pcos sufferers - how do you deal with the stubble?

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no cream or wax on earth can touch my facial hair even laser treatment didn't work and I am too embarrassed to go have it threaded to see if that works so I have to use tweezers and pluck out each hair individually.

Only problem is that within 48 hours, I have visible stubble but the hair is too short for the tweezers to grab it. I look like a bloke in drag. If I cover it with foundation I look like a bloke in full make up and drag!

Anyone have a solution?

Apart from letting it grow and plaiting it. I'm not quite ready for that (yet!)

I hate the stubble and end up shaving it every morning PCOS is so crap isn't it!

I take it you've tried Eflornithine cream from the GP? I still get a load of hair but it's definitely reduced (slightly).

I also tried laser and spent a small fortune, didn't work as it's a constant fight against hormones
Only thing that really works for me is a low sugar/GI diet. Easier said than done mind.

Low carbing has helped my pcos symptoms.

No sugar really does it good.

No sugar?

I have not tried the cream. I will go to the gp and ask for it.

Even metformin was a great big pile of crap.

and literally, too. Horrible horrible side effects.

My friend has hers threaded. Look for an indian beauty salon where it'll be done in private instead of in superdrug's window.

I'd try threading if possible, if not, have you thought of a home epilation gadget?

I'd go for threading too. I am able to control mine with immac, however a friend of mine looks like Fred Flintstone within a day or so.
She reports much success with threading. All sensible threaders will have seen much worse than you think you've got.

I have an epilator - it doesn't remove the hair! It breaks off at the root, leaving me with little black specs. I've bought two different ones - same result.

I once used wax and immac. One didn't remove it, so I immediately tried the other. Took the top layer of skin clean off...

...but left the bloody HAIR!

So that has left me with using tweezers. I can be sitting there fighting with the hair. Tugging away and the bugger won't come out. It's like they're cemented in!

I suppose I will have to pluck (harhar) up my courage and give threading a go. Oh, the humiliation if I am in the chair and they can't get the buggers out either.

My Endo often said that until you get PCOS under control, are hair removal methods can be fairly temporary.

On metformin, did you take the slow release one? I never had problems with it, but I heard that a lot of people in the UK don't get prescribed the slow release one because it's a lot more expensive.

As for hair removal, you said you tried laser but was it proper laser or just IPL?

I found IPL absolutely useless but laser worked really well for me.

I think you can sometimes get threaders who come to your house a la mobile hairdressers

Someone posted about this in style and beauty and LOADS of women said they bought a facial epilator from eBay for about £3 and it was brilliant. Only painful first time then they used it daily and it took approx 30 seconds. Sounded great.