Thread: My Doctor Advised Me To Stop Shaving With a Straight Razor!

It all depends on how proficient you are shaving with a straight razor.

In my case (using a straight razor almost daily), I haven't suffered anything worse than a small nick in a long time, and even the more profusely bleeding cuts in the distant past did not happen while I was shaving, but after a shave when I was drying the scales and oiling the blade. Since I have long figured out how to avoid this sort of mishap, I consider the risks very low.

We also may want to allow for the fact that many people, not familiar with a straight razor, consider a straight razor a scary, dangerous tool and sometimes even refer to it as "cut-throat razor", a ridiculous term that is thankfully not in use around here.

So in the end, I would base my decision on the number of times I cut myself in the last 6-12 months.

If you want to play it safe - and as mentioned before - a safety razor might be a good compromise. It is not quite the same pleasure, but is clearly preferable to a cartridge razor.
Safety razors with the Mühle open comb head (R41 and similar) give shaves that are comparable to a straight razor. I still have one for those trips where carrying a straight is not practical.

Hope you won't have to take the medication for too long and the stent can be removed.



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