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Everywhere else but not so much the chest and stomach. after a few months all of the thick chest hair fell out. hundreds could be pulled out by the slightest tug.. it comes back some every few months but thinner and never close to the same extant, I imagine because of minoxidil stimulation synchronizing anagen and because hair grows in cycles.. Its kinda like what happens when people take minoxidil alone without changing hormones. there's ups and downs but overall downward trend in the long run.But you said that it goes away and then comes back, right? (Could be some unexpected form of Telogen Effluvium)
Also, there are tons of ways of having hairloss on different parts of body. An expressed gene shows effects under normal circumstances. You can't expect to have the same facial hair on eflornithine, right? Maybe it's your regimen that affects your chest hair.
my arms however are even more hairy than before HRT, probably because of minoxidil, but legs are slightly less hairy overall (although still hairy because I was really hairy before so basically they went from very hairy to hairy lol).. but they go through cycles of thickening for a few months then massive shedding, repeat. The arms shed too but not as much as legs.
I know that estrogen administration to mice causes hairloss through ERalpha receptor but in human scalp hair ER beta is prominent and good for hair. Also I know that ERalpha is responsible for mammary development, so my theory is that there might be more ER alpha in the chest area making it more sensitive
