
Nothing worked -- I tried all of the popular treatments described on this forum -- lukewarm baths, cold baths, oatmeal/Aveeno, Gold bond cream (red top green bottle), steroid
cream (
triamcinolone),
Eucerin, no soap, no detergent, benadryl, Atarax, fine weave cotton, etc etc etc. Sarna cream (the type with Pramoxine) would help for about an hour, just from the local anesthetic effect, but that would not buy me a full night of sleep.