Body Hair on T

[Jace]

I'm sorry if this has already been asked but can you expect to gain the same amount of body hair as your male family members when going on T? I really have no clue, but if so then oh man I'm gonna be shaving a lot because my dad and brother are hairy. They're so bad we've taken to waxing their backs and for my brother, his shoulders.

[dalebert]

It's probably a decent indicator. As I understand it, there's a lot of genetics involved with body hair that is or isn't triggered based on secondary hormones that are triggered by the primary hormone of testosterone. I believe finasteride, a drug to fight baldness, tends to also block some of those secondary hormones that are associated with triggering body hair genes. Not suggesting it for that and I don't know that you could get a prescription based on that. It just comes to mind because it seems to validate the notion that secondary hormones affect that. On the other hand, if your male relatives are also balding, you could probably get a prescription for it for that. I'm not sure how well-documented the body hair aspect of it is though. It may be speculative at this point.

[Adam (birkin)]

Yeah, that's pretty much what you can expect. My family is very hairy as well, and I am getting hair in all the places my brothers have it. But, it's not as bad as you may think. I wasn't excited about it, but  now that it's come (and continues to come) I don't mind it. I do hate the shoulder rug though, lolol.

[Jace]

Gosh I really hate body hair, even if I'm sitting next to someone with hairy legs I'm just like eeeeh. I'm willing to deal with it for facial hair though.

I'm probably going to go bald if I start T. I have my father's thin hair and he's balding. My brother is lucky and has very thick hair from my mother's side who don't bald really.

[Kreuzfidel]

I was under the impression that you went by the hairiness of your male relatives on your mother's side, not your father's side.

[FTMDiaries]

I was under the impression that you went by the hairiness of your male relatives on your mother's side, not your father's side.

I heard the same thing. It terrified me, because my uncle on my mother's side looked like Captain Picard and I really don't want to lose my hair.

But then I remembered that both of my brothers on my mother's side have full heads of hair. My elder brother (mid-40s) is slightly thinning, and my younger brother (early 30s) has a full head of hair. My dad has a bushy beard and a very hairy chest; his eldest son has less chest hair and can easily grow a beard; my youngest brother (different dad) has no chest hair at all and can't grow a beard - but then neither could his dad. So their bodily hair came from their dads, not their mother - because they had the same mother but different fathers.

So who knows? Anyway, my GIC said that if I start to get worried about my hair thinning, they'll prescribe me stuff to stop it from getting worse. So the best thing to do is to play it by ear.

[LordKAT]

I tried playing by ear once. It took forever to get my ear out of that clarinet.

[aleon515]

Gosh I really hate body hair, even if I'm sitting next to someone with hairy legs I'm just like eeeeh. I'm willing to deal with it for facial hair though.

I'm probably going to go bald if I start T. I have my father's thin hair and he's balding. My brother is lucky and has very thick hair from my mother's side who don't bald really.

You need to deal wiht this if you want to start T. Some people don't get a lot of body hair, but a lot of people do. I have almost no body hair but it it's probably more my age. Of course guys can shave and so, and some guys actually do this. But it's lots of work.
@Lord Kat, you are the funny one.

--Jay

[Darkflame]

Aw man all the guys on my mom's side start balding ridiculously young It's funny though, they tend to have tons of body hair and really thick. Hear everywhere but on the head 

[Nygeel]

I got way more hair than my younger siblings (21 and 23) after maybe 2 years on testosterone. I also win the award for thinnest hair (with the exception of my parents).