Ever have one of those nights where you lie in bed and everything just starts ... itching? Almost immediately? And no matter what you do, you just can't get it to stop? You scratch and you squirm ... you toss, you turn, you flip around feverishly in an attempt to stop the itch, just stop the itch, stop the itch stop the itch stoptheitchstoptheitch, stop the motherflyingfucking itch???
I think my skin is literally trying to crawl off my body. Either that or those millions/trillions/jillions of mini-microscopic itchy bastard bugs that they say coat our bodies and our eyelashes are removing my skin, inch by itch, and tomorrow when/if I wake up, I'll go to pinch myself to see if I was just dreaming the itchfest, only to find my fingers, mere bones, squishing around noisily in a gushy, bloody pile of viscera and mismatched pajamas.
And now I will attempt to get back to bed before I reach the point of no return. Or else I'll be a wicked (b)itch on wheels in the morning.
fresh-baked at 12:38 AMThis happens to me when I lie down too close to one of my dogs and without a protective blanket between him and me... Hydrocortisone cream is effective, and your doctor can prescribe another cream called Cutivate that for me is even more effective. I have also found that anti-allergy medications like Benadryl and Allegra or Claritin (require prescription) also help, since the itching is supposed to be due to an allergic reaction in our skin to the anti-coagulants blood-sucking bugs inject to keep the flow going.
I consider myself a conservationist, but if some human action could bring about the extinction of blood-sucking bugs I would not mind in the least. Now that I think of it this would include some employers...
Offered by: Æmilius (Emilio Fischman) on October 15, 2002 10:05 PMSorry everyone, I dropped this here a few days ago, and I guess some of it spilled out or something.
(It's weird though, the "X-Ray Spex" didn't work at all....)
Offered by: aaron on October 15, 2002 8:56 AMThis happens to me every night. Every. Night. The minute I lie down, everything starts to itch. Bah!
This was worse when I was using the bargain-basement laundry detergent - could it be an allergy?
Offered by: revolution9 on October 15, 2002 8:49 AMThose hessian pyjamas are a bastard, aren't they?
Offered by: Max on October 15, 2002 6:05 AMHi Jodie, welcome to my world. My skin is constantly itching. I have severely dry skin in the cold and unless I coat myself with Eucerin, I am extremely itchy all the time. Of course it really gets bad at night, when I am trying to sleep. Which may explain why I am awake at 2:30 in the morning.
Offered by: Mary Carmen on October 15, 2002 2:36 AMJesus, Mary and Joseph! I'm sitting here scratching the skin off my flesh! Has a terrible curse befallen us?
Offered by: Mad Genius on October 15, 2002 1:57 AMthat was pretty cool
hey come on the point of no return is uhhh... okay its horrible
heheheh
i actually read your writing to myself im trying something new and worse
wheee
soon i will be dead
Jodi, take the flying monkeys out of the bed!
Offered by: Joan on October 15, 2002 12:52 AM
