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The affected area was around an 8" diameter and about 10 degrees hotter than the rest of my body at the worst. Luckily my immune system kicked in high gear around day five and two days later it had shrunk to the point that the doctor knew I would be OK. I have only a small scar (about the size of a chicken pox scar) left on my arm.

Yours sounds like my husbands. He got a headache so bad he almost cried. He was bitten in his recliner. Two times on the face, once on the neck, and twice in the back of his head on the hair line. Some anit-biotics worked on him. Little chicken pox scars are all that remain.

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unattended brown recluse bite caused this;
after ten days looked it looked like this before getting any better

VERY GRAPHIC