Constantaly itchy?

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I've always had an itchy sensation on my skin for as long as I can remember. It seems as if the space between my shoulder blades is always itchy and when it gets really bad, I take a stake knife to stratch it. All the comercial back stratchers are just too dull and never make the itch stop. I'm seriously considering getting one made from an aligator's claw but something is telling me they dull up the claws before they sell them and anyway it's just plan mean that people kill them for their claws. I don't even think an aligator's claws are as sharp as other animals like say big cats or birds of prey. If I ever do get a pet meerkat, I'm teaching it to dig at my back or in the palsms of my hands.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerardmontigny/2273883888/
No itch could stand up against those claws.

The palsms of my hands itch a lot as well and when I was a kid it was so bad, I would stratch so hard I would make them bleed. As an adult if my palsms get too itchy, I just pet my bearded dragon. Lately my kunckles have been itching like crazy and I just stroke my bearded dragon on the spikes with the itchy knuckle. One of my bearded dragon's many nick names is "Little Knuckle Stratcher.

We used to have this brick wall in our house and I would rub my itchy back against that as a kid. My mom would claim it looked as if a wild cat got me because I would rub so hard. Itching was always worse than pain for me. The insides of my ears itched all the time too and my mom was always having to hide pens and Q-tips from me. The stupid doctors would just lecture me on how I was going to potentaly damage my ear drums or that I was just making the wax go deeper. I know that, do something about the damb itching, Doc! Maybe it's a fungal infection or a mite. My teeth even sometimes get an itchy sensation in them. For me, an itch is worse than pain and stratching an itch is practically orgasmic. Anyway, is this kind of constant itching normal for autistic people?

It sounds like you might be allergic to something. Either way, scratching doesn't help.

I`m always itchy and scratching myself! Even my eyes and ears!

It's not normal to be itchy all the time.The medical term for being itchy is pruritis and it could be from something as benign as contact dermatitis to something as serious as cancer.

It is funny that people think that itching is something bad. I mean it is only bad for two reasons:

a) If you can't constantly scratch it. If you are only "allowed" to scratch it, say, once per minute, then during the time interval between scratches

b) If you have to scratch too often, you won't be able to be efficient with other things, such as cooking, homework and so forth

But here is a solution. What if people were to invent a scratching mashine. So you can simply place it there, and it would scratch it constantly without your involvement; all you have to do is just change batteries. In this case it might actually be a GOOD thing to be itchy. While others have to find other ways of enjoying themselves, such as going to a movies, or drinking out, you can simply enjoy the scratching sensation.

I know they say that if you scratch it it would itch more. But then again, it will only itch more if you ever take mashine away. But if you keep the mashine PERMANENTLY in place, then you won't EVER have to worry about it!

I've also felt that itchy sensation my entire life.

I am just recently going through an itchy phase - for me it's just another phase of fibromyalgia. Itching it only makes it worse since there is no physical reason for the itch. It's not dry skin or allergies or what have you - it's overactive nerve receptors. It is quite maddening - there are days I feel like I'm going to just lose it because the itch is so bad. The only thing that seems to stem it is actual pain. Tiger Balm, extra strength, applied thick sometimes helps. At least the burn is better than the itch - kind of soothing actually. Slapping helps. Hurts like a mother for me but the itching leaves me alone for a few hours. I also have a hard bristle bath brush with a long handle - I use that to scratch rather than a back scratcher. Much more efficient.

I've been through seriously bad periods of itching (pruritis), and there are materials (like spandex) that make me itch really badly.

What I've done is run really hot water on the itchy area. It causes your skin to release all of its histamine at once - causing a very brief extremely intense itch - and then the itching is gone for several hours.

