Do you cross your legs a lot? If you do, notice where your legs are touching. This may be the cause. :-)
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Do you cross your legs a lot? If you do, notice where your legs are touching. This may be the cause... constant rubbing.
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It's probabley because we all have cheap socks. MAYBE 100% cotton diebetic socks are what we need. If its not that it's our cirrculation and something to do with blood pooling up in the legs. Im 29 and it look like I shaved my calves on the out side. I think I itched my hair away. Damm cheap socks. My dad always said he had to where 100% cotton maybe now I know why. I guess I'll be happy it's only hair I know of that I've lost so far. LOL
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Reading through this topic, I didn't see anywhere else where it's seasonal like mine. Outside of the calves lost all hair last spring. My wife suggested it was because I switched to summer pants. But same pants as the year before. Sometime around fall or winter, it grew back, hairy as always. This week... it's nearly all gone again. And I've not switched yet to summer pants. Thinking through all possibilities, can't think of anything in common between seasons/years. All that said, I've got hypothyroid, adrenal and several other health issues (but not hypertension or diabetes). Odd. Will discuss with my MD again next visit. Last summer she shrugged her shoulders about it.
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omg! i took a shower today and noticed the outer calves of my legs have no hair and its a perfectly symmetrical pattern. wow! glad to know i'm not the only one. any ideas? i'm 35, healthy and not a diabetic. so weird!!!!
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Gentlemen; join the club. This other site has about 34 similar posts. One guy thinks he found a solution:
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I have two apricot-sized patches on my outer thighs which I never even thought about much till I looked it up on the internet today. I will continue doing nothing about it now. Just chimed in to say I've had them for a year or two and I'm not sick or dead. Woman worried about lymphoma be crazy
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same here
no hairs on the outside of my legs below knees
i gues this is because of the friction caused by blue jeans
age 51
no hairs on the outside of my legs below knees
i gues this is because of the friction caused by blue jeans
age 51
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I am 42 yo male and lost the hair on the outside of my lower leg from about the head of the fibula to just above the lateral aspect of my ankle. I am a physical therapist and in doing research concerning edema and treatments associated with it, I can to hypothesize that perhaps my loss of hair was secondary to mild edema. I stumbled across this article about balneotherapy and decided to give it a try: ***edited by moderator*** web addresses not allowed
The first week, I employed this therapy 3 times in three days after which the effects went from profound to modest. Since then, I have employed the therapy once per week and it seems that the effects to date have continued to be modest. I take this is evidence of the lasting nature of the treatment.
I have noticed several changes:
1. greater tolerance to the heat
2. diminished sweating
3. lost ten pounds (~5 the first day)
4. No more restless leg
5. the hair on my legs seems to be growing back. Actually, I'm quite sure it's growing back.
Try it if you can and are willing. Let us know if it works for you.
The first week, I employed this therapy 3 times in three days after which the effects went from profound to modest. Since then, I have employed the therapy once per week and it seems that the effects to date have continued to be modest. I take this is evidence of the lasting nature of the treatment.
I have noticed several changes:
1. greater tolerance to the heat
2. diminished sweating
3. lost ten pounds (~5 the first day)
4. No more restless leg
5. the hair on my legs seems to be growing back. Actually, I'm quite sure it's growing back.
Try it if you can and are willing. Let us know if it works for you.
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I have the same problem. I am a type 2 diabetic. My Doctor says my problem is caused by diabetic neuropathy. I am loosing circulation in my lower legs. I also have edema (swelling). The hair loss began under my socks, so I thought my socks were rubbing off my hair. Eventually, the hair loss ended exactly where the top of my socks ended. The skin at the edge of my socks also became sensitive. Over time, the bare skin developed a shiny look to it. You may want to be screened for diabetes.
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the same thing happens to me but only during the cold weather....last year it happened to my calves and this year its happening to my outter thighs.
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Hi guys, here is something to at least look into for your back of leg hair loss. NO way this is surely the cause, but perhaps.
so awhile back my mother was diagnosed with Lyme disease, and then i was tested and supposedly found positive as well. There's a big debate going on right now as to the prevalence of Lyme, especially chronic lyme. I don't know whether to believe that doctor, as there's a lot of concern that some doctors try to pump up diseases like this to become the go-to experts in a given field. But that was several years back, and at the time i had all of the hair on the back of both legs. One thing she said would happen has happened - i am completely bald on both legs 3 years after she said i would lose most leg hair. Both itch like crazy. And now arm hair is diminishing too. She said this would happen as a result of Lyme and some of the co-infections that ticks and tick-bitten animals trasnmit: Babecia, etc.
Maybe she's full of c**p. But it did happen exactly as she said it would.
so awhile back my mother was diagnosed with Lyme disease, and then i was tested and supposedly found positive as well. There's a big debate going on right now as to the prevalence of Lyme, especially chronic lyme. I don't know whether to believe that doctor, as there's a lot of concern that some doctors try to pump up diseases like this to become the go-to experts in a given field. But that was several years back, and at the time i had all of the hair on the back of both legs. One thing she said would happen has happened - i am completely bald on both legs 3 years after she said i would lose most leg hair. Both itch like crazy. And now arm hair is diminishing too. She said this would happen as a result of Lyme and some of the co-infections that ticks and tick-bitten animals trasnmit: Babecia, etc.
Maybe she's full of c**p. But it did happen exactly as she said it would.
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I am a 48 year old male and noticed over the past week both leg and arm hair just disappeared. I swim and Jacuzzi now and then and thought maybe they used too much chlorine... maybe we should all share any other changes in diet or lifestyle...I had a mild cold for the past week but no real changes to diet. I do get high occasionally
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