I'm just burning up the forums today, LOL. And, I apologize in advance if this is the incorrect place to ask Endocrinological (sp?) questions, but there wasn't a specific forum for it that I was able to locate.
Has any woman out there experienced a very low testosterone level combined with a major increase in male-pattern hair growth (chin, top of chest, between boobs, nipples). I'm not talking about one or two tiny brown ones, I mean like I get 3 or 4 thick black ones growing from the same pore and they are rooted in like a 100-year-old oak tree. And every day I find more popping up on my chin. I pluck every day before work because they spring up that fast. I'm too embarrassed to expose my chest anymore without an hour of checking and plucking. The worst patch is between my breasts. If I let it grow, it'll get to like 2" long and it's a patch about 2" wide by 4" long. My nipples have more hair on them than my husband's.
Doesn't testosterone/androgrens causes excessive hair growth? If so, why is mine so far out of range? On 6/25 it was .7 out of a range of 3 - 10.6.
I have a ton of other symptom including LOSING the hair on my head, fatigue (extreme), constipation (extreme), foggy brain, itching skin, irregular periods and spotting all month long, milk from both nipples (prolactin normal). (Thyroid tests appear fairly normal too except for a low-normal TSH). Well, I can't even list them all here because they sound so random and disconnected actually. I'm just really frustrated. I have had blood test after blood test and they seem to turn up nothing. MRI - normal. Pelvic U/S - normal. Just wanting some answer and since this is one of the abnormal findings that dealt with my hormones, figured I'd start researching in this direction. (Oh, 36-year-old female)
Anyways, major question in point regards the low testosterone with excessive hair growth. It doesn't appear to be familial either. Most of the women in my family have LOST most of their hair. Oh, and I went completely white at 30.