Hi All,
Lot's of leafs in a big plot of land we have in our country home.
Accordingly, as my wife likes yard clean as a whistel did leafs this winter to the sum
of about 250 bags. Was fine at starts and then right towards end of
job noticed a bit of an itch come on. Had some old cream Clabetasol I used which
is a steroidal cream that beats just about any itch there is, poison ivy, fire ants, etc..
Well a few days later I was waking up at night just itchy as f-ck, I mean intense and burning.
Used some more cream and took some benadryl and still was itchy notably at night.
withing next few days I notced a bunch of raised bumps, some pretty long on arms, legs, chest,
and hands mostly. My wife thought might be a drug interaction to some of my supplemments and stopped those to no avail.
I thought maybe kidney could be taking a bit of a dump as well but late last summer all blood work and urnalysis were
perfect. I also thought was some form of poison plant but this biatch persisted. Was then right at christmas
and I tried to make a Dr' appintment with a derm I say for suspicious mole while back, which was benign in end thank goodness.
Anyway, I couldn't get into see him till January 2nd. In the mean time this itch was like a MO-FO!!! I mean burning a bit and itchy
as hell but mostly at night. I started popping zytec and allegra then and just had a super hard time sleeping at night.
Dug into medication cabinet for vistaril which I had left over from bad jelly fish I had diving Belize some years back.
Vistaril is a Rx antihistamine/skin anesthetic and it did help more than anything else but still woke up a few times in night itchy
as fuck. I was like fuck me, whoever is mad at me from my past just got their wish as I was in heeeellllll!
Got into derm finally a few days ago and I thought i knew what it was and he asked me and I said I think I got mites/scabies.
He said I think you do too. He did a few scrapings of the 50 + bumps/rashes I now had over my body and said he didn't see mites
but said there are often only a handful of mites on your body at a time and alot of false negatives with these random scraping microscopies.
Anyway, he presribed me Ivermectin which I started that same night. it's taken 7 pills the first night and 7 pills 1 week later.
Still have itching pretty bad, don't think it eased up much, maybe a tiny from the itch cream he told me to get, (CeraVe with pramoxine).
I asked him for vistail and he looked at me like I was aksing him for Oxy, lol.
Anyway, waiting an praying for real relief. Another buddy told me to use medicated Sulfur 8 Shampoo all over my body for the first day
and sufur soap for a week after that 2x a day and that would do it. Another chick said coconut oil and tea tree oil.
I just got the Sulfur shampoo and soap and will try that in next day.
Anyway, my question is where the F-ck did I get this? Yard with leaves?
Wife also had a few spots but were not bothering her too much but Dr. gave her Irvectin as well.
P.S. Had just 1 beer tonight and not a good idea, noticed shortness of breath and rapid heart beat for a few hours, not doing that again!
Anyway, anyone relate to what's going on with me. Ever had this or know anyone that did?
Get same or different treatment and how long did it take to go away?
Think I got from leaves and yard; my hands and body were all over those leaves.
Many Thanks in advance to any Awesome Covers Brothers that could shoot their 2 cents in here.
DR
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