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But I'm not "hairy." I actually have an unusually light amount of body hair on the rest of my body. The hairs on my legs are so light that you can barely see them. On top of that, this is a fairly recent problem. I have always had mild facial hair since puberty, but we're talking very mild, light mustache and a few sprouting thick hairs here and there that a tweezer couldn't take care of. But about 10 years ago, the facial hair exploded to the point where I now have thick hairs growing down my cheeks and under my bottom lip. The chin hair is so bad that I have to shave and tweeze every day now. My acne used to only sprout during PMS but now it's become 24/7 and has flared up on my chest and back.
Something's not right here. I'm almost 40 years old and I'm developing more facial hair and acne by the year. So if I don't have PCOS then what? What specialist can I turn to?View Thread
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