For me, having this amount of excess hair on my body is a torture. I have hair on my chest, stomach, bum, back, the backs of my legs and I have sorta sideboards. I really hate it and I desperately need some help. My mom keeps saying I should get laser treatment and tells me it's nothing, but she has no idea. She hasn't anything like this, no one in my family has. I can't go to the Swimming Pool, the beach, I can't wear halter neck tops or shorts, I haven't worn shorts in years. This is becoming such a hard thing for me to handle. I have had blood tests and they came back fine, so now I have zero idea of what could be causing this. It scares me to know that even if I am 14 and a half, I have all this hair and it makes me feel like a man. I want to try the spearmint tea but I don't know if once you stop drinking it, it will stop working for me and I'll get worse. I've tried acids, shaving (oh god..) bleaching, waxing etc.. I just desperately need to get rid of it! Especially my stomach, back and bum. Please help! contact me if you have anything that could help or advice - vicki_g_@hotmail.co.uk

i have the same problem as all of you girls. I am 16 years old and i've had this problem since I was 10. It started on my back now im literally hairy everywhere. I want to do things with my boyfriend but i'm too scared he's gonna notice how hairy I am and not love me anymore. I don't know what to do. I keep going to mutliple doctors to find out what it is, and they have taken hormone tests and everything is normal. What else could it be?

sorry, i meant to say peppermint tea, will this work?

i am soooo, so hairy and have soo much hair all over my body,back, arms legs butt ,chest stomache, not the happy trail, but all over. i couldnt be close to my boyfriend because i didnt want him to think i was a hairy freak, then he just thought i was fridged and broke up with me.i wax my arms and legs and pit, upper lip, and tweeze my eyebrows. but its such a burden to live with. where can i get some of this tea? all i seem to find is spearmint tea, will this work?

I am 13 and my tummy is quite hairy!
It makes me feel so insecure and all my friends have literally no hair, also does anybody know if veet cream is good for your legs? how long does it last for?

Just remeber to not shave any places you shouldnt! [arms tummy back or face unless you want stubble of course] (;

please reply x

That's just the problem! I have hair everywhere! I'm 13 and all of my friends are practically hairless. It's so embarrising! I can't even wear a bikini without feeling like a freak. I shave all the time, but the hair just grows back. If I bleach it, it looks weird because the hair on my head is dark. I hate it. My mom doesn't know that I shave, and it's so hard to hide the fact that I do! I am so anxious to try the tea- maybe that will be the solution to all my troubles.
Thanks!

im a 13 years old and im really hairy i dont feel cute because all that hair on my body.. i see the others girls and they rarely have hair n their legs :S it makes feel unactractive&im embarrasing wen im with my friends im always trying to hide my stomach cuz i get a lot of hair there.. i get hair on my butt,toes,my back,upper lip,legs,armas is really gross and myself-esteem keeps going down :(
i want all that hair outta my body! :[ and ill have a pool party soon and thankz god i get an excuse [my period] but wat ill do next time i cannot live like that.. i love going to the beach nd the pool is just that being so hairy dont make me like it at all .. :[ wen somebody say pool party i feel so bad cuz im wondering wat will they think in their mind bout my hairyness :S but theres always some body that come up wit the "ewwwwwww"thaz gross and that makes me feel so baddd! and embarrasing! im frustrated about the hairyness stuff help mee please !!! where do i get that tea????

poor thing. you sound like me exactly...
i get so down... especially with hair on my bum... which i removed when i was younger- young enough not to realised that removing it will only make it worse.. though it was with epilation. now i hve ingrown hairs, long hair, short growing hair, spots, bumps.. on my bum. how sexy does that sound? lol.
i feel so down all the time. i have no future or life because of this curse :(

I have the same problem... I think I pretty much tried everything from shaving to rotary epilators to waxing to expesive laser treatments - now i am doing electrolysis it's been a year and taking spironolactone for past 7 months but I think it's only gettign worse...
I really don't understand it... It's ruined my bf and mine sex life and I have fits of major depression every now and then. I am so tired of the upkeep and constantly worryign what people may think so I ave recently just stopped everything (except the electrolysis which i do on my face and nipples) ... i feel like a man =(

I STRONGLY advise all young people (and older people I suppose!) to AVOID removing the hair on your body (ie back, bum, arms etc) because I did this when I was a teen from about 15-18 years of age and it became a total chore and in the end it only made the problem worse. I haven't removed it for a few years now and am hairier than ever. It now grows in thicker than it ever did and I am quite sure that if I had just put up with the small amount that was there before I wouldnt be as hairy now. I too feel self conscious in a bathing suit and even in bed with my boyfriend who I have been with for 6 years! It's crazy and only we have the power to live our lives without this ridiculous social conditioning. By not giving in in the first place and not judging people on these superficial standards we will be making the world a better place for our future daughters to grow up.

i am 27 years old . i wanna try spearmint tea. so here is a question, if i drink tea 2 times a day. what would i do after that. means it will stop growing hair or what will happen in my body? how would i know that my facial hair are stopped growing. and what if it makes stop growing my hair from head.
answer me .
thanks....

