Madeleine Burgess says she's spent the majority of her life 'feeling really unfeminine'. Diagnosed with PCOS in her early teens, she says managing excess hair growth, a common symptom, is expensive and embarrassing.
Now 31-years-old, Madeleine, who lives on Gadigal land in Sydney, says she was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome in her early teens and was "put on the pill pretty early" because of that diagnosis.
It's "a blessing" that unwanted hair doesn't grow anywhere else, she says, but your face is also the "most public".Endocrinologist with Monash Health, Jillian Tay, says that recent studies show that roughly one in eight women have PCOS.Polycystic ovary syndrome affects one in eight women and can have mild through to severe impacts on physical health, as well as emotional wellbeing including body image.
Before most women "come to see a doctor, they've already self-managed". As a result, Dr Tay says hair growth concerns are sometimes dismissed by doctors because they "haven't seen how much effort women put in" — for example, by plucking, threading and shaving it. Dr Tay describes laser treatment as "very effective" as a method of "permanent hair reduction". But she says it does require sessions about every four to six weeks, at least initially.
She says she has tried laser treatment, which reduced hair growth, but she didn't continue with it. Meaghan says the more "frequent top-ups" needed would be expensive.
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