Crawling Sensation On Skin Explained 

I come back to this video every now and then to just remind myself that I'm not dying and I'm not (completely, at least) insane. Thank you!

Whenever i have a sad episode , all of the crawling and seeing bugs sensation came forward so strong that i end up crying thinking i was going crazy

I’m literally going thru this right now and it’s been driving me insane. I feel like I’m literally losing my mind sometimes. Never had this happen before until the past year.

I get this too! You're symptoms are so similar to mine. I'm so grateful for finding this channel. It's reassuring finding other people going through a similar journey of life with health anxiety and a wonky nervous system.

Your videos are really helpful and you have played a big role in my journey to good mental health. Keep it up, you're helping more people than you know.

So thankful for this video! It’s been a breath of fresh air knowing that you are not alone with these issues!!!!

I’ve had this for a long time I would feel like there were ants crawling on me and I would get scared that there were bugs on me but there were none when I checked.

Thanks you SO much for this video! I’ve had pinprick sensations all over for several days following a stressful month, and I’ve been terrified that it‘s neurological, hallucinatory, etc. Such a relief to hear that your symptoms were similar!

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I develop this crawling and itching sensation all over my face and scalp recently, I thought I had lice in my head and they were falling on my face, but nothing of the sort. After all these comments I now realized I'm not alone. I will now slow down and take care of my mental health. Thanks a million.

Omg I had this so bad! Also little vibrating tingly feelings!! The water dripping sensation is the scariest!

Thanks for posting this video of your experiences. I've had this on and off for about a year, mostly get this feeling of crawling or movement on my scalp and the side of my head and face. Horrible but always helpful to hear another person's experience and knowing that I'm not crazy. Thanks so much, hopefully you're doing well now 👍😀

Thank God for this video. It just calmed me down in the middle of the night.

I’m going through this now. I’m so tired from fighting bugs that aren’t there all night.

Wow thank GOD I found your channel, yes I have been going through getting red of bed bugs, now I actually feel like things crawling on me , but nothing is there, have not been sleeping that good, I'll be praying for you and all of us who are going through this, really stressful

THANK YOU so much for this video, so glad I have found it. I have expirienced it for months now, some days are better than others but still.. and I also had the same worries you had..neurological simptoms scare the crap out of me.. thanks for sharing!!

Watched your videos and twitching.. and then this started and found you again. Somewhat comfort that this is anxiety but man.. idk how it got so bad..

We have to stop stressing and worrying and trusting God that all things are working out for our favor because the mind is powerful. The mind will tell the body what to do especially in the world that we live in now it's a constant worry about everything and we have to stop. Stress anxiety all of that plays a part on the body

I’ve had this lately , I get it on my neck and face and back , mine feels like an actual spider crawling on me and it’s been so annoying

Had this the other day Cherelle, then since last night I've been wobbly and dizzy like the ground is a bouncy castle. I must be in stress overload.

Thank you so much! I thought I was going crazy

Wow! I don’t feel so alone! This is how I’ve been feeling even more so since I had covid in June!😱 the feeling of a feather tickling me or hair tickling me all over. And my scalp is itchy sooooo much! Thank you. I’ll focus on nervous system health💜

Great Video I Thought I was the Only One that Feels like This.. Thank All that Commented & Shared.. I Appreciate it... God Bless 🙌

Thank you so much, I had the same on my scalp today, so creepy, a week ago my cat was very Ill, thank god she is fine now, like you with your children I worry about her, now I am having your symptoms on my scalp, we may be having new neighbours which is very stressful in its self. So I am trying to wind down, like you said in the video. Thank you so much, I will follow your videos.

Lord have mercy. I am literally experiencing this as I listen to you. You are explaining it very well. Thank you.

Hi, Thank you for sharing your experience about crawling on the skin. I truly thought I was loosing my mind. I have been under severe stress lately. I will pay more attention to “self care”. Thanks again.😃

I have had this feeling for 6 months now. So sad! It’s really discomforting and depressing. Your shared experience was a relief. Thank you!

When I first started feeling this, it was so hard to explain. It feels like a buzzing sensation under my skin, like a busyness under the skin. It’s so annoying at times.

