Pcos is not the only possible diagnosis. Late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia is another reason for too many androgens (male hormone). It often can be treated with birth control pills or low dose prednisone.

PCOS - I am willing to bet on it!

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Anonymous wrote:Depending on amount, you could have PCOS. It's one of the side effects.

I'm hairy and I don't have PCOS. It can also be genetic: some of us are just screwed.

Yup - that's me. I'm like a hairy old Italian dude (sorry - pls don't flame). But I have blue eyes and fair skin. Totally screwed in the body hair dept. One bonus is that I have awesome brows and the hair on my head is thick and lovely. So I pluck and shave and wax. I've made my peace with it. Now if I could just accept my ever increasing crow's feet....

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Anonymous wrote:DO NOT PLUCK THEM!!!! Get electrolysis. Plucking them is going to make it worse. I am NOT an electrolysis practitioner, but someone who has had the exact same post-partum hair growth issue and plucked and did laser and now have done electrolysis and they are gone. If you pluck or wax, on the chin, you are going to stimulate growth--it is a hormonal thing. I can tell you I started with one or two, and then, well, ugh.

Get electrolysis. It is a time committment, but having done laser, which IS NOT permanent, electro is the way to go. But please don't pluck. Huge mistake.

right. and shaving makes the hair come back darker.

It's a common myth that hair grows back thicker after its shaved--of course, all shaving is, is cropping the hair down level ith skin. It does nothing to change the underlying structure of the hair. It is not, however, a myth that hair grows back thicker (and more copious) when plucked. When you pluck a hair out by the root, whether with tweezers or by waxing, your body treats this as an injury and acts defensively to heal itself. The root grows deeper each time, and the hair the follicle produces becomes thicker. In addition, after a long time of plucking hirs out of the follicle, the follicle becomes more distorted, which can cause ingrown hairs as well as skin scarring from continuing to pluck the hairs from the now very crooked follicle. The myth here is that hair grows in softer and diner the longer you pluck it--sorry, no; just the opposite. In addition, because blood rushes to the area being plucked in order to heal itself, it nourishes the follicle as well as surrounding follicles, which can cause more terminal hair growth in the area. All this to say, pluck at your peril. I started out with a single annoying hair on my neck, and it's gotten to be more and more around my chin area. I finally started going to electrolysis, and am seeing improvement. P.S. I'm 30, no PCOS or anything, normal hormone levels, no Mediterranean heritage, just a white-bread Swede. I wish I hadn't plucked as long as I did and had gone to electrolysis earlier, to "nip it in the bud," as it were. I know it's not quite that simple, but tweezing certainly doesn't help matters. Years of tweezing can damage your skin as well as make it more difficult for an electrologist to target the distorted hair follicles, if ever you decide to go that route. I haven't opted for laser, since everyone I've heard from or read about say that it's only a temporary measure that stunts growth, but it eventually comes back with a vengeance. Hope this helps.

Anonymous wrote:Depending on amount, you could have PCOS. It's one of the side effects.

I'm hairy and I don't have PCOS. It can also be genetic: some of us are just screwed.

Depending on amount, you could have PCOS. It's one of the side effects.

Juicee wrote:I'm 27, I've just started plucking 2 thick hairs out of my chin

Me too (almost 27). My mother had chin hairs too but hers didn't start until her early 40s... shudder

Anonymous wrote:Or you could just be hairy -- like me.

LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:Srsly?

Menopause. How do you not know this ?

Now I'm depressed. I'm 32 and they started about a year ago, after my second pregnancy.

my daughter started getting them at age 12. $he plks them as well she hates doctors so won't go see one she also hasn't had a period n almost two years she is 21yrs old now. Good luck

I'm 27, I've just started plucking 2 thick hairs out of my chin

Anonymous wrote:See an endocrinologist. You may have ovarian issues.

Exactly! PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) or something causing excessive androgens come to mind.

See an endocrinologist. You may have ovarian issues.

Are you team Jacob?

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Anonymous wrote:My eyebrows have turned so bushy since I turned 40 - like an old man!

As someone with "barely there" brows, I'm envious! You could have them shaped, and I bet they'd be gorgeous. I've always envied Brooke Shields!

agree! I have to fill in my brows every day. Hate the way it looks without my eyebrows filled it.

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Anonymous wrote:Yuck..

Lately I've noticed some dark black/brown hairs starting to grow under my chin on my neck. I constantly pluck them out. I'm a 37 YO white female...and they only just started to show! WTF? Why are they coming? Is my only permanent solution electrolysis/laser hair removal? UGH!!

Any thoughts or comisserations appreciated.

Thanks.

Lol. Because this is relevant.

maybe she thought it only happened to us sicilians?

Southern Italian here who's very light-skinned . . . no unwanted hair on my body, thank God!

my cousins who are olive-complected? different story altogether
While I've always been jealous of their gorgeous skin, the hair on the face thing has always disturbed me.

I had an aunt with hair growing out of her moles.
shudder