It itches....

[davidgillon]

I feel like I want to write something longer, possibly thoughts on the Paralympics, but I'm currently being driven to distraction by itching, mostly on the palms of my hands. This is the third day, and last night I ended up wearing wheelchair gloves to stop myself tearing my palms to ribbons. There's no rash or anything, so my guess would be opioid related, possibly compounded by general tiredness, but that's not a side-effect I get very often - and it's not one I'd like to see any more of, thank you!

Comments

[lilysea]

When I had codeine related itch, I found
caffeine
lack of sleep
stress
not-moisturising
all made it worse.

Moisturizing a lot helped a bit.

[davidgillon]

It seems to have eased off today. Possibly because I ended up sleeping most of the day.

I found benadryl cream, which I normally use on insect bites, helped for a while.

[jesse_the_k]

The only thing worse than persistent itching is chronic pain.

Oh wait ...

[davidgillon]

;)

Fortunately it died away after a good night's sleep on Sunday.