 [ Symptoms ] i have a sharp pain in my left ear i have a sharp pain in my left ear ear feels plugged and itching but there is no wax the only thing i can see is some white powdery stuff in the ear canalcoming out from the canal pain gets worse when moving the ear lobe and touching the back of the ear &amp the opening of the ear canal a week back i suffered from the same illness and visited an ent surgeon he clean the ear and applied beclomin ointment and prescribed glevo tablets for a week but again i am in the same situation please help [ Disease ] so i see that some people insist poison ivy cannot return months later and others say it can and who is right absolutely the people who say it can return are right last summer i had poison ivy around my ankles many months later in the winter a milder version of the rash returned i was not wearing the same clothes not sleeping on the same sheets and not touching anything i had used outdoors i was not working outdoors at all moreover even now a year later though i do not have the rash around my ankles if i scratch my skin in that area the red bumps and the itching will return currently i am recovering from poison ivy rash primarily on my face and neck  unrelated to last year is episode i have taken prednizone for a week and never again will i take a stereoid no wonder all those nfl players are killing people i have washed all my clothes sheets etc in hot water twice the rash on my face has almost disappeared but i have little outbreaks here and there in odd places like a bump on my arm or on my back but i have not worked outdoors in more than 2 weeks the poison ivy  as someone else said  is surely in my system i wish i could prove it so that people like me tormented by this vicious plant would not look for answers and receive erroneous ones from so called professionals what has worked better for me than anything is white vinegar it stings on the bumps and openings in the skin but the stinging is not worse than the itching i apply it liberally with drenched cottonballs until my skin is dripping and i wait for it to dry naturally then i rub itch all over the now dry area there may be better methods but the vinegar dries it out makes thick scabs hideous but effective the scabs fall off fairly soon so thick they make a plopping sound when they fall ugh gross  i have been able to sleep with this method maybe having to get up once in the night to reapply the vinegar or just grope for the itch and rub some in  whereas last year using other treatments i could not sleep other treatments  vick is vapo rub clorox so good for your liver cortizone creams and other over the counter meds have not done so well have not tried tobacco but i am an x smoker and if there is anything that makes me want to smoke it is lying awake all night scratching  so i had to forget that a pox take the next creep who writes that the best treatment is avoidance  i hope you get to dance to the tune of poison ivy at least once the plant is everywhere  i hope this helps some other poor sufferer itchy scratchy