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Had a brn recluse bite middle finger...almost had to cut it off..”which would have reduced my ability to respond competitively in heavy traffic by upwards of 50%” any way...after a 25yr old female somoli “ dr.” working for the most Infamous clinic in north america in could not identify the problem ... In desperation I googled it.found out it was a brn recluse bite...anti biotics are good...burning it out with a hot iron is good....but the best apparently is an electric current passing through the wound combined with antibiotics it negates the toxin causing necrosis ...I would like to take this opp. to WARN THE SHT OUT OF ANYONE WITH A BITE donot go to sleep...do not get drunk do not eat pain meds and hope it gets better....Get some anti biotics and fry the wound w heat or a stun gun...do it when its small...dont wait....dont put it off....OF COURSE IM NOT A DR.!you certainly
dont have listen to me....Im just a guy who can still flip you off with EITHER hand because I ate antibiotics and fryed the wound myself while it was still dime size....GLTUA

ps hydrogen peroxide also seems to help debilitate the toxins effect.
pss I think I can climb better now...call me Psychosomatic if ya want I dont care.,........:)

Not sure what got me. There were about 30 little red dots and a few hours later 20+ had become 1/4 inch black spots. Antibiotic and band-aids, the first round, and when I peeled those off, out came plugs of dead meat. I spent the afternoon with a jackknife and a large bottle of hydrogen peroxide I carry in my med bag, scraping out dead meat and irrigating wound sites. No fun.

A couple of debrieding/irrigation sessions later, the mess had stabilized, with the largest bite (open wound) about 5/8-3/4 inch across. they still burned, off and on, and the closest I can describe that is someone putting a cigarette out on the skin. The last of them scabbed over 3 months later--(I went through a LOT of band-aids--a tube of the silver chloride ointment, and a tube of basic triple antibiotic, and every dressing change I irrigated the wound sites with peroxide.

When I finally made it in to see a doctor, he said "I have never seen anything like that". (big help, that)

I did some research on my own and found out about spider bites. Considering, a limited venom load, some bites not festering, multiple bites all seem to point to a hatch in the bedding of the location housing I was staying in. I bagged up the linnens, put them outside (winter), and did not sleep in the bunk for the duration of the job. No new bites.

Next well, I had a different housing unit.

The last and largest to heal scabbed over after roughly 3 months, now it looks like I got hit with a shotgun (both feet, one shin).