Hi I've been dealing with this for a year now it's been a living nightmare and I'm at the end of my rope. A year ago it started with a all over my body crawling sensation that started out of nowhere and got progressively worse pretty quick. About a week after the crawling itching sensation started I began to develop a rash on my arms. The rash ended up spreading all over my entire body including my scalp. It ended up developing into these hard red lumps that would just pop up all over the place overnight or if I got hot and sweaty they would just start forming and my skin would become red. I thought I had something like scabies at first but the crawling sensation was so intense and all over my body I couldn't see it possibly going from nothing to all over me basically in just a couple days. Then I thought it might be demodex mites because they can spread over your entire body but my face doesn't really have any lesions on it but my eyebrows feel like they are crawling and my scalp as well. I have build up on my scalp and all the pores on my body have become large and reddish and some are actually like blackhead looking but it's not a blackhead it's like a black smudge or black moldy looking thing under a microscope. I tried everything under the sun to treat parasites like scabies and demodex first and there was really no improvement but the crawling sensation was worse when medicine was applied. But I'm wondering if that was just a reaction to the medicine with whatever is going on with my skin and not actually mite die off symptoms. All the lesions are extremely slow healing and the skin stays hyperpigmented after it heals and sometimes breaks open again down the road. All the spots that are healed become beat red and inflamed when I get hot and sweaty and I break out all over the place with heat and sweating. I have begun to notice the skin around my neck is darker than usual as well and I have all these little tiny tiny bumps all over me some are the same color as my skin almost like chicken skin type texture bumps that I've never had before. So I'm thinking it might be fungal but I'm not sure I tried putting antifungal cream on it but it just got really red and inflamed but I read that might happen with a fungal medication when treating a fungal infection but I got nervous and stopped. Is that something I should try keeping up with and seeing what happens? I've been to several doctors and it was pretty much useless I got take Benadryl and see what happens like as if that wasn't something I obviously tried to start with or oh you must be picking when it's places I can't even reach or are you showering often enough umm yea sometimes twice a day or are you using drugs but not one listened to me other than to look at me like I'm a crazy person who must be on drugs it was humiliating. I left feeling worse than when I went and got no help. I asked for a simple skin sample to be taken or a swab to be tested and they basically just scoffed at the suggestion. I really don't understand why doctors act the way they do towards people who have skin issues. I didn't just wake up after 39 years and decided today is a good day to do drugs or become crazy and ripp myself apart and have a weird crawling sensation on me that would make no sense whatsoever. You would think they would see the state I'm in and want to do something to figure it out definitively by doing a simple culture or sample but nope. So now I'm left doing what I'm sure many of you have had to do back to the Internet to research and try to get down to the bottom of this. I just started doing a candida detox thinking maybe it's fungal/yeast related and it's internal but I'm just grasping at straws at this point. Any feedback would be appreciated sorry this is so long but it's my first post and I wanted to cover all the bases that might arise as questions to later be answered thank you for any info