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Sensation like skin crawling

Hi
For several months I have been getting this weird sensation that my skin is crawling.  This happens just behind my right shoulder blade in exactly the same place every time.  It generally happens for no reason that I can fathom.  It is a sort of itching sensation and then a sensation that there is something crawling under my skin.  When I rub it with my fingers it disappears for a while but inevitably it returns within a few minutes.  There is no pain involved.
Would be interested to find out if there is a medical explanation for this!
Many thanks
Lola
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Use a Free and Clear Detergent. After washing do another rinse with white vinegar, to clean old detergent residue.  

Put Apple Cider Vinegar, on a cloth or cotton round and wipe the infected area.  For me it was my upper thighs and scrotum/ballzack that had the skin crawling, itching, pin pricking. hives, rashes.. IT ALL STOPPED AND IS HEALING!

To start maybe do half water, half Apple Cider Vinegar, cause on my infected nuts, it burned!

For a while there my arms, chest, face, beard, hair had that cobweb, static feeling (nowhere near the 1000-spiders-crawing around my junk feeling, thank God). Just standing in the shower rinsing off in cool water with no soap I could what was probably detergent residue, but could have been yeast... WTF... Because I took antibiotics and while on them I should have been eating a lot of yogurt and taking probiotics, which I did not do. So it caused a fungal/yeast problem, which can and probably did leak into my blood. (I've done a ton of researching and reading, so I know I'm not talking out my Buddo)

All from a Junk food diet, antibiotics, pain pills (prescription and over the counter). I wasn't eating anything healthy or not processed. All this created the Perfect Storm to weaken and wreak havoc on my immune system. I stopped drinking soda (it's f'n hard, but a month in the benefits are worth it) that stuff is Poison! Especially the diet soda, worse Poison in the world is aspartame and sucralose, read Natural Cures they Don't Want You To Know About, there's a lot of good stuff in there. Also check out EarthClinic ******* - Tons of excellent cures and remedys!

I'm 32, and there's something about going into your 30's and Sheeeet Hitting The Fan, and Hitting you like a Ton of Bricks!

I think 99% of us with these symptoms, regardless of the how different, stem from some kind of bacteria, fungus, virus problem. and the best way to treat it is with natural remedies that kill all 3, some of the best are: Apple Cider Vinegar, Coconut Oil, and Olive Leaf Extract. Maybe there's a few others that might work better for you! Research and Read!

I'm still learning...
Nobody knows nothing, especially Doctors!
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I have posted here before with my symptoms. Turns out that I had multiple issues causing horrendous itching and intense misery. There were two things that helped me on the road to relief:

1.  Get healthy
2.  Histamine therapy, allergy drops
3. Stopped using HAIRSPRAY and all FRAGRANCES

Getting healthy meant that I completely changed my diet to 80% vegetables and eat them raw as much as possible. I focus on highly nutritious GREENS and drink a green smoothy each day. No processed foods, no high salt, no high sugar, almost no dairy and rarely have gluten [wheat flour: no bread, muffins, pancakes, rolls, spaghetti, bagels].  I've done extensive reading on this. Sign up with Dr. Mercola for daily free health hints http://www.mercola.com/   I do not agree with everything he says, but most I feel is accurate. I also did a parasite cleanse and got checked for candida albicans.

Histamine therapy and customized allergy drops were prescribed by an ENVIRONMENTAL doctor. Don't even bother with the other doctors, as others have said, they can be dumb as a rock.

I occasionally still feel the biting sensations like pin pricks sometimes localized, sometimes all over. I am probably being exposed to crap in the air from other humans [fragrances in department stores, poisons in the hardware stores, etc.]  

Keep trying! I was ready to die I was so miserable and I could not work. I lost everything---house, car, clothes, furniture, books, keepsakes. I am now on the road to peace. Still hard but having an plan is a blessing. NOTE: If you get very depressed like I did---with good reason--the journey to wellness can be a very solitary one--try taking SAMe from your Whole Foods, vitamin store, or drug store. Take at least 400 mg to start, most people don't take enough and they think the SAMe is not working. You should feel a positive change in a couple days, you might need more than that. SAMe is natural and benefits your liver and joints!

