This vacation sucks

[ReinyRooster]

2 1/2 weeks ago my hunting buddies and I were out scouting the bush and setting up a few ground blinds for this year's hunting season and clearing away some growth, A few days later it becomes obvious that stupid me got into some poison ivy! Now here I am on vacation at the cottage lathering up twice a day with calamine lotion and trying hard not to scratch.

On top of that, it's our 42nd anniversary tomorrow......this will be REAL romantic. 

Some days you just can't win.

[SpencerPJ]

That does suck.  Cheers to getting better.

[BlueSky]

I got poison ivy rash really bad on my legs and arms as a kid from climbing up an apple tree that was covered with poison ivy vines.  Every spring for several years it came back a little less each year for several years.  No calamine lotion.  I really suffered so I have a idea what you are going through.  

[bpate4home]

I used to get Poison Ivy so bad they would give me shots for it.  That was as a kid.  I've had it as an adult only a few times but never as bad.  I feel for ya. 

[uncledj]

Never got poison ivy as a kid.   Dad always said he didn't get it until his mid 30s and it turned out to be the same for me.   If I look at it too close I'd get it.    Once you start getting it, you learn to spot it pretty quick.

Then I found out about poison ivy pills, and since I used to have plenty of it around the property, I figured "what the heck".      I'm here to tell ya....They Work.

I take them April to October every year, and I've even put it to the test by ripping out poison ivy vines bare handed....(It was a gutsy move)....But, even doing that, I get what looks like a few mosquito bites and it goes away in a few days.

  Get / take the pills....get some poison ivy wash and use it when you think you've been exposed, and it'll never be a problem for you again. 

[saddlebum]

On 9/7/2021 at 10:25 AM, ReinyRooster said:

2 1/2 weeks ago my hunting buddies and I were out scouting the bush and setting up a few ground blinds for this year's hunting season and clearing away some growth, A few days later it becomes obvious that stupid me got into some poison ivy! Now here I am on vacation at the cottage lathering up twice a day with calamine lotion and trying hard not to scratch.

On top of that, it's our 42nd anniversary tomorrow......this will be REAL romantic. 

Some days you just can't win.

 

 

Edited September 8, 2021 by saddlebum

[saddlebum]

2 hours ago, uncledj said:

Never got poison ivy as a kid.   Dad always said he didn't get it until his mid 30s and it turned out to be the same for me.   If I look at it too close I'd get it.    Once you start getting it, you learn to spot it pretty quick.

Then I found out about poison ivy pills, and since I used to have plenty of it around the property, I figured "what the heck".      I'm here to tell ya....They Work.

I take them April to October every year, and I've even put it to the test by ripping out poison ivy vines bare handed....(It was a gutsy move)....But, even doing that, I get what looks like a few mosquito bites and it goes away in a few days.

  Get / take the pills....get some poison ivy wash and use it when you think you've been exposed, and it'll never be a problem for you again. 

My wife tried those a few years ago after getting poison ivy over half her body and so bad that she had to get shots and cortisone cream. They did not work at all for her.

[ragtop69gs]

Better poison ivy than becoming bear bait!  Feel better soon.

[saddlebum]

15 minutes ago, ragtop69gs said:

Better poison ivy than becoming bear bait!  Feel better soon.

Raggy does have a point. With those knees of yours, your not likely to out run your hunting partner if the bear gains the upper hand and attacks

[uncledj]

4 hours ago, saddlebum said:

My wife tried those a few years ago after getting poison ivy over half her body and so bad that she had to get shots and cortisone cream. They did not work at all for her.

  I don't believe they're intended as a therapeutic so much as a preventative.

[Marcarl]

For itching try some sulpher pills. Marca gets real itchy legs sometimes and takes them to relieve the itch. Works for her. Called 'Sulfur Iodatum'

[saddlebum]

8 hours ago, uncledj said:

  I don't believe they're intended as a therapeutic so much as a preventative.

I get that and it was as a preventative  that she tried them but still got poison ivy.