Quote from hughb:
I keep getting welts on my hips, right around the waistband of my underwear. It usually happens when I'm asleep, so it led me to believe it was bed bugs. However, they don't itch intensely and they disappear within two hours. And they also appear at other times besides when I'm asleep.
I've been googling like crazy looking for info and it appears that I may indeed be crazy. There is actually a neuroses where people believe they are being attacked by bugs and they manifest symptoms. I lived through a real bed bug infestation in a cheap apartment building a few years back, and it was a traumatizing experience. It's as if I have bed bug PTSD now. Most of the info I've found, though, points to simple urticaria, just run of the mill hives. I remember I used to get them as a child. Now if I can just get myself to relax and stop fretting about insect attacks.