Blessings on you road to wellness.

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i moved into my first apartment in jan. ive always been a neat and clean freak, i was raised that way by my clean freak mother.  so its not just being dirty. i clean always, shower always...... slowly i started feeling this crawling all over my whole body, face and hair, only at night. i thought maybe fleas, but i had no animals, i could neveer see ANY bug or any bites. i do kno the apartment is bug infested. nasty spiders hang outside the windows so i dont open them. i see all sorts of other kinds of bugs idk what they are, thru out the house, but never on me. my boyfriend thinks im nuts bc i get so bad sometimes, i think in my head its the nasty spiders, maybe i walked into a nest with a ton of lil babys or something. so naturally i freak out, strip myself naked, flippin out and lookin in the mirror, asking my b.f if he sees andthing on me and eventually get in the shower. i feel great in the shower but once i step back out onto that carpet it starts all over again. cloths make it so much worse. i too, pick tiny little black/grey/white/ fuzzes or w.e off my cloths, asking my boyfriend "what does this look like to you?" bc in my head, it looks like a possible bug. sometimes i stare at parts of the carpet thinking isee something crawling. the first time it ever happened i came home late and went to shut the window, (boy friend opened it) i went over to close it, already grossed out by the spiders that hang on the otherside, then all of a sudden it was like i started getting wet spots on me here and there, and i felt like things where crawling on me, and had wet hair or what i thought, a siderweb, all over me. i really thought i walked thru or got stuck in a hug,wet, spider web with a ton of babys in it and it felt like mom was in my hair and the babys where everywhere else. but here it is a month later and ive realized its just ..... well idk what it is yet. i have the same thing everyone else gets, execpt i get little wet spots on me here and there, feels like i got squierted a tiny  lil water gun, or even someone spit on me real fast, and i look, and sure enough tehres a little bit of water. so i no im not making that up in my head bc i actually do see and feel the water. i just dont no where its comming from or why? it happens all day just like the bug crawlings and itching. my hair and scalp is the worst. sometimes i think i even see things under my skin when i feel it on my hands or arm, i look and try to see if somethings there, but there never is and i think my eyes play tricks on me by making me think theres something weird under my skin. sometimes it looks white or red or brown or even  moving lump. i feel like im going nuts. i cant even stand in line at stores without wanting to start digging at my face/butt area/ hair.....its sad theres so many ppl who have the same thing and none of us can have the same answer. i wont og to the doctors around my area, they are as dumb as a box of rocks. my boyfriend said its just your hair or dry scalp. but no... this is a serious situation. and it *****. but what iam most worried about, is if it really is bugs, that we cant see. microsopic? OR under the skin?  i only ever got the needle pin feeling every once in a while. usually just the crawling itching and feels like little nibbles. but the pin needle pain is terrible. and the water thing is just scarey bc sometimes i really think i do hear a "hiisss" then i get squirted real quick. i look, nothing on me or around. so in my head i think its like a hissing water spitting spider or some ****** up bug squirtin water at me in some kinda defense thingy. the whole situation is crazy. i would love tohear anymore helping tips and HELPFUL feedback. oh and my mom thought that she seen an eposode of a girl with the same syptoms as us, on the show "monsters inside me" and it turned out ot be more serious then i think any of us really kno. or have been told by the lovely kno it all doctors.....
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     If you have read the posted comments above, you will see that he is not alone.  We are all trying to rid ourselves of this crawling sensation and the itches that sometimes go along with it.
      I am still taking silver and diatomaceous earth - some days it works better than others... depends on what I eat.  The "bugs" like bread, pasta and sugar.  I had pizza yesterday and they are biting pretty bad tonight.
     Most of us are trying lots of home remedies as the doctors (not all of them) seem to think it's all in our heads.  (parasitosis or psychosis).   Wish some doctor would discover something to help us.
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my husband has been dealing with the skin crawling sensations for several years now. the symptom will occur and then disappear.  every doctor has told him he he some type of allergy or its all in his head. what should we do?
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   Try some Gold Bond anti-itch lotion or ointment.  it stops the crawling bug sensation long enough to go to sleep.  If you only get it when you lie down - great...
    I itch on and off all day long. :-(    Gold Bond helps me get to sleep after I apply it a couple of times on the itching area.
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I have the same sensation but mine near lower right rib cage.I have a little fat on my stomach whenever I seat straight up nothing happen but when I incline
my skin kind of fold up and I will have that crawling sensation.
I KNOW THE FEELING IT DRIVES YOU INSANE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
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I have lots of what appears to be Morgellons symptoms...and early on alot of the itching/crawling was near my shoulderblades.  Sometimes not all the Morgellons symptoms are present initially.  But one of the things that has helped me most, at least while in bed, is covering the mattress with a cheap vinyl zippered cover from Target, and wiping it down with vinegar whenever I change the sheets.  (Change them as often as you can.)  Anybody with a rash or sores and stuff coming out or off of your body, in addition to the itching/crawling/biting, look into Morgellons.
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   I use Gold Bond anti-itch on my shoulders - it stops the itch/crawling bug sensation long enough to get to sleep.
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Thank you to everyone who posted on this!! Good to know I'm not crazy!!
So has anyone been able to get rid of this feeling!? My left shoulder blade is driving me crazy... I don't have health insurance and don't know what to do.
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thank you for this!
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I am a very spiritual person and have accepted the ransom sacrifice of Jesus our Lord and Savior - and i still have this problem... It is not caused by sin or by
Satan.  This is a real dis-ease.
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Thank you for your input.  I will try the folic acid as well.  We are all so desperate for relief from this plague.
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I recently suffered from 'crawly skin' for weeks.  My symptoms were worse at night, especially in bed and sometimes woke me around 3 or 4 a.m.  It felt like a tiny bug had landed on my skin (usually arms, neck, chest or face) and crawled 3 or 4 inches before disappearing and then starting again in another area.  I had no spots, bites or other marks on my skin.

