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It sounds like you have not gotten rid of the mites or are being re-exposed to mites in your environment and they are in the place where you live. They get into everything and continuous washing and ridding the household of mites is a big job. Look on Wikipedia.com to get more information on this. It is tormenting to the sufferer.

Consider mites from fruit trees also.

- Claire

gemini0605,

I've been experiencing the same exact problem for years now... I've described it to people as hypersensitivity... almost like my nerves are super sensitive all over my body. I also now have the muscle spasms, twitching & upset stomach... no pain, just very irritating for sure. Most prominent on the small of my back and stomach area...

Been to most every specialist including neurologist, allergist with no answers. I too am under a tremendous amount of stress and had been taking Elavil up until a couple of months ago... Along with more exercise, it seemed to have taken care of the symptoms, but thought I should address the root cause in case it was something serious. I'm now off the meds and the sensations have returned... Considering going back on the meds until I can find some more answers.

Any other details you'd like to share so we might compare our situations?

Hello, I have been experiencing the same problem for years also. My skin just crawls...like water is tricklng down my legs, arms, face, scalp, and back. Very annoying and frustrating. So far, I have just been on medications that mostly help me to sleep. My doctor says it's anxiety and stress related, but I am so ready for it to stop!

Have you found anything new?

It sounds a lot like Scabies. Do a search here and see if you can find any other information on the symptoms and treatment. I found another good resources devoted to just scabies at www.informationonsymptoms.com. It is a good resource of information and pictures.

I've got a lot of the same symptoms also, which I think are probably due to dust mites, but which also seems to go beyond what I'd expect from dust mites.

My symptoms include near constant crawling under or on the skin -- from head to toe, near constant biting -- from once per 5 minutes to multiple times per second, intermittent sensation of something moving very fast or flying across the skin.

So far sounds like dust mites, I think. But at times the "biting" is more like dozens of pin pricks at the same time in an area like the hand or the leg, and often when I'm laying down if I slap the area with the pin pricks, another area immeidately starts pin-pricking almost as if the dust mites were communicating or feeling each others' pain, which sounds more like anxiety.

Also, using the iron on hot setting with steam seems sometimes not to work, and using dust mite spray seems not to work either ( sometimes less than 20% effective ).

On the pro-dust-mite side, when clothing or furniture is found to be infected, touching it produces repeatable results -- crawling and biting feelings, and these results are not seen when similarly touching other areas thought not to be infected.

I've done Orkin, scabies prescriptions, waterproof bed covers, ironing, sleeping on chairs, sleeping on non-carpeted floors, sleeping in the bath tub ( or tried to ), excessive showering, and frequent baths.

So far, the closest I've gotten to success is to shower before and after bed, avoid ironing on my ironing board until I've replaced the cloth cover, and I'm thinking of putting my clothes in the dryer each day before getting dressed, and maybe trashing all furniture and moving to a new apartment ( same as about 5 years ago from another apartment, with about 4 years and 10 good months in between, and all new furniture, etc. ).

It would be great if my case were purely anxiety / mind stuff, but the repeatability with certain furniture, etc. I think is going to end up costing me money....

Better luck to you than I'm having so far....

It's amazing what stress can do and I know that it can cause in some people's discomfort in causing itchy skin. I really don't know what this would be related to since I'm not an M.D.

You did indicate that you've been under a lot of stress and that might be one place to begin to see if you can make some changes. While you're going to the doctors, why not see how you can adjust and cut back on the stress in your life? At the very least, why not begin to do some mild basic exercises several times a week, make sure you get enough sleep, watch your diet and also use relaxation breathing. I think all of this can contribute to making you feel a bit better.

I hope things to improve for you very soon and that some resolution is found for this problem.

A professor told me to "just spray diazanon to get rid of mites". Later he said that "it does take quite a while, longer than you have had the problem. to get rid of them". I found it hard to find diazanon, and would never put it anyplace that might come in direct contact with skin if you can find it.

You might want to try spraying Cedar Oil. It will kill mites and is non-toxic, non-staining and harmless to pets. You might need to spray multiple times (over the course of a few days) to get them all. Hopefully you'll like the cedar scent. It'll make the house smell like a cedar closet. It really does work. I've used it as an insect repellent in the summer and it works as well as any of the other that are all chemicals and smell awful. Cedar Oil Spray is easy to find online.

I just put in a search for pin prick feeling and found your comment. I notice this was 5 years ago, and am curious how this problem turned out. I felt pin prick around my breasts, groin and neck and saw round raised circular spots under breasts. A Dr. said it was scabies, two dermatologists said it wasn't. Of course, by that time I had sqeezed some blob type thing out of these, and they did not look the same when Drs looked. I have also had a feeling in my throat like something is stuck in there. Ultrasound on thyroid showed nothing unusual. I have not had any biopsies or any other tests. I was given steroid cream which I have used for 3 days now and taking zanax for anxiety(which has come on from this skin problem, as I imagine I have a parasite). Do you have any pearls of wisdom for me?
Thank you!

I had the pin poke sensation a couple years ago and found out my hormones were out of control, I was pregnant with twins. I have felt it many times since their birth. My husband doesn't feel anything so it cannot be dust mites. I drink too much caffeine and am stressed so I think this plays a part in the pin poke sensation. I also feel it with adjustments in medicines. Have you considered this? I try to launder my bedding more often and bath as normal. I have limited my caffeine and am keeping hydrated. I also apply a moisturizing cream called CeraVe (not a lotion but the cream). It really helps hydrate the skin.

I went through the same type thing. I was scratching one area to the point I ended up with dermatitis. It mostly affected the fronts of my calves. But, I also felt like there was something crawling under my skin in nose/eye area. I tried a lot of the same things you did. None of my doctors thought it looked anythink like scabies, my bed has never gone without using a mattress cover that is non permiable, (plus it is only aabout a year old, I bought new) I keep a pretty clean house, so do not think it is dustmites anyway. I have very little carpet in my house. I started using a heavy duty moisturizer and changed my diet and it completely went away. If the itching starts, I use a vaseline type product on the affected area.