Creepy crawly feelings

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I've been experiencing a creepy crawly feeling throughout my body off and on for the last few years. Recently it has become much much worse. It's not like the descriptions of RLS where people think that there are bugs on the outside. Mine is internal. It feels like nausia of the whole body. I don't know how else to describe it. I'm usually fine going to bed at night(accept last night where I couldn't sleep) it's waking up in the morning. With in moments my body starts to get a feeling that is hard to describe. It varies from my muscles actually feeling like they are sick to twitches and actual jolts. I try to will it away butt am rarely ever able too. Now it is carrying on into my actual waking and working hours.
 
A little over a month of taking the vitamins and still no change. It seems to be getting worse. i wake up in the middle of the night feeling creepy on the inside(in weird waves) and now even if I'm busy at work I'm now getting it. I'm a bartender, so It's not like I sit around in an office all day. The Klonipin I take for my anxiety actually helps butt don't want to take that too often because of it's addictive factors.
 
Your symptoms sound like an affliction called Morgellons. The CDC is currently doing a study on it. Dr. Hildegarde Staninger has helped many people with this affliction. Please get help before the symptoms get any worse. God Bless
 
Hi,
I have the same feelings. I also take Klonopin. It helps a little with the creepy crawly feelings and stops my restless legs syndrome, and helps me fall asleep at night. I suffer insomnia with the anxiety that I have trouble with. Cymbalta is what stops the creepy crawly feeling for me. I take 60mg. once a day in the morning. It doesn't make me sleepy and doesn't impair my memory as Klonopin does so says my physician. I wonder though...where you feel the creepy crawlies? They seem to pass through my head most of the time. I hope this helps you.
DB
 
The creeping is usually associated with your nerves. After my back broke I lost use of my left leg. As the nerves started to regain feeling, I would get the creepy feeling in that leg. Do you think it could be nerve related, and if so there are meds on the market for nerve pain.. neurontin, topomax, lyrica just to name a few....
 
Hi, I agree with you that it probably is not morgellons, although creepy, crawly feelings is one of the symptoms. I had those crawly feelings for about a year before the appearance of lesions.
Could it be restless leg syndrom?
 
I tried Cymbalta for a short time awhile back and it was on of the worst things I have ever taken in my life. My first dose was 30mg and within half an hour i had a horrible panic attack. It actually felt like it was toxic in my system. Now for the creepy crawly feelings, They are an all over body experience. As soon as I wake up(if i can sleep that is) I get this wave of nausia, of sorts throughout my whole body. My legs my belly, everything! I try to nod off then another wave will hit me within 5 or 10 minutes. The body jolts happen on and off while this is going on too. I feel like I'm going crazy!
 
The sympathetic nervous system can cause the feeling you are describing.

Try slow deep breathing and slow exhaling several times a day and see if it helps. This is one way to calm the sympathetic nervous system.

Do not drink caffeine or intake other stimulants.
 
How about a sleep study? They are very useful in diagnosis sleep disorders, breathing and movements in your sleep. It is common that sleep disorders result in daytime issues.

There is medication strictly made for RLS, (if that is part of it). It both makes you drowsy to get to sleep, then acts on the central nervous system to stop the unwanted sensations and movements.

It's called requip, and it it also helps with tremors, and seizures. I take it myself for severe RLS, and get great relief. Just an idea..hope it helps!
 
I'm still not feeling any better. Now it's a constant. Both day and night. Klonopin is the only thing that takes the edge off. I was hoping the vitamins would help.
 
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Sounds like RLS to me also.
I have it and hate it and just learned to live with it.
Magnesium etc. does not make any difference or me.
Hope it does work for you
All the best Locket
 
Just went back to the doctors today and she gave me some drugs for RLS. Requip. I guess it contains dopamine. From the research i did on it i hope that it is finally the cure for the RLS and the other issues i have.
 
I went to my doctor and described my symptoms and she told me that it sounded like RLS. I didn't think it was. She recomended 2000 iu of vitamin D, magnisium, Iron and C. i hope that it works. I've only been doing it for a week. She said that within a month I should feel better. Cross your fingers for me.
 
Dopamine is used for people with Parkinson Disease. I think mainly
for their depression.
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I feel it is too severe to take these drugs for RSL for me! but everyone has to make their own choices so I wish you the best as it is a lifelong thing.
Locket
 
After the first night on the Requip, just half of a tab i woke up(kind of, spent most of the night battling my insomnia) feeling "not right". Still creepy crawly, anxiety, tingly hands, and heavy feeling forearms. The doctor told me to cut it down to a quarter of a tab for the next few days. I can't give up after just one day. I took it with a possitive attitude and haven't felt myself all day long. It's Wednesday, and thank goodness i don't have to be back to work until Friday evening. Hopefully i will be a little bit more leveled out by then.
 
Hi everyone I happened upon this thread and noticed that some of you were complaining of creepy crawly feelings. I just wanted to let yall know that I was prescribed Lyrica after a surgery and the doc thought I was having a problem with nerve damage. I took it at night and it gave me the worst RLS. It drove me crazy. I stopped the med and that feeling stopped as well. The only time I feel this type of feeling is if I have lots of caffeine before bed. Good luck everyone
 
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