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I just found this article that appeared in my daily newspaper today. That just may help all of us out there that have the excess facial problems !!!
I will write the entire article for you to read and to print out and give it to your doctor. You will not be able to find anything on the net right now since it hasn't been approved by the FDA but the article says sometime early next year it should get approved. Lets hope its sooner!
Women with excess facial hair about to get some relief.
New York- They pluck, they bleach, they tweeze. They use hot wax, electric current and lasers. Some even shave daily. And still the hair comes back.
About one in six American woman has enough facial hair that they remove it at least once a week.
Now, Gillette Co., the world's biggest manufacturer of razors, and pharmaceutical maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. have developed the first prescription cream that stops the growth of facial hair in women.
The drug could win Food and Drug Administration approval as early as next year.
Vaniqa is applied to the face ike a moisturizer twice a day. It works by blocking the enzyme that makes hair grow. It must be used regularly or hair growth will resume. Studies show it helps most women and has no major side effects. Facial hair in women has several causes, including an excess of male hormones. Genetics can also play a role. For instance, women of Mediterranean or Hispanic descent tend to have more facial hair.
The condition, known medically as hirsutism, can damage a woman's self-esteem. "It's very destructive, psychologically." said Dr. Ricardo Azzia, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Azziz said current treatments are only moderately successful, and Vaniqa may be preferable because creams cause fewer side effects.
No one has to convince Ingrid Reyes, 29, a chemist from New York City,. Reyes said she has had sideburns and dark hair above her lip since she was a teen-ager. "I've been on a date and suddenly he notices it and says, "You have a lot of hair." He doesn't mean any harm, but it makes you feel uncomfortable," she said.
Reyes tried waxing to remove the hair, but that dried out her skin. She tried plucking it. But the hair only grew back thicker. Lately she has been receiving electrolysis, which gets rid of hair permanently by delivering electrical current through a needle placed into the hair follicle. But multiple treatments are required and at $75 each they are stretching her budget.
Other methods also have short comings. Shaving causes stubble and skin may become irritated. Depilatories, or creams that remove hair, can irritate the skin. Some doctors have prescribed birth control pills, but many women don't want to take them because they can cause weight gain and other side effects. Doctors recently started using lasers to kill hair follicles but that is also expensive, and can cause scarring.
"It will be nice to give women something they do no have to take by mouth, and it's certainly less painful than electrolysis," said Dr, Ken Washenik, a dermatologist at New York University who helped study the drug.
Please pass this on to everyone you know who has this problem and post it on other sites so others can find this new drug.
I hope will all will benefit from this new drug.!!
Answer:
HHHMM! Well after using Gillette razors for over half my life, I should
own stock in Gillette. Think they will let me try it for free? ROFL. I
tried a cream years ago called "HairEnder" anyone of you remember that
one? It was like a roll on deoderant. It did absolutely nothing. Once
the hair follicle has been stimulated it continues to grow a hair until
it is killed and the only way to kill it is with repetitive jolts of
electricity via a electrolysis probe. I am very skeptical of this "new"
product.
