GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

Hi Girls!

First I'm so way excited to announce that I started hrt Thurday! YAY! Spiro and estriodal patches! Way syked!

I have been doing laser on my face; and I'll be honest I've not really seen anything happen! I still need to shave, there is no reduction, etc, etc, etc, .... I had 6 (maybe 7) session done.
I want to bin the laser treatments and start electro! It just seems to be more proven. I have read absolute horror stories of how long it took for different individuals to clear their face.

I would like to ask you to post your experiences on electro.

Thanks much!
Nikki

Hi Nikki,

I started electrolysis back in the early 90's having sessions that lasted several hours several times per week. Today, I still have to go in for a treatment every month or so to keep the fuzzy white hairs under control. I suspect I'll be doing it till the day I die.

Jen

Ok thats like disgustingly disappointing I hope thats not the case for everyone? Arrrrrgh I mean there are other girls out there surely who have had electro or laser or whatever and have like no hairs coming back right?

The odd stray one is ok genetic women get that too and pluck the fockerz out but oh my please dont tell me thats the norm youll send me into grave deperession! GIMME LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL>>>????

Honey - my aunties and my mum go in for the occasional zap of the fuzzy whites - it's not like weekly or even monthly sessions - just as needed.

ahhh k.... just reading that Jen had been at it since the 90's kinda nearly knocked me off my chair. Am I naieve to think and hope that itleast 98% of the hair will be gone one day? Seriously Im really like REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY looking forward to that day one day I hope I'll get there. I can't imagine having to live the rest of my life with this freakin problem still current. A touchup cause I may have got a few grey hairs when Im older is ok but if Im still dropping money into a bottomless pit a decade or so later noooooooo! please say it aint so That'd break my heart

Personally I wish they'd just fuck right off - but yeah - there's a time frame - after that it's just maintenance. It's not endless.

I've had two facial hair laser sessions thus far, and I "think" I notice a difference. My laserologist(?) swears up and down that I'll only need 5-10 treatments in all, once every 5 weeks, to get all the dark hairs, but then I'll have to do electrolysis for the relatively few white/gray hairs because the actual laser doesn't register those.

I'm also starting the pubic hair laser removal in five weeks, preparing for GCS in about a year's time.

Try to get galvanic or blend electrolysis and stay away from thermolysis. Thermolysis has a reputation for causing skin damage, because it uses heat, whereas galvanic uses electric current to destroy the hair follicle. When getting galvanic/blend electrolysis, ask the operator to extend the current time on each hair, which is proven more likely to permanently destroy the follicle. When the current is too short, or not long enough, regrowth will likely result. for anyone getting regrowth with electrolysis, blame the operator for poor technique in one form or another. Sometimes operators will work quickly with reduced current, which creates temporary hair removal, which gives the client the temporary impression that great results have been produced, only for the client to discover later that a lot of time and money have been wasted with bad technique that did not actually kill the hair follicles.

check out the site:

www.hairfacts.com

for the best detailed information.

Cool good on you Rachel I've only had one laser session so far. Booked in for my next session next month.

Could you at all shed some light on what the shedding process is like?

Like do you actually notice the hairs falling out of your face?

What actually happens?

What is noticeable exactly?

Im so curious and terribly impaitent in the mirror 10 times a day with my face almost pressed up against the mirror fogging the glass up with my nostrills haha classy.

Also eek your brave but you gotta do what you gotta do huh re genital laser. GOOD LUCK!

You speak fluent kiwi too!!! hehe yeah I wish they'd just fuck the hell off too!

I guess maintenance is better than having nothing at all and having the bastards full on forever huh.