thanks for your posts raven....I got some killin to do:devil:

My doc gave me a cream called LYDEX,worked real well.Along with a cortisone shot and a scrip for Prednisone of course.

IM l#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g Idon't get it. MY regular fishing partner didn't belive me so we went and found some rubbed it on my arm and never got it he used the same plant and he got it now he doesn't aruge with me. ThomT

best remedy of all...stay out of poison ivy!! it's always worked for me. if that doesn't work,wear gloves. good fishing.

Yhere is a good Canal spot that I had to stop fishing cause I got poison ivy or Oak or Sumac (whatever it is over there) every time I went there. I'd even be extra c areful not to touch anything but I think it was getting on my cloths too.

I get it every shad season. I must get too charged up to remember to check what I'm walking trough... I'll say this; I've tried every over the counter med and they never work fast. I trhink all they do is make u more comfortable til it runs its course. An uncle who works at the DPW told me to wipe the area with full strength Clorox bleach and it was gone in 2 days. If its bad and starts to ooze get the shot from the doc or a RX for the steroid because if you delay you'll get it like I did, I looked like a maple tree during sugar season with the pus running down my legs-NASTY.

Somebody wrote about buring PI...Mikey and I had a barbeque in the Mt. Tom Reservation in the spring of 1990, and instead of using charcoal we burned wood!!!
Omigawd!!! I looked like the bear in Looney Tunes that got stung all over the head!!!
My uncle had me on 4 tabs of Benadryl every four hours...I still don't remember taking finals that year...somehow I got a 3.9 that semester, too.
The Bomba's get it bad!!! I still won't fish where Mikey fishes without being in full wader gear, and don't touch anything that even comes in contact with the stuff...what can I say, though...Mikey's a little more hardcore than me.
I'm sick right now...but I'm not itching!!!
Later,
Sick Rick

hey Rick
 

i hope ya feel Better soon ,,,,,man.:wave: