Itchy, ticklish nose - Need answer fast!

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Okay, so here’s the thing. For the last, ooh, I dunno, three weeks or so, I’ve been putting up with an absolute bastard of a problem. It’s my nose, you see. Specifically, it’s the right nostril and the bit of the lip (philtrum?) which is directly below it. The problem isn’t pain. Oh no, it’s far worse than that. Pain, I could handle. This is much worse: It tickles, and it itches like a bastard! When it’s tickling, which it is nearly all the time now, it feels like there is a little wriggly worm writhing and burrowing just underneath the surface of the skin. This worm is a restless little bugger, and the slightest stimulation is enough to set him off slinking and squirming away like there’s no tomorrow. Eating, for instance, holds no pleasure now, because the mere movement of my masticatory muscles sends the worm into delirious convulsions. I have to stop every 30 seconds to put him to sleep by vigorously rubbing my nose. A stiff breeze, however, will wake him up again. Talking, even, is a problem, as the vibrations of my larynx will rouse him from his slumber and set him off on his merry way.

So this is a problem. I’ve been to two doctors and all they’ve done is shine a light up there, tell me there’s nothing to see, and advise me to just try and ignore it until it goes away. I am becoming increasingly dissatisfied with this diagnosis, for two reasons. The first reason is that it feels to me that I may have somehow damaged the nerves which supply that side of my nose with sensation. The second, is that I learned today through a little casual googling that nasal pruritus (the fancy medical term for itching) is, potentially, a symptom of a brain tumour.

So now I’m officially worried. I intend to visit my doctor at the earliest opportunity to insist on more rigorous investigation, so please don’t worry that I am depending on the Dope for medical advice. I am assuredly not. What I do hope to get from this thread, however, is one or more of the following:

(a) Sympathy (always nice) from people who’ve suffered similar symptoms.
(b) Some ideas of things to ask my doctor.
© Likely diagnoses which I can raise in my upcoming appointment.

Many thanks and much love in advance,

Stelios.

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I’m probably wrong, but since you’re desperate:

Have you tried cutting your nostril hairs? Perhaps there’s a hair growing from one side, poking the other side. or curling around and poking the same side. A doctor may have been looking at the skin inside the nostril, and not thought to look at the hairs. or maybe the tube-thingy-that-goes-in-the-nostril that they look through pushed the hairs aside.

I have a blunt-tipped pair of grooming scissors, that probably came with some grooming kit or something I got as a gift once. They also make little motorized circular trimmers for cheap.