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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:30:41 AM EDT
I helped my mom clear out some trees and bushes in her yard on Saturday. She had already done quite a bit a couple of weeks ago and had a huge brush pile to burn. I asked her if she had any poison ivy around, because I'm highly allergic, and she said she didn't. I got the fire going first thing and I was in the smoke quite a bit that morning adding more limbs to it.
That afternoon, I found a huge vine on one of her trees. Followed the vine down to an area where she had already cleared off. There were a lot of missing pieces to that vine that were obviously in the burn pile that morning. 
This morning, I woke up and I have poison ivy rashes on my legs in an area that was completely covered. I also have a tiny bit of shortness of breath. FML |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:31:25 AM EDT
[#1]
Dibs on guns, ammo, optics and all women under the age of 55.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:32:18 AM EDT
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Quoted: Dibs on guns, ammo, optics and all women under the age of 55. I'll take silverware, DVD collection, and women over 55. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:32:38 AM EDT
[#3]
That sounds pretty awful, good luck.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:33:44 AM EDT
[#4]
Sorry we never got to know each other better. Say hi to my dog when you get time.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:34:29 AM EDT
[#5]
Quoted: That sounds pretty awful, good luck. Hey! It's not awful when I get his stuff and womenz. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:36:13 AM EDT
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Highly allergic? Breathing poison ivy smoke?
Sound like you need medical attention. Stop posting, and go seek treatment. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:36:18 AM EDT
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Someone needs to figure out how to weaponize that stuff, it is very effective at producing misery.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:38:06 AM EDT
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A friend of mine died from inhaling burning poison ivy vine. The lesions blocked his lungs, oxygen depravation killed his brain. His body followed weeks later.
be careful and get checked out.... |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:38:15 AM EDT
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If what you posted is the truth, you need to get to the hospital NOW. This is a deadly situation. I'm not joking.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:38:27 AM EDT
[#10]
Same thing happened to a friend of mine.
Two days later.... Gay. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:40:29 AM EDT
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I have been exactly where you are OP. You need to get to the doctor and get some steroid shots immediately! Get it attacked before the break out gets worse. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:40:53 AM EDT
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Doctor.
Methylprednisolone. RFN! |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:42:30 AM EDT
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Quoted:
Highly allergic? Breathing poison ivy smoke? Sound like you need medical attention. Stop posting, and go seek treatment. No kidding. Go see a doctor ASAP. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:45:36 AM EDT
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Quoted: Same thing happened to a friend of mine. Two days later.... Gay.  Enjoy your last day JINXR |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:46:49 AM EDT
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I have sever allergies to just about everything on the face of the planet. When I have a asthma attack, I have to decide if the hives are worth me being able to breathe or not cause I even have a slight allergy to the only medicine I am not severely allergic too. Now the strange thing is, I am not allergic to Poison Ivy, Sumac, Oak! I can walk all in it, work in it, bathe in it, nothing! But the minute I so much as touch a cantaloupe, Epi-Pen time!
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:47:55 AM EDT
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I'm quite allergic to it as well. How does anyone like us not know what the plants look like? I can spot it a mile away. In fact, when my disc landed in several patches the other day I didn't break out because I went home and washed with Dawn right away.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:47:56 AM EDT
[#17]
All jokes aside, that has killed people.
 Good luck.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:51:06 AM EDT
[#18]
Yeah like mustard gas in WWI. You don't die right away. You drown as your lungs fill up.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 7:57:48 AM EDT
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Quoted: All jokes aside, that has killed people. Good luck.It has, but I think the OP would of had a more immediate reaction if he is allergic and had inhaled the smoke. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:03:21 AM EDT
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Smoke reaction is generally really quick... much quicker than skin.
However, it takes about 3 days before I show a skin reaction, and mine lasts for WEEKS, so everyone is different. That said - if I had ANY signs, its real simple. Go to doctor, get shot, problem solved. Why on earth would you suffer or risk severe health issues when the solution is so simple? |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:06:43 AM EDT
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I feel for you my man..........
I was allergic as a child and I would get it from my eyes to my balls. 
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:18:43 AM EDT
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Inhaling smoke from poison ivy is very very bad and has resulted in many deaths. Go get checked out. You could get blocked airways or your lungs could slowly fill with fluid.
-Foxxz |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:21:45 AM EDT
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Quoted:
A friend of mine died from inhaling burning poison ivy vine. The lesions blocked his lungs, oxygen depravation killed his brain. His body followed weeks later.
be careful and get checked out.... Did that happen in Rhode Island? I seem to remember something about a man burning a brush pile and later he died from poison ivy in his lungs. Regardless, my condolences. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:22:55 AM EDT
[#24]
A friend of mine was hospitalized for 2 weeks because he burned some poison ivy in his yard.
you need to go to a Doctor ASAP |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:25:01 AM EDT
[#25]
Guy on Lightfighter died this way. GET CHECKED OUT.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:26:20 AM EDT
[#26]
Well I'm at the doctor's office. They're going to fit me in pretty quick.