I'm not alone.. the water 💧 feeling down your temple .. I've had after a stressful period in my life.. and the crawling feeling up my neck..right on the cord in the neck.. never connected it to stress bei g happy at times when these attacks come. Kinda out of the blue. Breathing exercises help. Thanks for making me feel like I'm not the only one 🙂

I was dying inside me,I didn’t even want to explain to anyone how I was feeling. Thanks.

I started the filling in and around a scar from an operation that I had near my bellybutton, it’s very light. After watching this video, I will start to relax more. Thanks for the advice.

I appreciate your video and all the others who are commenting because I am not alone. I have peace in my life, no anxiety and for the past months I’ve been experiencing this crawling feeling as you explained. I don’t drink milk. I saw another comment of that could be it.I’m gonna ask my doctor. I m tired of this feeling.

So glad I found this video.

I got it since last week. Google scaring the heck . Thank you . I feel perhaps not dead,y issue possibly just anxiety induced like your story. Waiting a week to see if formication dissipates. God bless u

Thanks for this vidss, this is really helpful, i was worrying insane and i was just 12 years old

im glad its not just me, this has been happening for a while on both my skin and my scalp, everywhere on my body and i start scratching myself a bit too hard, its happening as i type. i dont know what to say i just wanted to comment here and saay im very thankful for this video

🙋🏽‍♂️ every night I got into bed. I felt bugs crawling out of my pillow and all over my body. My new Dr. Says I was on way to much mental health meds. After he started tapering some of the meds “Prozac” and “ Topamax” were a big culprit. I sporadically still feel little ones. Dr. Doesn’t think the prozac is out of my system yet. Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s good to know I’m not alone. Best wishes!

Thank you so much Mam i been strugle from last 6 month and fell the same thing specially in my head the doctor didn’t get me properly i want to make them understand through your video thank youuu

Thank you so much this is a great help.

Thank you for this video because I saw more videos before this but this still helps because my body has been so stressed because of being in the menopause stage and not knowing exactly what has been going on because doctors keep saying oh we don't know we don't know and I finally said to them I know I'm not the only woman in the world experiencing what I have been experiencing please stop playing games with my life! I literally diagnose myself just like you did and they try to tell us to stay away from the internet because we'll see horrible things but I tell them no I think positive so I'm going to find positive things and I pray and I asked God to leave me to someone who can tell me what's happening to my body also changing my eating habits. Finding videos on how to reset my nervous system help tremendously

It’s some times on my back, chest and arms but mainly my head and my face . I been experiencing this since the end of November 2021 to and it’s still going on March 20th, 2022 . Crazy things is that it stopped for a few weeks then it came back and I want it to stop permanently. It is uncomfortable and irritating.

Thank you for sharing this.

Omgosh yes! Always on the arms.

I'm glad i found this video. Everything you mentioned in the video I have been experiencing. I don't know what it is. I believe you are right. I do know that alot of this comes on alot more when my immune system is run down and im not getting enough sleep. i suppose stress can bring it on also, but for me its when my immune system is run down as a result of not getting enough sleep and not drinking enough water.

I got this for the first yesterday! I stripped myself changed my clothes because there was a bug. Thank you so much this really helped!

Thank you for this video 👍

Hello hi I'm John I have the same symptoms Fearless something crawling on my skin it was on my right shoulder where is fearless something crawling on my skin I Google it your video came up then I started listening to you everything you said was happening to me thank God for you now know what's going on at first I was there worried I'm good now thanks to listening to you appreciate you I'm going to subscribe to your Channel I was a good information I needed much Love peace out

It is great, i have struggled with this feeling of tinny crawling on my arms and scalp. problem discovered is now solved. Thanks.

Younger me would think it’s ghosts messing with me 😂

I think the sensations are caused by nerve damage (anxiety triggered). I have done some research, I think fasting, low carb/keto/carnivore diet can fix it but it requires patience because nerves take long to heal. Also, the diet should be rich in magnesium, pottasium, omega 3, vitamin D, and B vitamins. I'm going to experiment for three months with keto/carnivore. Keep you posted if I find relief.

