Stress rash?

I have these rashes on my body for about six weeks now, soon I can use month as the time unit...

Anyway, initially I thought they are heat rashes, but in the first visit to the clinic, the doctor said they are probably some allergic reaction.

The doctor doesn't know what caused the allergic reaction, and it's not a test they can do in the clinic, so the experiment began, with me as the white mouse. The doctor prescribed me some lotion, shampoo and medicine, and they seemed to work.

In the followed up consultation two weeks after, the doctor was satisfied with the progress and reduced the number of treatment stuff in the prescription, and set up another follow up consultation in two weeks time.

Unfortunately the rashes came back in force after the second consultation. So today I went for the third consultation and since we still don't know what caused the rashes, the experiment continues...

The doctor asked me some questions, trying to figure out what caused the outbreak of the rashes but since I have not changed my food, drink and diet, my exercise routine (or the lack of...), my working environment, my shampoo and soap, have no new pet or plant, et cetera, we continue to be puzzled.

Then the doctor asked about my stress level. Hmm... now that's an interesting hypothesis. I know I am not good at managing stress and my workload (and sometime my family) is definitely giving me stress, but then again, I have been under stress for a few years now. It's not a recent thing.

When I told wifey about this, she said maybe I am getting old, the body can no longer take the stress level, so it's giving me signal, hmm... so, the allergen is stress? I have stress rash?

Anyway, if you haven't guessed it, yup there is a follow up consultation two weeks from now. If things do not improve by then, I will insist on what I told the doctor today: to do an allergy test. Just give me a referral to a specialist already, two months of being the white mouse is quite enough.

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