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How do I know when to let it grow?
When diagnosed, I had lovely long hair. Two weeks after my first AC treatment, my scalp hurt so much I got a pixie cut to relieve the weight/sensitivity. A few days later, what was left fell out in la...
The fact is that your hair (any hair...anywhere) grows from below the skin in the follicles. All that shaving the surface of the skin does, is to cut off a growing hair, leaving a sharp edge. A hair that is not shaved thus, has a fine pointed tip, which feels softer. So...whether you shave or not, will not make your hair grow faster or thicker. Before chemo, I used to sit on my dead straight hair. I had it shaved to a #2 to avoid the trauma of metre long hair falling out in clumps. After that, I left my head alone and soon was blessed with much peach fuzz. This turned into an old fashioned hairy mango pip. That then changed to my Albert Einstein phase, with a mass of silvery white curls which exploded from my head looking as if I'd stuck one of my metal knitting needles into a plug socket. I then had to cut my hair very short again in preparation to brain surgery. It's now salt and pepper ...a lot more salt than pepper, to my shoulders, and just a wave, but no more maniacal chemo curls which I miss.