Swollen lymph nodes and rashes

To start, I am a relatively healthy 20 year old female living in Canada. For the past 7 months I have had multiple health complications. I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of caring and general knowledge within the Canadian health care system. Starting in January (7 months ago) I began seeing a small red blistering thing on my chest. I didn't think anything of it until a few more spots appeared all over my body. I went to a walk in clinic and was diagnosed with pityriasis rosea. I wasn't upset with this because it appeared I had a very mild case with only a few spots. A few weeks later, after a cocaine bender (I know), I became very sick with a fever and sore throat. I went to the clinic and was diagnosed with strep (positive throat swab.) About a week after that I started noticing pain in my armpit and a lump deep under my skin, not visible on the surface, about a 2inch diameter. I also noticed my rash got significantly worse, covering my entire body. I went to the clinic about the lump and was told it was a cyst and to stop shaving my armpits. I was given more antibiotics for this "cyst." The doctor noticed my PR rash and told me I should see a dermatologist because it had been over 6 weeks of having the rash, which is abnormal. The lump in my armpit diminished over the next few weeks so I assumed this was a result of the antibiotics. After over 3 long months of tanning beds and hundreds of creams and "home remedies"  my pityriasis rosea cleared up in April. I fell sick again with another sore throats and went to the clinic. I was given antibiotics for strep before getting the lab results of the test. I took antibiotics for about a week until I was informed the test was negative. I developed a bright red rash all over my body from the antibioics, which usually happens when you have mono and are wrongly given antibiotics. The rash and sore throats went away and I didn't think anything of it. However, my armpit lump continued to flare up throughout this and I was getting new and very uncomfortable swelling in my neck. I went back to the clinic and was told the armpit lump was actually a lymph node, which I had kind of assumed all along as I had spent hours on google researching my symptoms. I got a blood test for mono and an ultrasound of my lymph node. All of this was done at walk in clinics as I live away from home, and from my family doctor, during the school year. The mono test came back negative and the ultrasound indicated my lymph node was reacting to something. I came home and started getting flare ups of a rash on my back and chest, red spots that resembled PR, that would come and be gone after a few days. My lypmph nodes continued to swell, especially my neck. I saw my family doctor who ordered a blood test for a bunch of things: mono, HIV, mumps, the first test for lupus and some other things to help her indicate an auto immune disease. She also made me get another ultrasound and a needle in my armpit to test the lymph node. She said for the blood test everything came back normal except that I have iron deficiency and the lymph nodes are reactive. My lymph nodes continued to swell and bother me. I saw an internal medicine specialist who basically told me nothing. After another drug binge I came down with strep throat again. About two weeks after this diagnosis red dots started forming all over my body, similar to my PR but smaller and more itchy. I saw a dermatologist and was diagnosed with guttate psoriasis. There is no history of psoriasis in my family. So I am sitting here covered from head to toe in itchy red bumps writing this, reaching out to the internet. It just seems like something really weird to me that I could go my whole life without having any sort of rash or real health problems and in the past 7 months so many things have gone wrong. I'm starting to feel like my body will never be normal. I'm reaching out to the internet because I don't really have anyone to talk to about this and maybe someone has a similar case to me? I am starting to think there is something wrong with my immune system in which it is overactive. I think the underlying cause of this is possibly something neurological, maybe from the drugs? It seems like there's nothing actually wrong yet my immune system is set in overdrive. I have been doing chemical drugs (molly and cocaine) for about a year, regularly but not extremely often (every two weeks maybe.) 

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