Poison Ivy

I an just getting over my most recent case of poison IVY!

During HS I had an Earth day project to clean up a creek area behind my house. I spent 2 days collecting trash! I knew what poison ivy looked like but I was too focused @ the task on hand. Needless to say... I got a very wicked case of it! While working outside, evidently I needed to pee... SO... as they say... I WHIPPED IT OUT and took care of business. A day later I was itching like crazy. My mom told me to apply calamine lotion... It really didn't help very much and a day later it had spread everywhere!

Well... it was on my cock and balls! When I itched... I got aroused and hard. Also... I swelled up enough to notice a difference! I'd wake up at night, scratching and rubbing in my sleep! I'd cum... then still feel the urge to rub and scratch again! Calamine was worthless.

Finally one of my teachers notices the pus leaking thru the knees on my pants and told me to get some help!

I started on steroids and within week.. I was better!

If I could have kept my POISON IVY cock... i could have been a porn star!

Long ago I went on a double date. We parked to make out, and the other couple was going at it enough that they decided to get out of the car to find a private spot in some nearby woods, returning in less than a half hour.

She was a friend of mine and came to see me the next day to show me the poison ivy rash on her knees and shins. She'd given him oral. Apparently they finished up with her on top, and his butt and thighs were blistered with the rash. He refused to see a doctor out of embarrassment.

I'm sure he was deeply uncomfortable, but it was funny just the same.

Not sure that poison ivy is a thing here in England? Sure I have plenty of regular ivy trying to climb all over my house, trees, hedges & everything else. Even some Boston Ivy. A couple of days back I was pulling on a pair or wellies by the side of the road before walking my dog & got stung by the worst bastard nettles I have eve come across. Back of my hand painful, numb & covered in rash for 36 hours...real bitch! Why people on BDSM movies feel the need... well yeah OK maybe I get it, but not for me!!

@alan20cm As far as I know, poison ivy (which is unrelated to ivy) is found in North America but not in Europe. As you rightly point out, Europe however has nettles which, I understand, are not found in most of North America, and I heard that they can be a nasty surprise for North American visitors!

For @alan20cm - Yes, nettles do grow in upstate New York, but they are not common.

I can tell you from experience that the fastest way to get poison ivy or oak to clear up is through a steroid shot. I have gotten poison ivy several times from weeding in the garden. My wife came with me to urgent care. First time I got a shot for it. I was a little skeptical about getting it, my wife watched as I lowered my pants and the nurse gave me a shot in the butt. The speed at which it cleared up made it all worth it.

As a child I would get poison ivy all the time. Bad cases of it, big blisters which would just drip puss constantly. I finally would get steroid shot in my butt which would help!

I can easily get poison ivy but only once while growing up did I windup at the ER for a cortisone shot. For a minor case my mom always had calamine lotion, pink stuff that at least reduced the itching.

I had thought those plants were like stinging nettles... But steroids and cortisone shots?? Eek! Really glad we don't have them here!

I got it on my wiener while deer hunting…discover prednisone …thank god!

Thought about chopping it off..it itched so bad!

Leaves of three let it be.

When I was a kid poison ivy did not bother me. My mother was highly allergic to it and would break out from washing my clothes from me playing in the woods. As a young adult I noticed that I had a tiny break out after clearing some brush and weeds for mom and dad. Now at 67 the shit has invaded my grape vines and I have found I am quite allergic to it. I was quite miserable. Thankfully I did not get it anywhere embarrassing. My mother was not a vindictive woman but she would probably have found this amusing as I had caused her a lot of misery. Sorry mom.

I got a bad case of poison ivy on both legs many years ago. Ignorantly I had walked through a large patch of it in shorts. The berries on the other side were just too tempting to not pick.

I used an old wives tale remedy to dry it up. It took time, but it did go away and I learned to identify poison ivy better.

As a child I never got poison ivy even though

I always played in the woods behind our house.

Later in life I got it I believe from being in a small back yard pool with a cousin that had active blisters of poison Ivy. After that I got it quite easily.

One time when I was in my late 20s and doing some hobby farming. Bailing hay. I got a severe case. Bad enough to go to the doctors. This was I'd say in the late 70s. The doctor gave me a shot of steroids, which imedatly helped and recommended getting a series of shots that utility workers got to help eliminate getting poison ivy.

I got three huge injections spaced 3 weeks appart of this massive amount of oily liquid that took for ever to inject, and made my arm so sore for a long time. But it worked! I probably got those each spring for several years. And to this day, probably close to 50 years later, I still don't get bad poison ivy. If I get in it, I may slightly itch for a day or two. But no rash or blisters. I don't think they do those injections any more. But long term it helped me.

I can tell you one thing you don’t want to do to poison ivy. Burn it!

My uncle was burning out a fence row and didn’t see it.

It ended up in his lungs and it put him in the hospital for four days.

I was trimming tree branches in our yard one day. The following few days after, I would wake up with rash patches here and there, and it seemed like it was getting worse. I went to my doctor's office to see what they could do for me. The NP that was assigned said it was the right thing to do, because they could give me a shot or medication to help with the itching and speed up the recovery. She wanted to see the rash first. I removed the long sleeve shirt and showed her my arms and neck. She asked if there was any other spots. I told her my leg and right knee was starting to get itchy after taking several showers, I believed the rash was spreading when the water washed down my body. She thought that was unlikely and asked if I was wearing shorts or pants while doing yard work. Pants. She requested I remove my pants so she could inspect my legs. She turned around to get something out of the drawer while I removed my pants. She turned around to find me standing up and nude. She realized I want wearing underwear and said she could get me a blanket from the other room. I declined. She looked closely at my right knee then my left leg when she noticed the lotion I had applied to the side of my penis and testicles matched the other areas where there was a rash.

She put on a glove and examined the day lights out of the area. She even had me turn around and bend over while spreading my cheeks. She had me turn to face her again while she informed me she would prescribe medication and she felt sorry for me having a rash that spread to sensitive areas, as she looked, or rather STARED, at my groin.

I had not planned on being so exposed, and because of the rash, it felt embarrassing.