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  • Toyman01

    Sept. 11, 2011 7:46 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork

    I spent the day, yesterday, helping my Dad take out some dead trees around his house. Two 70' pines, and a 4' diameter live oak. Ran chain saws, backhoes, moved monster pieces of tree. The only injury was a sting I got just after getting a shackle out of a tractor mounted tool box. I didn't think anything about it at the time, I've been stung by just about every bee known to man with no effect. I never saw this one, so I don't know what it was. Last night it started itching. This morning it had puss in it. By this afternoon it was red and swollen. Talking to a couple of friends, general consensus is brown recluse. Crap.

    Time to go to the Doctor.

    The doctor didn't know what it was, but gave me some antibiotics to take. I guess we'll see.

  • fornetti14

    Sept. 11, 2011 7:50 p.m. fornetti14 HalfDork

    I had bee stings for years until one time... mine looked like that and I swelled up bad. Antibiotics and I was all good (haven't been stung since).

  • Osterkraut

    Sept. 11, 2011 8:17 p.m. Osterkraut SuperDork

    AIDS.

  • Sept. 11, 2011 8:24 p.m. spitfirebill SuperDork

    I'm no expert, but I thought Brown Recluse bites didn't show up for a few hours. Black widow bites on the other hand show up almost instantly.

  • Toyman01

    Sept. 11, 2011 8:26 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork

    This happened yesterday about noon. At the time, just a little burn and a dot on my arm. 24 hours later, it looks like like crap.

  • Sept. 11, 2011 8:27 p.m. TRoglodyte HalfDork

    If it was a Fiddleback CRAP would be more appropriate. Watch it closely and go back to the doc if it gets any worse. Recluse bites are very bad juju.

  • Zomby woof

    Sept. 11, 2011 8:30 p.m. Zomby woof SuperDork

    I'll second that. Be careful where you stick your arm.

    Doing some work on the car the other day, I grabbed a battery from the barn, lifted it, and turned at the same time. Right into a rusty nail head sticking 3 inches out of a support post. It went in about 1 1/2" at about 5 o'clock on that pic Note to self. Slow down next time.

  • Sept. 11, 2011 8:34 p.m. TRoglodyte HalfDork

    At least it was bleeding, had a tetanus booster lately?

  • 4eyes

    Sept. 11, 2011 10:00 p.m. 4eyes HalfDork

    The brown recluse bite that I had looked like a miniature snake-bite. Two distinct holes. (:) If it was a BR, you have an interesting few days ahead of you.

  • oldsaw

    Sept. 11, 2011 11:50 p.m. oldsaw SuperDork

    Zomby woof wrote:

    I'll second that. Be careful where you stick your arm.

    Doing some work on the car the other day, I grabbed a battery from the barn, lifted it, and turned at the same time. Right into a rusty nail head sticking 3 inches out of a support post. It went in about 1 1/2" at about 5 o'clock on that pic Note to self. Slow down next time.

    Buff it out............

  • Appleseed

    Sept. 12, 2011 12:04 a.m. Appleseed SuperDork

    "Fiddle-dee-dee! That will require a tetanus shot..."

  • wbjones

    Sept. 12, 2011 4:27 p.m. wbjones SuperDork

    I could hotlink these but they're sorta disgusting so I'll just post a link

    brown recluse bites....

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=brown%20recluse%20spider%20bite%20stages&...

  • Toyman01

    Sept. 12, 2011 7:16 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork

    Well, here's the update. After 48 hours, 24 on the meds, swelling is down, redness is down, and the nasty little dot in the middle is looking more like a freckle than a sewer drain. Still itches some, but I can live with that as long as my arm doesn't rot off. So all seems to be good here.

  • Toyman01

    Sept. 12, 2011 7:18 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork

    In reply to wbjones:

    Yeah, I was looking at some of those last night. Some of them are enough to make you loose your dinner.

  • Sept. 12, 2011 7:45 p.m. TRoglodyte HalfDork

    With age you may be losing your tolerance for bee stings and such , not that anyone here is aging.

  • Toyman01

    Sept. 12, 2011 8:09 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork

    That thought has crossed my mind. Not that I'm aging or anything.

  • Sept. 12, 2011 8:23 p.m. TRoglodyte HalfDork

    None of us are, we are the immortals.

  • 16vCorey

    Sept. 13, 2011 8:08 a.m. 16vCorey SuperDork

    Unless you're elderly or an infant, you'll be fine. My girlfriend was bitten by a brown recluse on day one of a three day canoe trip in the middle of nowhere, and while it itched and turned some very interesting colors, she was fine. And she's a bit of a wuss.

  • Appleseed

    Sept. 13, 2011 11:41 a.m. Appleseed SuperDork

    Or a mutant.

  • pilotbraden

    Sept. 13, 2011 1:12 p.m. pilotbraden HalfDork

    TRoglodyte wrote:

    With age you may be losing your tolerance for bee stings and such , not that anyone here is aging.

    This is true. I had never been bothered by bee stings very much until 2005. I had a sting on my leg with very similar results to the photos on the original post. A week later I got stung again and had a very nasty reaction, itching all over my body, big bumps appearing, tunnel vision. dizziness and slurred speech. My girlfriend started to take me to the hospital. As I was loosing consciousness she called an ambulance that we met enroute to the hospital. A shot of adrenaline and some benadryl and I felt fine. Since then I have been stung about a dozen times. I have only had to use the Epi Pen one of those times.

  • 914Driver

    Sept. 13, 2011 1:20 p.m. 914Driver SuperDork

    I got hit by a yellow jacket two weeks ago, blew up big time! ITCH !!!

    My wife got hit, also in the back of the hand last weekend, her hand looks like a fat mitten.

    Never bothered either one of us before, Zombie Bees?

 
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