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Do anti-androgens reduce facial hair growth on an AMAB? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 17 hours ago by to c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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My health care provider most likely won't prescribe any kind of estrogen, but it just hit me that they probably don't even know what testosterone blockers are. So...

Would a monotherapy with only anti-androgens help with reducing facial hair growth?

I'm quite tired of spending a fortune on IPL and my threshold for pain is so ridiculously low that it's a hell every time. They have had to order an opioid cream just for me...

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[–] [S] 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Oh... I actually asked about electrolysis (they call it diathermy?) to treat my white strands, but to have her do my whole face with that... Now we're talking Scrooge McDuck money and a lot of time... She'd be going in with a needle in each individual hair sack on this face? 😭 Poor her, poor me 🤣💔

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    you only need to have it done on the hair follicles which actually still have hair growing out. the normal approach (for dark hair on light skin) is getting laser done to remove all the darker hair quickly and cheaply, then go in for electrolysis to clean up the remaining stragglers (mostly lighter hairs).

    a hair follicle which has already been killed by laser would have nothing to electrolysize :)

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