Armpit Hair

[Chloe]

Would it work for facial hair? 

*sigh* Unfortunately NOT! At least not yet! This is my only trouble spot as well but if I find a solution, other than electrolysis, I'll split it with ya and we'll both be rich!

[Linde]

*sigh* Unfortunately NOT! At least not yet! This is my only trouble spot as well but if I find a solution, other than electrolysis, I'll split it with ya and we'll both be rich!

That would be great, because I can use all the money I can get for my bottom surgery!

I just wonder if HRT slows the facial hair grows down enough that I could get along with shaving one or twice every two weeks.  At that point, I would probably have electrolysis done only on the upper lip and around my chin, and would continue to shave the other, easy to shave areas those few times a month.

[Chloe]

. . . shaving one or twice every two weeks.

      Oh wow Dietlind I'm jealous of the intersex thing your way ahead of me! I've had my cheeks cleared and stubble is really light so *shadow* isn't a problem but often don't bother to shave *close* every day thus *snuggling up* would still be a problem . . . perhaps a cis girl wouldn't mind but with a guy it'd surely be a "I'm dead" give-away?

Perhaps Eflora Cream (Eflornithine) would work for you?

[Linde]

      Oh wow Dietlind I'm jealous of the intersex thing your way ahead of me! I've had my cheeks cleared and stubble is really light so *shadow* isn't a problem but often don't bother to shave *close* every day thus *snuggling up* would still be a problem . . . perhaps a cis girl wouldn't mind but with a guy it'd surely be a "I'm dead" give-away?

Perhaps Eflora Cream (Eflornithine) would work for you?

See, this is the good thing about being asexual.  I don't snuggle anymore!  What I can't stand is the sandpaper feeling (after 2 or 3 days not shaving) that I get when removing makeup at night.  This feeling drives me nuts, and is probably a big reason of some of my dysphoria.  It makes me to feel so unwomanly!  If I can reduce that feeling to come only every 5 or 6 days, I might be happy, and I think I could live with it.  Colorwise, my facial hair is between white and opaque, and it will take a few days of not shaving until anybody would see that I am growing hair on my face.  The visible effect is not my problem, it is this stupid sandpaper feeling!
I have to see what that cream is, I have never heard of such a stuff.  I have this super sensitive baby skin (another intersex thing of mine, I never got adult skin), and I have to be very careful with what I smear onto it.

I made once the failure and put over the counter night cram on, needless to say that I stayed awake the entire night continuously itching my face, even after I washed the stuff off!
Each time when I go in for skin care, they are ranting and raving what wonderful skin I have, softer and nicer than their teenager clients.  But what they don't see is the fact that I can use very expensive  medical grade products only to keep my skin OK.

Anyway, thanks for the tip with the hair control cream!

[Linde]

Just read through the Amazon customer reviews for Eflora Cream (I always read the 3 star comments, because they seem to be pretty free of emotions), and it seems not to work well, or not to work at all.  But the price is very high.  I would have to mull this over more.

[BritneyX]

      If your right and some follicle areas are more sensitive to DHT than others there HAS to be a way to shut it down locally that simply hasn't been discovered yet! As trans issues and treatments become more widely known and addressed perhaps by the time you hit 90?

I hope it is sooner, than later.  The Dermatologist at the VA pretty much says the same thing about my folliculitis problem that my VA Primary says about my injury, "So sad, too bad, you are stuck with it."

        No no no Dietlind if ya gonna listen to chem companies, whose sole ambition is avoiding liability, then live your life in *fear* and don't cross a busy street, drive a car, join the military and definitely don't transition in the 1st place! I have experienced none of the above. Bica is one of few drugs we're using according to it's intended purpose and keep in mind the dosing for cancer patients, for which these "warnings" are directed, is 8X (times) what I have found we need to be effective.

       Since 1st joining Susan's I've seen more being prescribed with trans docs slowly catching up isn't Spiro's T suppression also an unintended "side effect"? On my old job I watched someone DROP from potassium deficiency we thought he was DEAD took the ambulance forever to show up!

I will say no more on the subject of "Casodex". I do not PROFIT from it's sale or use and can only lead a horse (mare?) to water . . . If ya can afford electrolysis goforit otherwise, if a masochist, DIY like I indeed watched a member here do! Being InterSex yourself sounds like you and I don't need it but surely others here could benefit from it!

I had a super bad case of Hurricane Katrina vintage MRSA on my face from an ingrown hair on my chin (trouble shaving spot).  Put me in the ICU ward for 5 days.  They gave me the latest, greatest antibiotic for it that wasn't even on the market yet.  I was scare told to take it, verbatim no matter how it made me feel, for the prescribed two weeks.  If I failed to do it, there was a high risk that the virus would become immune, which could mutate the entire strain.  So I did as instructed and they sent me home.  By the 6th day, I was back on Duty and I started feeling like I was totally wasted.  I was lethargic, slurring my speech and slowly loosing coordination.  As an Aircrewman, I recognized it as Hypoxia, so off to the Magic M factory (Base Medical) to be given the standard Motrin care "Take two Motrin and come back in two weeks.  If your blown off arm has not grown back, then we while try something else".  A friend asked what I was prescribed and she looked it up on the manufacturers website.  There were 8 listed side-effects with a warning to go immediately straight to the ER if you have ANY of those side-effects.  I had 7 out of the 8!  You see, the manufacturer also stated that daily blood work was to be done to monitor for these side-effects.  None were ordered by the Civilian doc and the Navy has to send all blood work to Pensacola Navy Hospital with an 8 day turn around!  The reason for this blood monitoring is that the drug de-oxygenates at the cellular level.  I was literally asphyxiating my cells.  So after I chewed out the quack Navy Doc (some Captain) telling me to just stop taking the meds, I spoke with the Civilian quack.  He said, "Ah, I <u>guess</u> it would be fine to stop."     

[Linde]

  If I failed to do it, there was a high risk that the virus would become immune, which could mutate the entire strain.  So I did as instructed and they sent me home.

(Mrs. Know it all on)
Just a mini correction.  Antibiotics don't do viruses, you must have had some weird bacterial infection.
(Mrs Know it all off)

[BritneyX]

Whatever they use to kill off the MRSA virus, they gave me the new whizbang stuff. 

By the way, we ran out of frogs in 8th Grade Biology class.  That left Biologically impaired.   

[Linde]

Whatever they use to kill off the MRSA virus, they gave me the new whizbang stuff. 

By the way, we ran out of frogs in 8th Grade Biology class.  That left Biologically impaired.   

Don't worry, you can always ask me, the Mrs Know It All!