facial hair

Will the facial hair stop growing after surgery? I hate the daily morning man routine. :(

It depends on what surgery you are having done. The things we deal with take longer to resolve with the band where as with the RNY or DS things happen faster.

I would love to know too LOL!

Nothing should happen to it since once a hair becomes what they call "terminal hair" it is permanently that way.  The only way to permanently get rid of terminal hair (or any hair) is by electrolysis.  Laser is also good but may regrow. I personally had laser treatments on my beard area about 5 years ago and am sooooo happy with my results.  It really changed my life.  The only thing I could see WLS helping with is preventing our vellus hair from becoming terminal (thick) hair.  Some people experience head hair loss after WLS.  Don't know if it impacts the growth cycle of facial hair. If it did, it would be temporary just like the head hair loss is temporary.

There is a prescription cream called Vaniqa. I never tried it but it's supposed to help with slowing down growth of already terminal hair.

Mimi 

since someone here just asked me, I had IPL laser treatments in 2004. It included my sideburns, mustache, chin, neck (full beard area). In total I had about 8 treatments total.  It prolly ran me about 2,000 bucks.  This was during a period of  18 months.  Today I have about ten to twenty stray hairs. I just pluck those and sometimes shave cuz I hate the peach fuzz on my face. I am so used to shaving.  I used to spend about 30-40 dollars a month on shavers/cream. This doesn't include the makeup I would buy to mask 5 o'clock shadow (some of you know what I mean). The laser treatments have practically paid for themselves already in the savings from shavers/cream/etc.  No one has asked me if I did anything special to my face, they just used to comment that I looked younger and did I just come back from vacation. Unless I look at my pre-laser photos, I don't remember what it was like unless I see a female with the telltale beard growth. If you're in New York, I recommend the lady that did mine, her name is Shizuka.

Nope..still there for me and no change

I have spent sooo much money into electrolysis and laser treaments about 6000 in total and it still isn't all gone,  I could have grown a full beard, it was awful, I was only 17 when I started with the electrolysis, I am hoping that I will be able to afford to do a few more lasor treatments in the near future.  Having the facial hair has been an awful experience in my life, I  hope that after the surgery I will have something about me that I will like,  I feel for all women who have to deal with all these issues.  Good luck all.

My rny was 4/28/09 and I have lost nearly 60 lbs and a lot of head hair, and GAINED even more facial hair. I have wondered if this relates to going off of metformin which I had been on for years, first for PCOS, and then to treat the diabetes that I later developed.
But, I was taken off it when my diabetes resolved itself soon after surgery, and I became hypoglycemic.
Now, my tweezing and shaving routine is that much longer and more necessary, and I am appalled by how quickly it regrows, especially as my already thin head hair is getting even thinner.

I have written a lot about my hair issues, and have some head pics on my website (daily blog) below. If you wanted to zoom right into my posts about hairiness or PCOS, you can just enter these words into "search" and press enter.

Good luck with this problem, and now that I have found this discussion group, I will check back to see how you are doing.

Mine hasn't stopped and I had my surgery 1 year ago.  I use the razor more than my husband. 

i hTE Fcial hair i get it real bad and then i get it thick and right now i have a cyst and it hurts what medication are yiou on,