How long for significant changes in body hair?

[mina.magpie]

Hi everybody,

How long did it take for you to notice significant changes in body hair distribution and type? One of the worst parts of my dysphoria is in the body hair, and it's really getting me down that, after almost a year on HRT, I still have ALOT of body hair, by my personal estimations anyway. I pass pretty-much in all other regards, except some lingering upper-body muscle, but I have to shave my whole body pretty-much every day or I go NUTS.

Mina.

[Terra]

Well i've been on HRT for 3 years and I still have body hair all over. Of course i'm Italian so that might have something to do with it.

But the good news was that after a year I noticed a significant series of changes. The hair was much finer and lighter. It also grew in much slower. I.e. when I shaved my chest it could take a week or two for it to start to grow back in to the point of being noticeable. Interesting point though, some women do get body hair, not just transwomen or women who were on steroids.

[Northern Jane]

With a genetic background of fair skin, blond hair, and blue eyes, I never did have much body hair and over the few years after SRS, all of that disappeared (except for sparse public hair). (They didn't have T-blockers when I was pre-op)

Body hair, I think, is SO individual that there is only one way to find out how you will be effected - wait and see!

[mina.magpie]

Thanks for the info. 

I spent a bit of time digging around online, and people seem to report significant feminisation once they've had either SRS or an orchi, where anti-androgens are apparently not nearly as effective. Has that been your experience as well?

Mina.