Anxiety and non itchy red bumps?

[Aaron0794]

I have been extremely stressed out and anxious about my health status since I have been diagnosed with allergic rhinitis.

About three weeks back I started noticing red flat bumps on my knuckle region and some on arms and it gets faded away in a weeks time and then appear a new red bumps,  mostly on arms,  elbow region and sometimes face and neck(rarely),  and I have very dull headache through out, not very painful though.


Is the non itchy red bumps on arms related to raised anxiety level?

Or my unrelenting headache is due to stress?  

Please respond fast

[Paxiled]

We can't tell you that.  Your doctor can, though.  The more important point is, why would having common allergies make you anxious?  It's your thinking that makes you anxious, not having allergies.  Ever tried therapy for that?

[Aaron0794]

Not just that paxiled.. I'm just too stressed out about low risk sex exposure I had that I'm relating every symptom to hiv. That's the cause my anxiety.

[Paxiled]

No, your way of thinking is the cause of your anxiety.  Look at it his way -- all your life you've faced things that are objectively dangerous because life is objectively dangerous.  Most people, and you before you developed this anxiety problem, just deal with the problem.  They might get stressed by it, they might get nervous, but they don't obsess over it, they do something about it just like you do with most things in your life.  When we get chronic anxiety, we change, and suddenly things that we wouldn't have thought much about become huge problems.  The nature of the disease isn't that life is insecure, it is for everyone, it's how we let out lives fall apart worrying about it.  That's what you need to focus on, because life will always have something in it to worry about but our survival instincts allow us to keep going anyway until we don't let it do that.

[Aaron0794]

Thank you for the response.. Felt much relieved after seeing this. Your saying just to move on with my life.?

[AnxiousNoMore]

The other advice below was you had zero risk for HIV or any other std because you used a condom, so you need to accept that instead of calling it a low risk sex exposure. Consider therapy because they might be able to help you move on from the fear which you said above is making your anxiety . http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs---STIs/Im-really-scared-about-hiv-and-other-stds-/show/3000538

[Paxiled]

Don't know anything about the prior post but what I meant is what Anxious is saying, which is to see a therapist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety (most don't).  It's very hard to do this for oneself, though many people have done so with a lot of hard work.

[Aaron0794]

Great much relieved,  I'm trying to forget the incident what happened which is the cause of anxiety,  I had met a dermatologist who were not very concerned about the rashes.. She was not sure about the rashes thought the allergies might be causing it. As fever or no other symptoms except allergies were present, she didn't recommend a blood test too.