Does shaving your head help or hurt the regrowth process?

[Argentcour]

Since I did realize for sure about six weeks ago that I was losing hair, I decided to get a prescription for Propecia and bought Rogaine 5% foam from Costco. A sidenote is that in hindsight, I know that the hair loss started more like at the beginning of the year but I thought it had to do with the haircut or styling of my hair somehow or that my hair was just not responding well.

Anyway, now there does seem to be a more drastic hair loss than before on the whole top of my head where before it was mostly significant diffuse thinning on the top in the front. I guess I can attribute this to (a) shedding mostly and (b) additional hair loss partially.

I really never thought I would go bald since my hair was so thick and there seemed to be no real baldness in my family, yet I always said, "If I start going bald - I am shaving my head!"

Now to my question: It seems logical to me that shaving my head during this treatment phase might serve two purposes: (1) in effect eliminate the appearance of shedding, and (2) make the application of Rogaine more effective. In other words, cosmetically and physiologically it seems like a good idea.

IS THERE ANY DATA OR STUDIES COMPLETED ON PATIENTS UNDERGOING TREATMENT AND THE EFFECT OF SHAVING THEIR HEAD VERSUS LETTING IT TAKE ITS NATURAL COURSE UNDER TREATMENT?

 

[retropunk]

The only thing that shaving will achieve is shortening of your hair.

 

[powersam]

http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v55/n ... 8137a.html

 

[Armando Jose]

Thank you Powersam for the link, but the study only studied body hairs (what is crural area?), and it is differente from scalp hairs.
The study says that:
(3% hairs in telogen and stay much longer that anagen hairs.
Hair growth is influenced by temperature and nutrition.

My idea is that thisprocess is diferent from shaving head hairs. Shaving - Clipping.

In other words, repetead shaving of scalp hairs can be dangerous if you don't avoid problems in sebum flow.


Armando