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Here is the latest of mine - I had to press my arm up to the glass on the scanner while the scanner went through it's high res scan. So some of the redness does not appear since I had my arm press against the glass. The core is is slightly bigger now and about 1/16" of inch across. The first outer ring is about 3/8" of inch across. 2 new blisters have popped up and are those smaller reddish dots directly to the right and left of the core. the rashy dry skin area around it seems to be on one side only right now and is about 1" in diameter. The core is sunken in with the first outer ring being raised, It almost looks like a cigarette burn that is healing. It is itching like crazy and hurts to even have anything touch it lightly.

I do not think will get very bad, it may end up leaving a small 3/8" diameter core that will eventually turn black and flake out leaving a scar and a slight crater in my arm. As I said I will keep an eye on it and if it is worse by Monday I will see my doctor. I know the one on the back of head a couple years ago stayed about this size for quite some time before it expanded to about 3/4" across with a huge crater. The larger it gets the longer it takes to heal.

Do yourself and your family a favor and at least go buy some bug foggers from Wal-Mart and set them off and leave the house for few hours. Then do a hunt for dead spiders and check their backs for the violin or fiddle shape on their backs, on young ones it is harder to see the fiddle shape. Make sure you open up your closets as I bet yours may have been inside your clothes when you put them on.

Gee I have hairy arms!

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Mine has completely stopped itching, and I can rub it real hard and barely feel any pain...But mine was never painful as you describe.

Today mine is swollen about 1/4 of what it was yesterday, and the redness has died down to a light pink. The second hole, which was barely visible yesterday is now very obvious. There are two dark holes, not black but very dark reddish-brown.

Whatver it was that bit me, the wound seems to be going into remission, and feels more like a slight puncture wound or scratch now, as opposed to the really itchy expanding bump I had over the past couple days.