Saturday I decided to be a bum and not shower that morning. My hair was a mess, but I didn’t care because I wasn’t planning on going out. Well, circumstances became such where I had to go out, so rather than try to tame the wild beast that was my hair, I just put on a hat and went out. That afternoon, when I would run my fingers through my hair, it would make my scalp ache. It wasn’t anything real painful… just a sleight ache… and I was wondering why?
Is this common? Could it be that my scalp is just used to being washed every day? I’ve worn hats before and they never bothered my scalp before so I don’t think it was my hat, but I am curious why this would happen.
I get that too when I don’t shower, and I never wear hats. I also noticed it seemed to ache in the male-pattern-baldness areas, so perhaps it’s related to that.
Maybe it’s related to the “ponytail ache.” When mommies put their little girls’ hair into ponytails in the morning, sometimes they make the ponytail pretty tight so that it stays in all day. When the ponytail is removed in the evening, and the hair moves around, there is that slight ache.
Maybe your hair experienced the same thing–being held in one direction for a long time, and then feeling weird when moved in a different direction.
I don’t know what not having washed you hair might have to do with it, but little girls don’t usually have their hair washed every day. Could the ache have happened more on days when the hair wasn’t washed? Veddy veddy curious…
Scalp ache is usually from hair follicels, by the thousands, being pulled/pushed by one’s hair that is being forced in a direction it doesn’t normally grow or is accustommed, too.
Your shower/bath probabaly offers some relaxtion to your wirey, stiff or curly hair, and sans that shower, your sensitive ol’ scalp is protesting.