Date:   5/20/2005 9:25:22 AM ( 20 y ago)
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> the doc says my blood tests came back fine and everything
> - thyroid, hormone levels are all ok

Sorry you didn't get anything more helpful from him

Did they test for free testosterone? Of course, it's sometimes the case that the level of sensitivity to particular hormones can be the influential thing. If your facial area was sensitized by exposure to high levels of testosterone before birth that could cause it to respond to even normal levels of free testosterone. Or if your testosterone levels are at the high end of the normal range and your estrogen levels at the low end of the normal range that could do it.

>....and he just gave me BCP to take for 3 months and then see
> what happens

Presumably trying to up your estrogen levels. The danger of that is that your body may shut down its own production to maintain the current level of estrogen in your bloodstream.

> ...i dont think he actually considered pcos a possibility.

He may have reckoned that you don't show the ususal symptoms of PCOS other than facial hair. After all, facial hair is very common in women. He probably has quite a number of younger women who have considerable facial hair, and unless he has an unusual group of patients, probably quite a few women in the 15-45 age range who shave just about every day.


> so now i am even more confused!

> it probably sounds weird but i actually kind of wanted there
> to be some conclusion from the blood tests-ie thyroid or hormone,
> so that i could put all the symtpoms specifically down to something
>...as now i am just kind of left wondering.

It doesn't sound in the least weird -- I think that getting some sort of conclusion is something that's tremendously important for all of us. And I suppose that's really where I'm coming from. I reckon that I've been able to get some sort of closure on the matter. I wish I could get the sort of closure that I got as far as the hair on my legs is concerned -- my lower legs used to be hairier than I've ever seen on a guy but over the years the growth has almost stopped and it's hardly noticeable now at 50. My facial hair has gone the other way -- the rate my moustache grew at slowed right down each time I was pregnant but then increaed afterwards and now I've got beard growth on my chin. But I do have a closure on the matter in that it's not a problem because I shave. And it's helped enormously that I have a husband who's very supportive on the whole business -- as far as he's concerned he's glad that he got a wife who's keen on the physical side of our relationship and he reckons that that's a side-effect of my high testosterone levels, so he enjoys anything that reminds him of my high testosterone levels -- including my chin when it's bristly in the morning before I shave. OK, life's probably different from what it would have been if I hadn't been hairy, but I really don't think it's worse.

> hhmmm...time to change my doc me thinks, i need to find
> one locally-preferably a female doc, so that i can feel
> comfortable discussing all the possibilities.

I'm not sure that a female doc will be any better -- personally I've always found that men have been much nicer about my facial hair than women. But I certainly think you need to discuss all the possibilities. And I think that probably any problems other than the facial hair itself would be the ones that to me would be the more important ones. I might have reacted very differently had my hormonal balance seriously affected my fertility, for example.

 

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