Zanfel

Funny how the world works sometimes.  Turns out the CEO of Zanfel read my last blogpost and had one of his representatives call me to offer me some advice on how to treat this massive systemic case of Poison Oak I have going on here.  And the timing could not have been more perfect because I had yet again another miserable sleepless night last night and woke up this morning with THREE new outbreaks all over my body.  TWENTY days in and I'm still getting new flare ups.  This is beyond ridiculous at this point.  The rep (Hi Daniel!) was incredibly kind and helpful and suggested I not do my tapering dose of Prednisone that I was supposed to start today but rather up the dose to avoid a massive "relapse" (which is where I was heading if I hadn't spoken to him.)  They are also graciously sending me a few free tubes of Zanfel to help ease my suffering while the prednisone keeps trying to do its thing and flush this Urushiol oil out of my bloodstream.  Previous to this miserable situation I currently find myself in, I honestly had no clue just how utterly debilitating and miserable a severe reaction to poison oak could be.   And the ONLY thing that has brought me any relief whatsoever has been the Zanfel cream.  But, because I have such a massive all over my body case, it was too cost prohibitive for me to be using it frequently throughout the day so I am incredibly grateful to the CEO of the company to have taken the initiative to contact me after reading my post and offering me some much needed relief from my pain and maddening itchiness.   I honestly can't begin to describe what this experience has been like.   Additionally, my flu bug has morphed into bronchitis so I basically spend my entire day and night hacking up a lung every few minutes.  I swear, I feel like my body is shutting down on me.  It's mind boggling.  back to the doctor I go today to get more of that nasty Prednisone (sigh....) and just continue to hope and pray my body can and will eventually overcome this allergic reaction.   A HUGE thank you to the CEO of Zanfel for his thoughtfulness and consideration.   My advice to you, if you EVER get any exposure whatsoever to Poison Oak/Ivy, immediately do a wash with Zanfel and then you can get rid of all the oils right then and there and avoid the situation from becoming systemic and resulting in a long, drawn out, miserable case like mine.    I promise to have a real blog post up one of these days when I am functioning again. Thanks for your patience everyone! :)