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Hirsutism, and what changed and did not

Started 13 April 2025 · 15 replies · 150 hearts · read 2.3k times

BodhiByron Bay, AU · 13 April 2025
1.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Hirsutism, and what changed and did not Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have had this diagnosis for a long time and none of the general advice quite fits me.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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LenaMunich, DE
#1

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#2

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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SaraOslo, NO
#3

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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CallaWellington, NZ
#4

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#5

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#6

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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GudrunAkureyri, IS
#7

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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TinukeManchester, UK
#8

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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DillyNewport, UK
#9

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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BeaDublin, IE
#10

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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MaeveSligo, IE
#11

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#12

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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MaritGroningen, NL
#13

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#14

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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CloverTotnes, UK
#15

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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