I also had an uncle who would complain about bugs and other creepy crawlies on his skin.
Don’t rule out delerium tremens.
“I also had an uncle who would complain about bugs and other creepy crawlies on his skin.
Don’t rule out delerium tremens.”
Sometimes I think the internet does more harm than good.
In 2003 I woke up one morning blind in one eye. I was also suffering chronic fatigue, a sensation of water dripping down my legs, and a weird sensation of a “worm” moving in my head behind the affected eye.
(I didn’t really think there was actual worm -that’s just how I describe the sensation)
The first suspect on the list was MS, and that’s how they treated - infusion with steroids.
It took 2 weeks for the vision to come back, and I went through my 1st set of MRI’s.
During that time I was scouring the internet plugging my symptoms into search engines and coming up with all sorts of bizarre possibilities.
My MRI’s were clean. They ordered MRIs after another 6 months (6 months I spent online obsessing over it all)
2nd set of MRIs were clean. No MS - no nothing. The doctor told me to “put it out of your head - it was most likely a strange virus that caused your optic nerve to swell”
The eye doctor said neurological pain can have very strange sensations - he thought the “worm” in my head was due to the inflamed optic nerve.
It took awhile to put it out of head - but once I stopped trying to diagnose myself online I sure was alot happier.