Life’s an Itch!
Seriously!
About two weeks ago I found something on me that looked like ringworm (not a real worm, but a fungus and equally yucky to think about.) So I scanned the internet and found that applying Monistat or some other fungal cream should take care of it. After a week of such application there seemed to develop a secondary rash. I went to my doctor and he gave me a stronger cream. I applied and reapplied and the rash seemed to move in random spots. I started putting the cream on these now hivelike bumps in hopes the itch would all go away.
No such luck! Though it a dull itch, it’s an itch none the less and after Memorial Day weekend friends encouraged me to go back to my doctor. Just my luck, he’s out of town and their walk in clinic always takes HOURS. So I opt for a walk in clinic by my house and get right in. The doc looks at my rash, tells me it’s probably an allergic reaction to something and offers me a shot and some medicine. I take the shot and the prescription, but grow weary at all the medicine. Prednesone, Zyrtec, and Pepcid? Isn’t that for heartburn?
I need to interject here that I like to go as natural and healthy as I can and yesterday I cracked open Kevin Thorueau (sp) book on natural health and felt totally guilty and already like I had one foot in the grave when I read about all the things making us sick…flouride and chlorine in tap water (we filter ours, but it’s not good enough according to Kevin,) not to mention the electromagnetic stress from laptops and cell phones and people! Did I mention my mom’s been living with us for almost five months! On top of that, I shouldn’t put anything into or on my body that is made by man! Okay, so after I’m completely depressed and convinced there’s some horrid disease brewing inside of me, I throw the book against the wall (not really, but I shut it and drop it on the floor.) Then I go upstairs and slather on the medicated chalomine lotion that’s the only thing stopping the itch…which is man made and will probably kill me before my rash goes away.
Back to today. After I look at the prescription and remember all this stuff is poison in and of itself, I call my family doctor where I am still waiting for a reply. Hopefully he’ll tell me all that stuff is not necessary. Then my mom reminds me of the natural clinic where I get my whole food supplements. I hadn’t thought of going in for a rash…well, actually I had, but I was a little afraid the supplements and herbs he’d prescribe wouldn’t not zap my rash but make me wallow in natural suffering for the duration of the itch.
But now looking at that lethally loaded prescription my thoughts go back to the natural doc. Last time I told him I took my kids to the pediatrician for a cold he stared through me and said I should have come to him first. So do I go to my natural doc and claim he’s the first guy I’ve seen, or fess up I’ve already covered my body in chemical salve and got a shot to the potent medicine to help clear up a rash I could have gotten because of the initial cream I put on? Or do I fill the prescription with all the medication I think is unnecessary?
Not sure what to do. The only thing I really want to do is scratch. But isn’t that how I got into this mess in the first place?
Itch UPDATE:
Called my natural doc, couldn’t get an appointment until Friday morning. Thought I could make it, but I was itching up a storm and making myself worse last night so hubby went to the pharmacy and we opted for two out of the tree prescriptions. I feel much better this morning and tomorrow I’ll still go to the natural doc and hopefully up my immune system!
