really weird heat-activated itch

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SkinnyJoe

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Noticed a really weird itch/tingling in the last couple of months 5 minutes into an exercise, lasting about a minute or two, and it's brutally uncomfortable, as if I am going to pass out from the discomfort. It affects primarily the torso, and I don't see any obvious skin color changes or anything.

Anybody have a clue what this may be? I thought maybe dry air in Nevada, but I have been using body lotion after showers.
 
Probably dry skin, like me in the winter. Try taking cooler, shorter showers.
 
Go see a doctor, dude. He might want to do some blood tests, given the "company" you've been keeping as of late.
 
Go see the doctor, if he does not know, see a dermatologist.
 
I get prickly feeling on my back sometimes, especially when I am sweaty, but not most of the time. It feels like needles pocking my skin, no visible rash or anything. I kinda figure maybe it is heat rash but heat rash is visible from what I understand.
 
I usually get that when the temps start dropping and I sweat and again when they increase in spring. Goes right up my arms, chest back but only after I start exertion.
It is like a heat rash but like Eye stated, nothing visible on the skin.
 
I get the same thing after about 5-10 minutes of walking uphill in my neighborhood during winter. I have come to associate this physical sensation with the process of the pores in my skin popping open (to sweat) as my body begins to warm up during exertion, kind of like how a thermostat works on a car. It might be more obvious in colder weather as it is more of an abrupt change from one state to the other (cold to hot). It goes away after a few minutes.

Pete
 
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If you haven't worked out in a while, it's probably your capillaries expanding (think stretching blood vessels) due to the increased blood flow. This can cause a tingling sensation or itching and usually goes away after a few minutes.
 
Yup, I notice it in colder weather too. It's more tingling/needles than rash. VERY irritating, and very predictable. Happens every morning during exercise, and sometimes during the day, from work stress.

Any remedies?
 
SkinnyJoe said:
Yup, I notice it in colder weather too. It's more tingling/needles than rash. VERY irritating, and very predictable. Happens every morning during exercise, and sometimes during the day, from work stress.

Any remedies?
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Stop exercising.

Pete
 
Switch to real soap made from lye and natural oils check it on the net it wont dry your skin out like factory bar soap/detergent.
 
I live in Hawaii where it never gets very cold.
Sometimes if I have it and i lean back against a chair and slide my back side to side it makes it feel a lot worse, like the pin pricks are all over.
and if I sort of arch my back different ways like stretching the skin or something I feel it more too.
 
eyeeatingfish said:
I live in Hawaii where it never gets very cold.
Sometimes if I have it and i lean back against a chair and slide my back side to side it makes it feel a lot worse, like the pin pricks are all over.
and if I sort of arch my back different ways like stretching the skin or something I feel it more too.
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Yours sounds different, you should see a doctor.

Pete
 
General Health Advise:

See a doctor, a nutritionalist, and a fitness professional. The doctor can subscribe acute remedies, and the nutritionalist and fitness expert can put you on a good future course for you to meet your goals efficiently.

Lots of attractive women work in those proffessions too, so consider it multitasking:D:thumbup:.

Its a good thing to do even if you don't have noticeable problems.:thumbup:
 
This reminded me, when I was a kid until maybe about 20 or so, sometimes I would experience an itch in my sides when I had a coughing spell. And sometimes at the beginning of a workout, say doing situps, the small of my back and/or sides would initially get a tingling itch for several seconds until my body really warmed to the exercise. I don't think I've had that for quite some time now (I'm 47).

Jim
 
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