Itchy Big Toe

The tip of my right big toe itches all day every day. What a weird thing to have in common with so many people.

 

I had the itchy toe syndrome for a few days and 1 week later I got a full blown gout flare up which felt the same as the itchy toe with pain in the joint. Look into gout, folks.

 

I have a constant itch on the bottom of my foot that I cant get rid of - anyone know what this could be and how to deal with it - it's been bothering me for a few years

 

i too have a left big toe itch its more localized at one side of the toe at the edge of the nail ive tried all OTC treatments on it, i have had ringworm before like 6 years ago when i ran a non profit rescue, which is why i am now curious about the "skin mites"
the "nerve" i can only think that i have injured both toes and feet etc several times the last few years. the scratching helps only when im scratching it never goes away!!! i have been putting antifungal cream but i have zero symptoms.

 

What OTC prods have you tried

 

I also have had my right big toe (the skin right where the nail meets the side of my toe) itching like crazy on and off for 3 years now. I have peeled off so many layers of skin from the side of my big toe by scratching it and rubbing it against the toe beside it. I have a huge callece built up on the side of my 2nd toe just from rubbing it against the areas of my big toe that is always itchy. I feel like it’ll never fully heal because there are so many different layers of half dead skull from the part my nail reaches the side of my toe going down half way to the bottom of my foot. Has anyone found any sort of solution or way to ease the need to itch.

I know it’s not a fungus asked a doctor and tried 5 different otc topicals that did not work at all.

Anyone look into the nerve idea??

 

***Half dead SKIN not skull***

 

Maybe post a pic

 

I have a similar problem and the one thing that works for me is to put ice on the itch. It actually calms it long enough for me to find my mind again.

 

my big toe was keeping me awake at night it was so itchy. Just put melaleuca essential oil and oregano essential oil on my toe and IT STOPPED ITCHING!!!

 

EXACTLY!!!!! If you suffer from the "itchy toe syndrome" you would go mad in a couple of days.

 

I have nothing of substance to add but I was comforted to find 17 pages of fellow sufferers when I once again desperately googled my itchy toe

For anyone else like that guy on the first page who stumbled on this thinking it's just a normal itch: it's not. I intentionally scrubbed the top layer of skin off my toe once in desperation to trade the itching for pain, and I'm someone terribly afraid of wound infection. It hope i won't be that desperate again but if I am I will once again skin my own toe rather than deal with it itching so badly. It's just a manageable itch right now but enough to keep me awake at night and bring me to tears when I'm in public and can't scratch - I have to fib and say it's allergies.

I had kinda hoped having raw meat healing over would magically cure me of the itch for good but it seemed to have been a temporary measure and the pain of having raw flesh there was immeasurably better than the godforsaken itching. Don't do what I did though - the infection risk isn't worth it.

 

2022 Same problem. Seems to be corner of nail bed at top. No rash or anything. After a week or so seems to be slightly going up side of foot. Going to try rubbing alcohol and then a bit later apple cider vinegar.

 

Itchy toes generally are caused by a fungus. I use a Q-tip and dab a bit of bleach on my itchy toes and it seems to help a lot.

 

