Formication

formication
fm ken noun an itching feeling where the skin feels as if it were covered with insects
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Formication
The tactile hallucination or illusion that insects are crawling on the body or under the skin.

Formication: The sensory illusion or hallucination that ants or other insects are creeping on or under the skin. Formication is a feature of some psychotic states as well as drug and alcohol abuse.

A tingling, formication, itching, and other forms of paresthesia in the outer side of the lower part of the thigh in the area of distribution of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve; there may be pain, but the skin is usually hypesthetic to the touch.

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History: Individuals may report loss of bladder and/or bowel control; abnormal touch sensations (paresthesias) in which the individual feels as though tiny insects are crawling over the skin (formication) or as though the skin is burning or ...

Rapahania. A singular disorder of the convulsive kind, attended with a peculiar tingling and formication in the arms and legs. It is said to be endemic in Germany, and to arise from the use of spoiled corn. [Dunglison1868]
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Often this is associated with tactile (feeling) hallucinations in which alcoholics think they feel insects crawling on their skin. This phenomenon is called formication.

ideas, also with the possibility of experiencing terrifying psychotic episodes that resemble schizophrenia, with visual or auditory hallucinations, delusions such as the sensation of insects creeping on the skin, known as "formication.

The majority of these seem to partially recover after protracted abstinence.
Sniffing may lead to perforation of the septum between the two sides of the nose. Sometimes cocaine use leads to formication (cocaine bugs), ...

See also: Symptom, Insomnia, Hallucinations, Fusion, Recovery