Itching without rash or obvious cause?

[trainedopossum]

For the last two months I’ve been itching at night, starting at my lower back and spreading around my sides, down to hips and thighs. No discernible rash, no changes in diet, meds or products.

It doesn’t happen every night, maybe every other night?

Antihistamines don’t seem to help, it always tails off after about 15-30 mins anyway so it’s hard to know. When it’s at its worst it’s absolute madness, I’ve resorted to a hairbrush and I look fully sunburnt by the time it’s over.

I’m on hrt (Sandrena and mirena), thyroxine and liothyronine, levels were good when routine tests were done a few months ago.

I eat a lot of olive oil and moisturise regularly (great handfuls of the same unscented creams I’ve used for ages) so I don’t think it’s dry skin.

I had something similar with hypothyroidism when I needed a bump in meds but it was my legs that itched.

I am doing a very stressful family task atm, can stress make you itch?

Stress can have a serious effect on your entire body, physically and mentally. Don't under rate it. Is there any way you can minimise the stress or pass some responsibility for it onto anyone else?

No, it’s parent related and no one else to do it but it’s about to change for the better.
This was happening a full 2-4 weeks before I was in the thick of it and hasn’t got better or worse now that the stressful stuff is happening. (I don’t mean to be mysterious, my mother is moving house and it’s all taking place in the space of a month or so, so this started before she found a property, when it was still in the ideas stage.)
I can’t work out why it happens when it does, at night toward bedtime, usually over by the time I’m in bed and getting ready to go to sleep.

I hope it gets better soon, sounds like this is happening when you're starting to relax at night? E45 do an anti itch cream which is really good - I had the worst itching imaginable over the last few months, thinking I was heading towards menopause/hormonal change but it turned out to be the statin I'm taking. Thankfully it's tapered off.

Progesterone makes me itch all over my torso

It’s a peri symptom - not sure if hrt deals with it.

Bridget thanks, will look at the cream.
Lived interesting, I’ve had this coil for a few years now, I think it’s closer to the end of its life than the beginning.
sings I’m a few + years past the peri stage. Maybe I should make an appointment with the menopause clinic if it doesn’t ease off after moving day.