Whenever I start running again after a period of time off (1 -2 weeks depending), the first few runs back, my legs get extremely itchy... Scratching them only makes it worse, but generally after a few runs it goes away.
Obviously, I know it has to do with circulation and your body working again, but I don't understand why more runners don't get this itchiness when they start up.
Any thoughts? Not that big a deal because it only lasts a few days, but those runs are very annoying.
I think most people get it, although I wouldn't expect to get it after only 1 week off. I read an explanation of why it happens long ago, but I can't remember the details. I'm sure you can find the cause thru google.com if you wish. In any case it is completely normal
If you shave them, that should ease some of the itchiness you feel from running.
That's definately an STD
This used to happened to me too. The best explanation I could come up with is that the tingling/itching feeling came from blood first trickling into capillaries in your leg muscle. (Many capillaries are closed until exercise demands increased blood flow). If you're starting out a run and you are reducing capillary shunting, this makes sense.
No way - that happens to me too! I thought I was special! Only it isn't just the legs - when I run after a layoff, my whole body is consumed by itching, right down to the inside of my belly button.
What is it??
Since itchiness is more of a skin sensation (unless it's some sort of weird referred sensation), the muscle capillary idea seems implausible to me. I'd imagine it's something more having to do with sweat amounts or differences in sweat composition or something.
Or if you wanted to stick with the capillary idea, maybe it's skin capillaries responding to increased heat dumping demand or something.
Personally, though, never experienced that that I can remember, so this is all just hypothetical to me.
see a doctor?
its vascularization (blood flow) into tissue no usually flooded by blood. nothing to worry about.
Does it burn when you pee?
could be dry skin.