@bayhorse, I have had oral lichen planus for years and been prescribed all the usual medications - Nystatin, Oracort, Prednisolone rinse, you name it. Nothing worked. Then an oral pathologist prescribed Lyderm gel. The package said “for external use only” and I was quite concerned so I asked my pharmacist whether it was safe to use internally and she said it is used off label for certain conditions. Well, ten days’ use later, my mouth cleared!

I feel medications are “body specific” - what works in one body does not in another. Gabapentin is an example - people take it for pain relief and it works for some. I have fibromyalgia and am in pain 24/7/365 and the scale goes up and down. You’d think Gabapentin (albeit not prescribed for pain in my case) would ease my pain, since it is also for pain relief but it has done absolutely nothing for my pain relief! If anything, the first night I had pain where I hadn’t felt pain in several months! But that first dose certainly eased off the itching enough to let me get a few more hours of sleep! I am hoping I will have total relief from itching in a few days!

What I am trying to say is, Gabapentin is working for my itching (I too had head and torso itching) but it may or may not for you. However, it is worth a try! The medication is affordable so even if one prescription fill does not work you will not be out as much money as some other medications - and it’s another thing you have tried. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I am in Ontario, Canada, and my vial of 90 capsules cost just $2.70 - the pharmacy fee was three times that cost, which is what jacked up the total!