I am hoping for some suggestions as to what this problem might be or
what might be some good, natural ways to care for it.

About six or seven years ago while I was living in Bosnia I developed a
troubling skin problem - a slight, allergic rash that came and went and
sometimes left hives on my limbs. It was diagnosed as urticaria, which
I think just means hives. I went through a series of creams and
medicine there, through German and American army base medics, but those
things only made it worse. At one point they thought it was scabies,
but really it was left unidentified and finally more or less subsided
once I got off all the medicine.

I came back home to the US to a major city and then went on to have
problems with asthma and take a series of medicine for that, as well as
medicine for sinusitis. At different points the itchiness returned and
I have been taking Claritin (or generic loratidine) for about a year
and it helps. Now, the asthma was apparently related to acid reflux and
I have stopped taking the loratidine to essentially minimize the number
of things in my stomache while this acid thing has flared up. The
itching has returned but now it appears in waves without hives in my
armpits and pubus (I am female) as well as through hives on my limbs,
my torso and my neck. It comes and goes but on top of it, I have these
red spots on my thighs. I have already changed deodorant a couple of
times, so it is not that. Sexually transmitted diseases that Ob-gyns
regularly test for can also be ruled out.

Could it be stress? I have been going through some highly stressful
things and a few months back I had two sebaceous cysts in unexpected
places and I never had that before. Could my sebaceous glands be
involved with this situation?

My doctor prescribed Clindamycin for my thighs but nothing else,
although it seems like she wouldn't care if I went back on loratidine.
But should I have to? I am already taking two or three medications a
day and I am not yet even 40. What can I do for myself? Should I
proceed on without knowing what this is really and just assume it is
allergies or stress?

I live in an apartment building that is over 100 years old and I don't
think eliminating mold is really possible. On top of that, I went to an
allergist a few years ago and based on the topical tests I took, it
seemed like I wasn't really that allergic to much, aside from having a
mild reaction to grass and mold.

Thanks for reading. I just want some insight where the doctors seem to
be lacking.