Luna TailAnxiety, Dogs, and Life

Okay not all the time… if you have a bacterial or virus infection, or a broken leg, or maybe cancer, they do a pretty good job.

If you have hives on your thighs and hips and stomach, and arms, but no where else… and bruising on your thighs, they have no idea. If it were bug bites, it should be equally distributed all over my body. But nope.. I never get them on my calves, chest or back. Or face. He gave me some cream.. to mask the symptoms, really, as he shrugged his shoulders and said he didn’t know. Looking up Leukemia… you have to have a high white cell count.. I think. And my blood work from December was all normal.

And my breathing is awful, still. Saturday at agility I could hardly get a breath, and I coughed almost constantly when I was exerting myself. The doc said maybe it’s exercise induced asthma. He tested my breathing and it was fine, of course. My nose is also stuffy much of the time and I have sinus pressure. They gave me allergy meds before, which didn’t help.

Makes me so mad. I’m either going to break down and see the Naturopath, or I’d really like to find a good Homeopath here in Utah. I’m going to have a look around and see what I can find. I hate taking pills or using creams that just mask the symptoms. And I don’t like the chemicals and junk in or on my body… not unless it’s absolutely necessary. Ugh.

Okay so for a long time now I’ve been waking up in the morning with what seem to be bug bites. The doctor didn’t know what they were, but also thought bug bites. Well I hate going back to the doctor over and over again and pushing for what I think I need… but I think I’m going to go back for my breathing. Yesterday when I was at the agility trial I was coughing so much, and couldn’t really get a deep breath. So I think I need to go in and find out what that is about, because I don’t think that is allergies. The Allegra and Nasacort are not helping me breath.

So anyway… I was looking at my life to see what maybe is causing these bites/hives, because I really don’t think they are bites. So I was going to put on my Body Butter that my sister gave me a while ago… and then though wait a second. I get the hives on my legs and arms, where I put the body butter. I don’t get the hives anywhere else, so maybe that’s it?

I haven’t used the body butter for a couple of days and know what? No new bites. Hrm… I have to apologize to my sister, because I probably can’t use the rest! I will give them back to her or maybe to my friends at work. Though she will understand, because she can’t use certain types of suntan lotion because she is very allergic.

So I’ll wait a few days and see if I get more or not. If I don’t, then it’s the body butter! Ugh! It only took me what.. over a year to figure this out? She gave them to me not last Christmas, but the one before! Sometimes I’m slow.