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I itch. I'm sure the four new mosquito bites don't help. I don't know why I itch. It isn't as bad as when I was using the sunscreen that made me itch. So that problem of my entire body itching is gone. It could be eating so much salsa/spicy food. I once had a reaction to peperoncinis (i ate a whole lot of them). Or at least I think that was what the reaction was to. Unfortunately, I also had a new hair stylist, was using new hair products and starting a new job at the time and so can't pinpoint exactly what caused me to break out in hives. I did notice that I appear to be eating spicy things with disturbing frequency. It could be the humidity. Last week it rained three of the days and was unbelievably humid the rest of the days (might as well have been raining). Plus, I was using a new sunscreen (banana boat sport 30 extra). It claims it won't sweat away. However, what it effectively does is prevent the sweat from evaporating. Took me a couple of days to catch on to this (because it was so humid). But on Thursday it was fairly cloudy so I put sunscreen on my arms but not my legs and noticed that my arms were rediculously sweaty while my legs weren't. On Friday it was super cloudy so I put screen on my hands but not my arms. My hands were super sweaty while my arms weren't sweaty at all. This strikes me as being somewhat dangerous. Sweat cools the body by evaporating. It is the evaporating action that actually cools the skin. If the sun screen somehow interferes with that, doesn't that keep the body from cooling itself? Isn't that why exercising in the humidity is so much harder on the body in the first place? So it could be the sunscreen causing me to itch, although I'm itching on my upper back where I specifically did not put sunscreen at all last week in an attempt to give my skin a break from the sun by wearing shirts with sleeves. It could have been the shirts with sleeves. My skin isn't used to haveing material rubbing against it. The extra material in combination with the humidity could have cause the problem. The problem could be caused by losing weight. As I consume fewer calories than I burn, I'm using up fat cells. Could be something stored in the fat cells that is causing me to itch. My period was three days late, so it could be a hormonal imbalance that is making my skin more sensitive to irritants ( I was unbelievably cranky for nearly an entire week). It could be nothing more than my body dealing with the four bug bites I have. If enough of what makes the bites swell up got into my blood stream, it could cause irritation in other places. Because of all the rain, on some parts of the train, the trees are hanging low. Could be that I'm allergic to one of them and have a reaction when it brushes me when I duck to avoiding geting hit in the face with a branch. And it could be nothing more than sweating an unusually large amount due to the humidity.