Serious Question

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-10-2004
Serious Question
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Tue, 04-18-2006 - 4:42pm
This may be a weird question but I recently stopped taking my birth control pills in March and I now notice that I am starting to get gray hair in my pubic hair. Is this a hormonal thing or is this caused by stress. I have no gray hair in the hair on my head that why I am thinking this was odd( I am only 23yrs old). Anybody else notice this or is it just me?

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-30-2003
Wed, 04-19-2006 - 12:26pm

Hi luckygrl82, welcome!

I don't think stopping hormones should have anything to do with graying pubic hair. It might be related to age or if graying hair runs in your family. You might want to ask your doctor what s/he thinks.

Other members... Have any of you experienced this?

Thanks for posting. If you have more questions, please ask. Let us know what your doctor says, ok?

Good luck,

      Jill

    

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Registered: 03-10-2004
Wed, 04-19-2006 - 1:10pm
Thanks for the response. I just realized that I dye my hair so I proably wouldn't notice gray hair on my head. Also my mom who normally dyes her hair recently stopped also and here hair is almost completely gray. I never asked here if her pubic hair is gray, I think that would be to weird of a question to ask my mom or is it? Anyway I just wanted to make sure this isn"t a sign of a infection of some sort. I will as my doctor also to make sure ! Thanks