Posted on 10/11/2009 9:28:50 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Something bit me this AM about 4 or so right on my left pinky finger where it joins the palm of my hand on the side.
Its just a small little red bump, with a very tiny little bump or head so tiny you can only see it under direct light.
It painful, like a ingrown hair, not excruciating.
But a bit of, I guess numbness extends into my pinky and towards my wrist, just enough to be aggravating and I feel a bit woozy, not sick.
Everything I can find on the big two (Black Widows and Brown Recluses) says the wound will be bigger and VERY painful and that I will be very ill not just woozy.
Anyone else ever been bitten by a critter that felt this way?
I didn't see a spider or any other bug for that matter, I rarely see them inside anyway, maybe one a month and its usually just your garden variety spider. But then again from a distance a Brown Recluse looks a bit garden variety-ish...
I was bitten by a spider in my sleep while visiting friends in Omaha. Thought it was a bee sting at first, but a nurse friend confirmed it was a spider bite. The bite puncture was very small, but the area around it turned red immediately, a little bigger than a size of a old silver dollar. It remained red and raised for three weeks, itched like crazy as it healed, then disappeared, only to reappear when I got really warm, usually when working out. Its now completely gone. It took over a month for it to go away. No clue what kind of spider it was.
Black Widow would be extreme pain.
Brown Recluse would not even be noticed untill
you get a blister that will cave in to look like a volcano.
Other then that, I dunno.
I've been bit by recluse spiders but that never hurt. You usually don't realize you've been bit until the area swells up and the center of the bite starts to darken, dissolve and expand much later.
Do you have those little 1 inch scorpions in your area? They don't leave much of a welt, if any but you sure know it when they sting you and you do get numb. Sometimes you can carry them in on your shoes and find them later as they look for cover.
PINGING a friend that may be able to help you.
What state do you live in? Any pets? Could it be a tick? The numbness makes me think it’s some sort of spider unless you have Scorpions. But I think a Scorpion would have awakened you if you were sleeping.
I’ve been stung by a Scorpion and it made my finger numb. Also Fire Coral, Carpet Anemone’s and those green fuzzy Caterpillars. Most likely it was a spider of some sort, but the wooziness is odd. How long have you been woozy from it? If it was me, I would call my doctor, explain the symptoms, see what he says.
MIllipedes and centipedes can also bite and cause problems, especially to people who are more sensitive to insect bites and venoms to begin with.
“No clue what kind of spider it was.”
Maybe Brown Recluse.. See my previous post.
With that, the skin will rot and the area will continue to grow. When first diagnosed, treatment is with large doses of cortisone. Untreated, anything can happen, up to requiring skin grafts.
Brown Recluse is an indoor spider and hides in old papers , gloves, and piles of clothes.
Black Widows live in cool, damp and dark areas, like underground water cutoff valves, or damp tool sheds. Their bite is very painful.
I know of no other poisonous spiders in the US, other then in the southwest.
Also could be a bedbug kind of bite.
Poison Center at 1-800-222-1222
Watch it closely. It may be nothing, but don't ignore it if it gets worse.
I wish our Scorpions were one inch. They are big and black. Some of them 6-7” including their tails. Kids like to catch them and cut the stinger off and play with them. If you are outside from June- November, you better have shoes on. They come out at night. Disgusting beasts.
I’m not much help, got what appeared to have been a mystery bite on the inside of my left elbow in my sleep myself. Pain deep into the elbow joint, to the point that I wondered if it wasn’t some sort of puncture wound that left debris inside, instead of a bite. But, there were clearly two red marks, close together, one far more severe than the other. Took a month to heal, and left a slightly raised, depigmented whitish scar about the size of a vaccination scar.
No idea what it was.
I agree. The wooziness worries me.
Where do you live? I live in Northern Wisconsin and just want to know if I should move even farther north?
Yeah I think I’ll go have it looked at. I’m not far from an ER that is usually pretty slow.
The thing has me a bit confused, cuz its so small. I always thought bad spider/bug bites would grow pretty fast as the venom was absorbed into the surrounding skin.
I have been bitten by brown recluse and they are dangerous.
There is a simple cure for the bite though. If you have access to nitro patch, like heart patients use, cut it to the size of the bite and place directly over. It will open the infected area for white corpuscels to clean up. It will work on “old” brown recluse bites, even months after bit. Do that once a day until it appears to be healing. It will not take as long as you think. Might get headache from nitro, depending on size of patch when cut down.
It really sped the haling of mine.
One once bit my sister.
I didn’t know you had big giant ones in Ruskin, I thought all native species east of the Mississippi were these little brownish gray ones [I’m not far from you, up in Pasco and have never seen them here.] The ones you describe sound like excapees from the pet trade that have become well established. They aren’t pretty, that’s for sure.
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