itchy - starting to go mental!

[supermum_ms]

Hey Guys and Dolls,

I dont really think this is typically MS but maybe one is bothering the other LOL. Sometime early in the year, I developed an itch in 2 places on my face, one where my tingles under my right eye are and the other one is on the left next to my mouth but i dont have anything usually going on or near the left spot. There hasn't really been an itch free day since it started.

I saw the doctor after my right eye and surrounding tissue swelled up, he RX antibiotics, anti hystamine and cortizone cream but he couldn't say what it was exactly. He felt that my immune system was over reacting to an irritant of some kind and because of my facial parasthesias it was going over the top but he wasn't too sure of what it was. I thought the antibiotics were doing there job because it started reducing but then I went into a full relapse so i'm not sure if the antibiotics threw me into the relapse or if it was a skin infection that did it. Once out of the relapse the itch returned in full vigor, i'm positive it went away to the point of being irrelevant whilst in the relapse but thats hard to say when your world has turned upside down lol most things seem irrelevant then.

Obviously i'm talking about an itch that is never sated, constantly there but gets worse, no matter what i've tried the itch just doesnt stop. I'd think it was another sensory issue but my skin is showing evidence of irritation, its lumpy like every folical is raised within the itchy patch. Its an irregular patch, nothing symetrical about them, a splodge. If i touch any where with in the patch the skin lumps up, the itch gets worse and if i'm not careful the surounding tissue starts to swell.

The one near my eye, sets off the sensory tingles, which sets off the eye tremors which thus affects my sight lol but its the one near my mouth that i cant get acustomed too. When its really really itchy i could easily stratch my face off, i'm pinching my self until it hurts and still i can feel the itch over the feeling of pain lol

Anyhoo, does anyone elses itch show this type of skin irritation too? Could this be totally unrelated to my other sensory stuff but not helped by the fact I do have sensory issues?


Cheers...........JJ


  

[cainer]

i hate it!! my feet  mostly will drive me nuts at night! its horrible- sounds like the same in your face, i have to move around and lots of times it will ease up or go away
just wonder if you streched your muscles in your face - make faces- if it would help!!
hope it helps!!  hugs    cainer

[supermum_ms]

Horrible horrible night, again!

I woke up scratching before i realised what i was doing, the beast was awakened and I only got snippets of sleep before again being woken by the intense itch. I had placed a freeze/heat jell thingy in the freezer before going to bed, and ended up putting that on my pillow. As soon as i felt the itch start i'd put my face on the freezer thing, freeze my face until it went numbish then moved off it and sometimes it was enough so i could fall back to sleep. It only gave a few minutes of relief in the begining but it must of worked because i woke up with my face on the unfrozen but still cool jell bag and it wasn't the itch that woke me.

I do have probs with temperature, cold or heat, its turned really cold here and i'm still trying to find the right temperature for me. I've had reactive chilblains since i was a child and in my late teens it changed. My over reactive/protective immune response to cold makes every knuckle in my body deform during exposure but even though in winter they deform other wise they completely return to normal. It looks like RA but its not RA, just a painful but really only a problematic immune response to cold that i can do nothing about but not get cold.

In the hot weather its entirely different, so i have to stay cool, my internal temporature gage is brocken, its a balancing act and i'm still having problems working it out. I do know that in winter my bed is hotter than i'd ever let happen or cope with in the summer season. I know its too hot but to me i'm still shivering and freezing cold but maybe its that heat thats causing my sensory issues and this blasted itch to be worse.

I dont know how to manage this stuff! I'm freezing now, literally shivering, hands and feet are like ice but still i'm itchy itchy itchy itchy! The cold really hurts, I twist and deform and it doesn't stop until the weather starts heats up, for me the last thing i'd ever do is touch something frozen and yet that is the 'something' that helps the itch lol i cant win!

LOL i dont know which issue is worse, can I choose none of the above?!

Anyway thanks for the help, i'll keep at it..............JJ

    

[drsdonthelp]

LOL,, I use them all the time, and I do have a froggie!! LOL

[Sumanadevii]

Laugh if you want but how about trying one of those teething things that parents freeze for their kids?  There is no drip with them.....

