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Thank you everyone for all your advice on trying to cure the poison ivy. The rash spread, deep burning, itching and stinging was unabled to be halted as it was already in my bloodstream. Fever, aches, confusion went along with this. Was nearly hospitalized. Blood pressure went up and body temperature dropped.
I was placed on an antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral meds, prednisone, creams along with rhus tox homeopathic pills.
What I have learned is one heck of a lesson in dermatology and the urishiol oil.. Poison ivy mimicks other rashes and there is no one typical ivy rash lookalike for every person. Poison ivy also can become infected on the skin as well as go systemic and other complications can set in.. Hence, the multiple barrage of medications.
I had never had poison ivy and do not even know where I came into contact with it. It is not in my daylilly flowerbeds that I could see.

Possible ways to transmit that one might not think of: computers in a public place, flying insects, brushing up against someone's clothing, inanimate objects...?
It is now 5-6 weeks with it and it is healing. Some scarring will be visible from the large burn areas.

Dermnet.com is a site to help identify rashes.

I would like to see a Nobel Peace Prize for the person who can create a lifetime immunity vaccine against the urishiol oil. I'd be in the front of the waiting line.


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From your description I'd say you had the worst case of PI I ever heard of. You must be extremely allergic to it. Some people are taoally unaffected by PI. I would also assume that you didn't treat it soon enough and/or you scratched it til you broke the skin allowing it to invade your blood stream.
In any case I'm happy to learn you are "out of the woods" so to speak. I had chronic hives for about a year so I know how miserable itching can be.

This is for you babe!

I began treatment by applying over the counter antibiotic cream and an antifungal cream immediately after seeing it. Thought some bug had bit me. But after a week and noticing that it slowly started spreading, I went for medical care. It didn't appear like typical poison ivy yet. So I was given a prescription of cortizone cream to apply for another week to combat dermatitis. Well, it then spread fast then but still was questionable as to looking like poison ivy. Kept questioning me about eczema dermatitis from maybe changing detergents. But when the rashes got big pink and also large white blistered pimples and the large burn areas and the fever, aches and confusion, then it was thought to be possible poison ivy now infected. I never had typical white clear fluids in pimples. I was 3/4 covered in the rash and looked like something out of an X-File series. Quite frightening to say the least. I

I hope never to get this again but know that if a rash starts to spread, I need to start on prednisone immediately or the consequences can be devastating. I was scared to take prednisone because of fear of side effects. Better I should have had side effects than the agony and complications that severe poison ivy havoc causes.
I have no side effects from the prednisone thank goodness!!