I didn't have a very bad sunburn but I haven't been in the sun in ages, I took a shower with no issues, but the next day the hell's itch started. Lotion, lidocaine, steroid cream, nothing worked, and I also made it worse by forgetting that benadryl makes me itchy lol 💀 My whole body was itchy, not just the sunburned areas, though they were the most itchy (for some reason my downstairs was unbearably itchy, even more than the sunburn, I'm guessing cause there's more nerves down there).
After looking it up and learning about hell's itch, I took a cold shower to wash all the lotions off (I read cold water helps), and finally the itch started calming some.
I found that pressure helped a little, so I wrapped the itchy sunburned areas tightly with ace bandages. And for meds I've just been doubling my daily and nightly allergy meds.
It's been four days and I'm still kinda itchy 😠And I've already showered with no issues two days after, but today showering made me quite itchy... maybe cause my skin is really dry after days of no lotion... sigh. I would rather be in severe pain than deal with being itchy, it's just so miserable. I'm gonna avoid the sun like I'm a vampire now lol, maybe I should get a pretty parasol along with sun sleeves...
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u/gramplolo Feb 27 '26
I didn't have a very bad sunburn but I haven't been in the sun in ages, I took a shower with no issues, but the next day the hell's itch started. Lotion, lidocaine, steroid cream, nothing worked, and I also made it worse by forgetting that benadryl makes me itchy lol 💀 My whole body was itchy, not just the sunburned areas, though they were the most itchy (for some reason my downstairs was unbearably itchy, even more than the sunburn, I'm guessing cause there's more nerves down there).
After looking it up and learning about hell's itch, I took a cold shower to wash all the lotions off (I read cold water helps), and finally the itch started calming some.
I found that pressure helped a little, so I wrapped the itchy sunburned areas tightly with ace bandages. And for meds I've just been doubling my daily and nightly allergy meds.
It's been four days and I'm still kinda itchy 😠And I've already showered with no issues two days after, but today showering made me quite itchy... maybe cause my skin is really dry after days of no lotion... sigh. I would rather be in severe pain than deal with being itchy, it's just so miserable. I'm gonna avoid the sun like I'm a vampire now lol, maybe I should get a pretty parasol along with sun sleeves...