burning sensation on skin when sweating Posted: 01-09-08 19:34pm
Being eighteen years old and 180 pounds,
I've always thought of myself as pretty
fit, I keep a good diet and do a lot of
walking. I can definitely outpace and
outlast most people I know, no problem.
Despite this, in recent years I've found
that whenever my body gets to the point
where I should be sweating, I instead
almost inevitably start getting the
feeling like there are thousands of little
mosquitos biting at my torso and scalp.
It's really quite annoying, trying to walk
along resisting the urge to strip my
clothes off and rake my skin against the
cement--it really does get like that.
Whenever this happens, I'll get home and
do just that, except replacing the cement
with the coldest wash cloth I can get. It
eventually does die down, and there's no
physical proof of it ever happening, no
redness or rash or anything. For a while I
thought it was a reaction to warm
temperatures until it struck twice, once
today and once the day before, near the
end of a walk in the cold. That's the
worst, when half my body feels like it's
on fire and the other half is freezing.
I post this here in the skin disorders
section because the only thing I can think
of to explain it is that I haven't been
washing my skin hard enough, even though
I'm sure I have. Do these sound like
symptoms for that sort of thing? Are my
pores somehow blocked?
