There’s some emollient wash which I get on prescription from my GP - Dermol. It comes as a shower wash, bath wash, body lotion, whatever you need. I get the shower wash and use that on my back - it helps. I also prefer my old towels that have been hung outside to dry, then they’re super scratchy for the back itch. (Why we have a tumble dryer I don’t know! I refuse to put most of my clothes in there in case of shrinkage!) I’ve also got a long scratchy wash cloth thing, can’t remember what the stuff’s called that it’s made of (like those round scratchy balls to use in bath/shower).
Or maybe your cat’s got fleas!! Oh, I forgot, you don’t have a cat! Maybe you have fleas?
I’ve often thought medication could be the cause, however coming off it could be worse. I’m in the process of coming off Gabapentin but will be replacing it with something else so I doubt I’ll have enough time to say if the itching stops.
Hi, I have the itching or rather it seems like the biting. My GP and specialist nurse both gave a big gaffaw when I said I could cope with lots of things but the itching was driving me crackers! Yep, they yelped, messages trying to get through and can’t. Brill! So, I keep super clean sheets washed in a smidgen of cleaner, soft clothes, no scratchy things, shower normally then in aqueous sorry can’t spell this evening. Before that I can sometimes have to soak my feet and legs in hot water to make them feel, then I rub them with some coconut salts that a friend bought for me, rub with a hard flannel, then oil and put in socks. I have a lotion for my head and deep moisturiser for my skin. Goodness knows if it makes any difference but I feel that it does. If none of the above have helped, I take an antihistemine just in case. All of this usually takes the edge off. When in doubt and it wakes me up at 2 a.m. I tend to swear a lot which also takes the edge off!
I have the itching mines on my scalp and neck mostly and i get hives with it too it drives me mad i sometimes take antihistamines and it does help for a while.I hate it.
I never (hardly ever) swear at a person, usually inanimate objects that won’t stay where they belong.
usually cutlery that jumps out of the draining rack and makes me have to bend down (cautiously because my low blood pressure makes me faint) to pick them up. Those objects that get up for a wander, having me crazy searching, then decide to wander back.
I swear at politicians on the telly, but who doesn’t?