AIBU to hate hate hate my hairy chin.

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Namechanged for this as I'm so embarrassed.

OK - so I am nearly 40 years old, female and have facial hair.

It started about 10 years ago - just the odd black hair on my chin, but now there are bloody loads of them in small patches on my chin and underneath. They are thick & black and not like the little bit of fuzz I get on my upper lip. I shave my chin every morning (and sometimes in the evening too). Can't bear to leave it long enough for waxing or threading.

I paid for laser hair removal about 5 years ago and have had a course on the NHS as well, but they don't seem to have worked.

Do I have to deal with this forever? I can only imagine it getting worse as I get older and that is very depressing. Any other hairy folk out there with any advice?

So chuffed....posted on this thread the other day.
I now see I'm not the only bearded lady sporting a Marcel Marceau that I have to get sorted

I'm 45 and was a bit like you a few years ago. I've been having electrolysis and, although it takes ages, it has worked. I now only have a few diehard whiskers left.

You can buy Saw Palmetto from Holland and Barratt. Not recommended for women breastfeeding though. Dammit.

I'm 31 and have been prescribed the vanquia cream, it's ok but has given my terrible hard headless boils

when you say prescribed vaniquia do you mean you got it on the NHS theportlypinup

saw pimento , that cold be due to never been tested...

I get it on prescription and have done for the 7 odd years

really I was told under no circs would the nhs prescribe it?

Blardy hell someone is selling a tube for £50 on eBay

Considering growing my beard back!

ood does it work?

The honest truth? I don't frigging know BUT I won't stop using it!

well yes, I have been told to expect to pay at least 60 pounds for it from chemist.

did your doc just do it for you was there a fight ?

but do you get any hairs do you have to pluck?

I have lots of hairs I pluck, lots and lots, I do it every other day BUT since I got the lumea, only every 4 days so that's slowing it down.

It was my the nurse practitioner at the GPs who wrote the prescription, it's been on repeat ever since.

I have a hell of a lot of medication on repeat so I doubt they even notice the 1 tube every 2 months.

No one has ever questioned it, I asked recently if there was something else I could try out an the GP said there was nothing else, but again, even when I said I didn't know if it was doing any good any more, didn't mention stopping it.

This is interesting, seems it slows growth as opposed to stops

mm.wirral.nhs.uk/document_uploads/shared-care/eflornithineinfemalehirsutismfinal1107.pdf

If it's hormonal a change in diet would help. Look up paleo diet or even just low gi unprocessed diet if you can't do paleo. Are you overweight? Again weight loss can help.

I have ipl machine (homedics) it does work just takes a while (now 18 months for me)...

I got mine free on the NHS (I have an exemption card from tax credits) I had an appointment to discuss the hair growth and acne and this was the first thing he offered, I didn't realise it was so expensive until I read this thread. It's reminded me that I need to go back for a follow up appointment.

I am staggered that some of you are getting this on nhs.

I really got the impression that it used to be given but was now a banned substance due to its cost. maybe you were lucky and got in before the ban.

I was un lucky in that all the time I have managed to pluck up courage to go to docs to talk about this, and nothing was done to help me over the years, indeed some docs have been quite nasty about it.

I only got mine about 5-6 weeks ago?

And I'm on free prescriptions with medical exemption so don't even pay the £7 odd

I received my epistick today (I ordered it after reading this thread). I've been threading for years and thought nothing could be better but I've been converted. I can't believe how effortlessly the hair comes out...and it doesn't even hurt. Really impressed.

I cancelled my facial hair waxing today. The hair has come back and I now have a five o'clock shadow but it isn't enough to be waxed yet....

Covering it with make -up until my new appointment that I made today for 12pm on Tuesday.

Sick of looking like a man :(

Sole its not come back, its 'fresh' iyswim. All of the hairs we grow aren't there at once. This is why it takes several treatments of the laser to get rid. You have to catch all the hairs in the growth cycle. Only a small percentage of potential hairs are present at any one time.

Oh yeah Jack thank you. I haven't thought of it that way. Can laser work for PCOS? :(

Yes. The clinic I went to used to offer a reduction for PCOS.

Of course it wont change the underlying problem with your ovaries but it will remove permanently reduce the hair.

I think some people have an initial course then go back every year (or similar) if they get new hair because of their condition, or just as they've got older.

Laser treatment changed my life - I've had 2 courses both bought as groupon deals.

Sugar do you have PCOS
Jack is your clinic nationwide can we have a name?