OK, so every few years I get these full-body hives ("Poison Ivy went Systemic").
I don't roll around Poison Ivy but I am always outside doing something: hiking, bushwacking, climbing, camping, backpacking and bicycling... besides trimming hedges, eradicating briers, cutting grass and bush-hogging fields. I get submerged in nature's fauna and flora. Getting scratched, scraped, bitten and stung is normal... it's the price to pay for outdoor activity.
The response has been Prednisone, a steroid.
It still means days of itching and a couple of weeks of rash... but Prednisone makes a young man out of me: No arthritis and no back pain, cardio is easier, weights go up, and I smile more.
I don't like the rash, but I love the solution!
-copyright 2014 by Willy.
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