I've had this for years since I was a young teenager, and yes mental health & physical health are both sides of the same coin, and they're both linked together, if you get stressed & anxious all the time you feel bugs underneath your skin, that me usually and I've gotten used to it, still is quite annoying though; my GAD is definitely not helping. Depression paranoia and extreme anxiety can usually cause you to regurgitate your own belly acids and makes you very tired all the time no matter how much sleep you have. Then stress just ages you faster usually, the worst one is probably paranoia cause of it's delusions if had for too long & getting physically sick that might cause a type of short term high functioning PTSD, which includes high blood pressure which is the same for stress frustration and anxiety causing high blood pressure risks also. Loneliness creates a disturbing and very dangerous chemical/hormone inside your brain, scientists say it's just as bad as getting a slap in the face even though it's millions of times worse cause humans are one of the most social mammals in nature. I've had all this and this was my experience, I still do get the bug sensations underneath my skin.

Thank you so much for helping me as i came to know that because of stress and anxiety i got these symptoms. definitely i got the solution from your video.

Thank you! I went off my birth control because I am 50. I am having the same sensation. I need to up my sleep self care and water. Thank you, I am not alone.

I feel it on my chest I love your video

Wow. Thank you for posting this. I’ve been having forehead tingling for over a month and a half. Mostly left side but happens also right and it moves but mostly top of forehead and sometimes twitch above lip. I’ve got sinus x ray, eye exam, chiro, massage and still have this. So gives me hope others are talking about this

Thanks for making this video, it somehow relieved, coz I am so stressed now what is happening to me right now, literally I feel crawling with my arms and legs…

Thanks for making this video I thought what’s wrong with me. I thought I saw or felt something crawling on my shoulder I was brushing it of me but saw nothing I itch my head too and feel like something is crawling on my upper arms and shoulders a lot from the past few weeks now. I feel stressed out and I can’t sleep

I have been experiencing this is well and they said people who go through the menopause experiences. So every time I get a hot flash the itchy skin so I immediately have to go into a cold environment I open the refrigerator turn on the AC or drink some cold water. So in my research it states that if the body is stressed the body releases histamine. Also it states that the nervous system is affected because of stress levels and the stress somehow the liver is involved as well

I noticed that when I supplements for calming the crawling sensation stops. Finding this video made it all come to gether and make sense. I have been so stressed sinced 2019. I am taking the time to try various supplements and life changes to see if that stops. These symptoms occured years ago but now they are back. Thank you for confirming the root issue!

I experience it right know and it exactly How you subscribed it , so I just got to calm down thank you

hello , i just got this where it feels like static electricity and a crawling sensation on my face and neck... so weird but i feel better after listening to your video.

Wow I didn't realize that all symptoms are there in every one I have It on my legs sometimes I think is ant's crawling on my legs that is y I look it up now to realize that am not alone and I find you thanks for your explanation ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

OMG for me it’s the feeling in my back and and this tickling feeling on the tip of my nose when i’m extremely stressed out. Not to mention trichotillomania which is a completely different kind of anxiety disorder

I'm actually going through this and have been for about a month now. However I'm actually seeing the bugs and I've used everything known to man as well as been to the dermatologist. Its subsiding but my anxiety level is through the roof. At one time I I actually experienced biting all over my body. I used spray and could not sleep for days. I slept on plastic so I could see what it was. When I tell you that I saw so many little critters and took a photo of them. My dermatologist said part of it is psychological. I took a very strong parasite cleanse and I drank the whole bottle. A herbal cleanse that tasted horrible. I must say it worked. The after math and my nerves are really doing a job on me. I'm going to take your advice and get back to you. Peace be unto all of you and to the young lady that posted the video. Be well and remember you matter.

I thought my dog gave me fleas. But I've had this before...the feeling of random pin pricks all over my body...weird feelings like my skin is crawling. I've had the sensation of warm water running down my leg, and it wasn't because I didn't make it to the bathroom on time. I'm a fairly anxious person and have been spending too much time in my head lately. Even though my dog did have fleas...I don't think they are my problem. This is so frustrating to go through. I appreciate you posting this. Thanks it's definitely a comfort knowing that others experience these symptoms.

Thank you for this video !!! Thought i was going crazy but i know you are right - stress and lack of sleep . For me it was a water feeling . Praying stress lifted and gone in Jesus name. Some of this is spiritual . I feel you mama!!

Thanks for making this. I started experiencing a tingling/crawling sensation on my scalp that drives me crazy. I've been in fight or flight mode for a couple of months so it's understandable why my body would be reacting in such a way. Just hard to accept it as anxiety sometimes because it's so unusual and scary. I feel burnt out most of the time :(

I’m 10 and I get it , it feels like a bug crawling on me. I used to have a phobia of mosquitoes and I was so stressed and scared . I think that’s how I got it . It’s a horrible feeling I’ve had it for a month now.

