Cause of excessive facial hair on women?

[Anonymous]

I have pcos and have a lot of dark hairs on chin/lip area. One hair would not indicate pcos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have pcos and have a lot of dark hairs on chin/lip area. One hair would not indicate pcos.

I am sorry to hear that. Yes. I didn't think so either, my hormones did not either.

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Anonymous wrote:excess estrogen caused by obesity can cause it

I am definitely not obese. I am 5 foot 1, and I weigh 135 pounds. so, slightly healthy, but not overweight by any means. I have been told since I was a teenager that I was estrogen dominant. however, I do not know if that is still the case.

At 5'1" and 135 lbs. you are most definitely in the overweight category.

I'm 5'2 and weigh 135. I wear size four jeans and size two in dresses and a target
Kid's size large. I am technically obese.

I'm the obese 5'2 135 pounder, also want to mention I run a 5k in just under 23 minutes. I am an obese person on paper.

But you aren't obese on paper. You aren't even overweight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:well technically I am almost 5'2. I also have breast implants which tripled my breast size and I was already naturally A
a C Cup. therefore, it puts me in a normal weight range based on my BMI that I had to recently have done for insurance at my doctor's office. with that being said, I'm still not sure which hormone is the culprit. The only thing I can find online areandrogens.

Testosterone does that.
It might be that you don't have enough of a female hormone and you have too much testosterone.
Androgen is referring to male hormones - like testosterone.
Women have some testosterone (it's what gives us our sex drive) but not a lot

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003148.htm

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:well technically I am almost 5'2. I also have breast implants which tripled my breast size and I was already naturally A
a C Cup. therefore, it puts me in a normal weight range based on my BMI that I had to recently have done for insurance at my doctor's office. with that being said, I'm still not sure which hormone is the culprit. The only thing I can find online areandrogens.

Testosterone does that.
It might be that you don't have enough of a female hormone and you have too much testosterone.
Androgen is referring to male hormones - like testosterone.
Women have some testosterone (it's what gives us our sex drive) but not a lot

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003148.htm

That was a kind response, thank you!
Does menopause lower the female hormones? Or doesn't it cause estrogen levels to riase?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:excess estrogen caused by obesity can cause it

I am definitely not obese. I am 5 foot 1, and I weigh 135 pounds. so, slightly healthy, but not overweight by any means. I have been told since I was a teenager that I was estrogen dominant. however, I do not know if that is still the case.

At 5'1" and 135 lbs. you are most definitely in the overweight category.

I'm 5'2 and weigh 135. I wear size four jeans and size two in dresses and a target
Kid's size large. I am technically obese.

I'm the obese 5'2 135 pounder, also want to mention I run a 5k in just under 23 minutes. I am an obese person on paper.

But you aren't obese on paper. You aren't even overweight.

If your weight was 175 it might be an impact, no way at 135.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:well technically I am almost 5'2. I also have breast implants which tripled my breast size and I was already naturally A
a C Cup. therefore, it puts me in a normal weight range based on my BMI that I had to recently have done for insurance at my doctor's office. with that being said, I'm still not sure which hormone is the culprit. The only thing I can find online areandrogens.

Testosterone does that.
It might be that you don't have enough of a female hormone and you have too much testosterone.
Androgen is referring to male hormones - like testosterone.
Women have some testosterone (it's what gives us our sex drive) but not a lot

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003148.htm

That was a kind response, thank you!
Does menopause lower the female hormones? Or doesn't it cause estrogen levels to riase?

Estrogen levels don't rise, but sometimes they don't fall as quickly as progesterone, which can cause "estrogen dominance" in many premenopausal women. I don't think this is related to your facial hair, though, but I could be wrong.

[Anonymous]

OP, too much testosterone basically equals PCOS, unless it is high and some others are off, which would cause the doctor to look for other things.

The diagnosis of PCOS, despite its name, does not require a finding of cystic ovaries (the string of pearls on can see on U/S). In fact, many doctors will not do the U/S unless the testosterone level is high enough to be indicative of a possible androgen secreting tumor (most of which are benign).

You can have PCOS even without a hugely elevated testosterone level, but in most cases it will be elevated. Treatment is usually BCP and/or spiralolactone.

For all those posters claiming that overweight causes excess hair, please consider that PCOS, the most common cause of excess hair, causes many women to be overweight.