leg hair growth and perimenopause

This is a bit of a weird topic I guess but I'm wondering if leg hair growth can slow around perimenopause? I'm just wondering because I'm 47 and pretty sure I'm in perimenopause because of how super light my periods have become (tmi but I could use 1 regular pad for 24 hr or longer if I didn't change it for hygiene reasons). I have also noticed over the last year, maybe 1.5 years I have to shave my legs and underarms a lot less often, going from about every other day to once or twice a week. Can that happen with perimenopause?

I believe so. My grandma around 50 pretty much stopped shaving and by 60 she was bald everywhere except from the neck up (she wore dresses without underwear, so, yes, confirmation of EVERYWHERE).

Ha ha muddy! It stopped for me too. It was great not shaving. Then my doctor gave me some kind of hormone for the hot flashes. Not only didn’t it work my hair started growing again. Abet much slower and thinner. I recommend to people not to take hormones if they can help it. My sisters hair on her head got thinner but mine didn’t.

Oh joy of menopause.

It definitely slows down by a lot. I used to shave daily as my body hair is black and thick. But since I entered menopause I shave way less infrequently. Same with under arms. Not just legs.

My hair (head) isn’t thinning yet though, thankfully. But facial hair is growing insanely. I’d rather shave my legs every day than having to pluck my chin!

My head hair definitely is thinning I lose so much hair in the hair catcher in the drain every time I take a shower. And it never was thick to begin with! At this rate, I'll develop a bald spot by the time I'm 50!

I already have 1 chin hair I have had to pluck for years; I just dread the thought of even more growing!

I'd rather have to shave my legs every day than to lose the hair on my head and pluck chin hairs...!

Every cloud has a silver lining! Shaving is too time consuming anyway haha

I have one chin hair too!! I’m only 28! But it’s just been the one for a while and it actually feels kinda good to pluck it. This may be TMI but plucking nipple hairs feels the best to me. I hope I’m not alone in this lol

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Originally Posted by MuddyBoots I have one chin hair too!! I’m only 28! But it’s just been the one for a while and it actually feels kinda good to pluck it. This may be TMI but plucking nipple hairs feels the best to me. I hope I’m not alone in this lol

Maybe with the nipple hair you are...LOL. I do not have any nipple hair thank goodness!

LUCKY!! (Kinda. I hate the look of hairy nipples, but like I said, plucking them feels amazing)

My grandmother was almost 60 when I was born, so I have no idea if she had had leg hair before, but I assume she had had, given that she had olive skin, dark eyes, black hair, and heritage-wise was partly from the area of the world where women grow a lot of body hair. She did not have underarm and leg hair after 60. She had grey facial hair (on the chin) and my aunt would pluck it. I assume that facial hair was a result of menopause. So with age, it seems, there is less hair on the body + more hair on the face / new hair on the face.

@Blueberrybook I didn’t even know there was such a thing as perimenopause at the time I was going through it, which was about 20 years ago! I don’t recall less leg hair; I’ve had trouble with hair since I was a teenager. I have hair on my fingers and toes too! And a moustache which is hard to keep at bay. If I was stranded on a desert island and was rescued, they would think they rescued a man!

Since post menopausal it’s worse. Leg hair may be a bit lighter in color and less quantity but it’s still there. It still grows in fast and pretty dark. Hairy arms too, though much less hair now and less dark. I still shave though not regularly anymore. Just can’t stand leg or underarm hair! It’s like I was born an ape woman or something.

Hair on my chin and dark hairs on both lower corners of my mouth. I pluck them constantly it seems.

@Nammu recently I found out the pendulum has swung in the other direction regarding HRT, that it’s not bad now. Can I ask what side effects you had? And in what form did you get it? Pills, injection, skin patch? Low dose?

Sorry to hear it didn’t help. I wonder if men have any problems as they age. It seems I just hear us about women…..

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Men's problems involve not being able to get it up without pills. That's pretty much all I can think of off the top of my hat.

They also gain belly weight, which in turn lowers their testosterone, which In turn causes other problems and exacerbates not being able to get it up sans pills.

Night owl I don’t recall what my side effects were aside from resuming my leg hair growth. It was a very unstable time in my life. I do remember that the hormones made me more unstable and did nothing for the hot flashes. I was taking a pill of some sort.

I wouldn’t be surprised if hormones are now safer, my experience was more than a decade ago. I have heard creams are better. But I haven’t kept up on all that so I wouldn’t know.

@Nammu I thought it was probably a long time ago. Medicine is always swinging the pendulum back and forth. Eggs used to be evil, not so now but the price!

Once coffee was bad, not anymore. I know medicine isn’t a hard science and things are discovered all the time.

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