I think I can get poison ivy better than anybody.... I have tried it all... everybody has a different opinion... the shot works the best.... pill pack second..... I bought the Zanfel, but I get it so bad, I have learned to look for it, and have not got it since I bought the Zanfel, but got it just in case..... it usualy has to run its course with no steriod treatment, BUT, the best thing there is to stop the itch and get some sleep, is something a manly man would not admit using, but sometimes the itching is sooooo bad, you have to get your wife to buy it for ya and use it when nobody is looking..... hoo hah cream.... you know, that cream women use for something I do not want to know about.... but it works I promise..... but I would never tell my friends I use it on it.... being the manly man I am....