I'm so relieved. Finally I understand what's going on. For a whole week I was Bearley able to get into bed because it would just start immediately. I was sure there were real bugs but I finally understand there is nothing! Once I was able to describe the feeling with words and Google it I found out about this being a common thing, and now? I think I'll finally be able to sleep because now that I understand that there is nothing in here, even though I still feel this annoying thing, something in my mind is more relaxed. Go to sleep guys! Embrace the weird feeling until one day it will go away.

Thank you for this. I've been experiencing this for a week. Along with the crawling sensation, I have been experiencing tinnitus and ear fullness.

Same, I feel like someone is brushing up against my arm Hair or leg hair. I worry it’s something serious. On my face it feels like I have somebody’s hairs falling on my face

I literally took a shower before sleep every time thx for the relief

I needed this..

WOW i used to think that it was just me that experienced this but i am glad that i have come across this video. I normally feel this on my head for the most part but sometimes i may feel it on my shoulders. Tbh i'm not sure what is the best way to treat it, what has worked for you?

needed this. might get on some anxiety meds now. i’ve had the tingling, twitching, shocks, prickling, pins & needles, crawling & lots of anxiety/panic attacks. been through neuro nerve test, MRI, medicines, and they’ve all said nothings wrong and i’m fine. thanks for the video!

Being a single parent of young male soon to be 16, and having been diagnose on the Autism Spectrum since he was 3 going on 4. His day to day, and even more so the lingering thought of life for him after my departure from this world ( God forbid any time soon). Anxiety, and worrying rears into my day to day, and even a dream or day dream at a time. This was so help. I am going to work on positive images, thoughts, and activities to take better care of me. Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you and your family.

I'm going thru it right now. I thought I was dieing. It feels like a little move is crawling all over my body all at once.

This is happing to me and I'm totally sane at first thought it was dry skin so I went and bought itch relief cream then I changed my laundry detergent then I realized it's my anxiety

Great video!! So is it a fair assumption that you handled this when it first happened by doing things like journaling, self affirmation, mediation and breathing techniques. Very typical TMJ approach and mind and body , neuro plasticity work?

Experiencing this now, all over itching & most recently the crawling sensations. Realizing I have plenty research to do on this subject. Lots is self love, self care & attention needed. Thank you 🙏🏾 🤍

I have the feeling of bugs crawling on my legs and scalp all the time and iv always wondered what it was

I get pins and needles in my head and arms but only when I sleep I wake up to them. I’ve had muscle twitching for 4 years and just alll other types of symptoms. I hate it

Glad I found this. I have serious case of Parethesia. It started about 4 weeks ago. It started with severe itching, the day after that it became more severe like formication,skin crawling sensation of crawling under the skin all over. It was constant for many nights keeping me up for about a week I literally could not sleep. It became exshausting. Days after that I got numbness in my toes and couldun't feel them atall it scared me bad. I actually thought at one point i had an lice infestation. Then, I realized the second week it wasnt because my partner had to make me see there was nothing wrong with my place very clean ect. Ive become even more deppressed suicidal and i suffer from mental health, literally I just laid in my bed for days itching numbeness in pain wanting this thing to pass that never did in that week. My whole body felt like it was being attacked the tingling was full on and the constant skin crawling. I kept getting up constantly sitting in the shower but even after that it would start again aggressively. Further into the next week I began to see there was a slight change where it began to taper off into just tingling which was exstremly horrible in its self. But it was sought of bearable Then, the next few days I went out and came home the nerves started firing off on my head it wasn't a pain feeling it was a itchy, tingling aggressive feeling skin crawling the lot. Eventually i couldun't take much more so I went to the doctors and I got prescribed now before was prescribed this. I was seen by 3 doctors within these stages and they just didn't take me seriously enough to help me out they prescribed me antihistamines which made my symtoms worst exspecially the itching. Ive been on this medication for nearly 3 weeks now and its helped but not helped because i needed it to be upped to 200mg instead of 100mg,its to be taken 3 times a day for its full effect. But in the night the (parethesia) tends to still get me the worst. I dont know what to do I keep washing my hair and face and body but no diffrence Its my nerves I know it. Ive done every research possible about neuropathy diseases and I'm still clueless though as to what it is. Lastly, I'm on week 4 now made another appointment with the doctor because my symtoms took another turn foe the worst where I v'e had severe head stabbing ice pik pain at rhe front of my head and it reoccurs same place that just starts in the night I couldun't sleep. But the pain knocked me out. Im literally so scared right now because I dont know what else I can do. Good news is I have been referred to a neurologist and scheduled to have a head MRI in few weeks only because I pushed for it. The only thing left now is the suspense which is killing me 😢 I feel alone and isolated I can't have a social life and my partner dosen't understand it. hes a bit distant aswell because of it we dont have fun the way we used to. So I just stay in doors now and only go out when I have to. Im a prisoner in my place, when i shouldun't have to be. I don't think i can carry on with my life living like this its like, now my body dosen't belong to me any more. Its so unfair. I know its a symtom of an undelying condition that needs to be treated.

