I have suffered with health anxiety for 9 years, experienced all sorts of symptoms but never itchy skin. I have searched on this forum and there are several threads relating to this subject but when looking through my anxiety books, all I can find related to skin is electric shock tingles or pins and needles, which I have had both of these over the previous 9 years.
It all started Monday evening, I was taking a bath and I noticed a bruise, which for some strange reason, stressed me out (sounds silly now when I think about it).
That night as I was lying in bed watching the TV, and I started to itch, all over my body, which I thought nothing of it.
I woke Tuesday morning (around 6:30am) and forgot all about the itching, which I guess was not present until around 10am at work, when I kind of remembered the itching and then it all started again and has since been out of control and has been with me since (Thursday) and I do not appear to have any kind of rash. I'm itching on top of the head (feels like I need to wash hair), arms, legs, ancles and even above the eyebrows as it is random all over the body.
I decided today to go and see my doctor, who looks after me with my anxiety issues and he did some neurological tests and looked at my arms and legs and told me that my skin looks ok and it could be dry skin causing the itchiness or possibly stress/anxiety and to help me rule out sinister things, he suggested a blood test to help me, which I decided to take the doctor up on his offer and accepted.
I left and returned later in the day to take the blood tests (four tests) and the nurse told me, for all tests to arrive back, I would need to leave it for 7 days.
The doctor also prescribed me some OILATUM JUNIOR, which he told me to put a few cap-full’s into the bath and to soak in it.
I was wondering if anybody has suffered with this new symptom of mine (itchy skin) because I’m having trouble tracking the symptom in my anxiety books, which I tend to use for reference these days, rather than google.
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