Thanks for your reply. I only checked just now since there was a lag.
And yeah, it’s been that long. I have an hour+ appointment each time, and do get clearance (minus the full upper lip, which I cannot endure). And every month, there’s still more regrowth. It’s certainly way less then when we started, but every time I get that regrowth at about the 3 week mark, I get suspicious and depressed again. Is she plucking? Pulling them out too early? Do I just have some weird growth situation that makes me unusual? She insists she’s never had anyone stay this long, but who knows if that’s true?
As for “billy goat,” all my hairs there are light and fine, just long and dense. That was the same for my bottom lip middle area, but as soon as she started treating those, they grew in thicker. She was going quickly on each hair since it hurt so much, and I suspected that resulted in “plucking,” meaning treating too briefly and then pulling anyway. I asked her to go longer even though it hurt a huge amount and as soon as she did, they started growing back less. I’m afraid she’ll do the same on the even-more-painful center upper lip, so I’m just not doing that area in fear. I’m considering Vaniqa just for that area, but I don’t know if it works on hair that is technically vellus, just long.
I don’t know how to leave her without admitting a lack of faith after all these years. I mean, I did have a lot of hair, and it was very thick after many years of plucking. Man-beard thick. With very dense patches, making treatment difficult. Thats no longer the case, and things are definitely sparse and hairs are definitely thinner. Something must have been working. And I’m now approaching menopause time, wondering if I’ll just get new growth now and have to do this monthly for the rest of my life.
Should I be complaining about having to go once a month? I’m not sure. Maybe that’s normal. One hour or so, once a month. I feel like I must be close to the end now, since the hairs have much more space around them, and there are nowhere near as many, but I can’t tell if I’m lying to myself and that just five dang appointments with someone else would end this forever already. She keeps telling me that the new growth I’m still getting is hairs on their own cycle, that probably haven’t shown up for treatment in a long time, and we’re just spending time getting through all the cycles, but how long can that be true?
Sigh.