Formication!
Has nothing whatsoever to do with bumping uglies, it’s the feeling you get when you think critters are crawling on your skin. It’s one of the types of paresthesia that falls under the category of delusional parasitosis. I have gotten it as a result of excessively dry skin and even during high fevers. It’s also not uncommon during DT’s and coke withdrawal, neither of which I got.
So tonight I’m wondering if it’s dry skin or fever or both.
or maybe I actually do have bugs crawling on me, and i just can’t see them.
Can also be caused by the side effects of certain drugs used to treat hypertension or high blood pressure. Simply take a long hot shower and avoid intimate contact with hippies and Occupy-types. Distract yourself with good reading or even better porn.
YeOldFurt
Moisterizer.
And porn.
Who am I to argue with such collected wisdom.
Get a bottle of a skin cleanser that will be therapeutic for your skin and not beat it up. Something like Phisoderm or Cetaphil, something that’s unscented, etc.
Use it. Follow it up with an unscented moisturizer — both Phisoderm and Cetaphil make some good ones. You might also consider the Aveeno line, which has oatmeal in it.
Had a diabetes test lately?
Could just be the fact that the weather is cooler and you’re not taking proper care of your hide. Might be evidence of something else going on. More likely the former than the latter but youneverknow.
As for porn, I hesitate to advocate. :)
Jenny
Ants running under the skin, and a tapeworm in my leg – bad dream of cold weather and zombies. Zombie tapeworms.
Dude, you can’t see the bugs crawling all over you? The rest of us have just been too polite to say anything….
Not THOSE bugs. Those are my pets. The invisible ones feel like ants. With laser pincers.
Them’s fireants. Just shuck ’em off into a bucket of local honey, and spread on toast. There ya go. No charge.
Oh, add bourbon to the bucket soze they die happy.
Second the diabetes. I haz it, I have the pin-poking crawlies from time to time. Whisky helps.