The grossest thing about poison-oak

are the weeping blisters. I went out last night wearing a pair of loose-fitting pants. This is how they looked this morning.

Pant leg stained with weeping blisters from poison oak

Hell yeah, my body did that! And if I’d been wearing white pants, you’d see that the weeping fluid is actually a deep yellow.

Now I won’t gross everyone out with a picture of my festering, weeping welts, but for the curious at heart, I’ll offer you this link to a picture of my legs, one week after exposure. Click at your own risk!

I’m off to the grocery store to pick up some calamine lotion. Nothing I like more than going out in public sporting open sores up and down my legs. I need to make a tshirt right now that says “I’m not contagious.”

Done.

Note: this t-shirt design has been discontinued.
I'm not contagious! tshirt design

Update: No more poison-oak!

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OUCH! Man, Justin. That looks awful. I hope you feel better soon. :(

oatmeal bath, phisoderm soap and loose jammies

someone is MILKING THEIR AUDIENCE FoR SYMPATHY!

Je ne suis pas contagieux! to go with Je n’ai pas l’ebola!

oh silly jackie, no sympathy required, there’s just nothing more present on my mind than the condition of my legs. and nothing more interesting.

and their oozings.

uh, gross.
I guess the good news is that you now have a story and a nasty photo to share with your friends when you want to seriously ick them out. :)

YIKES! I am so sorry.

more pictures!!!

more pictures of my dissolving legs?

Dude, seriously. It’s a good thing you landed a woman before the weeping sores. You should thank God she hasn’t bolted since you got them and made them the subject of photos and ramblings for the whole world to see. Ick!!!

I went to the doctor at noon and got a shot of steroids in the ass. I’ll be taking prednisone for the next ten days, and of course will be blogging any noticeable changes in mood and physique.

p.s. How many blogs you got girl?

From wikipedia on Prednisone:

Additional short-term side effects include insomnia and rarely mania. Long-term side effects include Cushing’s syndrome, weight gain, osteoporosis, glaucoma, type II diabetes mellitus, and depression upon withdrawal.

Fuck yeah!

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger…or makes you a fat-ass shoving down cupcakes and Pepsi while feeling ridiculosuly happy/sad about the spiders only you can see crawling on your walls.

I love me some Prednisone! Last year I had the poison ivy problem. I finally went to the doctor just before the ivy entered my eye where it can get in the cornea and cause you to go blind! Two shots of steroids and heavy dose of prednisone and I was all clear in like two days! I remember the prednisone giving me energy and also allowing me to eat and never really feel full! I took advantage of that!
notes: hot shower very bad for rash let alone the skin! cold compress, or in full body case cold moist beach towel! Paper sculpting kicks ass….Madonna born 8/16/58…when has she not danced strangely? I hope you threw away those pants that were pictured! future reference for poison oak: the soap you wash with before you go out does work! also the product Zanfel really works it’s just all about timing!

Holy SHIT, that looks awful. Does it feel as horrible as it looks?!

I feel better after getting all shot up with ‘riods. Everything has all dried up and turned into one big ass scab. Yum.

I need an updated “gross-out” picture with all the gnarly scabs showing. I wanna make sure you’re really healing.

It’s definitely on my list of things to go. May have to wait til this weekend to get a one week later before and after feel.

Other observations: my pee is a deep deep yellow and I’ve been feeling a little jittery.

you’re soooo lucky you didn’t get it on your face! THAT hurts(your face swells out like five inches, with blisters that ooze and you wanna scratch em really bad)!

Jake, indeed!

I have a question, are little things that come up on your leg or hand for example that are white, is this an example of poison oak?

Uh, Bob, you should probably see a doctor.

wow man you’ve probably seen it all, right? I feel for you, deeply.

dude that must be painful I hope youget better or have you gotten better and send more pictures

i hate poison ivy with a passion of a thousand suns, i happen to have it bad on my face all swollen and puffy with oozing sores lovely eh.? got shot up and sent home with a cream i really hope this goes away soon.

Well, I am/have been immune to poison ivy, but apparently I am not immune to poison oak. :( I have it on my arms, ear lobes, chest…*sighs* at least the sores I have look the same to the sores on the legs in the pic. Time to be more careful in the yard.

i was just diagnosed with this. mine wasn’t as bad as yours, but i thought i had some freaky parasite infection because i was swimming in a lake a week prior to rummaging through the forest. damn, your legs look exactly like mine!!! gross. :)

i have a red rash on the back of my leg and 3 scabs from scratching it until my skin tore open at the early stages(i’ve had it for almost a week now) i don’t have any blisters its just a dark red rash and it sucks :[ i cover it in calomine lotion when is this gonna go away!?

Hey could it be like all over your body eventually? Like randaom spots everywhere, that are bid, itch, ooze, then finally heal?

holy crap, ouch man!!!

Well, I just spent about a thousand dollars on some dumb L.A. Dr. that thinks I have a serious wound that will require months of therpy. He wrapped it in a conpression bandage which was 4 layers thick and really tight. Gooped it up with greasy ointment. My regular Dr. still did not know what if was. But she thought I should not wrap it and should use calimine loation. It started to clear after the first appliction. I was looking for land in Utah last week. Gee I bet a Dr. in Utah would have know what it was right away.

I got some damm poison oak when I was out burying my beloved pet hamster. Took almost two weeks to manifest and then hit me like a truck. Awful!

My sister gets poison ivy and oak all the time from caring for racoons as a rehabber. She swears by jewelweed. It can be purchased in small vials at the health stores and is applied topically. It gets rid of the itching and drys up the blisters real fast!

If they still make it, “Sure” Anti-perspirant can be sprayed on your skin BEFORE going into an area that may have ivy. It will keep the oils from getting into the skin. Put clothes into hot wash then take a good shower with plenty of soap and you should be good. Saw that on the news years ago and it works.

Thats gross, what happened after that? Did you call a doctor or hospital right away? I only saw poison oak before.

horror story: had poison oak for weeks, but was diagnosed upon sight [w/o any tests] as having SCABIES so i had to continue about my daily routine thinking i had this disgusting parasite [which wouldn’t go away?] and not knowing how i got it- ew! the treatment 4 that made the poison oak MUCH worse. then on week three i went to the hospital and was finally given some shots to help heal it up. my god, for having gone to medical school, docs don’t always know much huh?

dude omg mine is worse than yours and it wont stop itching!!

its one my arms and covers my feet up to my mid thigh. how did you get it to stopp????!?!?!?!

eric, go to the doctor, get a steroid shot, and steroid pills afterwards.

thank you justin. i received the steriod pills and a shot.
i also now have bruising on my shins because of the swelling.