Hi Everyone, I'm new here on the site and my eye's have gone open!! I can not believe how many people have the same problems as me...while I felt so alone in the world. I have had hormone problems from the age of 13 years and it's gotten worse with the years. I have to shave everyday and at the end of the day..my Face is dark with my hairs growing back again. I feel so ashamed...as I can feel people looking at me and starring at my extreem facial hair. I have a beard and a mustach and I have hair on my tummy and breasts and my back and bottum. you couls say I have it everywhere and I have dark hair so it's so hard to hide! From the moment I wake up, I have a heavy wieght on my shoulders..of having to shave and always wearing high collars and scharfs of my hands hiding my face. I don't want to look in the mirror..for I hate looking at my self. My husband tells me that it does'nt worry him...but I sometime's worry that it does. I feel like a half a man sometimes' I also have a wieght problem.. I'm way to big and I hate it... Please help me and give me some advice!!!
Well you certainly aren't alone. I know that weightloss helps control pcos symptoms. I think if you get a plan in motion to help shed some lbs, you may notice your excess hair starts to thin out as well.
Aside from that, I hope you can find a hair-removal routine that works for you, and helps you become more comfortable.
Take care
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Saabajo, I know exactly how you feel. I agree with diamond and I also feel you should ask your gyn for different options on medications. Instead of shaving try waxing the hair on your face and breast, therefore giving you a longer stretch in between having to remove the hair. Also try depilatories to remove the hair that the wax doesn't catch. It take approx. 10 minutes of your time. Try creating a day for hair removal and pampering your self as well. Beauty starts from the inside and radiates on the outside. Love yourself no matter what size you are and how much hair grows on your body. I seriously feel It doesn't matter how much weight you lose or if the hair was minimized and eventually gone. You'd find something else to criticize yourself about because it's a self-esteem issue, which begins with the mind. Work on your emotional and spiritual well-being. No one will love you the way you love yourself.
Blessings on your journey of self-discovery and self-love.
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I have to shave everyday and at the end of the day..my Face is dark with my hairs growing back again. I feel so ashamed...as I can feel people looking at me and starring at my extreem facial hair. I have a beard and a mustach and I have hair on my tummy and breasts and my back and bottum. you couls say I have it everywhere and I have dark hair so it's so hard to hide! From the moment I wake up, I have a heavy wieght on my shoulders..of having to shave and always wearing high collars and scharfs of my hands hiding my face. I don't want to look in the mirror..for I hate looking at my self. My husband tells me that it does'nt worry him...but I sometime's worry that it does. I feel like a half a man sometimes'
Listen to your husband in this instance and take his word for it. Don't worry about the hair that other people aren't going to see anyway. And when it comes to your moustache and beard, well you come from the country which invented the Philishave (or Norelco as it's called in the USA). Philishave men's razors are absolutely ideal for those of us women who shave our faces -- and quiet enough so they can be slipped in a purse to use through the day if necessary.
Yes, there are some ways in which we're much more like men than other women are, but we're women. And many of us have husbands who love us the way we are.
[quote=saabajo] my eye's have gone open!! I can not believe how many people have the same problems as me...while I felt so alone in the world.
I felt like this too!!! I know you will find lots of great info. and lots of support here.
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Instead of shaving try waxing the hair on your face and breast, therefore giving you a longer stretch in between having to remove the hair. Also try depilatories to remove the hair that the wax doesn't catch. It take approx. 10 minutes of your time. Try creating a day for hair removal
Great for those with a relatively light hair growth. When it's coarse male-type hair even electrolysis often doesn't work. Shaving every day can sometimes be the only reasonable option. But you're spot on about setting aside a particular time -- even if it's only a couple of minutes each morning to shave. Once you've allocated the time on a regular basis it takes a lot of the burden out of it, somehow.
Great for those with a relatively light hair growth. When it's coarse male-type hair even electrolysis often doesn't work. Shaving every day can sometimes be the only reasonable option. But you're spot on about setting aside a particular time -- even if it's only a couple of minutes each morning to shave. Once you've allocated the time on a regular basis it takes a lot of the burden out of it, somehow.
I have coarse hair also so I know how difficult it is to remove it. Shaving for me is not an option and I don't recommend it due to the high risk of developing ingrown hairs thereby making acne worse and causing a five O'clock shadow which can make a person more self conscious but if that works for you GREAT!
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Thank you for some of your advice...
and I am sure that my husband does love me for who I'am!!
But I think that this problem is more for me then for him..
and I always want to look beautiful for him...but I don't always feel that!
I really want to loose some wieght...but finding it hard how!
I really need surport in this area...and a kick up the back side!!
Thank you guys for your surport..I feel at hime here straight away and just
knowing that I'm not the only one with this problem give's me comfort!!!
your welcome, If you need support saabajo I'm here. I am in the same boat as you as far needing to lose weight. I'm new to SC too. (((((Saabajo)))))
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Hey saabajo! Always nice to meet someone who knows what we're going through, isn't it? I'm like you - lots of hair, full beard, you name it.
The trouble with waxing though is that you have to let the hair grow between waxes... and who wants to go out with hair on your face? What woman wants to go out in public with a beard? So I understand how that one doesn't work for women with serious facial hair.
I lost a lot of weight last year and my facial hair got worse. And I know other cysters who have got right down to "normal" weight range and their facial hair hasn't changed a jot either, or has got worse. So that's not always an option either.
I am considering laser at the moment. It seems like the last chance at the moment!
Wow, kath I didn't know that! Ugh, I'm sorry. As far as growing out a beard, when I used to wax, I would bleach until they were long enough. And I would wax in sessions. Like I wouldn't wait for all the hair to grow in, but get whatever was long enough every so often.
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I tried laser treatments when the buzz first came out about them, around 8-9 years ago. I spent a lot back then, and it helped to slow the hair growth down, however it did leave me with some discolouration. It all eventually came back, and then some. I'm going to wait until I am at my goal weight (whenver that happens), and my hormones are more balanced, otherwise the pcos will just cause the hair to come back, and all that time/money will have been in vain.
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yes well I tryed the lazer treatment and I thought it was TERRIBLE!!
I found it to be so painful and I would just cry my eye's out...and when they told me it was an on going thing and it would take sooo long and everytime I would have to grow my beard and so for a week...well I could'nt even leave the house and I found my self very depressed!!
Shame of "To much Hair" 
