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Is it normal for you to get more or for your body hair to get darker as you get older? It seems like since I've hit 25 my body hair has gotten much more noticeable. Upper lip has gotten darker and seems like more, I've got dark hairs on my chin/jawline, and where I had a slight 'happy trail' before I've got full on hair. Is this weird?

Not necessarily weird. If this is the norm for women in your family it may just signal the end of puberty and your personal body chemistry evening out to the levels they'll stay at until you reach menopause.

If this isn't the norm and the women in your family are all of the less hairy variety, then I would advise you to have your hormone levels checked by either your primary care provider or an endocrinologist.

It can be. Have you changed any medications or birth control recently too? I could be a side effect of that. But even if you haven't, it could just be your levels adjusting a bit, as they will your whole life.

Perfectly normal and it's (naturally) more noticeable in women who have darker hair. If the current rate holds up, I'm expecting to have a beard by the time I'm sixty.

Ha ha, I'm working on the beard myself.

It's not surprising that younger women are surprised when this starts appearing. It's made into this big secret. Nobody talks about it but all women have it (at least, if you have dark hair).

Back of the thighs is where I'm currently growing a forest. I never knew, but now I'm asking round all my other dark-haired female friends and they have a few years start on me even.

More or less the same thing happened to me when I was about 24. I never asked about it, but I assumed it's not that odd?

I know more body hair can sometimes be a symptom of PCOS and I have relatives with that, but I was on hormonal birth control at th time which I would assume would have surpressed the symptoms. My mother told me at one point that she had starded having to pluck dark hairs from her chin. She was in her 50s and was to surprised to hear I'd already been doing that for a while, but then, it's not like she's the standard by which all is measured or anything.

I occasionally have to pluck my chin, and I get my upper lip waxed but it's not that dark to begin with (not super noticeable, but enough to annoy me).

I hope that's not a big deal lol.

Not all birth control helps with PCOS, btw. It really depends on the kind of pill. Plus, some kinds mask some symptoms but do not keep the cysts under control.

ayrt

Good to know. Doctors keep insisting I don't have PCOS, but none of them have deigned to formally check and rule it out. Since I don't really have any complaints that fit the bill, other than acne and the body hair I mentioned, they dismiss it. My cousin with PCOS, on the other hand, never started menstruating until she was put on the pill at 16.

Ayrt

Ugh, I had almost the same problem. Doctors dismissed my worries for years, didn't do any tests and simply wanted to put me on the pill, which would just give me a regular period and mask the only symptom I had: lack of regular periods. I didn't have acne or too much body hair, but guess what, when I went to a different doctor and specifically mentioned PCOS and getting tested, they sent me for an ultrasound and I was FULL of cysts.

I hope you manage to get actually tested, anon. And I hope your cousin is not simply on a pill but getting regular tests to see if the pill is helping her.

And I hope your cousin is not simply on a pill but getting regular tests to see if the pill is helping her.

Presumably. At this point, it has to have been at least 15 years since she was diagnosed.

I'll try to make another pitch for having myself checked next time I have an annual exam. I'd pretty much given up asking about it after more than one doc dismissed it, and it hadn't been worrying me much in any case.

Oh god, insist that they test. My GP insisted that I didn't have because I "didn't have enough male pattern body hair" even though none of the men in my family have the pattern he was talking about, even though I had almost every other goddamn symptom. Finally my dad put his foot down and sure enough, riddled with cysts.

Luckily for me the pill is sufficient to take care of it.

I think it's normal for some people to have darker/more noticeable body hair as they get older. I don't know if mine is, though--around 21 I found myself growing a mustache, a happy trail, chest (and boob, ugh) hair, and edging towards growing a beard, complete with neck hair. It's been a decade or so and now that I have insurance again I might go get it checked out. It's embarrassing. I've always been hairy, and my family is full of hairy people, but none of the women in my family have as much body hair as me, and nobody has the hairy boob thing. I think I might have PCOS or something, since around the same time I grew all the hair, I went five months without a period and gained some weight. I know it wasn't a pregnancy because I would have had to call the tabloids and claim to be carrying the next messiah.

Go get checked, anon. "Forget" the hair, if it's PCOS, you really need to deal with the cysts.

It's something i've noticed as i've hit my forties. I have to pluck on my *chin*!! And this stupid 'skin colored' mole on my upper lip area grows big, dark hairs seemingly overnight. So fucking annoying.

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