| I have been "over" my poison ivy for about 2 weeks now. Not a night's sleep. I'm exhausted. I'm either tired from not sleeping (b/c I itch) or b/c I'm still drugged in the morning from the benadryl the night b/f. It's hard for me to believe that this itching could be psycosomatic, as someone else mentioned. Usually around 2 or 3 in the morning, Iwill wake up and my whole head, including my ears, my neck and my whole torso are one big itch. If I'm drugged (from the benadryl), I can roll over and pass out. If I'm not, then I get up and take some benadryl. Topicals don't seem to help at this point. Also, if I sweat even just a little from being outside, I break out in itch welps. None of this itching is even where I originally had poison ivy. Also, this happened LAST time I had poison ivy! Aaarg... both times I got poison ivy from the dog! |
