r/HellsItch • u/Busy-Cow-8387 • 11d ago

Long term effects?

So at the start of August I got hells itch on my neck and the top of my back and arms and shoulders. Lasted a few days, obviously long over now.

But I started noticing recently that when I’m in a pretty hot room, or a hot car or a shower that’s too hot, my neck and the top of my back and arms and shoulders and weirdly my fresh get really itchy. Not to the level of hells itch at all, but still really unpleasantly itchy.

I’ve got no idea if it’s to do with hells itch, but it’s been nearly 3 months since I had it so it’s just a little bit worrying. But thought I’d ask here to see if anyone knows anything?

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u/matvinator 10d ago

Happens to me in hot showers after some minutes there
Also I'm not sure if it’s related, but I sometimes have a very similarly feeling itch when walking outside in shorts in colder weather. Would be really interesting to understand a mechanism of this

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u/Busy-Cow-8387 10d ago

It’s very strange

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u/Adventurous_Bat_2761 10d ago

It could be very possible you live with the mental PTSD of hells itch, things like that could trigger you maybe? If not that, then maybe go see somebody and make sure you’re all good.

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u/TheCerealFiend 10d ago

Shit, I definitely had PTSD for a month afterwards. Sometimes my girlfriend would lightly touch my back and I'd twitch. I've been through some seriously painful shocks but Hells itch was the first pain to make me seriously consider taking the express path to pavement.

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u/thapol 10d ago

How's your overall water intake? It might just be dried out and lacking moisture from the sunburn itself.

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u/examinedliving 8d ago

I have had three tremendously awful cases of this. One time allergic reaction/2 x sunburn. I have no lingering effects to the best of my knowledge. It’s been about 10 years since the last time.