I would pick a cute one..like a frog or something...

[drsdonthelp]

Hi JJ,,
I know that itch!! I have had it on the top of my left hand and middle/ring finger for 3 years now!! When it started, I was told it was dermatitis, but then I noticed that it was only on my left hand,  I had not changed soaps or done anything different.  It was right around the time that I started to have my slurred speech.
I also had extreme itching when overheated, or body temp. rose from being nervous. I practically tore my hand off when my 14 year. old nephew was rushed by ambulance to a hosp. 45 mins away with a crash cart waiting. He was tachicardic from wolfe parkinson white syndrome, he could've died and I was a wreck. I itched and itched the entire ride to the hosptial, my fingers were bloody and raw.

I have learned to control my temp. and if I start to feel the itch coming on. I bring out the ice. It definately helps me. Once I cool down, so does the itch.

Hugs,
Pam

[supermum_ms]

ok i've got an ice cube on the splodge near my eye and its melting and going every where lol not so bad only hurts a bit. Ahhhh my tingles doesnt like it when i take off the ice cube, i think it might be the water drying. i'll try a dry ice pack and see if thats better.

LOL another mental moment in JJ's long list of mental moments, note to self; Think BEFORE you act!

Raz- yep the cream doesn't work.

Serenity- if you get the cure give him a kiss for me lol

Debs - I'm loath to do the repeat antibiotics because I realy think ive gone into relapses before after taking them. I'm ready to try anything, i'd of hunted down 'eye of newt' if there was even a slim chance it would work, looking for the T. tree now....ah use by date oct 2009, on second thoughts i'll go to the chemist tomorrow lol.

Ess- You are right, of course your right your always right :-) hmmm I seem to attack my self in my sleep, I wake up scratching lol can you get baby mittens in adult sizes.

As stupid as this may sound lol i've been semi hoping it was an allergy and not another MS thing, you can fix allergies but this MS stuff is just grin and bear it and i'm sick of grinning!!!

Love to all.........JJ

[essdipity]

Itchng with MS is fairly common, as another of the many paresthesias so many of us face.

Unfortunately there is no good remedy for this, as maddening as that may be. Numbing it with ice can help.

If you are at all scratching or otherwise irritating the itchy places, then all kinds of bumps and tiny tears can occur. I've had this on my back many times. If you can possibly not even touch the places for a few days except for very gentle washing, the skin is likely to look better, at least.  With any luck the itching will decrease too.

So I'm wishing you good luck, and let us know how it goes.

ess

[shermay]

Hi JJ

I too have intense itching.

Mine however is on my hands and arms, I can itch until I am bleeding, and my hands swell up with some form of infection - Dr gives me antibiotics just in case of an infection - not sure it helps though:/ but having that I don't have a relapse.

Have you tried a cold compress?  I find that the cold takes the itch away for a while at least, and also tea tree oil - if you like the smell :))

Debs

[serenity402]

I get intense itching on my back in one spot esp and it never goes away and also have itches by my neck, it feels like I wanna peel my skin right off, I wonder if it isint nerves going haywire as a result of the ms,i will ask my neuro when next I see hi$, good luck hay and ill let u know what he sais

[RazCarver]

I don't know what is the cause of the itching and I'm a limbolander. I get intense itching on the right side of my face. sometimes it spreads to the right ear and head as well. generally beside my eye  and/or lower cheek and jaw going towards my ear.  if i rub it because it is driving me insane it will sometimes seem the hair folicals are raised or swollen. probably because i been rubbing it.

I've tried triple antiboic cream, any and all anti itch creams. it just doesn't go away until it does.  the only thing I've known to temporarily help is ice cubes. I rub my face with a ice cube and intensity isn't as bad for a while. helps me get to sleep. probably doesn't help the skin any but dang you have to do something.luckly it only last a week or so for me.

i don't know what makes it happen. it is also where my face goes numb and where i get stabbing shooting pains so i think it is all related.

hope you find out something - and share it lol
Raz