I'm experiencing prickly, itching skin from the top of my head, inside my ears, face, all over my body to my feet. It begins about 4:30 in the afternoon and progressively gets worse until I'm ready claw myself raw. Thankfully, I can usually go to sleep once I get in bed and force myself not to scratch.
I've eliminated peanut butter, nuts, chocolate, wheat, coconut oil but regardless of what I don't eat this still happens. I stopped taking supplements for a month--it didn't help.
It began in early January when I was prescribed zythromyacine for bronchitis. After taking it for acouple of days the itching began so I thought i was allergic to the med and quit taking it. It happened a few other random times over the course of the next 6 weeks, and benadryl helped, but this past month it has happened almost every single day. I cannot get an appointment with an allergist until July 26. A phrmacist told me to take claritin rather than benadryl which helped for a few days but has not these past two weeks. I do take 4 prescription meds: gabapentin 3 X 300 mg, hydrochlorothiazide for HBP 27 mg, vesicare, and naturthyroid 96.5 for hypthyroidism. It's not detergent since it didn't happen when I was away from home for two weeks and the clohes I wore then had been washed in the same detergent as what I'm presently using. A blood test revealed nothing wrong. Can you tell me another OTC med to take to get some relief? Or bettter yet, tell me what's wrong!! This is driving me crazy.