Stress Is a Crazy Thing

I have learned over the past week how crazy stress can make you. I broke out in hives on my legs last week, mainly behind my knees. It has progressively gotten work. I am itching like a crazy person and nothing is really helping.

I can tell you that the more stress I deal with the worse they get.  For example, the horrible, mean text that I got from the ex that was intended to go to his girlfriend about me? Yeah, within hours my entire legs were covered with them. Another good one.....worry about going to the Dr. since my insurance hasn't kicked in yet made my back break out in them.  Fun times I tell you!

It has been fun to listen to all the advice people have given me.....

• Take an oatmeal bath! Did that....made the hives 20 times worse!
• Take Benadryl twice a day! Currently doing that which is helping but makes me walk around like a zombie.
• Put wet towels in the freezer and then put on the itch! This works when I am home but for the 10+ hours I am out of the house during the day it doesn't work so well.
• Try this cream, try that cream! Dear lord I want to try them all but it really isn't in the budget to but a million different things.
• It's because you gave up coffee! Sadly I proved that theory wrong today when I drank fully loaded coffee to offset the Benadryl. Didn't help at all!
• It's because you stopped drinking wine! While I haven't been drinking at all this week, I did have wine on Saturday night and it did nothing for my itching.  

As you can see, I got a lot of people offering advice. While I LOVE hearing it....nothing seems to be working. The biggest thinking is that I need to stress less which just isn't going to change anytime soon.  I am trying hard to breathe more and look at the big picture to try and bring down the stress but I have a feeling it is going to take some time. By then I will have scratched my legs to shreds!


Stress is a crazy thing!