Omgggg I get this and I never knew!

It feels like something touching you till the point you have to take a look, but when you do? Nothing. Feels like a hallucination almost...? It gets way worse with heavy caffeine intake for me.

Thanks for your video it really helps a lot for me I thought it was a ghost that touching me . each time I feel like that I said to my husband someone is touching me he thought I was going out of my mind . Trust me the feeling of something walking on your body its not something that I enjoy it make me scared .

Omg yes!! I’ve been going through this for a year now! I was going to go to a dermatologist but I don’t see any evidence of bugs. Sometimes I do spot tiny grainy particles. It’s as small as a grain of sand. 🤪It’s driving me nuts!!

I've been experiencing this for the past few days. It's almost taken my mind off my muscle twitches which seems less now. When I tilt my head up or to the side I feel like water is being poured down the back of my head, under my scalp. I also feel little bugs crawling on my head as well. I'm super scared and I'm trying to schedule a CT scan or something. When I lay on the back of my head I just feel a funny sensation. It's not pain it's just a strange sensation.

this has been happening to me for years, but it does not come and go...i constantly have this happening to me daily...i've never thought of it as a problem though

I have this for years, and everyone thinks I'm crazy. I scratch so much that my skin is torn up. I can't just sit still, I always need to be scratching or rubbing my skin.

Hi there, thanks for posting this video. The crawling and sometimes biting or pricking sensation is something I have experienced off and on for the last 10 years. I have seen basically every kind of medical professional I can think of (including extensive blood work, MRI) as well as a naturopathic doctor. No one has been able to identify what is going on. Definitely thought the neurologist would find some kind of neuropathy but found nothing wrong with the nerve conductance testing. Finally starting to come around to the idea that it is caused by anxiety, even though I can't remember feeling unusually stressed when it came on. I still do wonder if it could be small fiber neuropathy but not sure if it is worth paying to get a biopsy done. Thanks!

Thanks I felt electric sensation going through me and then disappeared. I thought MS too. Thanks for sharing my husband has Parkinson’s and I’m the caregiver so stress it is.

So beautiful and smart.

My cousin and I have had this since children. It is worst for us during the warmer months. We honestly together look crazy. The constant wiping, rubbing and smacking our skin because it really feels like bugs it is all over and we are the only ones in the family it happens to.

I got this crawling feeling on my arm yesterday, I thought it was something that's on my arm but there was nothing

thats what i'v been going thru...even right now,for me to research whats going on,or if there are people who has it too,i was so stressed up......for me the sensation is happening at the back of my right ear and also my scalp....but now i know🙂🙂is just my body going thru some stress or anxiety, i have to give my body,time to relax,coz i'v had some issues going on from the past weeks

I get it on my face, neck, shoulder, and back, sometimes rarely arms, and lower body near my waist and hips on my side. I get so annoyed by that and usually get it at night even when not in bed

My left ankle feels weird, it’s as if there’s crawling on my ankle, I also have rabies hypochondria and those two are _not a good mix_ I have no history of exposure, and the only website I found so far that covers both rabies and formication says that nobody with formication had rabies

Oh my god I have had this for a few months like 6 or something and I am only 12 years old and I thought I had dust mites and it is unbelievebal that it was all due to phycology I think it is because I was always worried about school and how I looked and that gave me so much stress and maybe due to my relationships with people but I am thankful I was able to experience this tho because it made me stronger and more experienced

I’m having this now it’s irritating thank u for sharing

Hi yes me too.. I have same symptoms.. I get that everyday almost