What is this sensation like for you? Can you describe how it feels?
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| General skin pain • It can be painful just like an open sore. • I can barely graze it, it bursts, then the skin is tight red and it is hurting. • The cracks are open scars and it’s very painful because dry. |
| Pain from scratching • I try to avoid scratching, but notice when I wake up in the morning, I have been scratching. It starts the irritation, the burning type feeling. • Maybe some aching because of the scratching. |
| Dull pain/ache/sore • All this was sore, under the fingernails. • I want to say a dreary, like a steady pain. • Sore lesions. |
| Irritation • One of the patches or several patches will be worse than the other. You get really bad and irritating. • For a while after getting out of the shower, it’s pretty irritated and itchy. • The irritation came right away, when I first broke out. |
| Stabbing/sharp pain • Sensation is more stabbing, I mean it’s equivalent to a friction burn. • It is sharp when you lean on something. You are like “oh that hurts so bad.” • You can make it a sharp pain, depending on what you are doing. |
| Other descriptions of pain • It is like a sunburn, a bad sunburn, you know it’s tender. • If you touch it [plaque], it is painful. • It is more like a throbbing with stinging. |
