What’s the itchiest thing ever?

[BadAmbassador]

I have a tiny speck of impetigo about 2mm across at most and it is so itchy I want to claw my arm off🤣 it’s covered in Fucidin and temporarily a plaster so I don’t scratch my skin off.

The itchiness level is out of all proportion to its size!

Whats the itchiest thing? I don’t remember how itchy chicken pox was, I’ve had a lot of mosquito bites and impetigo beats them hands down.

I had an allergy to some shampoo and didn’t connect it at the time but every time any stray hairs touched my face, Jesus it drove me mad, particularly on my forehead.

And, of course, mosquito bites.

Having a cast on in the summertime. When I broke my wrist I had to take a chopstick with me everywhere as it was the only thing that could reach down into the cast and provide some relief from the hellish itch.

Omg I get this too- so I can literally feel your pain. It’s horrible as I love exercise but the temptation to scratch is out of this world! I’ve never met anytime else with it..

My reaction to epidurals. Entire body on fire for about 48 hours.
menopausal skin itching. Can’t relieve it. It just stops when it stops

Pruritus is just the medical term for itching!

@Vroomfondleswaistcoat 🤣🤣🤣

I recommend a cream called "Lanacane". It's an anti-itch cream. It numbs the area so the itch goes away. Works well for me.

You are the only other person I have ever encountered to have had the itch reaction to diclofenac. Doctors since have disbelieved me that I had such a reaction but as I've since had a stomach ulcer they no longer try to prescribe it to me.
And yes also ear eczema is tortuous. But the only thing beyond that is a healing c section underneath a special dressing. To not be able to itch it was hellish on top of sleep deprivation and breastfeeding

@FurForksSake 5 TIMES?!! How have you been so unlucky?!

@Mysterianthey should make it in a spray so that someone can just squirt me all over like a spray tan.

A huge mosquito bite on my shoulder blade 😩 Couldn’t ever reach it, it kept me up all night just constantly itchy. Had to have a hair brush at the side of my bed to keep scratching it.

Poor you 😭😭😭

@BadAmbassadori also has measles, German measles, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, constant tonsillitis until they took my tonsils, bronchitis, chest infection, throat infections, post-viral syndrome, something that stopped me walking for a bit (I remember trying to get out of bed and my legs not working at all..), glandular fever that made me ill for months, swine flu was fun…

basically if there was an illness you could get I got it. Including the stuff I was vaccinated for. My kids have been vaccinated for everything and I’ve paid privately for meningitis for one that was too old for it and chicken pox for the other.

these days I’m sure I’d have been diagnosed with something autoimmune to explain it, but they just said my immune system was terrible.

Thrush and headlice.
Great now I'm itchy, thanks op 😁

My feet, for the past 35 or so years! I’m allergic to some specific glues that are often found in shoes (and wet suits - fun)! Also found in plasters, cosmetics and anything else that might be sticky.

i have antihistamines everyday but sometimes need more as it’s not enough.

ill itch them everywhere but particularly like carpets as a relief… sadly this means they often burn and bleed but that’s better than the itching!

Lanacane helps as does the Australian anti itching spray but nothing gets rid of it entirely!

I had an itchy mole on my back. Totally unscratchable. I was referred on the two week pathway but it wasn't removed for 3 weeks.

When I was really sick with malnutrition and liver problems my legs were constantly violently itchy. I would scratch them until they bled. Nothing would give relief. It was absolutely awful.
Now I'm healthier it's totally stopped.

my discoid eczema🙄

A good dose of urticating hairs from a tarantula…for helping her when she got stuck. They embed in your skin and the itching is awful!

Hay fever induced itchy eyes. Even rubbing them doesn't give you that amazing sense of relief that scratching initially gives in other areas

Acute hepatitis ( liver failure as a result of a drug reaction). I spent days rubbing my feet and palms of my hands on the carpet. I scratch my thighs and calves until they bled. It’s the result of bile salts building up under the skin, the failing liver can no longer remove them from the blood. I’ve experience thrush and urticaria but this was next level.
Fortunately once I stopped taking the drug my liver recovered, but I can’t drink alcohol, a couple of glasses of wine and I have itchy palms the following day.
It is the worst I’ve ever felt. I really thought I was going to die and just wanted to lie down all the time.
My liver is still a bit reactive 30yrs on and my liver function is still a little off when I have blood tests but my GP is aware of the history. When I start any new drug they monitor my liver closely. When it was flagged up when by a gastro consultant he sent me for scan to look for fatty liver disease. It was clear. They always query alcohol abuse but I haven’t drunk alcohol for 30yrs.
When I was pregnant I knew immediately that I was starting with pregnancy induced cholecystitis when the palms of my hands and wrists started to itch h. My gyni reacted rapidly and DS was delivered within a couple of days since I deteriorated rapidly. Fortunately I was 36 wks so he was ok.

Bed bug bites.

I’ve also suffered many of the things pp have posted about, and agree they are itchy as hell, but nothing has ever compared to the bed bug bites I got whilst backpacking around the Southern Hemisphere.

Yes. I know. 🙄

You can’t bloody say anything on here without someone trying to make you look ignorant.

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Thrush and PUPPP. Both in the same pregnancy (but fortunately not concurrently).