Hi,
I am an asian female in my thirties. I have been doing electrolysis for the past 5 months on my face ( 1hr every week roughly). I used to wax and tweeze and I have lots of fine dark hair on my faceand a few coarse hair on my chin. The condition has improved a lot and I can see a drastic reduction so far. My hormones are normal. This is due to the genetic factor. I am taking sprintec pills for birth control. My ob/gyn says if I stop those pills, I may get more hair. I was told by a dermatologist that since i don’'t have any hormonal issues I will not have severe regrowth or new growth and electrolysis would be permanent. Now after I am half way through, I am confused. WIll there new hair growth to a point were it will go back before I started electrolysis? I know over time a little bit of growth will be ther. But not to the extent that I end up doing electrolysis for the rest of my life.
Lagirl, or anyone who can provide a soultion please help.
thanks,
tired one
the simplest answer to your question is somewhat unsatisfactory - you won’t know what will happen if you stop the pills until you try it. Electrolysis is permanent. So the hair follicles that were deactivated, will stay deactivated. The only thing that can happen down the line in general, or if you stop taking birth control, is that your body may produce NEW hair, i.e. activate NEW hair follicles. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know if the birth control is currently regulating your hormones and keeping the growth in check. Did the ob/gyn prescribe this birth control for your hair issues or just for birth control only? If it’s the first reason, then you must have a hormonal imbalance of some sort, even if it’s negligeable. Either way, there is also a good chance that nothing will happen and no new hairs will be produced. But unfortunately, none of us or you can predict what “could” potentially happen or how many new follicles could be potentially activated with age/change of medicine etc for you in the future. And that also means that there is no reason not to finish your treatments and be happy now, even if you have to remove a hair or two here and there at some point in the future.
HI,
Thanks for the reply. My concern is once i get rid of the hair I have, will there be new growth that will be a lot ( a few here and there due to aging I can understand). THen who is a good candidate anyway? I really cannot afford to do this all my life. Only people with a little more than normal hair would consider this in the first place. I have no hormonal imbalance and my father is slightly hairy than normal. I may have inherited that. I know this question seems like a repetition but I want to clear my head before I go back for my next appt. I am planning to once every 2 weeks from now on.
Thanks,
tiredone
If you have no situations that are triggering continued hair growth, and you had good electrolysis done, you would be finished in 9 - 18 months on the fastest schedule of work.
If you had something that WAS causing continued growth, an electrologist who was both good and fast could clear you out in 15 minutes to no longer than 2 hours once every 3 to 4 monhts after your main problem hairs were conquered.
Hi,
Thank you for the reply. I have a question for you Mr.Walker. Have you ever performed electrolysis on people who have excess facial hair due to genetics. In those cases, was the new growth continuous. My hormones are prefectly normal, no excess weight or missed periods or fertility problems. In that case will there be a substantial amt of new growth. I have done plucking , waxing and threading for a couple of years before electrolysis.
thanks,
tiredone
If a woman with PCOS so bad she had 3 surgeries to remove cysts counts as qualifying as a candidate for answering your question, yes, I have. She got done, happy, and no longer finds any reason to see me other than on a social basis these days.
A good practitioner, and a co-operative client on a good schedule can make anything happen in hair removal.
Thank you Mr.Walker for your reply. Even if genetics is a factor, there is still hope and I am waiting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
tiredone