Invisable insects or what?

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I’ve been getting strange itches quite a bit. It started a long time before I got rid of the last bed I had. Yes, long before that and the fleas we had one time. After the fleas, I ignored it, but it just keep making me scratch and brush myself! I could see the fleas, but I couldn’t see what was going on with them not around. I have literally looked into my eyes with a mirror, and even at my arms with my bare eyes only to see nothing crawling there. I’ve had the exterminator come in repeatedly to spray for fleas, but we only stopped seeing them the first time. After the fleas supposedly died off, I kept feeling itchy, crawly and scratchy everywhere!

It’s indeed much worse when I lay down for sleep. It feels more firm then. I have taken naps during day or night, and it seems to get me at night more. It takes hours for me to get to sleep, because I’ll brush the tiny suspects off, shakes me sheets over and over. Then I lay back down, and it starts all over again. Rrrgg! Crawl, PINCH, leap! Crawl and pinch! Crawl and pinch! Crawl and PINCH!

Honestly, standing outside and attracting a swarm of mosquitoes wouldn’t feel a whole lot worse, only then I’d actually have bites, rashes or other actual marks on my skin! My mother doesn’t scratch all the time. My sister visited recently from across two states, and she didn’t feel itch infestations all over! I hope someone knows what this problem is. My skin has been getting red and sensitive because of all this scratching. Insanity!

Look, I’ve had to pull tiny, stubborn thorns out of the pink flesh in my right eyeball. That was maddening enough. This is worse in my experience, because it never quits! Always scratching and brushing just so I can try to focus on a simple task, and on something that might not be there in the first place! AAAAAAAAAAA! *snap* For now, I’ll call them “invisible torturers”. Kind of fits. I can't remember when this started, it's been going on for quite a while now.

Have you ever heard of "No-See-Ums"?

Warning: Link contains images that people with insectophobia might find disturbing.

Do you itch only when you lay down? If so, that could be bedbugs. If you itch all the time but moreso when you lay down, that could be either body lice or scabies. Do you have any rashes in between your fingers or on your wrists? Even a small rash of just a few bumps? What about small pimples on your body that you don't normally have, even if they aren't close together or in a pattern?

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It itches all the time, and I had zits since I was a teen. There are no rashes on me, except in my scalp where there's always really horrible dandruff. That's even spreading really slowly down my forhead and now the back of my neck. I don't notice any bite type bumps though. I had a spider bite recently, but that was about it.

If your head is itching a lot you could have lice. Scabies doesn't always leave a rash. It's one or two little zits, really tiny bumps, between a finger, and wrists are especially itchy. The treatment for head lice is either Lindane such as RID treatment and nit combing, or you can do a mayonaisse treatment instead. I put the instructions for that in a post in the parents section a week or two ago, and it's called something like "A safer way to treat head lice" or something.

For scabies (body lice) you will need Lindane cream. You get it from the doctor. You shower, then rub it all over your body except your face and genitals. Even on your hands. Keep it on 12 hours, then shower well to get it off. That should do it but some require a second treatment a week later.

Do you have red lines that look like scratches or where a tight rubber band may have been, any place on your skin? If so, it's definately scabies. It's common to get that from a dog. You should see a doctor. Or, you could just show a pharmacist and see what is sold over the counter.

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While OOM may be on to something, you should see your physician before trying to treat this yourself - it could be anything from scabies to eczema to lupus to a simple vitamin deficiency, and applying the wrong treatment might only make it worse.

Please see a doctor!

It could very well be scabies, especially if it's worse at night or when you are warm/break a sweat. I've had them a few times over the course of my life, and it's the pits.

Nope. No red lines. It doesn't itch in the rash section either. Here's where and when.

Under my chest, where I see nothing. Zits, bumps, marks, rash? None there, but that does annoy me there.
On my back sometimes.
From my lady spot and all the way to the back only once in a while.
My legs and face the most. I've felt crawlies IN and around my eyes. Sometimes on my nose.
My lower arms and dandruff abundant scalp. Oddly never in the scalp problem sections. Like... not ever.

Other strange problems are cloudy pee. Clouds. Like you look into the sky, but it's yellow? Yeah... sigh. Ok. I need a fuggin doctor, obviously. But, the last one did a blood test. They didn't tell me about anything being wrong. *looks suspitiously at doctors* Lousy itch. This is still puzzling.

there are many many non-insect causes of itchy skin.

for example, kidney issues can cause skin itching, so if your urine is cloudy that could be a concern. also liver disease can cause it, fungal and yeast infections of the skin, allergies to dust, and even dry warmth from central heating.

i'd check with a doctor pronto.

Pray it's not Morgellons Disease. Scabies would be far preferable and is easily screened and treated.