Excessive body hair coming in, wax early enough is it perm.?

[Simptom]

Firstly, I will delete this post if it does not belong here.

Well, I don't know exactly where to post this, I tried looking for some type of beauty or waxing forum, but there seems to be nothing out there. Usually people post in these forums to keep hair, but I figured that since this is a D.H.T. issue and many of you out there must be suffering from this alongside M.P.B. that you guys wouldn't mind.

I notice I have excessive body hair coming in on my back, the sides between my back and chest, and my entire front is almost entirely covered, no joke. I read somewhere online that if you wax virgin hair early enough you can wax it permanently away with treatments. Laser and electrolysis are out of the question as the cost as a student is just prohibitive and I figured I could keep up on this at home (at least the sides).

The vellus hair is starting to lengthen and darken all over areas on my body where most people wouldn't typically have hair. I'm probably going to be completely covered if I don't jump on this. I have two questions:

The first is, how many of you out there have experienced a reduction of body hair on finasteride? I'm thinking of going on it to try and halt my early M.P.B. and there's now more of an incentive to go on it for the body hair issue.

The second question is if anyone out there who has excessive D.H.T. like me waxes or knows if what I read is true, that if you start waxing early enough before the hair finishes transforming from vellus to regular body hair, that with continued waxing you can permanently get rid of it?

I figured if I go through with the waxing and finasteride I'd like to keep up with this thread so my fellow hairy monkey brothers out there could benefit from my experience.

Thanks guys.

 

[cuebald]

I believe finasteride has pretty much halted my body hair growth.

I had quite hairy legs and hairy arms, but none on my upper body at 21 years old, which is when I started finasteride (I was a NW3.5 at this stage). I was growing in my body hair as people do at this age. Since starting finasteride (I am now 24), it hasn't changed at all. I still have no hair on my chest or even the "happy trail" that others at 24 have.
I didn't think anything of it until I went to the beach with my friends (for the first time in about 3 years since our summers have been crap in the UK) I noticed that most of them were a lot hairier than they were prior, but I hadn't changed. One guy had gone from being almost hairless, to being almost covered in curly black "pubes" - in the space of three years.

This isn't solid proof I know, but it does make sense, considering DHT is responsible for stimulating the growth of body hair.

I've heard once the androgenic hair grows in, nothing short of electrolysis or laser treatment will stop it from growing.
I think MtF transsexuals report that their body hair thins out on a cocktail of spironolactone, cyproterone, etc etc. Mine, on finasteride, has merely stayed exactly the same - it hasn't thinned or thickened.

As far as waxing, I sometimes do it on my feet, but tbh I can't say for sure whether it makes a permanent difference. It still grows in the same (but, these are terminal hairs and not vellus ones)

Some women with vellus hair they consider bothersome wax it - some say their vellus hair decreased, others say it has increased.
I read a study (I'll try and google it) that some people have a gene that thickens hair in response to either trauma or increased blood flow - that causes hair to thicken even when damaged by waxing. With this gene (that is apparently quite common in darker Caucasians - southern Europeans, etc) waxing can darken vellus hairs. (perhaps this explains why laser helmets work for some, but are useless for most?)
Without the gene, hair becomes slightly damaged by the waxing process - though apparently this affects the texture and direction of growth rather than the thickness and colour of the hair.

My body seems to be covered in thin, blonde vellus hair about a centimetre long. It's really weird, most people I know either have nothing there or thick black hair. Perhaps these vellus hairs were to become terminal, but the DHT has arrested that process?

Having found nothing much on the net, I'd suggest the only way to really know, is to take finasteride (if you are willing to do this), wax a test patch of vellus hair on one side of your body, and compare it to the other side. It would probably take 2 or 3 years for anything conclusive to happen.

 

[Brains Expel Hair]

Supposedly if you treat the body hair with peppermint/tea tree oils often enough it decreases their thickness/growth. For the most part, what's good for your hair up top is bad for your hair below.