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Originally Posted by Hitch
(sigh)
I had a SHOWER. An entire, all done, everyplace SHOWER. I washed my hair like a normal person. Wowzers. (Between us, we found a blub-blub-blub-heavy-drippishness intensity of the shower needle, and that was okay.
I had some residual ouchiness when I got out of the shower, but NOTHING like it would have been a week or w or 4 ago. My shower-needles are already a bit ouchy, typically...I could not fathom allowing them within feet of the dreaded Crud. This was Heavenly.)
My scalp feels...lovely today.
/end no-rant. I'll try to think of something ranty soon. You know me, I'm easily irritated, I'll find something!
Hitch
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Hot water? The theory I've heard, albeit for bug bites, is that the heat temporarily overloads the nerve so that the other itchiness (or, in your case, ouchiness) can't get to your brain.
I've also heard a second theory about the heat denaturing/breaking down histamine, but I'm not sure of the veracity of that. Also I don't think histamine is involved in shingles.