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 AMJodi, take the flying monkeys out of the bed!
Offered by: Joan on October 15, 2002 12:52 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
Jesus, 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 01:57 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 02:36 AMThose hessian pyjamas are a bastard, aren't they?
Offered by: Max on October 15, 2002 06:05 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 08:49 AMSorry 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....)
This 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: Ĉmilius (Emilio Fischman) on October 15, 2002 10:05 PMHi Jodi,
I'm David, from London, England and have had a red rash all over my body, apart from my face for 2 days. I keep itching/scratching. I feel some sort of comfort for about 30 seconds and it comes back, so I scratch in the same place, and so on... I had the same problem in the night, scratching, tossing and turning. I really don't know what it is, or where it came from, it may be an allergic reation to something. Please help me, or anyone taht knows anyone who can help me! Email me at dav82@hotmail.com Thanks!
Offered by: David on April 9, 2003 08:26 AMHey there Fresh-Baked!
I have exactly the same problem... itching at night - drives me nearly insane! There's no cause, I'm sure it's not psychosomatic - as my partner feels that we have bugs. However, we've moved three times in the past 1.5 years since we've had this problem; had professional pesticides; dry and steamcleaned on many occasions; changed detergents; diets; body lotions... I don't know what's the problem. I've seen 3 Doctors, and we don't have scabies or anything. A lab found that we had a 'thrip' problem, but that's a crop problem, not a human problem according to all the experts!!! Dunno...
Is there a new breed out there that's defying the "experts"... I've also tried antihistamines... sometimes they work, sometimes not???
If anyone has anything to offer, I'd be more than happy to hear we're not the only ones!
Cheers,
L