I was concerned it may be bed bugs, dust mites, scabies and anything and everything I have read on this site.  Whilst my home is probably cleaner than most, and my personal hygiene too, I checked for all of the above and couldn't find anything.  I changed diet, took vitamin B supplements, changed washing detergents and conditioners, started using Johnson's baby shampoo, shower gel, etc.  I even bought a steam machine and steamed the whole bedroom, sprayed it with dog flea spray, fly spray, covered myself in tea-tree oil - nothing worked.

I had visited my GP with the same problem a couple of years ago, and was not offered any support, but, after reading the post on 'formication' and being a middle aged female, tried the GP again as was beginning to think I was going mad.  This time my new GP sent me for blood tests. Whilst no hormone problems, I was found to be low on Folic Acid and was prescribed Folic Acid tablets for a month.  Reading up on symptoms for this diagnosis, it does mention 'itchy, crawly skin'.  I have been taking the tablets for almost a month.  For the first week or two there was no change, but gradually symptoms reduced and I am now 'crawly skin' free!  

As hard as it was to believe this could be anything other than some invisible or extremely quick bug crawling on my skin when suffering these awful symptoms, I do now believe that in my case, it has been due to low Folic Acid, which has affected nerve endings on the skin.

Thankfully, I now have an excellent GP who took this seriously and I think has found the answer for me.  It has been a nightmare.  I would urge you all to ask your GP to undertake blood tests.

