What the heck? I'm growing half a moustache.

Anyone else have some strange body hair happen after surgery? It's falling out of my head at an alarming rate, which I expected and luckily I had a lion's mane to begin with. But now I have dark hair growing on one side of my lip, noticeable enough that I knew it was there awhile ago, and last night my mom pointed it out to me. Is it hormones? Am I just going to be the bearded lady from now on? Urggh :\

Do you take biotin? I have heard this will cause hair growth in unwanted places. 

Nope, I've just been sticking to the regular vitamin regime of calcium, B12 and multivits! I figure it must have something to do with hormones, but it would be interesting to know why hormones would cause it. I'll have to ask TWH I guess!

Well shoot, I hope they tell you it's temporary!

just don't shave it, it'll come back worse. I work in a nursing home and have seen PSW's shave the ladies face in a small spot and it comes back full force. It drives me nuts when they do it. Because once it's done, you have to continue with it :-(

lol I hope so too!

For sure shaving it is the worst way to go! Luckily with a bit of concealer/powder I can disguise it, so hopefully it doesn't get any darker or grow any thicker. I thought about waxing it today but once you start any kind of hair removal, you have to keep it up because there's no telling what will grow back :p

Let us know what TWH says. I'm 13 days post op. I was worried about losing the hair, now I think I'm more worried about looking like one of the Robertson brothers from Duck Dynasty  lol. 

Just kidding, I really hope it's a temp thing. :-(

that's bizarre. Let's hope its just temporary. Don't shave, don't wax ! Use the tweezer or go for laser or better yet electrolysis

I guess I'll do what I can to disguise it for now, and wait to see what it does - whether it gets worse or not. Luckily I work in esthetics so I have access to electrolysis!

If you go for laser they'll make you shave it off before you go!  I know this because I've had hair under my chin and on my neck for several years now, just kind of started in my mid-30's.  I think it's basically an age thing.  Surgery didn't change it, unfortunately.  I usually either do tweezers or waxing. Laser helps for a while, but it just grows back again eventually.  It is what it is. Sigh.

Have lots of experience due to my own hormonal problems, which I am hoping will improve with weight loss, but who knows?  In your case it might be temporary but still you probably want to remove it.  I would just use tweezers for now or a facial hair remover cream would work too.  I agree - do not shave it!!  I know it really sucks but its probably just because losing weight is effecting your hormone balance.  Just deal with it for now and see how things go.  Good luck!