: Hirsutism

[Luise Kunkle]

Hi Irene, others,

This thread made me recall the case of a friend with the opposite
problem.

Some years ago she told me:

When she was 39 or so she had an operation. A benign tumor was
removed from her right ovary, the ovary itself was not removed (this
is what the surgeon told her).

After this operation the pubic hair that was shaved off for the OP
never grew back, also not the hair in her axilla and on the legs. When
she told me about it the operation had been more than 20 years before.

This has kept puzzling me. Any ideas?

Regards

Luise
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[Michele Graham]

This kind of hair loss can be related to hypothyroid.
Not sure of the connection to the surgery.
Michele.

[Irene de Villiers]

Luise Kunkle wrote:

Hi Louise - Not really. Just some thoughts, I do not know enough to
suggest a specific case cause.
At menopause several hormones change and in a similar way to the way
they change under stress. So after the operation - the cortisol levels
would have been high due to stress - and so that suppresses hair where
you want it.

(Cortisol takes away hair where it is normal to have it; ACTH puts hair
where it is abnormal to have it. You can see this in the ACTH versus
cortisol provings in O A Julian repertory - so we homeopaths can know
this. I see that the endocrinologists have not picked up the difference
yet between high ACTH (with high cortisol caused by it) versus high
cortisol alone. It's only the ACTH that causes hirsuitism as shown in
the provings.

At menopause the levels of cortisol also go up - they go up starting
perimenopause which could be consistent with age 39 especailly after
surgery stress. If she also has some glucose control issues that would
make it still worse.

Someone like Dr Christiane Northrup (see "The Wisdom of Menopause" plus
her new book too) would probably know more....

NAmaste,
IRene
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