I know I'm late on posting on this thread, but just catching up from vacation. My husband and I spend a week playing the ponies at Saratoga racetrack every year. We stay in Schnectady NY the 'hard water' capitol of the world. Hard water require hours of rinsing. I do not ordinarily get headaches, but for some reason while on vacation, as I'm leaving the hotel for the track, I have this dull headache on the right upper part of my head every morning. It gets worse as week progresses and by the time I am driving home, my hair hurts. This is insane and has never happened before. Four days later, I'm back to my own shower and stressful job and reading your posts about hair hurting. Mine no longer hurts.

I think my problem, check if it may be yours, is that because the water is so hard in this hotel, I had the shower head pounding on the top of my head every morning trying to get the shampoo out of my hair, and I am certain that caused the headache and hair pain. this is the first time this has happended. It may be we are more sensitive due to having radiation, but I was certainly pleased to know that I'm not the only one with hair pain. A new experience 7 years out of radiation.

And yes I'm on synthroid but doubt that has anything to do with hair pain. I did have a MRI to check 2 years ago to check for possible brain tumor because I was having unexplained headaches related to nothing. Came back clean, but don't ever try to put a mask on my again. I have had a hard time getting my thyroid level back to my base line. Think we finally got it, but have it checked every 3 months.

I love this forum. So nice to know I'm not the only one with a problem. So is your shower head the problem???

Take care,
Eileen