black widow bites
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No meds, they treat it symptomatically unless it's real bad. My foot swelled up for a couple days, it hurt really bad, but that was about it. I'm a big guy so I got off easy; it's worse for children or smaller people, and also depends on how much venom you get.
Why??
Why??
you're going to die.
my dad was bitten by one a couple months ago while on a job, so he says, and looking at his leg, there is a dark area, 1" diameter, with a swollen area about 3" diameter, surrounding it. swelling isn't too bad, but i noticed it. i asked if he had it taken care of and he said "yeah, you know, they gave me some stuff to put on it." like myself, he doesn't really think twice about things. i mean, at another job, he ended up hanging 15' above ground by the band of his watch. all he had to say was "yeah, that watch is about as old as you are."quadricolour said:
he hasn't died yet, so i'm mainly just a little concerned about the swelling.
Most of the infections that get blamed on spider bites are staph infections that are resistant to normal drug treatments, thats why people think they are spider bites. My guess is if you have one and it doesnt get treated you are going to have an oozing sore, kind of like a boil for a couple of months and its going to hurt. Thats assuming that it doesnt spread. Recently there have been some news about the staph spreading in gym classes and particularly wrestling.
just be glad it wasn't a brown recluse bite...
After a month or so I'd probably go back to the doc if it was still all freaky looking and not starting to heal.
I got bitten on the knuckle of my ring finger by a black widow...it was f*cken gross. It hurt like a bitch. My whole hand got all swollen and black and blue and the actual bite developed into a pea sized boil that oozed bloody, green sh!t. It was really painful...so painful I went to the urgent care and they gave me a shot of some antibiotic, and had me double up on the oral antibiotics for 10 days. There were red streaks going up my arm and it felt like my arm was broken, no kidding. It was really gross and painful for about a week and then the skin just dried up...and it took months for the skin to grow back where the ulcer was. I STILL have a purple mark on my knuckle. F'n bitch black widow...he was in my bed!
the Inbred said:
Yes...I f'n HATE spiders...with all my might...and I always have. Last night I got home from snowboarding and I went to get in the shower...I turned on the water and I was about to step in and there was a HUGE brown thick bodied spider crawling up onto the water turner on-er thing from my shampoo bottles and stuff...it made for a very uneasy shower...I washed him down the drain with hot water. I didn't want to touch where he walked...BLECH!
And yeah...how gross was that...a black widow in my BED! He bit me while I was asleep. I recall I had been out partying that night and it was around the time I discovered Goldschlager, so I'm hoping he died immediately of alcohol poisoning. It was like 9 years ago and I STILL have a mark on my knuckle!
I have that reaction pretty much to most insects...my older brother used to torment me with bugs and spiders. Roaches are extra nasty. The only bug I've been ok with, is a praying mantis that I can look at from the other side of a window while it sits on my rose plants. He can't 'get' me with a window between us.the Inbred said:
Did you also create computer viruses and play Dungeons and Dragons?clancy98 said:
Yeah...AND they wear tights...H8R said:
i dont like spiders now!
