I was curious on how hrt has not effected hair growth on your head but how it has effected your growth on your chest, stomach, and arms. Is it possible for it to lighten and get thinner on hrt, or is that a pipe dream and should I be looking into laser and or electrolysis.. I have some hair not very thick it's pretty fine but definitely has some tint to it.
I did as much laser and electrolysis as I could before I started HRT. I noticed that once I was on HRT, my pain threshold dropped and I couldn't handle it as much as before. I also have some friends that started HRT before removing facial hair and it was harder for them, especially when they had to grow it out a little to be treated.
Sadly estrogen does not affect facial hair growth, you gotta zap those little buggers.
-Sarah
Yeah everything hair wise on ones head rly gets the bum deal. Thanks for the response but I'm more interested in the body hair below the head as I haven't noticed to much of a change yet. I do already see my future on my head it consists of lots hrs of pain
Obviously milage varies and maybe I was fortunate but my body hair went. My endo did suggest for me to go on Spiro, well after my T levels where in the female range due to E alone, and that did alter my body hair growth cycle.
That has been reported in the literature and the reasons are not clear. Spiro affects facial and head hair on females with POCS but has little affect on males or TG females.
I did clear my body hair, which was never heavy anyway, by waxing and basically it didn't grow back.
Now a days I would run a razor over my legs say every 3-4 weeks just to get rid of the odd hair.
The hormones lightened up my body hair and arm hair a little. It didn't diminish it enough to make much difference, so I ended up doing lazer treatments for my face, chest, and abs. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but we'll worth the pain and money.
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Sorry for not reading more clearly, I blame my glasses, which I have been wearing all day. Did I mention I am blind as a bat :D
I was a rather hairy person, It seems kind of hard to believe now, but I was. As I mentioned I did laser treatments, not only on my face, but pretty much everywhere else--arms, chest, hands. underarms. I did not do my legs. So basically the laser got rid of everything, and the HRT kept it off. It has been almost 15 years since I started all of that, and the only hair I shave is on my legs, and a little under my arms. Everything else is gone and it never came back
I still recommend doing it before HRT, as I mentioned it hurts like a bugger and with HRT my sensitivity went through the roof. I couldn't imagine doing it now.
Hope this helps. I promise next time to wear my contacts so I can actually read. :)
For me, on HRT for about 4 months, it has decreased the speed that facial and body hair grows. The body hair is noticeably more sparsely populated but still a bit thick. My thinning head hair is starting to fill in. What use to grow back, on the legs and chest, in a couple days now takes most of a week and is not nearly as dense. My body hair also doesn't feel as coarse.
I had maybe the slightest happy trail forming, it disapeared completly! I have no hair anywher on my body! Super Lucky, even my gfs have more hair than me on their arms!
Hair is luck of the draw, I never had any thank god.
But your body hair will definitly decrease, even in suprising areas! Lol
I have been on hrt for 6 months. Prior to beginning hrt I would shave my chest,arms and hands weekly or sometimes twice a week in the summer, and my legs daily. At this point I no longer deal with my hands and arms, I epilate my chest every couple of weeks, my upper legs get shaved every three to four days and my lower legs every other day. All of this is a blessed improvement and I look forward to continued magical effects of hrt.....of course, ymmv. - Anne
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I was curious on how hrt has not effected hair growth on your head but how it has effected your growth on your chest, stomach, and arms. Is it possible for it to lighten and get thinner on hrt, or is that a pipe dream and should I be looking into laser and or electrolysis.. I have some hair not very thick it's pretty fine but definitely has some tint to it.
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I feel hair thinning is more down to Spiro. I switched from Spiro to Androcur and my body hair began reappearing in places.
HRT has virtually eliminated my body hair. I still have some on my arms but it is very thin and light. The rest I might have to shave every few months at most. The hair on my legs, even if I don't shave for months, stays pretty much invisible.
In my experience this change is not reversible. A while back I did DIY HRT for a while and then stopped. The hair on my legs never grew back even though my T did get pretty high again. So, I had that shaven legs look permanently. I was questioned on it once too by a woman in my running group, LOL. I just told her my legs didn't grow hair, which at the that time was true.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide, Autumn Leaves
HRT has significantly thinned my hair on my thighs and lower legs.
One of the side effects of my medication was that after about a year the hair on my body got real fine and soft like it was when I was 13. It didn't bother me anymore so I stopped making Primary shave his armpits and legs. It was good. Having hair makes him feel like a guy and I have a surfer girl style so a little bit of hair is pretty cool.