I wonder if anyone noticed chin hairs and was consequently diagnosed with a hormonal imbalance or similar?
I have severe hirsutism. I can grown a full beard and moustache (coarse black hairs) and have peach fuzz on the rest of my face - including faint hairs on my forehead and upper cheeks.
Been like this since a teenager, but weirdly I’m slim and have regular periods. Saw GP about it… they refused to believe I had pcos because I was slim, although admitted they’d never seen so much facial hair on a woman.
As a teenage girl with this issue, I would often skip eating lunch to afford hair removal sessions. Every day it would consume my thoughts, and even after removing the hair I’d still get shadow so was bullied at school.
Just from my experience, unless you’re looking to get pregnant, GPs are very dismissive about pcos and/or hirsutism as it’s not life threatening despite the huge impact it has on self esteem. …Cant help but think if I were a man growing breasts I’d be taken seriously
Pcos is poorly understood, and often all GPs will say is just “lose weight” despite how slim people can have it too! (after seeing unhelpful GPs, I read up on it and there are many other cases of “lean pcos” in the medical literature)