I’ve been bitten on the foot by a cooperhead.
Did not receive anti-venom from the hospital I went to..
still cost me out of pocket 3K+ with 80% emergancy coverage, they only did blood test, marked the swelling, watched it for an hour or so. that’s it.
correct about the tourniquet - don’t want to contain venom in one area because it will do mass damage to less tissues as apposed to spreading lighter damage to more tissue.
She felt a sting - When the snake got me I felt loud painful pop, then after I flung the snake about 20 years it felt better. It felt OK for about 3 hours so I went to bed, but when I woke up I couldn’t stand up because it was so painful so I went to hospital. Doctor said give it 24 hours and it all downhill from there. Not in my case, it kept getting worse till eventual the swelling was above my knees and 3 days later, then it started to get better.
Good to have the first-hand experience laid out. My info is from listening to those who handle snakes and observation (saw a handler get bit at one of the rattlesnake roundups). Then there are the intangibles such as one’s personal susceptibility to the venom - some are less sensitive than others. I got bit by a brown recluse some years ago and the pictures on the internet show a guy with about 2 pounds eaten out of a gaping wound in his thigh. I had a small black pit and some redness around the bite. Got two doses of IV antibiotics because there were pink runners moving from it and the lymph nodes in my groin were swollen. It took a long time for the scar to go away (pit ended up about the size and depth of a dime), but no real nasty effects.