Hi,

i have trichotillomania and pull my eyelashes and leg hair. Now, i'm a guy, so the eyelashes aren't a big deal, but the leg hair is. It's really embrassing that the insides of my legs have no hair, while the outsides have a ton. When I pull my eyelashes, they grow back quickly, within a month or two. Now my legs are different. I haven't had hair on them for a long time, for years actually, but that's of course because i've been picking hair on my legs continually throughout that time. There's always freshly grown hairs on my legs, but I pick those out before they have time to really get thick. I've been picking for a long time, and I just stopped a couple of months ago. My leg hair hasn't grown back, some places I think I can see hair, but it's not above the skin yet, and in some places there's nothing. Does leg hair take longer than other hair to grow back? Like I said my eyelashes only take a month or two to come back. One area of hair grew back rapidly on both my legs, but not the entire area. One thing I was thinking too, my eyelashes get plenty of sun, but because I never wear shorts anymore my legs never see the light of day. Could this be part of the problem? I really want to be able to enjoy swimming and stuff again. Any advice?


Thanks