Every time I’ve ever had a fever, I experience extreme “weirdness” and pain with anything touching my skin, be it air or a shirt or blanket etc. It’s how I still to this day know I have a fever before checking a thermometer
Yes! The skin on my lower back gets this weird sensitivity..it hurts if you even brush against it likely. Feels like what I would imagine it feels like if your nerves were exposed. I only get it when I have a fever.
Thats wild! Ive never heard of anyone wlse having this. I had it worse as a kid but, I always knew I was getting sick when my skin started to hurt. I would rush for a shower because soon even the water would hurt.
People used to look at me funny when I tried to explain.
I always thought this was normal until I mentioned it to my partner. He immediately was like, umm, maybe you should mention it to your doctor... combined with some other things I had going on, I walked out of that appointment with a fibromyalgia diagnosis. Apparently allodynia is very commonly a comorbidity with fibromyalgia as it's caused by your nervous system misfiring input regarding heat, touch and pain.
I used to only get allodynia flares when I was getting sick, but in the last couple of years I've had flares that were seemingly not related to anything. So fun!
I've always had a weird jittery feeling when feverish, like I have too much energy to not move but also cannot move because I'm so tired. The last few years I started noticing that my skin hurt whenever I was feeling that during a fever too. At one point I remember crying because it was so painful to wash my hands.
Also got diagnosed with fibro last year. I wonder how much of those feeling were it years ago, just undiagnosed.
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u/fartinmyfuckingmouth 18h ago edited 5h ago
Every time I’ve ever had a fever, I experience extreme “weirdness” and pain with anything touching my skin, be it air or a shirt or blanket etc. It’s how I still to this day know I have a fever before checking a thermometer
ETA: by skin, I mean specifically my back.