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Ah well, I guess a little b*tching is the answer to the healing process! I'm doing MUCH better today! Looks like it will be another week or so before it's healed though.

Guess it affects everyone differently. My friend who grew up on the island described my experience perfectly. First, a bit of itching and redness, sort of like poison oak or ivy. Then after a few days, developed into pimple or ant bite-like blisters. So I tried the Windex/Benadryl spray/Vinegar at that point and I've learned that that was the worst time to use it (perhaps better at the begining stages). Those little buggers popped and it was just a discusting mess. I took my friends advice which was to use the cortesone and/or calamine lotion and so now they're just tiny scabs but clearing up so life is good!!

Sorry for the bad visual!!

I'm thinking Prednisone is similar to cortesone...?

Geez, TQ!! Post some pix!!

Ya, I thought about taking some pics but didn't want the reminder... :P

It's clearing up now. I think just one of those things that has to "run it's course".

By Nov. I'm sure it'll be cleared up! lol

My divemasters always use baby oil around necks & cuffs of suits and don't seem to suffer much. I've only once had it badly - really badly - and I found that standing under a shower as hot as I could bear totally removed the itching. Perhaps the hydroids were killed or washed off or whatever, but for me it worked. Don't do it straight after a dive though, as you can provoke DCS - leave it 3 or 4 hours.

Otherwise anything with ammonia in it works, including pee. I did use WD40 once when I had bad itching from midge bites in Scotland and had nothing else. It worked, but oh! was it messy.

You know, the weird thing is it never really itched that badly. And, I didn't get it where the area was covered but rather where I was exposed... perhaps I got it's cousin or something.

Thanks.

You all have to keep in mind their are all kinds of unfreindly little guys in the water. Those who are new in the water are so busy looking at the reef and fish etc they dont scan the water for the many other small jellyfish in it. They are small 1/2 inch with stringers that will sting you. Not to get alarmed I would say I see them of some sort about 1 time in 20 I go in the water and I am in the water alot.But the pica pica are tiny larva that only sting you when they are caught under your suit. Others may have the same effect.So will the fire coral if you are slipping over underwater cement walls etc, like at the split.