It's amazing that so many women have the same issues and symptoms that I have stressed about myself. I have mostly hair covering my entire body and have tried, waxing, tweezing, threading, laser, and even the creams. It's so tiring everything that I have to go through just to be accepted. I hide a lot I haven't worn a midrift since I was 18 and I a bikini or bathing suit you can cancel that. I'm strong and I refuse to let this thing beat me. It's not something that I can control and obviously the women on this forum, you know that it's not something that you asked for. The solution is education, because as you can see you're not alone. Have you ever thought that maybe the people without the hair are the weirdos and freaks? They don't know about our body hair because we choose to hide it. We don't want to talk about it, we stuff it in the closet and pretend as if it doesn't exist, but I want you to stop it. Live your lives and don't let it pass you by. Because the worst thing that you can do is look back 5 or 10 years from now and wish that you would've done something differently. You'll realize that it wasn't as bad as you made it. Stand up for yourself and educate the ignorant. I wish you all the best of luck...Take care and feel free to send me an email for everyday encouragement. God chose you for a reason. Find that reason!!! He knew that you could handle it...God Bless you all

I am a teenager (13) right now and I have the same problem. I have hair on my arms (above my elbows, gross!), fingers, toes, stomach and legs. It's so disgusting to me, and I wonder what people think of me. I'm 5'8'' (yes, I'm very tall) and it seems like I'm a freak. I try to shave, but it's useless! The hair always grows back soon, even when I use the hair remover sprays/creams. I really need help in getting my confidence up too because for like 2 years now, I can't stop comparing myself to other girls and feeling like the ugliest thing in the world.

I have to say that body hair does not come from not eating too much, it's simply a hormone problem. Before you opt for laser treatments you must get your hormones tested thru blood tests. & there are medicines that help with it.

I understand completely what everyone is saying. I started puberty young and grew hair quickly on my underarms and bikini area. I also had thick eyebrows which i started to obsess over when someone made a comment about how thick they were. I started plucking and plucking but i couldn't keep up with the hair growth. Sometimes i even shaved, just to cheat. I then started to get hairs on my top lip and stomach - a snail trail. I felt i couldn't tell anyone, i felt so manly and started fretting over whether i was completely a girl, if i had boy hormones, if i could have children etc.. All these thoughts escalated and i started to feel very unhappy with my body. I now have hair on my tummy, chin, top lip, bum, fingers and toes. I too have avoided swimming or anything that would expose me. I find it hard when i sleep with my boyfriend and often find an excuse to switch the light off. Then finally, before i was due to go on holiday for a month which would involve the dreaded swimsuits, i cracked and had enough. I finally told my mum. I was so ashamed when i told her, i felt i had let her down and was an embarrassment. She told me that she had the same problem. Sharing made me feel a whole lot better as i truly thought i was the only one with this problem, none of my friends have anything like that. My mum hooked me up with a really sweet and understanding lady who was completely unphased by the extent of my body hair. She made me feel a lot better about the problem and that it is solveable. I visit her once every few weeks and she gets rid of everything! After, i feel so good about myself. I'm not saying having hair is wrong but for me getting rid of the hair stops me from feeling low and cure my problem, allbeit temporarily. I will have to wax for a couple of years before any real results show so i think that a little extra help will do! If being hair free makes you happy then it should be done!
ps there are some guys out there who don't mind hair and will not judge you for it.

i am quite a hairy young girl and in summer most is bleached by the sun and i do not get so embarrased but once winter comes round it goes dark again all on my arms, and up onto my hands, i sometimes get comments from friends about it, i even have hair on my arse! it makes me so self conscious espeically when i am with a boy..

i wax my legs underarms and bikini line but i dont like the fact i am gonna have to take the plunge and get a brazilian to reduce the hair on my bottom :( i hate the pressure we are put under to be hair free.
i have a good diet but my father is quite a hairy man...could this be the reason..xxx

Body hair is so embarrasing, especially in places where other girls are smooth and pretty. Like the face or stomach or arms. I dont even know when it started or if Ive always been hairy and only began to notice in my teen years. But I havent gone to the beach once this summer because Im so self conscious I hate weraing swimsuits or even short sleeves.

I dont even like my boyfriend to see me naked when we sleep together. It has ruined my previously good self image.
Shaving and nairing and all that makes it grow back worse.

My mom is a nurse and says excessive hair growth happens when a girl doesnt eat enough, but I think I eat plenty. Besides, I like my figure and even if I did allow myself to get fat, what if the hair still didnt go away. Then I'd be fat and hairy!

There should be more options for this problem other than expensive laser treatments and whatnot. Ill try the tea though. Thanks.

i am 17 years old and i have a lot of facial hairs so i wanna try spearmint tea. so here is a question, if i drink tea 5 days twice a day. what would i do after that. means it will stop growing hair or what will happen in my body? how would i know that my facial hair are stopped growing. and what if it makes stop growing my hair from head.
answer me on ekta15154patel@yahoo.com
thanks....

hi I am Kavita, past 2-3 years i am seeing some abnormal hairgrowth on my chin and underside of my jaw.Is this something called hirsutism?
Can u suggest some cure?

The hair phobia has grown to such an extent that a woman is supposed to be 'clean', shaven and 'bald' all then time in her pubic region. In fact, hair in pubic region and armpits are quite erotic and reservoirs for female pheromones, which serve to attract the male. A 'bald' woman is totally abnormal and sterile-looking, I guess. Of course, if a woman starts morphing into a werewolf, she may require hormonal therapy or spearmint tea (LOL). Otherwise, there is simply no reason for shaving her nether parts, just to be 'in' with the crowd of other 'bald' women..

Hi - Here is a link to the BBC article on this same issue. It does provide some info on the dosing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6376599.stm

Good luck!

i am deepa from india i would like to ask a question if you can answer i have pcod and i would like to know the quantity of tea to be taken how many times a day and on which day during the menstural cycle and for how long we can take the tea.

it would be very helpfull for me as you know that there is no other natural treatment for the same we also have infertility problem it would be very kind of you to help us with the same. it would be grat if you can mail me on my address at srbindia@yahoo.co.in