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…

  • VegOwOtenksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m on anti-androgens AND Estrogen for a few months and I couldn’t observe a meaningful reduction in hair growth so far.

    Do you use IPL in the face? I thought that was advised against by all the applicatiins.

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Edit: and thanks for your quick comment! 🩷

      Whaaaa 😱 They use some really advanced Japanese machine, so maybe it’s not as bad as a consumer grade one? Anyway, after 8-10 treatments the skin doesn’t seem to be hurt or damaged… Of course my face looks as if I had rubbed nettle all over it right after each treatment, but that subsides in a day.

      • traceur402@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Hair removal places can be really hit or miss. 8-10 treatments means mostly complete at the right place so if the road ahead still looks long maybe try shopping around

      • VegOwOtenksEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Ah I get it now. If you’ve got some studio doing it for you, they probably know their stuff.

        I thought you were using one of these small appliances @home.