Tingling causes by hot shower?

[sammycung]

Hi, i was just wondering, is there any other conditions that cause tingling in legs after a hot shower other than Multiple sclerosis?
Thankyou :)

Ps, i am currantly undergoing lots of test and stuff for it, but i was just curious.

[boron]

Are you sure it is tingling or is it itching? Itchy legs after hot shower appear in physical (cholinergic) urticaria. Antihistamine pill would help in this case.

Itching is a feeling that provokes a desire for scratch but tingling doesn't.

[Dr Rajgopal]

Hi,

Causes of itching after shower could be excessive chlorine in water ,frequent use of hot showers and soaps that dry the skin ,cholinergic urticaria , polycythemia vera (a rare blood malignancy) and  psychic reasons . It could also be due to peripheral neuropathy . Water irritates  the nerve endings and hence tingling may occur . Please consult a dermatologist and neurologist . Hope this helps you . Take care and regards !

[sammycung]

Hi, wow I wasn't expecting an answer from a doctor, wow, thank you very kindly
No however, it is not itching but I have experienced what you are talking about.

Back a few months ago, well maybe even soon than that I have had a strong itching sting after I would get out of the shower, it was so bad I would be in tears, I would go to the doctors and get a shot of phenergan to get rid of the itch because it was so bad but it wouldn't get rid of the itch, it did indeed make me fall asleep so I guess it still helped.

Back when the sting was happening all of the time I kept going to doctors about it and they would just say I’m probably using the wrong soaps. I started using soap free soap but still got it, I got so desperate to rid my stinging itch, "i stopped using soaps completely" but it still happened, it was so horrible & I had had this for two years off and on.
Although that has been a long problem for me, the tingling I have been experiencing after my shower, seems to be where I have had a hard/strong force of water spraying, so perhaps the pressure of the water is irritating my nerves?

I have been referred to a neurologist; it's just a matter of time.

Thank you very kindly, you have been a great help
Samantha

[sammycung]

Hello :)

No, my tingling deffinitely isn't an itch, but thank you for your answer :)

[blizzarduk]

Ditto, I found this page due to Googling tingling legs after shower. I have suffered from this for 7 years now. Mine started after I would have a nightly hot bath, every time I got out of the bath my legs were bright pink from the heat of the water, but it didn't bother me at the time. Then suddenly one day I went to bed after the bath and my legs were tingling and prickling like mad, it even made my lips tingle. I then moved to having showers as this happened everytime I had a bath, but it happens with showers too. Now anytime I have a bath, or shower, my legs tingle for days after. So I have to wash using a sink and flannels now, which takes ages, although I do have a bath or shower on occasion, like yesterday, and I am living to regret it as my legs feel like they have electric currents going through them.

I had an MRI last month and it came back clear. I had a ECG, came clear. I had a blood test (not sure what it tested for though) and that was also clear. So I am stuck now on what to do. It bugs the hell of me when I try and sleep. I so miss the daily baths and showers.

If you get any help at all, please let me know, and I will do the same for you.

[blizzarduk]

Not wishing to hijack your thread sammycung, I hope you don't mind me asking the doctor who replied to you a question. When you say "psychic reasons" do you mean stress, anxiety, etc ? As I suffer from GAD but not sure if I did when this problem began.

Peripheral neuropathy sounds very interesting. I wonder if I could have this, or if the hot baths caused me nerve damage in my legs. What tests can be done to find out about peripheral neuropathy ?

[Sammy_coultis]

Hey, I'm scared of this problem because it resembles "MS" Multiple sclerosis :(
I have had an MRI on the brain and that was clear, i'm now waiting on a spinal MRI and a spinal tap.

[blizzarduk]

Do you by any chance suffer from anxiety too ? As you sound the same as me. I worry all the time that I have MS as my symptoms sound a lot like it, but every test I have comes back negative, making me edge more towards anxiety being a contributor (although maybe not sole cause) rather than MS. I have had a spinal and brain MRI in the last 90 days and both came back clear, even though I was actually telling myself I had MS before I sat on the MRI bench to have the test. I have signed up with more MS website forums asking what their symptoms are like then probably a lot of diagnosed MS sufferers have done,

Of course I could still have it, an MRI is only about 90 percent accurate for MS, and less when symptoms are new, but every new negative test makes it a lot less likely. I can't obviously say you wont have MS, but on the brightside a lot of my symptoms sound like yours and the chance of me having MS have reduced greatly then they were before the MRI. A spinal tap would indeed be even better, but doubt my GP will go for that with a clear MRI. Good luck with yours though, if that comes back clear consider yourself very unlikely to have MS.

How long does your tingling last ? As I found out that usually an MS sufferer goes back to normal after their body is back to normal temp, where-as my tingling lasts hours to days. So although I could still have MS it sounds closer to peripheral neuropathy or something along those lines.

[Sammy_coultis]

Hey, my tingling comes on after i have been in the shower long enough for it to warm my body up and then stops about 10-15 minutes after my shower, so that makes me even more worried. It is strange though, i had a really hot Hot shower this morning and i didn't get tingling at all!

[salisu]

polycythemia does cause erythroalgia....ie itching after a hot bath. any condition that causes increased basophils in the blood

[tmwillia]

My husband has a severe anxiety disorder and is currently suffering from he describes as "rolling in fiberglass" after a shower.  He asked his neurologist about it and we get the "dry skin" answer as well as "there is no neurological connection" that he is aware of for this.  I am not a neurologist, but I am convinced there is most definitely a neurological connection to it but what I don't know.  He has also been tested for MS and came back negative.  Any help from other posters would be great.