Kathy,
I totally understand what you are going thru as I am there right now. It used to be a nice warm shower, some bath and body and a couple of Attarax and the itching was gone. This week I started a flare so my good Rheumy started me on Prednisone...ahhhh felt better. Then, wait for it, wait for it.....bAMM....there was that terrible itching. Ok, warm shower, bath and body, couple of my friends Attarax and man....still itching. It was horrible. I had never had such itching in my life!!! I had itched all my skin off and was down to the adipose tissue and we all know that fat doesn't go anywhere, s the itching persisted. Finally Friday I had my fill and and called my primary......out of town. Called my Rheumy.....day off but I could page him. YES! Paged him and he met me in the office and I got a Methylprednisone shot. It helped initially but then I has hitting the Attarax again. ARGHHH!! BACK IN THE SHOWER....do you see a pattern here??? I am kept up all night last night and I finally get some sleep around 6am and back up around 10am and shhhhh......****no itching****. As the day progressed, **no itching**. Tonight, got in the shower, bath and body (for fun) and currently am itch free. ahhhhhh relief.
I blame it on Lupus and possibly a small troll that I stepped on that has a hat full of curses or something.
Nancy