Has anyone lost body hair whilst on Androcur or similar drugs?

If so, how long were you on the drug before you noticed the changes?

The reason I am asking is that I have been on Androcur for about a month now and as I am taking it mainly for my sex drive, I would like to lose my body hair also, as I have never liked it from puberty.

Confuzed

I have had a reduction in body hair. It took several months and was most likely that many of the hairs in their dormant phase didn't 'cycle on' again. It wasn't 'one day in the shower and my body hair fell out'. I was a hairy guy, chest, abs and some on the back.

Also the hairs that I still have grow much slower and have a finer texture. Before if I shaved my pubic region the hairs would be poking through in a day or two, now sometimes up to 5 days depending where in the pubic area. Beard, went from a daily shave to evey other day or so.

YMMV

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I did loose a fair amount of hair while on androcur. It seems to be still reducing some four years later. I did not have all that much hair to start with so I have less to loose. Face hair is far less and grows more slowly. From what I here for others a very hairy guy will notice only a small change in body hair.

Is this the same for people who are surgically castrated? Or will they loss all body hair (to female proportions) as there testosterone will be pretty much at zero?

confuzed (imported) wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:56 am Is this the same for people who are surgically castrated? Or will they loss all body hair (to female proportions) as there testosterone will be pretty much at zero?

If you are on the right dose of the anti-testosterone drugs you will have the same effect of real castration. Going back to a body with no or very little body hair is not expected. Think about a post menopause woman. When their female hormones reduce they tend to grow some hair. A castrated person is in many ways just like a post menopause female.

Even if you are castrated your body will still produce some male and female hormones. The adrenal gland produces both hormones. The adrenal gland can produce around 10% of your total bodies hormones.

While I was on castration meds (blood tests showed I was way below even female levels of testosterone), I noticed a lot of hair loss, but not all. Once I had the surgery body hair decreased even further.

Thanks for your replies

For the last 3 days i have been taking 1mg of Estrofem per day to try to reduce my body hair. Am I going in the right direction?

bobbie (imported) wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:42 am Think about a post menopause woman. When their female hormones reduce they tend to grow some hair. A castrated person is in many ways just like a post menopause female.

Actually, it seems that the reason women tend to grow more facial hair (at the expense of scalp hair) and often develop deeper voices after menopause is that they end up with progressively increasing and unopposed testosterone with age (it drops only temporarily right after the menopause). Recent studies indicate that by the age of 70, a woman actually "catches up" and even surpasses average t-levels for young adult females. This, in turn, is the reason for the increased virilization with age (some even manage to develop mustache and "beards" by their eighties).

The main difference in this case is that post-menopausal women retain their ovaries wich are still capable of putting out about the same amount of androgens as the adrenals, particularly in response to increased levels of LH (and thus doubling the total DHT amounts). Eunuchs, on the other hand, would only have the adrenal glands as their sole internal source of male hormones (so they should naturally shed more body hair; I also believe that eunuchs are less prone to baldness than post-menopausal women for the same reason).