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I keep hearing that E really helps the hair situation for a lot of people; I really hope it works that way for me as well! The faun look sounds pretty cool tbh. I’ve done a bit of dressing femme with a solid mustache, and idk if that’s right for me long-term but wow is it a look. I think stereotypically male body hair patterns on women are rad and underdone. I also feel (at least at the moment) like I’d rather leave that form of GNC for others, but that’s part of my hesitation; if it looks good on me then why wreck that? (because looking good doesn’t mean feeling good, but like, it gives me pause is all)I’ve gone back and forth over IPL. We have one in the house, but everything I’ve heard that doesn’t sound like it comes from marketing is that they are basically for shit.
If you don’t mind my asking, did you try monotherapy or were you also on spiro all along? I’m planning to start on mono and see how it goes, but if adding an AA helped with the hair situation then I may consider adding it at some point to see if it helps with that in my case as well, assuming that estradiol alone doesn’t do the trick well enough of course.
Thank you for the reply. Regardless of whether I end up going for it, hearing everyone’s experiences is making the decision seem a lot more manageable to make and I really appreciate it :)
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Quote from Terminal:Can confirm. Granted, during the first week or so of starting HRT (at too low of a dose to do much - mostly just noticing the effect of spiro), the anxiety from the whole thing caused a fair bit of dissociation and I only continued taking it because I trusted the me from a week before that was super-excited for it. But after that, there was no way I'd be stopping willingly. And after 3 months (and E barely above normal cis-male levels), I switch to injections (at a dose that was eventually cut down by more than half) and I could tell the difference mentally the next day.
When I started HRT, I assumed I'd eventually need laser for pretty much everything is I wanted to be content with my body hair. Honestly, at this point, I'd probably only serious consider it for my face and chest unless it was covered by insurance or really cheap. I'd still prefer less, but its not really a big deal anymore. Took over a year to get to that point though imo.
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For context I took finasteride for nearly 2 years because I wasn't sure about estrogen and wanted less body hair and thicker head hair.When I started estrogen I started Spiro at the same time. It's a bad anti-androgen but we're limited in Australia but it has really good positive side effects for skin and hair. I only take 100mg and skip it if the urinary frequency will be inconvenient.