# my back itches and it's driving me insane **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483 "2013-09-10T06:18:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@grama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grama)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483/1 "2013-09-10T06:18:36Z")
I’m laying in bed at the hospital, broken pelvis, the pain I can manage, but the itch is true torture. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483/2 "2013-09-10T07:16:14Z")
Ummm… Ask a nurse for a thick strip of gauze placed so it runs under your back, with ends which you can pull it back and worth? That was what nice people setting casts provide - talk about a killer itch - at a place encased in a cast! Or have someone smuggle in a proper backscratcher (well, several, in case the staff doesn’t wnt you moving around ---
**Author:** ![DataX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483/3 "2013-09-10T08:05:46Z")
Also FWIW - if you are on opiates - it increases itching - if it is due to that - Benadryl can help - well known side effect and solution for it. ---
**Author:** ![grama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@grama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grama)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483/4 "2013-09-10T10:11:18Z")
Good tip thx ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483/5 "2013-09-10T10:22:42Z")
Hope you got that itch sorted, and get well soon! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483/6 "2013-09-10T13:22:27Z")
Here, lemme get that for ya’… :: scritch scritch :: ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483/7 "2013-09-10T15:45:02Z")
Broken pelvis? what a misery. I second the suggestion that if you’re on morphine or a derivative, let them know and perhaps they can change your pain management. I was on morphine after my spinal surgery and I thought the itching would drive me mad. ---
**Author:** ![grama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@grama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grama)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-itches-and-its-driving-me-insane/668483/8 "2013-09-11T03:08:04Z")
Im on tramadol, the itching is under control now. It may be tmi but, I never realized how hard it is to poop laying down, getting the pan under me is difficult and painful enough, but the pooping itself has proved to be a challenge lol Thanks for your wishes Sandra, but I still have a long way to go, I got run over by a car after all 🙂 No permanent damage though, thank god.