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I went through those series of shots for two years in a row and still got the junk so now I spare myself the sore rump and just try to be smart but inevitably I still get it.

Thank you Wolfen, for shattering every ounce, small flickering light, and glimmer of hope that I had in my life...

Dude...keep your head up...it is also a little known fact that poison ivy only afflicts the best looking, most noble and saavy of bow hunters!

ZANFAL Go to the drug store and pick up a tube of this. It's expensive at 30 bucks a tube, but if you follow the directions the itch will be gone for ever in 5 min, and the rash will heal completely in a couple of days. I get poisen Ivy/oak several times a year and this Zanfal stuff really does work.

Get a tube of hydrocortisone 1% cream (Cortaid or generic), it will dry it up very quickly and it's OTC and cheap . Calamine lotion is the most useless remedy for poison ivy or oak that I've ever tried , I'll never figure out why it's so popular .

Rubbing Alcohol.It stings like crap at first but relieves the itching and starts the drying out processa lot quicker. Wash your hand every time you touch an infected spot to prevent spreading it.

I had it real bad last week. Tried the steroid pills that you take over 6 days. They got rid of the original sites pretty quick. But i still have some itching, not too bad.
Best part is I now can draw my bow at 70# instead of 60# and can carry way more stuff into the woods

just bite the bullet and spring for the shot. I get it every spring and fall and it spreads like wildfire. My wife is a nurse so I just go to the Dr. office and no more posion ivy. I have had the pills in the past but they dont work as fast as the shot, the steroid creams are nice but just about as $$$ as a shot. I get the for free though

There's used to be a product out called "Tech Nu" or Technu, something like that. It was a wash that you could use right after coming in contact with the stuff. I think if you washed with this stuff witin a few hours of contacting the poison, it would help to break up the oils. When I was a summer laborer for a power plant in college, they made us kids use it while trimming weeds and stuff. The kids who got it bad, didn't get it so bad after using this stuff. Just a couple spots on the hands and that was it.

Hey, you gotta stay away from the fuzzy vines... You can get poison all year 'round.

I use stuff called ZANFEL...its over the counter and like you said it is costly...it works great though; gone in a day or so