Yes I get this a lot. Best thing for it (in my case) is to take a hot bath or shower, and scrub the itchy bits with a reasonably stuff brush - not so stiff as to break the skin. If it's really severe, I might rub in some Deep Heat cream, though like the hot scrub, it's important to avoid sensitive body parts. Just ordinary moisturising cream seems to help......which suggests my problem is to do with dry skin.....it happens most in winter when central heating dries the air, so a humidifier could help. Also distraction with a special interest can take a lot of the torment out of it.

I tried the hot water... for me it didn't help. I think that was because I am long accustomed to taking scalding showers. I need to be streaked red and radiating heat before I'll get out of the shower. And, looking back, I may have been doing this for a reason all along...

I'm starting Cymbalta again - I'll let you know if it does anything for the itchies.

OMG, there would be no skin soon with such a machine...

For me, itching skin was a problem ever since my teens. The worse period is when I'm trying to sleep. Especially my face, but nose, ears and eyes too. That delicate parts what the underwear covers also can be itchy like hell. I think the more you scratch the more it itches, unless you use a sterile piece as a tool. I recommend the use of paper tissues. I'm convinced that irritating matter from the environment makes it much worse, so chemicals, germs, filth or whatever should be avoided, along with body contacts with other people, contacts with objects like handles of cases, steering wheel, tubes on buses etc.

And aren't you curious what would happen once there is no more skin left? Will the region below the skin continue to itch? Aren't you curious to find out just how deep does the "itchinnes" penetrates? and if you dig deeper and keep removing more and more stuff below the skin, will it stop itching since you end up removing the "entire" itching region? Or, on the other hand, if it will continue to itch, will you still enjoy it? On the one hand, once there is no more skin, the scratching would be very painful. But, on the other hand, pain is precisely what you enjoy when you itch. So perhaps you will LIKE the fact that scratching will be so painful due to no skin being left?

Another interesting thing to research is whether the blood below the itching spot will look the same as the blood below some other random spot on the body. If the itching part was red, will the blood perhaps be more rich in color and more pronounced? Or will it be the opposite: perhaps its color will be "dilutted" due to the lymph it is mixed with; after all, sometimes there is a lymph on the irritated skin due to the allergic reaction.

It might be also interesting to go get a blood test and ask a doctor to analyze TWO samples of blood: one sample from the normal spot that they take it from, and the other sample from the itching spot. Then doctor can analyze whether or not the blood below the itching spot is completely different from the one below the normal spot. It might be also interesting to analyze both blood and skin samples under the microscope and see just how did their structure had changed that made them so itchy?

I have a fungal infection on the skin of my foot. I have heard that it is not an accident that it is called "fungus" and mushrooms are "fungi" as well. Microscopically fungus infection DOES look like mushrooms. I really wish I had a microscope so I could look up exact shape of the mushrooms on my foot and exactly how deep their roots go through my skin and exactly how they change skin structure; and, of course, take a blood test from my FOOT and see what it will show.

Sometimes I have a fantasy: what if the athlets foot is left untreated for a long time, so that the mashrooms eventually grow so large that they can become visible ... and then I can pick them up, cook them, and eat them. And compare their taste to the taste of the kinds of mushrooms one would buy in the store. By the way I like friend mushrooms, thats my favorite dish. I wonder how the fried foot fungi would taste.

Try to exfoliate between your shoulders.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2729_exfoliate-body.html

http://skincare.about.com/od/facialclea ... oliate.htm

http://www.sheknows.com/beauty-and-styl ... -your-skin

My itchy sensations are too distracting and i can't do anything because of it.

It's extremely uncomfortable. I feel like bugs are crawling all over me, all the time. Then, if I get in the sun (even through a window), it starts to feel like my skin is being ripped off, after just 2 or 3 minutes. I'm super photosensitive. Sometimes this sensation happens even if I'm not in the sun, though, and I hate it.

I have extremely itchy hair/ head and face. It itches all day long and I take medicine for it kind of. It actually feels like bugs and snakes in my hair it gets that bad. I have red marks all over my face because I scratch at it all day long.