shouldnt finasteride stop/slow facial hair?

[ali777]

The increase in body/facial hair might be age related rather than being a side effect of finasteride.

I'm 30, and I can definitely tell you that I have more body/facial hair than when I was 25. I'm not sure if I would have had less body hair if I was on finasteride at the age of 25, but I know without it I have more body hair.

There was another thread in the forum about laser hair removal. I will definitely get rid off the hairs in my back one day. I just dont like them, and when I do sports I get very itchy.

 

[Guest]

Ive paid thousand for laser hair removal and the hairs have grown back thicker.Beware.

 

[Guest]

Also there is no point IMO paying so much money for laser hair removal when your on minoxidil.minoxidil has caused me to gain alot of bodyhair,And laser wont get rid of any of it.I would just get waxed if i were you.

 

[ali777]

I dont want the wax route

Sounds painful, and it's something that I have to get done every month. I'm thinking of trying Philips body shaver at one point. My only concern is that a body shaver requires a biweekly commitment, I will have to use it regularly at least once every other week.

 

[Guest]

Well ive had waxing and laser , And in all honesty laser hurts a hell of alot more.Trimming is ok but like you said you have to do it very often.

 

[GeminiX]

Ive paid thousand for laser hair removal and the hairs have grown back thicker.Beware.

Over how long a period / how many sessions did you have as pert of the treatment?

 

[Nathaniel]

I think the laser works but you have to go to many sessions and even then you might regrow hair but it is going to be much less hair than before. So I think it helps if you want less hair. I don't have exaggerate amounts of hair but I am considering laser for some areas that I constantly trim.

 

[GeminiX]

I'm on my 12th session for my face, and I still have hair I don't want.

Also it only really works on fair skin / dark hair combinations.

 

[Nathaniel]

Has laser at least decreased the frequency of hair growth and shaving? Are the hairs thinner?

I have fair skin with dark hair so I was thinking of doing my chest. I don't mind having some hair on my chest it's just that I want to have less. So even if they come back, as long as they are less or thinner I'd be happy. I work out so I find it increasingly annoying to maintain.

 

[GeminiX]

Oh absolutely, every treatment makes progress. The reason it does not work in one pass is that the hairs are only killed by the light if they are in the Anogen phase (iirc, Bryan can prob confirm).

I'm going to add Vaniqa to my regimen in a few days which if combined with a little elecrtolysis and plucking too should see the end of my facial hair completely in another year or so. The only thing to keep in mind depends on your financial position. The treatments just for the facial hair come to close to £200 a month and that's before Vaniqa and electro, larger areas will be a lot more.

Oh, and depending on the area you want done and the power level you can handle, you should prepare yourself to test your pain threshold. Best way to describe it is having a very thick elastic band twanged onto your upper lip at point blank range

Edit: I just re-read your post, your chest area will not hurt that much, but it will cost a fair bit. I would suggest waxing first, just to see if you like it bare (and cold). At least with waxing it will definately grow back and the pain levels are similar to laser overall, but it does depend on laser power vs. how thick the hairs are to be waxed.

For what it's worth, I've had waxing done almost everywhere and in most areas it's no-where near as bad as popular legend would have you believe.

 

[Nathaniel]

Thanx Gemini.

Yeah, I prefer having a bare chest (I've had that look for quite some time now) because having hair hides definition in the area - the abs for example look much better with no hair (yeah I know I'm sounding vain but who cares). The thing is that I HATE shaving. So I normally just trim and look 'decent' but I have to do it too often. I would like to have thinner and/or slower growing hair so that it would make things easier on my maintenance, so from what I read, laser seems ideal. I don't mind still having some hair in the area though.

(I will look into waxing though).

 

[abcdefg]

Should it scare anyone to read that scientists that invented propecia were perplexed as to why it does not decrease body hair more then it does? It seems scary to me that someone would take a drug that scientists do not understand why it does what it does. I mean it grows hair yes, but what the hell else does it do? I mean shouldnt we understand pretty well how it effects body hair among other things before people start using it?

I will feel much much better when we get something like ASCJ-9 or some powerful proven FDA topical or safer internal if there is such a thing. Destroying receptors seems like a much smarter way to attack the problem in a perfect world we could take something internally and it could intelligently bind to hair follicle receptors and the problem is solved. Easier said then done though im sure.

 

[Bryan]

Should it scare anyone to read that scientists that invented propecia were perplexed as to why it does not decrease body hair more then it does? It seems scary to me that someone would take a drug that scientists do not understand why it does what it does.

Heheheh. It just goes to show that even doctors' instincts aren't always right on the money when trying to estimate (maybe "guesstimate" would be a better word) what the exact effect would be of altering some hormone. We have to keep in mind that until finasteride was being developed in the 1980s, there simply wasn't any available scientific evidence about how strong a reaction body hair would have to such a type 2 inhibitor. Up until those first such observations were made, even doctors' rough guesses about that issue weren't much better than our own!

 

[phish]

Should it scare anyone to read that scientists that invented propecia were perplexed as to why it does not decrease body hair more then it does? It seems scary to me that someone would take a drug that scientists do not understand why it does what it does. I mean it grows hair yes, but what the hell else does it do? I mean shouldnt we understand pretty well how it effects body hair among other things before people start using it?

I will feel much much better when we get something like ASCJ-9 or some powerful proven FDA topical or safer internal if there is such a thing. Destroying receptors seems like a much smarter way to attack the problem in a perfect world we could take something internally and it could intelligently bind to hair follicle receptors and the problem is solved. Easier said then done though im sure.

ascj9 is only product I have faith in, because it gets right to the root of the problem. Im hoping it comes out within 3-5 years and works like it should, in meantime everyone should try to maintain as much ground as possible with the big 3 till its out. Bryan whats your opinion on the way ascj9 works, you think its got a good shot at really destroying the androgen receptors in the scalp?