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Old April 28th, 2005, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Sweetie
Hi guys,
I have been here for a while, but was diagnosed with PCOS on my 19th birthday... I have HORRIBLE excess facial hair and have been prescribed Metformin and Spirolactone to help with my PCOS symptoms. What I really want to know though is will this combination of drugs and doing atkins make it go away? This is a horrible and self esteem breaking thing to have to deal with at 19 years of age and depresses me very much. :no
Hi sweetie!

I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2003. I have never been on Met but I have been on Spyrolactone. I have been told by 3 doctors that the facial hair will never completely go awy unless I laser it. there is no combination at this time of meds that will make it go away. Even diet and execersize will make it go completely away.

That being said, I have lost 50 pounds since then and I am finding that although the thicker patches of hair are still there, the thinner patches are thinning. That leads me to believe that it will thin out. Until I can afford to do the laser treatments, plucking every day will have to do it!
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