Sverely Itchy Hands And Feet(blood Pressure ?)

ness1969 · Newbie Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

Hi,

This is for everyone that has posted about itchy hands and feet. I suffer this almost every day and every night. I have a liver disease called Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC). The main symptoms of this disease are itching (mainly hands and feet but can itch everywhere), fatigue, liver pain, chest pain, dry eyes and mouth. If you have any of these symptoms I would suggest getting blood tests done to check your liver functions. Mine was way above normal before diagnosis. I do not want to worry anyone but it is always best to get checked. What most people don't realise is that itching can be a symptom of liver disease.

Best wishes to all
Vanessa

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Wow, it certainly is debilitating. This is what I found out.....it happens only at night and this is the remedy.
1) taking a anti-histimine helps
2) topical ointment
3) rubbing fragrance free lotion on my hands and feets to hydrate them and put socks on.
4) BIGGEST TIP - this is a hard one to do. You have to relax and try and think of something else after you do the things above. No scratching, no rubbing, concentrate on NOT focusing on the itch. Within 10-15 minutes it will ease up.
My thoughts are this...1) it could be nerve damage of some sort, maybe from past drug use, stimulates maybe - ANY COMMENTS on this. 2) It could be a "tick" or brain malfunction. 3) It could be viral, although I have been to numerous doctors and they know nothing about it, their response is...if I can't see anything, it's not there and it may be "stress" related. That is always the way out of a proper diagnosis. 4) It may be a certain toxin in our body, something we may injest that causes this condition. And finally, to rule out #4 I am going to try these feet pads that were seen on tv that pull toxins out of your system thru your feet. Will keep info coming if any change

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I have the same problem and it seems to be related to my exposure to chemicals. I dyed my son's hair and the next day - voila! Itching hands/feet and swelling. I also tried everything to get rid of it - essential oil blends, natural remedies....finally broke down and tried all the OTC medications! NOTHING WORKED!!! Finally, I remembered that itching is a "hot" disease. So I just put ice packs on my hands and feet and the itching went away almost immediately - now I do that every time the problem comes. It is so nice to have a solution to the itching!

Hope this helps.
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND

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I used to have the bumps along the edges of my first, middle and third fingers, which itched like crazy!

When I went to a GP, she told me that they were caused by a fungus, not unlike what causes athlete's foot and the anti-fungal cream that she gave me cleared it right up. From what she told me it was contagious, since my fiance developed the same thing and still has it a little bit.

sessa3568 · Newbie Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

i can't put up with this anymore. i am a pharmacy assistant and i have had itchy hands and feet for the last three months. At first it started on my left foot under my ankle in the form of about 12 little tiny blisters, which were so itchy. eventually from constant scratching it spread to cover my whole side of my foot and back of my heel. it then appeared on my right heel and all over my hands, up in between my fingers and on the top of my hand.
i have seen 5 doctors and all they have said is take phenergan and use advantan ointment(script only). i have had enough of this. i take the phenergan at night and have increased it to 50mg and i still wake up about 3 times with itchy hands and feet. it drives me made. i have used cold towels, pinetarsol gels, non-soap washes, all sorts of creams, natural vitamins(EPO) and antihistamines. NOTHING IS WORKING. i dread going to bed and by the end of the week i am utterly exhausted. if anyone has had anything work for them please help.....
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It is interesting that someone else mentioned paint....
I have the same symptoms, and i have been trying to figure out what it was.
all of the online diagnosis websites have, of course, done nothing but ensure me that i have a severe case of hypochondria. I figure if it is not any of those severe cases, such as lupus, leukemia, brain tumor, w/e, it must be an allergic reaction, or stress.
true, stress is an issue in my life- i am a college student, but i was just as stressed last semester, and did not have this at all.
i recently moved to a new apartment.
nothing has changed in my diet, and i have never had any food allergies. I knew it must be something with the apartment, i thought it could be the water- but i have been living with philadelphia water for two years now, and unless it was an issue with the piping in this house that was not the problem.
but when reading this, i think i figured it out-
When i first moved in they were painting the hallway. the circulation of the hallway must not be that great, because it still smells like paint when i walk through it. I am tempted to ask them what kind of paint it is that they used to paint that hallway.
This situation is extremely irritating, as all of you probably already know.