The shortness of breath reminds me of when I had asthma issues when i was younger. Either way, I found another spot on my thigh so getting a shot is only going to help. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:26:52 AM EDT
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You got a super large dose of it. Go to a doc ASAP. This happened to me a long time ago. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:52:13 AM EDT
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well I just left the doctors office. He gave me a steroid shot and some drugs for asthma and poison ivy.
he doesn't think that I am having allergic reaction but he does think it flared up my old asthma. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:53:45 AM EDT
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Quoted: well I just left the doctors office. He gave me a steroid shot and some drugs for asthma and poison ivy. he doesn't think that I am having allergic reaction but he does think it flared up my old asthma. Glad to know you were responsible with your health. Now go hit the gym with those wicked awesome steroids and get your swoll on. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:55:37 AM EDT
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Quoted:
Guy on Lightfighter died this way. GET CHECKED OUT. This. GO GO GO! Prayers. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 8:57:39 AM EDT
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Quoted:
Highly allergic? Breathing poison ivy smoke? Sound like you need medical attention. Stop posting, and go seek treatment. I concur...... |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 9:00:37 AM EDT
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Guy on Lightfighter died this way. GET CHECKED OUT. My friend, John T. Kwon. We were at Ft Campbell together...he was a helluva guy.
OP, glad you got it checked out. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 9:01:13 AM EDT
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My parents bought their summer house after the occupants cleared a bunch of poison ivy, burned the brush pile, and died. If this was happening to you, you'd already be dead. From what I understand, it happens very quickly and there is nothing that can be done about it.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 9:11:16 AM EDT
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I heard massive doses of vitamin C will help keep you from getting poison ivy, maybe it will help fight it off....
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Posted: 9/26/2011 9:21:36 AM EDT
[#35]
Sorry to hear that
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Posted: 9/26/2011 9:31:09 AM EDT
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Cortisone shot?
You're gonna be biiiiiiitchyyyyyyyyyy... 
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Posted: 9/26/2011 10:22:41 AM EDT
[#37]
Good so far. Still a little short of breath, but it doesn't seem to be getting worse.
The doctor said that the severe reactions happen within hours of inhaling the smoke, so he wasn't concerned about my lungs or throat swelling up. The crazy part is that I got to the Doctor's office at 11:10 and was out by 11:27. It took longer than that to get my prescription. 
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Posted: 9/26/2011 12:20:34 PM EDT
[#38]
Still good, lungs feel slightly better. You cocksuckers don't get any of my ammo, guns, optics, or womenz.
An added benefit to the steroid shot is that my sinus problem is going away. WINNING |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 12:22:48 PM EDT
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Quoted:
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Dibs on guns, ammo, optics and all women under the age of 55. I'll take silverware, DVD collection, and women over 55. I'll take the electronics, pets, and any women you two reject. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 12:41:02 PM EDT
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You cocksuckers don't get any of my ammo, guns, optics, or womenz. See what I mean? Biiiiiitchy
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Posted: 9/26/2011 12:50:01 PM EDT
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Damn Jinxr, you didn't learn from the bike shop, so you decided to tempt fate again?
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Posted: 9/26/2011 12:53:07 PM EDT
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While in forestry school a student picked up some poison ivy and chewed on it. He wound up going to the emergency room and stayed in the hospital for a number of days. He wound up dropping out of forestry school. Never did hear what happened to him after that.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 12:56:49 PM EDT
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Around 1951 my family went on a picnic to Bouquet Canyon in California. We cut Poison Ivy sticks to roast marshmellows and may have burned Poison
Ivy to roast them. My mother was the only person that was allergic to Poison Ivy in the group. She was very sick for a week or so but wasn't hospitalized. I was maybe 9 years old. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 12:58:06 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Still good, lungs feel slightly better. You cocksuckers don't get any of my ammo, guns, optics, or womenz. An added benefit to the steroid shot is that my sinus problem is going away. WINNING Your're still alive? Well, there could always be a relapse. So dibs on, uh, dogs, and um, tires I guess. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 1:02:21 PM EDT
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Damn Jinxr, you didn't learn from the bike shop, so you decided to tempt fate again? 
I think I'm still on my 6th or 7th life |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 1:03:00 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Same thing happened to a friend of mine. Two days later.... Gay. That's what happened to TRG. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 1:05:36 PM EDT
[#47]
Quoted:
well I just left the doctors office. He gave me a steroid shot and some drugs for asthma and poison ivy. he doesn't think that I am having allergic reaction but he does think it flared up my old asthma. If it were me that inhaled poison ivy smoke, I'd want a steroid taper. But that's me, and my reactions to poison ivy can be pretty bad. |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 1:06:53 PM EDT
[#48]
I feel for you. Poison ivy is my kryptonite, too.
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Posted: 9/26/2011 1:08:30 PM EDT
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Nevermind about my previous post. I was reminded he ingested a big hot cock, not burning a burning bush. My bad.
1GR |
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Posted: 9/26/2011 1:10:36 PM EDT
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Quoted:
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well I just left the doctors office. He gave me a steroid shot and some drugs for asthma and poison ivy. he doesn't think that I am having allergic reaction but he does think it flared up my old asthma. If it were me that inhaled poison ivy smoke, I'd want a steroid taper. But that's me, and my reactions to poison ivy can be pretty bad. The asthma/poison ivy drug he gave me is methylprednisone, which is a steroid taper used for asthma, but also works on poison ivy. Also, his shot was a mix of the short term and long term steroid. I really like this doctor. |
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