I went through this same thing. I'll be as detailed as disgustingly possible without being lewd. In August of last year, I started working in healthcare and one day i just felt itchy on my penis. I'm circumcised but what little is left of my foreskin just felt incredibly itchy. Any man knows that you cannot really scratch that area, it's more like pinching and rolling with your fingers. I thought it was really strange because I have not been sexually active for a very long time and had never had this issue before. I guess I pinched it too much because within a week, my whole penis was covered in these red itchy bumps. I was freaking out and without health insurance, but i knew in my heart this cannot be an STD. I reasoned that I had a superficial yeast infection, the kind women get, but on imy penis. I started slathering miconazole, neosporin, and hydrocortisone, and it seemed to help alot. But soon, the itching and the small red bumps spread all down my legs, not terrible looking rash. The itching was absolutely maddening. I tried all sorts of lotions, nothing really helped. It was much worse when I was trying to sleep. By October, I had learned that my roommates sister had gotten Scabies......she had also stayed over my house several times. At that point the itching got so much worse just thinking about mites crawling under my skin. I begged said roommate to get a RX refill of her Permethrin and she was actually able to. I did that one time and I didn't think it really helped. At this point reading all about scabies, I realized I was the only one in the house with this probelm, after months of taking no precautions to not spread it, so it was unlikely this was my problems. All sorts of things went through my mind. I never did visit a doctor because everything I read online by people with these symptoms was incredibly discouraging, including getting labeled as OCD/hypochondriac. Some days, I can get by and ignore the itching as best i can. Some days I think it wouldnt be so bad to die to escape this itching. If you are going through this, no matter what it might be, it is damaging, physically, emotionally, spiritually.
It is nearly 7/8 months since this ordeal started one day with an itch on the tip of my penis. I recently had this whole thing flare up really bad. All over my thighs, my penis, my scrotum, butt. Basically from the waist down. THe parts that I end up scratching(because oh my god sometimes I just lose it and have to) are so inflamed and turned ino nodules.
I had to start research again. My conclusions. I think it's scabies again. After all these months. I came accross new stuff, kind of anecdotal rather than true medical information. It essentially said that scabies does not alway present and behave the way medical types think it does. IE- because we wash our hands constantly, wash our clothing after one use...it's not so bad in these people than it is in homeless people/third world country.
I also came accross a product for animals called Durvet Nu-Stock. It's a topical sulfur/pine oil that is specifically for horses, dogs, cattle......yet if you dig a little deeper, there are stories that people have used it it cure scabies -even ones who had tried permethrin before.
i bought on Amazon, its cheap. It stinks, literally. But as someone else wrote on the reviews, I was willing to smear dogpoop on me if it would end this ordeal. I diluted some with regular lotion and just covered my lower half. Smell be damned
Two days in, I am convinced its working. I went 12 hours yesterday (smelling like a rotten egg) but not itching on my thighs, butt, crotch....nothing.
The sulfur apparently kills the scabies (die, mother****ers) and soothes the itch. Im seeing the bumps fade, the horrible inflamed nodules shrink. I will do this for a third day and it should be gone.
I can live a normal life again.
I will update on here!
Dont give up hope
ps- I dont sell or advocate this stuff, this is my personal experience and knowing how strangely comforting to read others peoples experience with this hell You're not alone
I think it has something to do with fleas. I just moved out of my ex's house (which was flea infested!) For the 2 weeks that I stayed there, my legs were itchy as hell (front, back, inner, and outter) and so was my ass. I never had this problem before I moved there but since i've moved out, it's been slightly better. It just started itching around my vigiana though so i'm not sure what's going on but it's getting annoying and kinda hard to ignore. Anything with sulfur should help it stop, right??
Good luck and please report back on your progress.
I get these red bumbs on my genitalia and a few on my shaft and they itch and if i itch they burn. After a while, the skin flakes and it falls off, but i think i know what this is from. im 15 i get this sh*t almost every couple months. I know how i got it. Im a virgin so that rules it out being an std. I think it is not recieved by anything, i think the answer for how it becomes what it is is simple. I scratch my genitalia alot, and i also masturbate alot and i think that is the main reason. You might be thinking, every guy masturbates and alot of guys scratch their nuts so where the hell is this going? Well if you think about it this way, it may help. So your scratching away at your genitalia. While your doing this layers of skin or flaking off. if you dont wash your hands well and enough, the bacteria from your hands as you scratch away is getting in your skin and slowly growing. every guy (hopefully) does his fair share of man scaping. Some of you said you had little red bumbs, it could be nothing more then Razor burn. But the bacteria from your razor/buzzer clearly are clearly getting in your skin. Again with the bacteria but if your wearing dirty underwear this is why (i do not.) for me this reason is a revalation. When you scratch your shaft and nuts the skin flakes away as i said. So when you masturbate your hands are coming in contact with your genitalia and shaft, but even though there is a lotion, baby oil, etc. on your hand and shaft/balls it doesn't 'protect you' from the bacteria on your hands. I also believe that what you use to whipe yourself off with may be a HUGE reason why this occured. I use shirts and a few days back i think i picked up a shirt i was outside hooping in and used it, which would leave the shirt disgustingly dirty (i didn't know till after don't judge man). This may explain why your lower abdomen and possily your anus region is infected (if you scratch that area profusely and dont wash your hands maybe thats why your nuts are infected!) on another note, Being that there arent any cures, i think that this is a bacterial infection. Since the area is dry skin and is rubbing against cloth it tends to make it irritated, hence the red color. The bumbs are swelling due the build up of this clear slightly odd smelling fluid and/or the bacteria (if you havent had a fluid leave you yet you better stop scratching.) then the skin flakes up and drys after the fluid leaves the area. It is nothing to worry about truely because i have a temporary solution. This wont stop the sh*t right away but it speeds it up. Vaseline. Just lube your tube as much as you please and dont touch it and it will improve. Do the same when skin flakes. I dont know about how that will affect the thighs and anus but for balls and shaft this is my go too. I reccomend also for future references scrubbing your dong well in the shower and shaving it before your shower because the bacteria on your buzzer/razor could be another way to get this and by cleaning yourself after, your drastically reducing your chances of getting this.