Itchy skin and funny smelling skin oil

Left-sided colitis, in remission for a few years now with 8gm of Sulfasalazine DR daily. Sometimes, I need to take Ibuprofen to control my migraine and that causes hiccups, never blood, just the abdominal cramps.

For the last 2 days, my skin itches as if all the places touched poison ivy, right from the back of my neck, arms, armpits, abdomen, groin to legs. All spots random and they itch randomly as well. Like in the morning, armpits will itch and then in a few hours, back of the neck and then legs. I also noticed that my sebaceous gland secretions (skin oil) smell rancid (pretty off). I do not have abdominal cramps or blood in the stool at the moment, so I am unable to figure out what the heck is going on.

Contacting the GI won't help as she would just send me to a dermatologist, and I will just get a steroid cream prescription (been there done that, without the skin oil smell though). This time, I would like to dig deeper to find out if there is any connection to colitis or something totally different.

Anybody else been through similar symptoms?

Thanks in advance.

What other drugs are you on? Does it get worse after you’re in the sun? I had a sun-reaction to medication and that was the most miserable I’ve ever been in my life. The itch was horrendous and not even the steroid cream helped. It has a distinctive red skin rash along with the itching. They thought at first it was my mesalamine but I later figured out it was an antidepressant I was taking. When I stopped that I never had a problem with it again. I can’t remember what they call it now but some medications can cause this condition when you are exposed to sunlight.

Skin complications (Rashes, itchy and dry skin) are in the top two of all extra-intestinal manifestations of an IBD. We already know our immune system is crazy with it's relentless attack on our digestive system, maybe it's bored and wants a new target?

I've had contact-dermatitis a few times. To mitigate it I do the following which my dermatologist suggested. Certainly, do shower at lower temps, use eczema and psorasis safe soaps, shampoos, towel off, and immediately apply non-scented moisturizer to problematic areas. Apply a steroid based anti-itch cream before bed. Use only laundry detergents safe for psorasis.

@iPoop,
My exact thoughts. UC has been in remission for a while so the system wants something new, psoriasis?
I have never used moisturizer as my skin is extremely oily but lately it has been dry so started using it. I have been using Clobetasol cream that was prescribed to me in the past. It helps but the location of the itch changes like every hour or so.

One more observation, in the morning, the skin itches like crazy but after BM, it settles down so clearly something in the gut, but can't figure out what.

@quincy,
I take a few supplements other than regular multivitamin, antioxidants like NAC, ALA, Vit C and flavonoids but nothing was added new. I have been taking this for eons. What I have not been taking is Metamucil+charcoal mixture. I have run out of Metamucil and hesitant to go to Walmart to get it.

@Uniform Charlie,
I have been taking 200mg of Diflucan for 2 weeks now for systemic fungus. I have very distinct systemic fungal symptoms (debilitating brain fog and thick white layer on tongue every morning). Tomorrow is the last day of 2 week course. I don't have those symptoms anymore.
Have you considered using systemic antifungal for your tinea versicolor? I have a strong suspicion of fungal role in IBD, I am just not able to pinpoint it very well with the literature that I have come across so far. So I rotate anti-fungal herbs sometimes when I start getting a hint of my systemic fungal symptoms, but this time it came quite fast, pretty sure the stress of whats going on around us and adjusting to the new lifestyle exacerbated it.

Delta I have taken Diflucan on two occasions but the infection just returns once finished. My GP doesn't approve of me taking it... not sure exactly why. Second time it caused upset stomach so I will not try again.