Good luck. I hope this helps at least some of you with this distressing symptom.
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It is possible that this is associated with Herpes or Scabies.  Even if you get tested a normal doctor will only test to see if you are "active" in the herpes virus.  Ask the Doctor to do both an IgG and IgM test.  This will test to see if you have the antibodies and actually have the virus.  Crawling skin and burning sensations can be assocated with Herpes both 1 & 2.  The IGg and IGm tests can determine which type you might have.  The Only true reliable test is called the Western Blot and can determine between the two and has the most accuracy.
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I have found that spraying my bed with a solution of 1/2 water and 1/2 fabric softener about an hour before bed (so it's dry) stops a lot of the itching, crawling sensation.  I am also trying a Chinese detox tea as I believe this "thing" Morgellons has infiltrated my entire body.  I take Probiotics and diatomaceous earth (1 t. in 8 oz. of water).   I don't know if it's electrical or not, but mites hate fabric softener.  Sometimes I take a couple of fabric softener sheets to bed with me - rub it all over your sheets before you crawl in.  If you have sores or lesions, use Arnica De La Cruz cream or ointment from Walgreens.  It will dry them up and they won't itch so much anymore.

To kill dust mites, strip your bed and place fabric softener sheets all over your mattress and leave them in place for about 2 hours.  When time is up, remove the sheets and vacuum your mattress. You would think that because you used fabric softener sheets it would smell so sweet.  
But it will stink!! Dead mites smell to high heaven!!!   Then make your bed with clean fresh sheets.

During the day, use a fresh fabric softener sheet and rub your head with it and place the sheet in your pocket, under your cap or in your shirt or blouse.  The gnats, flies, and bugs will leave you alone.

If you have spiders, Fill a squirt bottle 2/3 full of white vinegar.  Add 1 teaspoon of coconut oil and hot water to emulsify it.  Squirt this mixture in every corner of your ceiling and around your windows.  Spiders hate it!  No more spider webs.

I have been fighting these critters for 7 years and am finally winning the war!
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NO MATTER WHERE YOU SLEEP .. HOME, MOTEL, HOTEL, AT MOM'S OR BROTHER'S HOUSE .......... THE CRAWLING SENSATION GOES WITH YOU BECAUSE IT'S ON THE INSIDE .. IT MAY BE NERVES IN YOUR BODY THAT ARE DAMAGED.
GOOGLE THE WORD     FORMICATION AND READ ABOUT IT.
IF THIS APPLIES TO YOU, PRINT THE INFO AND TAKE TO PHYSICIAN.
ASK DOC FOR PRESCRIPTION.  
THERE IS RELIEF.         GOOD LUCK.   CAPHINO
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I DON'T BELIEVE IT IS SOAP/DETERGENTS.
IT COULD BE CAUSED BY DAMAGED NERVES.   JUST GOOGLE THE WORD       FORMICATION.          YOU'LL LEARN A LOT AND SO WILL YOUR PHYSICIAN .. JUST PRINT THE INFO AN TAKE TO DOCTOR .. ASK HER TO PRESCRIBE A LOW DOSE...  INCREASE DOSE IF YOU NEED TO.    100 MG   GABAPENTIN SHOULD DO IT.

GOOD LUCK.      THIS IS WORTH A TRY.  
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  Crawling sensation could be   Formication.   Google the word  Formication and read about it.      Sensation may be due to nerves that have been damaged.        print the info and take to physician.  She will prescribe something for you ..  start off w/low dose and gradually  .. if needed increase the milligrams.       You should learn a lot by reading about  Formication.        

Hope this helps.          
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  the answer to your problem could be   Formication.   Just google the word Formication and read about it.    Print the info and take to a physician.  She can prescribe something for you ...  The problem could be caused by damage to some nerves in your body.

This may be very helpful to you .. it was for me.   Good luck.  Caphino
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Happy to see your post. You are so right.
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hi.
i have the same feeling of spiders crawling on my face..3 months now.
don't know what to do !!!
have you gotten rid of yours...!!!!
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Its not morgellons. there are bugs. they fly and we are the host. you can see   it in the air floating like a fuzz. very contagious. I mix some sulfur ,olive oil and ammonia. I could see bugs come out from my skin and very hard to kill. I live in las vegas and half of the city is suffering from this. we need help.
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Technocalyps trans humanism,it is on you tube
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