Ok gang. I’m a medical researcher and I’ve had this for maybe 7 years or so. I’m over 70, drink only distilled water, am hypothyroid so I have a low body temp and have been taking up to 50 mg of Iodoral or lugols iodine to keep the temp normal, oh and I eat very little sugar. One more thing, I have some bad circulation esp in my right toes and a particularly difficult big toenail that won’t respond to treatment so I just keep it ground down to minimum with my Dremel tool—yes it’s that toe! Well that’s some of my background. I had trouble finding this site again until I used the search terms “itching” “big toe”. The “Phantom toe joint insane itch” is evidently quite rare, so docs don’t have a name for it yet. Unless you are using terms like “I wanted to shoot myself, amputate, or will go insane”, you don’t have this malady! Mine comes around about 3 times a year and I always hope I’m not on a trip or vacation. Mostly on the big toe joint area, but I was surprised that one time it hit on the second toe! I have a suspicion that what brings it on is a lot of bending of your toe joints or starting to take long walks toward the end of winter. My experience: You feel the itch coming on during the day, but for the first day, you can put it out of your mind until night and if it’s still getting worse by early evening, you had better address it or there will be a few sleepless nights coming! Thanks to the person who tried everything and for some reason tried bleach! That saved my life! You can throw out most of the topical solutions for one clear reason. This is caused by a tiny (1-2mm) cyst or “ pimple” that occurs either at the sub-dermal level or the joint of the toe itself and the itch is caused by this cyst moving slowly upward through the tissue toward the surface of the toe, and that’s why scraping on carpets is so ineffectual—the cyst is inside the toe! The only treatments that are thus going to work are those that penetrate down to the dermis. Penetrating treatments might be laser that was suggested, btw, a good idea since light of the right color might penetrate; or the bleach or icing or Ben Gay and Biofreeze (another possible good idea that I plan to try next time the Phantom comes around). I looked up capsaicin cream (.025%) and saw comments about it’s working but users complained about burns and all. Well I’ll just describe the gory details about using the bleach. I keep a bottle of 50-50 bleach for this and a small cloth ( a couple square inches) and a plastic container to set my foot in while I’m playing with the bleach. I turn on Youtube to something interesting, put a glove on my hand, wet the cloth and start rubbing where I think the cyst is. This is how you tell: Wet the cloth and start rubbing in one direction and the skin goes white where you rub, but after a little rubbing, a red central area starts showing up. That is where the cyst is below the skin and you can’t easily get to it yet so keep rubbing… and rubbing. Then I’ll just leave the cloth on it and take a break before going back to rubbing. Usually this takes about an hour in my case and the skin gets a little raw, but it’s the only way I’m going to be able to sleep. Keep wetting the cloth to keep the bleach penetrating (can’t be good for you but it’s better than going insane, you know what I mean!) Eventually the itch subsides a bit and you are there. Then what I do is use a 4% Lidocaine HCL cream (probably the maximum without prescription—get stronger if you can). I use that cream during the days and the second night, I just assume I’ll wake up from the Phantom again and do the bleach again. Usually after two nights I can get by with the cream until the cyst or pimple surfaces and pops… Then put a little iodine on it and a bandage and mark on the calendar so you have a running diary. Sometimes it just stays red and the pimple doesn’t even form at the surface and the toe just returns to normal. You all have helped me so I thought I’d pay back with what I’ve uncovered about this Phantom Devil. Hope all these details help you out.

 

Addendum to my Phantom cyst series of events: I guess I remembered it wrong from the last attack. It went two more nights, so about 4 or 5 days and nights total, where the treatment times were much reduced during the last two days. I thought it was almost over when I wrote up the events before. Also, it seemed that it was just going to go away after I saw the reddish area appear at the surface. It wasn’t really all the way to the surface when I wrote that it may not always have a pimple in the center, as the little pimple DID appear last night and broke open at the surface this morning. Once it was on the surface, I treated it with Lidocaine, which handled most of the pain, and then later with some calamine lotion and then tried some bentonite clay which I mixed with a little distilled water to make a muddy mix, which I applied and then let it dry like cement on the skin, to suck and dry up all the nasty remains of the dirty little Phantom cyst. I wonder if the last two days might have been shortened if I had tried the clay mix earlier to just dry the itchy thing up once it was close to the surface. I might try that next time. And thus, another episode comes to a close. Sleep will be welcomed tonight.

 

My toe on my left foot, on the outer side it itches like hell -.- I drag my toe around everywhere on the carpet/rug, trying to relieve the itch. My parents look at me like I'm trying to break my toe. It has been itching for a few months now, I don't know what it is and I'm getting worried. Looks like I'll have to go to a clinic :c