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Lecaste said:
I also think that it has to do with growth. The only part that is sore is my crown and it's the fastest growing part of my head. Also, it's only sore when I need a touch-up.
My theory is that my hair is extra curly and needs to work to push through the scalp. Straighter hair would have an easier time of it. The hair on my crown almost shoots out of my head (my mother calls the area my "power cell" and says that I must have baking powder in it because it grows so thick and fast /images/graemlins/grin.gif)and I'd guess that, with that much pushing against me like it does my scalp, I'd be sore too! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif
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Lecaste
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I don't think you are Too far off with this theory, although I don't think its the curl factor. I think its the fact that your new growth is stronger than your processed hair and if you are doing things to increase growth (vitamins, excercise, scalp massages), your hair is probably hitting a spurt on a regular basis.
The reason I think its the because of how strong your actual strands of hair are is because of a little observation that I made. A couple of months ago, I got something caught under the skin of my big toe. It was tiny and I could barely see it, but it hurt like the dickens, because the area above it was really sore and tender. Normally, I let things that small work their way out, but it was entirely to irritating so, I ended up digging it out. It was just deep enough to cause me problems and be difficult see, but in shallow enough that digging it out did not cause bleading. You know what it turned out to be? A small piece of my own hair. A little piece had broken off and I somehow stepped on it just right to get it lodged in my toe.
The reason I think this relates to the sore scalp is that irritation in my toe is the same type of irritation I have in my scalp a week or two before I notice new growth.
Hope this makes sense