I was bitten twoo weeks ago by a brown recluse. My volunteer animal rescue job exposes me to many dangers, but this bite has scared me badly. I went to the ER a few days after the bite. At first I thought it was just another mystery bug bite and I get many of those. The DR at the ER yelled at me for waiting so long. I was pretty sick from it and he didn't do anything to help me understand it. He put me on Cipro and pain pills. I quit the pain pills because the side effects from the Cipro were bad enough. I suffer from panic disorder, panic attacks and several other related disorders and can only work with animals and not people so it was hard when I had to return to the ER after having a reaction to the meds because the dr here is so mean. I went ahead and left the ER and came on home because the nurse said the dr would get mad if we called and disturbed him. It was twenty minutes until eleven at night. WELL EXCUSE ME, I WILL JUST GO OUTSIDE TO DIE THANK YOU. I live in a very small town with a very strange dr. Anyway, I took something to calm me and I finally went to sleep. I am putting something called Mellalouca Oil on the bite. It helps alot. Made it drain. I may have escaped the necrosis. I don't know yet.
Does nayoen know when I will feel better? I am not sure if it is the bite or the anti biotics making me sick.
Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.
P.S. I consider myself to be a pretty tough person, but this little spider is apparently tougher.
For about two weeks now I have been waking up with what I can only describe as spider bites (about ten or twelve over the past two weeks) on my thighs and backside. They don't hurt, and only itch if I start scratching at them. A few would get a tiny pustule in them but after I'd pop it and squeeze the junk out (sorry, gross, I know) they would heal in a couple of days. One got pretty nasty, kind of oblong and about an inch in length but it's completely cleared up now, only took two or three days. Other than that I have not experienced any kind of ill health. I feel as good as I always do. Also, I haven't noticed and blackening or the white ring thing associated with the bullseye pattern or anything.
Anyway, I figured they were spider bites so I set up three RAID foggers in my apartment yesterday. I let them do their thing while I was at work, came home, threw them out and let the place air out.
Sure enough, I was sitting on my couch about to head off to bed last night when I looked over at the arm of the couch and saw a light brown/beige spider walking along pretty quickly. I actually cuaght it under a glass and still have it. I did some looking online and all I can find that looks like it is a brown recluse. It's too small for me to see if it has a fiddle on it, but it's still big enough that I could fit it on a quarter. Pretty long back legs too.
The structure of the body is the spitting image of a recluse though, and the color. I can't see close enough to check the eyes out though. One question I have is about the two little arm-like things at the front of the head area, I guess the venom injectors or whatever. Down towards the tips they are black. The rest of the spider is completely light brown/beige.
I got so freaked out I slept at a hotel last night. Sounds extreme I know but with the bites I have I didn't want to risk it. The guy who checked me in told me his sister got bit by one just one town over (Hampton, VA, I live in Newport News, VA).
I have a pest control techincian going to my apartment today to take a look at the spider to try and identify it, but I guess my question is this:
Can you get bit by these things and not have a bad reaction or necrosis? I mean, the spots I have are like mosquito bites that don't itch unless I actually touch them and some of them (but not all) get a little pustule in the center of them. They seem to heal pretty completely after a few days. Does this sound possible from a bite if this is a recluse? Is it possible for someone to have this kind of reaction to these bites? Maybe not be susceptible to the degree others are?
I guess the foggers didn't work so now I'm a bit paranoid.
Sorry for addressing this to "All" but I wasn't sure who to ask.