ZAZA1234 · Newbie Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 2

ZAZA1234 · Newbie Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 2

Hi guys. I used to read most of these forums, in the hope that someone would find out at least why they were itching. Everywhere I seemed to look at, everyone did not know why they were itching!

I always vowed that once I know what I have I will come back and tell everyone! So please feel free to see a similar message on post itch notice boards lol

I would firstly like to say I totally understand the pain and annoyance that you are going through. It drives me crazy! It makes you even more crazy when you do not know why you are itching all over without a rash! I used to mainly get it at night in my hands and feet. But later spread all over.

I thought I was lucky that I was on private healthcare and decided to take steps to finding out why I had this. My quest started last year. I went to a local private dermotologist and he was NOT very useful at all. He asked me to go on anti hestimines. At that point the itching was not that bad so I was like well can I find out why I am itching first? He was like ok well if you insist we can get some blood samples. Which he did and came back negative. I then asked him again to help me as my itching was not even going by using antihistimine and he said ok I refer you to an allergy specialist.

I saw her twice and from her seeing her we learnt nothing! I was not allergic to anything that would cause sever itching that I had.

I did not want to go back to the old dermotologist, so I did some reasearch and decided to go to the dermotogloy centre in London and I booked an appointment with Dr Sunil Chupra, the clinical director.
The first thing I noticed from our first meeting, was that he cared and showed that he wanted to deal with your problem. For him it was like a puzzle and he was going to try and fix it.

He sent me for some routine blood tests, however found out that Iron was very low and IGE & white blood cells were very high. This showed that my body was fighting something and I was not going crazy!!

He then put me on a drug called neoral (or similar spelling, can't rememebr) which he said would decrease my white blood cells and IGE as he thinks they were being overactive for no reason which was causing my itch problem.

Within a few days I started to feel ill and a pretty little lump formed at the bottom of my neck. I went back to see him, firstly to advise his medicine did not help at all with my itching, but he was more interested in the lump in my neck. He sent me for an immediate Xray and CT scan. From both of these you can see there was growth around my neck and chest of "something" and the CT scan showed this too.

I didn't know how to react, wheather to be relieved as in MAYBE my itching problem that has been ruining the quality of my life has now been given a reason or this was just another road to failure.

The next day my doctor asked me to come in again and he went over my CT scan. Unfortunately the news was not what I expected....he advised that I had lymphoma/ Hodgkin's disease. I was very shocked and it seems unreal.

Here I am now a 1 week after this knowledge. I have had a biopsy done to confirm hat I have this disease and also have had a bone marrow sample taken today to see the spread of this disease. I hope to get better soon and if any of you are reading this message then please also pray for me.

My main purpose of my post was for me to tell my experiences that I went through and that if someone else out there has unexplained generalized itching without a rash and they have tried nearly everything and it does not work. Then DO NOT waste time, ask your doctor for a chest X-ray an CT scan. As Lymphoma is common among people in the 20's and not that many people are told that generalizing itching is a side effect of Hodgkin's lymphoma.

So spread the news!! Save people if you can!

lar1 · Newbie Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

It started last year. First itching on my ankle. two days later a traveling itch down the middle of my foot to my toes at nght. Six months later to my hands would itch with the same pattern as my feet. Newsprint and sudden stress will start it without a doubt. My MD told me she didn't know why. But, I continue to take the Allegra with some success. When it happens I try to relax and think of something pleasant. It helps.

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This problem is driving me crazy. It first started in hands with a dull, numbing, itchy feeling. In one week my hands and palms are covered with bumps. I just noticed that my feet are the same way. I am a teacher and I use gloves for everything, I might have an allergy on my hands(make sense), but my feet???? It feels worse when my stress level rises, a itchy tingly feeling shoots through my hands and feet. I have no idea what to do...liver dysfuntion, lupus, allergies, stress...WHAT!!!!! Shocked

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