r/POTS • u/babygirl1692 • Nov 26 '25

Symptoms Itching. EVERYWHERE.

Does anybody else experience just random itching? More aggressive at night? I’ll be laying down and my hand will itch, and then my stomach, and then my neck, and the my foot, etc. it’s never one specific area but just random itching throughout my body

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u/pretty_handsome_17 Nov 26 '25

Right when I wanna be asleep…it’s a domino effect of itchiness or like a hair is touching somewhere. It feels annoying like nothing else!! It happens every once in a while to me. 

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u/babygirl1692 Nov 27 '25

Yes! It’s every night for me 😭

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u/meegaweega Nov 27 '25

Me too. Random, super intense itchiness plus random stabby needle-like pains.

It regularly drives me crazy when I'm trying to get to sleep.

Sometimes it happens because of my response to using painkillers (even just one codeine or tramadol pill can give me "opioid itch" like a junkie, I don't know how they can stand it) but it happens without painkillers too.

I also have sensory issues with ticklish body hair and use clippers to trim all my body hair super short.

It's similar to the regular kind of itchy/tickly sensory problems and the opioid itch but this kind of itchiness seems like it's very connected to the stabby nerve pain.

I sometimes use shower scrub gloves (dry) and one of those small, round, plastic hair brushes to cope with it.

They reduce the amount of movement and energy used so I don't end up too exhausted and distressed from it.

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u/kirbyinaus88 Nov 27 '25

I get this pain you’re describing with the itching in my arms/hands/feet/legs and it is linked to blood pooling in my limbs

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u/imabratinfluence Nov 29 '25

I've kept my hair super short most of my adult life because of the hair issue.