Can inspecting your hairline frequently accelerate male pattern baldness

[hair_nag]

I remember being out with friends and one of friends' girlfriend said something about her boyfriend's hairline receding, and that night when I got home I started checking my own hairline if I was receding or not.

At first my hairline was just as it had always been ( no recession), but I kept checking because I got paranoid, and sure enough a few months later I had started to recede very slowly.

Of course I m not suggesting that the whole recession was just because I kept pulling my hair back to inspect my hairline. It was likely just a coincidence, I was 26 and that's about the age a lot of guys start losing hair. But I am curious whether inspecting my hairline a lot does make things worse

 

[GoldenMane]

No. It can make you notice more and obsess more over hairline imperfections though.

 

[hair_nag]

Even 10 years after the beginning of my hair loss, it's still weird for me to read about recession. I'll never know the feeling, the joy of being a pure diffuse thinner (who still ended up bald).

Its a pretty ****ty feeling. Its like a never ending war where the frontline keeps shifting back and forth as you shed hair in the front and it comes back, but overall you are losing ground ever so slowly. Its very frustrating cause I keep thinking I m making progress but a few weeks later it seems like I ve lost ground.

 

[biddybomb]

it can actually, if you use a comb to constantly check ur hair, you are applying tension to ur hairline, that CAN cause tension alopecia depending on how often and how much force you apply with the comb. If a ponytail can cause tension alopecia, a comb certainly can too.

 

[Giiizmo]

It can dislodge already weakened hair and make you obsess about it but it won\'t accelerate it, unless it makes you obsess so much about it that it makes your stress skyrocket, causing possible telogen effluvium in areas already affected in male pattern baldness.

I don\'t think you can get traction alopecia from a comb as the tension isn\'t applied for long enough. You\'d have to comb your hair maybe hundreds of time to get the same effect.

Funnily enough, there have been a few studies about pain perception and inflammation where patients where told to look at their wounds through special glasses - the one who had the magnifying glasses reported an increase in pain and sensation of burning and vice versa.

 

[hair_nag]

well in all honestly Its not just inspecting my hairline, I have also developed the habit of playing and pulling on the edges of my hairline. I don't really pull hard, but its become something I do a lot, enough that a couple of my friends have told me to stop lol.

 

[abcdefg]

Traction alopecia is probably a real thing, but let me say real strong fully rooted hair is mighty strong. You would have to yank the crap out of it to destroy it like that. Not like wearing a hat with a little tension or something