Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at
10:10 pm
I’ve just, this morning, come across some posts on a website posted by people looking for an answer to their itchy arm problem. I remember doing the same thing a few years ago and remembered being amazed at how common it is! Lots of people are suffering with this itchy arm syndrome and are looking for an answer. I realised that I have to write about this because I found the answer.
I had a problem with itchy arms for over ten years. It started just on the top, front of my shoulders and was initially a problem only in the hot summer months. The itch would come on at night time when I went to bed and it would stop me from getting to sleep. It drove me nuts! There was nothing to see on the surface of the skin. No lumps, bumps, rash or anything. The skin looked completely normal, but it didn’t feel normal. It itched and the itch came from deep under the skin feeling like there were things under my skin pricking upwards – it was a bizarre feeling.
It continued to plaque me every night each summer and gradually over the years it started to affect more of my upper arms, then gradually my lower arms as well. It also started to be a problem in the cooler weather and eventually was a problem pretty much all year. By the beginning of 2008 it was affecting me all the time (not just summer) and over both arms from my shoulders down almost to my wrists on the front of my arms. It was really making me miserable. I was very conscious of trying not to break the skin and causing sores and I didn’t know what I was going to do – it had been a problem for over 10 years and it wasn’t going away and it was really getting worse.
Over the years I had searched for answers and in my searching came across postings online by many, many sufferers of the same problem. All found ice to be the only thing that helped to relieve the symptoms and they also found doctors to have no idea as to what was going on apart from theories about ‘itch scratch itch syndrome’! Many people are taking various medications, with some reports of help but the medications don’t get rid of the problem – they just help to relieve the itching – temporarily – if at all.
Over the years, off and on, I’ve personally taken many different brands of probiotics, produced by many different companies including Mediherb, Dr Veras which are practitioner only products here in Australia and only available through Naturopaths and other trained therapists. I’ve also taken various others commonly available in health shops and pharmacies. I took them as I’ve had trouble with IBS over the years and food allergies etc and they’re supposed to help.
In February 2008 the company that we have our business with and who’s products we’ve been using for over 7 years now, released a new probiotic product at our annual convention. We were told there was nothing else like it on the market and we were also told by it’s creator (an expert of over 25 years experience in gut flora and the creation of probiotic products) of many amazing stories of people resolving all sorts of health issues by it’s use when he was trialling it before it’s release.
With great anticipation (but absolutely
no thought of it helping my itching arms), I ordered some when we got home. It arrived 3 days later and I took my first dose. This is going to sound unbelievable to those who, like me have suffered this problem for years and years (I had trouble believing it!), but I swear to God it’s the truth –
the next day there was no itch! I couldn’t believe it when I realised part the way through the day, that the itch actually wasn’t there and I really thought it was just a coincidence and didn’t expect it to last – but it did. I took a 6 week course of this product, once daily as advised by it’s creator, and I continue to take it off and on and 18 months later I’ve never had my itchy arms back.
I am so incredibly grateful to the creator of this product and to our wonderful company for making it available to us. When I came across the post this morning, I realised that I had to share my story here for those who are looking to resolve this problem, as I know how miserable it made me for years.
The cause of my itchy arms was obviously my gut flora being out of balance and I would hedge a bet that it is for others also. The chap that created this wonderful product, showed us that studies done here at the CSIRO in Australia have shown some of the bacteria strains used in other probiotic products actually make gut flora worse by causing an increase in the ‘bad’ bacteria, so whilst I thought I was doing a good thing for my health by taking the other brands of probiotics, it was very possible that I was in fact making things worse in taking some of these other not so well designed products.
This is a real story and for anyone plagued by this problem and searching for an answer, if you’d like to know more PLEASE get in touch with me, I’m happy to share. Please rest assured that my motivation in writing this is not trying to sell you a product, (although that would be nice – it is my business after all) but being a distributor for our company I’m not allowed to advertise so can’t name the product on my site. Email me and I’m happy to help. It doesn’t matter what country you’re in, it’s available in most countries I think (or I’m pretty sure I could arrange for you to get some). It’s a really simple fix that I’m pretty certain will work for you as it did me.
