hair on the face. does it mean that no more hair will grow back, the current hair will leave? or am i always going to be stuck with the hair but it won;t get worse.

joyblack

I don't think your question can be answered with any degree of certainty.

If you reduce your free testosterone levels to within the normal female range and keep them there and if your estrogen levels are within the normal female range and kept there you can be reasonably certain that the rate of moustache and beard growth will slow down dramatically. In some women they may stop growing entirely and the growth become finer. In other women they just slow down. Remember that men who are castrated don't necessarily or even usually stop growing a beard -- but their beard growth rate is only a fraction of what it was when they had normal male hormones.

angelfaithy22

Once a hair follicle is active, it is there. so I guess it would mean that you would not develop new hairs. There is a prescription cream that you can put on to stop hair growth (for as long as you use the cream) it is called vaniqua. I have not tried it, but I have heard good things about it.

joyblack

Vaniqa only slows down growth, doesn't stop it. If you can get your hormones into the normal female range your beard growth will slow right down -- and then laser or electrolysis might have a long-term or even permanent effect.


My older sister, who had moustache growth as heavy as most men, had it slow right down when she went on hrt.