Itchy inner ears in perimeno - help!!

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This is driving me actually insane and I can only think it's perimeno related as it's permanent. It feels like I'm constantly on the brink of an ear infection in one or both ear canals, but no discharge, redness etc just constant itching and just a really odd sensation. My eyes are quite itchy / dry lately too but not as bad as my ears. Has anyone had similar and found a way to relieve it?

Hydrocortisone cream works for me.

I would slater both ears inside and out with my fingers in Aveeno cream every night before bed. It was the only thing that stopped it. Strangely it stopped after a year - so maybe there is hope!
doesn’t happen as much in a warm country. So it’s also dryness.

I take a daily antihistamine for other peri symptoms and it does seem to help itchy ears.

@Squirrelsnutme too. Plus the age old olive oil that soothes stops the dryness. I have reflected over the years that OO really is the most amazing stuff. A nurse at hospital recommended a light smear over DS to keep his skin folds supple; never had nappy rash and cleared scaly scalp a treat. It’s wildly underrated in my opinion.

Is it airborne allergy-related? I get an itch deep inside my ears if I’ve been getting clothes out of storage so I think it’s house dust mite related. Have you tried taking an antihistamine and seeing if it has any effect?

I had it horrendously during perimenopause. I tried everything and after 7 fucking years a GP prescribed Betacap. It worked like a miracle!

It's come back recently (I'm post menopausal now) and I need to get another prescription.

It is! I use it as a moisturiser sometimes and it's great. Also as a hair treatment.

May be entirely unrelated but I had my ears microsyringed (went entirely deaf in one ear, and when that one was done the pharmacist pointed out the other was pretty badly blocked as well) and I’ve not had much in the way of itching since. Before that there was a lot of turning off the camera on work calls, half removing headphones, gouging knuckle into ear …

Greek women used to use it for everything and many still do. I buy olive oil soap and moisturiser when in Greece. Neat olive oil as a skin moisturiser is brilliant .It's very healing.