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What’s the itchiest thing ever?

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BadAmbassador · 31/08/2025 12:57

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.

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OneInEight · 31/08/2025 15:39

PUPPP in late pregnancy. So incredibly itchy. Luckily for me mine disapperared as soon as the babies were born.

ninjahamster · 31/08/2025 15:41

Withdrawal from some antipsychotics. Was crying with frustration. Itching all
over my body, could not sleep. I suffer eczema and this was another level. Since then, I seem to be allergic to my sweat so if I do anything strenuous, my whole body itches all over.

Echobelly · 31/08/2025 15:43

Impetigo around and in my nose was pretty awful awful!.

Also pregnancy rash I got with my second... I couldn't wear clothes for a couple of days until I got some creams to help, but it didn't fully go away until a few weeks after DS was born.

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PrincessC0nsuelaBananaHammock · 31/08/2025 16:05

My bloody foof during peri! Driving me fucking nuts!

buffy2025 · 31/08/2025 16:34

ShowOfHands · 31/08/2025 13:02

I get weather and exercise induced urticaria which is itchy but gets worse if you scratch. It's unbearable. Not as bad as morphine however. I wanted to claw off my own face and they had to give me something to counteract it.

That ^^ I have cholinergic and spontaneous urticaria for the last 30 years and it is finally under control
not being able to scratch it and people staring at it makes it worse

buffy2025 · 31/08/2025 16:37

This was before it was controlled
I will never get over the utter joy of a hot bath, wearing a coat, doing a spin class and not itching

What’s the itchiest thing ever?
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Safxxx · 31/08/2025 16:43

QwestSprout · 31/08/2025 12:59

Allergic reaction to Diclofenac - I genuinely wanted to pull my skin off. Either that or eczema in the ear canal because you cannot (shouldn't) touch it.

The itchy ears 😭😭

TheOliveFinch · 31/08/2025 17:00

Polymorphic light eruption for me since it used to cover so much of my body itchy and made me shiver at the same time. Have also had shingles, thrush and severe chickenpox as an adult but none of them quite as bad as the PLE

PosiePetal · 31/08/2025 17:03

Eczema. Spent a lot of my 50 odd years of my life scratching. It’s incredibly debilitating.

longtompot · 31/08/2025 17:09

All over itching from being anaemic, especially when trying to get to sleep. I was exhausted from the anaemia and the lack of sleep.

Dyshidrotic eczema that I get on my hands and feet

rainbowunicorn22 · 31/08/2025 17:14

thrush
heat rash
measles
mohair
eczema

unsync · 31/08/2025 17:30

Pompholyx on soles of feet, between the toes and fingers. I used to get this as a child and would scrape it with metal spoon until it was raw.

BitOutOfPractice · 31/08/2025 17:35

Flying ants. Even thinking about flying ants makes me itch.

Oh, and psoriasis !

citygirl77 · 31/08/2025 17:39

Bed bugs. All over.
i thought I would rip my skin off

TheGetAlongGang · 31/08/2025 17:43

My left foot

It's covered in dry and red itchy skin

I have a rough carpet on my stairs and I've honestly worn holes in it from rubbing my foot up and down it

It drives me insane at times but my GP tells me there's nothing there

loobylou10 · 31/08/2025 17:47

Prickly heat

Goatblu · 31/08/2025 17:53

Brachioradial pruritus. Many many sleepless nights and lots of tears. I hope it never ever returns.

BadAmbassador · 01/09/2025 06:47

I have remembered an episode a few years ago where I had fleas in the garden thanks to foxes, and was unknowingly bringing them into the house day after day - I think I had over 200 flea bites on my body at one point 😭 How could I have forgotten this?!

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