Hi girls -

I've been having this weird itch that seems to travel around my body -- first I feel it in the arch of my left foot and then my right... then my nose will feel itchy and then my face --- it goes away for awhile and then starts up again...in more or less the same places...is this what is known as formication? Or is it something else? I was just wondering if anxiety can cause this type of itching -

Thanks for any insight!

((hugs))

Oh Gez, my friend, you sound exactly like me. I have the traveling-itch syndrome too. It always happens at night. My hips itches, then my back, then my face, then my feet...and on and on and on. Drives me positively batty!! More than once my husband has gone to sleep on the couch because I'm having one of my 'bed-bug episodes' (I don't really think I have bed bugs, that's just what he likes to call it.) It's worse in the winter, so I think it has a lot to do with dry skin.

I'm trying really hard to grease up big-time before I retire. With something that has no fragrance in it...like Eucerin, or Lubriderm. However, isn't it one of the 34 peri symptoms?

Hi Gez!

Itching that moves from one spot to the next. I could write a short article about that. For me it usually starts on the face and travels downward. But here's the weirdest part: When it gets to my back, I lose track of it. I mean, I itch but I can't find it. I scratch and scratch and never hit the right spot. Not because I can't reach it mind you, but because I simply can't locate the source. Everyone I have ever told about this looks at me as if I have three heads.

I think it is general itchiness and it spreads as the nerve endings get wind of the topical sensation. I once asked a dermatologist what causes itching. He said no one knows. It's just like pain. We can document the manifestations, but know very little about the source.

Isn't this fun?

Marcy

Yeah, isn't that weird..the medical profession doesn't know what itching is. I read an article once that said it's low-level pain...not enough to register as pain, so it's interpreted as the 'itch'...and the scratching is actually us creating enough pain to override the original sensation (so the body can say "oh, now I get it...pain. Cool.)

Oh yes! The moving itchies! Been there, done that, STILL doing it! Mine normally starts on my sides, then moves to the belly, sometimes the upper thighs, and up to the scalp and sometimes the face. The strangest thing! If I take an antihistimine it helps, but I don't like taking them so I ususally just wait it out. It always goes away, but LORDY isn't it annoying when it happens!
HUGS!