Im a hairy guy and i know alot of you think this is not really an issue for dudes but in severe cases it really is… I dont know if i can take this anymore. Ive always been a pretty hairy dude but I thought for some reason in time I would find a solution and things would get better but they just haven’t. Im 23 now and just as hairy as ever and so much so to the point where waxing is just a logisitical nightmare, shaving and depilitories just arn’t worth it because stubble is back within a day and i tried laser hair removal a while ago and it seemed to have little to no differance after about 5 or 6 treatments. If anything i had patchy regrowth and a pretty bitter experience with it. I can’t take this anymore, Im so self concious about this shit I wear long sleeve shirts all the time, even in summer, cant go to the beach and am becoming more and more reclusive. I completely relate to alot of the people here and pray in this age of science we have some sort of solution in the near future because this isnt a joke anymore… its my life!!! argH!!)@(#!@)(#!)#!
yeah man, it sucks. i always where long sleeve shirts, so your not alone.
what laser did you use? where abouts on you?
I think a lot of us feel your frustration. Especially for some of us who never had hairy upper arms until after receiving laser. It’s a nightmare and really does change your self-esteem and wardrobe…LOL! I find myself reading this website daily praying technology makes the breakthrough we all are looking for. Keep your fingers crossed and keep your chin high.
Mike
hey again, im from perth in Australia.
I had the lightsheer laser used I believe.
Im not sure if my arms got hairiER after the treatment but come to think of it I really wouldn’t be suprised my shoulder/upper arm hair is alot thicker than i remember and just morphs into my like one big hairy mess 
I took am holding out for that technological breakthrough, I just hope we get it in time before our lives are already lived you know what i mean?
At least being a hairy guy is more accepted than being a hariy woman. However, your pain is no less than theirs. My dad is really hairy too and has passed it onto my brother…oh and me as well, but at least I have the estrogen working in my favor. I feel for both my dad and my bro, however, they’ve had less trouble finding women attracted to them than “non hairy” men in many cases. My dad’s been married to my mom and re-married to my step mom, and now has a very lovely and good looking girlfriend. I know it’s not all about that, but deep down it really is. I mean, I try to tell my husband that I don’t get depressed about it because I care what other people think or that they won’t like me, but it’s that I don’t like how I am. Well, I wish that was true, but humans are only self-conscious because they are afraid of what others will think of them. So I’m not going to sit here and tell you not to care what other people think and God made you that way for a reason because as someone who feels your pain, it’s not realistic. You hate the hair and that’s your right and I know you don’t want to hear crap about accepting and embracing it because it’s how you were made. Some people on here might challenge me for saying that to you, but that’s a peson who isn’t hairy telling you to accept how you are when they’ve never walked in your shoes.
Now that I’ve gotten that hopelessly boring paragraph out of the way, I have a couple questions:
1)Did you do a lot of research prior to having laser?
If you have ligher skin and dark coarse hair, it should have worked. However, their are many, many cases of men who have had laser on their shoulders and found that for some reason it didn’t work or stimulated more growth. I’m not sure about the upper arms though. Usually the upper arms have finer and lighter hair, which could explain why the laser didn’t work and caused more growth (mike85nj’s post).
2)Have you actually tried waxing?
Maybe you should just wax the parts that embarrass you the most, such as your back and arms (I don’t know if your back embarrasses you, but for most men that’s the problem area). That way you don’t have to wear long sleeve shirts all the time.
I would give laser another shot ( I say that like it’s cheap or something)…just make sure the laser is right for your skin and hair type and don’t use it on certain areas that cause growth.