Tactile hallucinations anyone?

Recently I had a serious of regular tactile hallucinations. I'm currently around my baseline, usually all I get then is maybe some audio or visual hallucinations, but I never use to get tactile hallucinations before.

The worse was when it felt like hundreds of bugs were crawling on both of my arms. Usually it will be the feeling of some one touching me or tapping me on the arm, shoulder, or back.

Does any one else with bipolar get this? I always thought tactile hallucinations is trait for schizophrenia.

I have had this happen to me. I never understood these episodes as being hallucinations. Interesting.

Yes and no. X t felt it was fibromyalgia but X pdoc felt it was tactical hallucinations. I tend to side with pdoc.

I'm bipolar with psychotic features. I often feel as if someone is touching my shoulder. I once had the feeling of being a clock, and a corpse being embalmed.

Your team may have to amend your diagnosis.

I'm Schizoaffective Bipolar type and I've felt someone touching me, bugs, and feeling like I'm literally burning from the inside out.

There are times, particularly times when I'm restless and agitated in general, that it feels like I have fleas jumping all over me, and it especially feels like they go up my nose. But there are never any fleas. It's quite frustrating, even knowing that there aren't actually any fleas, doesn't make the itchy, uncomfortable feeling go away.

I once thought I had transmitters under my skin. I could feel them there. I took a pair of tweezers to my skin to dig them out. It was just a hallucination! I now have nasty scars all over my thigh because of it. I also have that feeling that someone is watching/following me all the time. When I started my meds it went away but when I started this new med it came back! I am hoping they go away soon again. I also feel the buggy crawling sensation sometimes.

Its more common than people actually think. I go through it alot visual and auditory also .. I think once I "got use" to it and are able to self ground myself when it happens I can usually shake it off .. Sometimes I just have to let it run its course .

Yep it sucks !

So seeing things out of the corner of your eye and hearing things nobody else hears...that's normal? Yikes...

I don't think I can ever get use to tactile hallucinations, at least not the bugs crawling up my arms. I hate bugs. The other stuff is not so bad. Thank you everyone for your input!

I also have never thought of it as tactile hallucinations. I sometimes experience a feeling like I have ground glass coursing through my veins when especially irritable.

I've never had tactile hallucinations. Only auditory ones.

Yes. Not often or by hundreds (TG). A few times very badly (I could NOT get a grip). For me it's not just my arms. Here, there and everywhere. It's like whack-a-mole. That sensation on my head particularly wigs me out.
YES! This is the worst part. Rationally telling yourself over and over that it's not real but it won't stop! For me it's because on some level I don't really believe it. That you say fleas reminds me to mention that for me it isn't just "bugs" in general. It's the tiny "invisible" sorts -- like fleas and lice (omg), though I had a bad session over spiders once. Which of course only feeds into my mind not believing logic. Mind thinks that I don't see them not because they're not there, but because I can't see them, being so small. And quick. Or sneaky.

It's probably worth noting that I'm phobic of them. So it confuses the issue. Yes, it is a tactile hallucination (simply by definition), but what is it from? Anxiety run amok? Is it the sensation followed by the panic or is it panic creating the sensation? The worst episode of it that I ever had I don't remember thinking any stressful thought beforehand.

You've got my sympathies. They suck. (I have olfactory hallucinations too and can say that, despite it always being the smell of rotten chicken, I'd hands down take those over tactile(!))