I hate that I often can't see. It's like someone smeared Vaseline over them. 

Day 3 of OH MY GOD IT FEELS LIKE SOMEONE IS WHIPPING THE SKIN OFF MY BACK.

The nerve endings feel raw and damaged.  

And it's not fun.

No, it can't be shingles, I've never had chicken pox.

Before today Mom hadn't seen anything wrong with my back, but today she was putting cream on my back and said, "It just looks like mumps".  

Me:  O.O Mumps?!

Well, when I was a kid the doctor said I had the strain of mumps that would stay in my body forever and flare up any time  and mom said mumps can happen anywhere so yea *sarcasm* *insert unhappy face here*

After the creepy-crawlies feeling(feeling spiders or bugs where there is nothing), the actual ant bites (stepped into ants getting out of the car in town and had bites before I could get out of them) and wanting to claw my foot off (dang those bites hurt!), my back started burning last night. It felt like I was being whipped. But mom didn't see anything. Hello fibro nerves flare. I would rather have the creepy-crawlies nerve flare. =P

I woke up during the night doing the back stretches I do when my back hurts. Yeah, it's gonna be that kind of day.