Can I whine a little?
Mark, me, and a hired hand have been chopping down out-of-control bushes that had grown into trees as well as various dead brush and trees. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I got into poison ivy or poison something.
I have been battling it for at least 7 days now, and I am sick of it. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be in pain than itch!
Hopefully, the home remedies I’ve been trying will work. They seem to be helping. If you have any advice for this old girl, please do tell.
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Yes, go to the doc and get a steroid shot along with some really great ointment called Clobetisol. Don’t keep suffering. I’ve been there!
Whine away! It’s no fun, I’ve been there too! Happy New Year!
2 years ago my husband and I purchased a 110 year old house and farm. To say that the property was overgrown would be an understatement! It was so bad we had no idea that there was a 75 yard brick wall right behind the house!! I’m serious! That wall was hidden by huge boxwoods and only God knows what else was growing in there. Getting to the point of this comment, we decided to tackle that overgrown wall last fall. Needless to say, I got the poison!! Several times!! Sadly, the only thing that seemed to work for me was a trip to the doctor. Not only did I have to have steroid shots but also oral steroids and antibiotics. I
did try hard to avoid a visit to the doctors office but in the end that was the only thing that worked for me. Good luck, I know how miserable one can feel.
Oh, I hate when that happens! If you go to the drug store you can buy Domeboro Astringent Powder which dries it out pretty well. I’ve had it so bad that my blisters had blisters on top of their blisters 🙂 and that plus some steroids finally kicked it out for me. It’s not fun!
Loved it all except your itch. Maybe it was poison sumac…
Suffered with PI my whole life. I feel for you. Winter is not a good time for this but I would always get into a pool or some sort of cold water. If it is isolated, try a cold pack on it. Good luck!
I came across something online when I got an extremely itchy insect bite this summer. You take a blow-dryer, put it on hot, and point it at the itch – a few inches away. It’ll itch like crazy then start to hurt while you’re doing it. Keep it on until it’s too much, then turn it off. The itch will go away, or at least it did when I tried this. You may need to do it a second time after a while, but it’s supposed to release the histamines and make the itch go away. Worked like a charm for me!