Mine was slightly larger than a nickle and had a definite center bite with a red ring at the outer edge.
I didn't realize I had been bitten either, and when my back muscles started hurting, I slapped a hot heating pad on it....(probably fried the sucker)
I never saw the spider and when my husband started to apply some ointment to my muscles he found the bite.
The next morning I went to Urgent Care and the doctor put me on Keflex, a broad spectrum antibiotic for a week.
It's still there, but much faded now.
NICKEL!
Sheesh, Guenie!
I checked with Google today because I’m soooooo tired, but there are no brown recluse spiders in this part of North America. I got bit by an Arizona recluse spider.
When I saw the blisters that evening, I immediately put on Gentramycin and a Band-Aide. The next three days and today, I put on an antihistimine and have taken oral antihistimines. Still the same size, but has not spread, so I think I have it under control.
Sorry about your bite. Who would know? You don’t feel the bite untll the blisters show and the red/purple round nickel, quarter or half dollar shape appears. And then you see the bite wound. Uggghhhhh.
I think I’m tired from Benadryl, that drug always makes me tired.
I hate antibiotics. Last time I took them was when the kitten was playing with me and the next morning I had blisters between my fingers. The following day at my husband’s insistence I was at the doc. Had I waited a couple more days I would have had a blood infection and been in the hospital. And, yes, I was on Keflex, too. Of course, you take antibiotics because something is wrong and you feel sicker. DUH!
Glad you and I both survived. I’ll be back on WFTD in full force and effect next Monday.
Thanks for writing!