Over the last three months, ive been suffering from a horrific itchy sensation all over my body. At first it just affected my arms, and the back of my neck, but then it spread down to my ass and legs. I'd been taking ungodly amounts of Benadryl everyday to try and bring some peace to my screaming flesh, but after a while, that stopped working, and instead they just made me enter horrifying realms of delirium.
In the last two weeks my condition seemed to be getting much worse. I would wake up in the morning, and find that my bed sheets as well as my legs were crusted with dry blood, and open soares were forming above my ass, and on the inside of my thighs. Similarly the skin beneath my fingers began to suffer from a burning sensation, and after about an hour of itching, the skin started to just flake off, and tiny droplets of blood pooled between my thumb and index finger. After doing some research online, I became terrified that this "rash" was possibly a manifestation of the staph infection that brought me to my knees four and a half months ago. I decided it was time to call up the doctor, and deal with this problem head on, before being condemned to another month long stay at a fucking hospital.
So I go to my doctor yesterday after lunch, and she took a pretty thorough look at my "problem", and then began photographing it with her iPhone, to send to her sister, who's a dermatologist. My doctor thought that it could possibly be eczema or psoriasis, but once she got in touch with her sister, she seemed pretty certain that it was scabies.
So last night I picked up the necessairy medication, 5% Permethrin, and took a shower. My body has become so raw, that it is incredibly sensitive to temperature, and several times while washing myself, I felt as if I might feint. I then got out of the tub, and looked in the mirror. A pale, emaciated freak, with pealing skin and bleeding soars stared back at me. I kind of groaned and then proceded to apply 30 grams of this permethrin on to my body. When I covered the areas that were open and raw, I experienced a very unpleasant feeling, as if grains of sand had been rubbed into my open flesh. Once I was finished, I stood for about half an hour in my bathroom until the medication dried, and then I laid down and watched Rescue Me until I fell asleep.
In the last two weeks my condition seemed to be getting much worse. I would wake up in the morning, and find that my bed sheets as well as my legs were crusted with dry blood, and open soares were forming above my ass, and on the inside of my thighs. Similarly the skin beneath my fingers began to suffer from a burning sensation, and after about an hour of itching, the skin started to just flake off, and tiny droplets of blood pooled between my thumb and index finger. After doing some research online, I became terrified that this "rash" was possibly a manifestation of the staph infection that brought me to my knees four and a half months ago. I decided it was time to call up the doctor, and deal with this problem head on, before being condemned to another month long stay at a fucking hospital.
So I go to my doctor yesterday after lunch, and she took a pretty thorough look at my "problem", and then began photographing it with her iPhone, to send to her sister, who's a dermatologist. My doctor thought that it could possibly be eczema or psoriasis, but once she got in touch with her sister, she seemed pretty certain that it was scabies.
So last night I picked up the necessairy medication, 5% Permethrin, and took a shower. My body has become so raw, that it is incredibly sensitive to temperature, and several times while washing myself, I felt as if I might feint. I then got out of the tub, and looked in the mirror. A pale, emaciated freak, with pealing skin and bleeding soars stared back at me. I kind of groaned and then proceded to apply 30 grams of this permethrin on to my body. When I covered the areas that were open and raw, I experienced a very unpleasant feeling, as if grains of sand had been rubbed into my open flesh. Once I was finished, I stood for about half an hour in my bathroom until the medication dried, and then I laid down and watched Rescue Me until I fell asleep.
