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Body Hair Loss
This symptom could be caused by the failure of your pituitary gland. Below are the hormones that could be deficient.
Sex Hormone Deficiency
Your gonadotrophic hormones (LH/FSH) are what stimulate your sex organs to make testosterone and oestrogen.
If they fail, the symptoms are:
- Erectile dysfunction
- Infertility
- Less hair growth on the face and body
- Less muscle
- Development of breast tissue (gynecomastia)
- Bone weakness (osteoporosis)
- Depression and anxiety
For men
In severe cases
- Difficulty concentrating
- Hot flushes
For women
- Periods get less or stop
- Breasts fail to grow
- Hot flushes
- loss of body hair
- low or absent sex drive
- milky discharge from breasts
Erectile Dysfunction and Infertility
James Smith: “my sperm was tested for number and motility, and found to be near zero. I was prescribed a regime of diet, exercise and sleep and the dropping of certain antidepressants, and at first this appeared to work, and then not to. It was a standard one-size-fits-all procedure, and nobody ever paused to wonder why a 35-year-old who had been fertile before should have problems now?”
Source:
Healthline https://www.healthline.com/health/hypogonadism#symptoms https://www.healthline.com/health/low-testosterone/depression#low-t-and-depression
Note:
Sex hormone deficiency may also be called hypogonadism, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (if caused by the pituitary), or testosterone deficiency (in males).
‘Primary’ means ’caused by a problem in the sex organs themselves’
‘Secondary’ means ’caused by a problem in the pituitary gland.’
‘Tertiary’ means ’caused by a problem in the hypothalamus’.
‘Central ‘ means ’caused by a problem in the pituitary or the hypothalamus’.
For how to test if you have gonadotrophic insufficiency (hypogonadism) see ‘Diagnosis’ page.
