Shit, talk about coincidence,
I didn't get bit today but I was changing my furnace filter and about touched the biggest black widow I've ever seen.

The only reason I saw it was that it was hanging upside down in its web, showing off the red hour glass. I swear its body was as big as a blue berry.

I hope all turns out OK

haven't there been other threads about the brown recluse?

they are very venomous, but it is rare that the wound goes as far as necrosis. Necrosis is the bad shit. Its good you didn't wait around to see what happens.

Hope its okay.

Edit: Wow, morphine!?

This thread needs more pics.

brown recluse spider bites.

i'm not posting them. just click on the link and see a bunch.

gross.

garble wrote:Edit: Wow, morphine!?

I was thinking Tramadol might be better. Does anyone know where I can get some?


On the serious tip, this thread may have saved a life! Salut, posters in this thread!

Linus Van Pelt wrote:On the serious tip, this thread may have saved a life! Salut, posters in this thread!

Please excuse me while I take all the credit.

<holds arms out like Jesus>

crap I had no Idead brown recluses could live up north here

vance wrote:3. Thanks all for getting me convinced to go to the hospital.

Be sure you keep a careful watch on the wound, and definetly go in for a check up with the doctor. In rare cases bites from the Brown Recluse can remain active even several years after the initial bite. Hopefully that won't be the case though, as it's very rare.

Good luck to you. Quite a horror story there really. I wonder why there were suddenly so many spiders in the booth there with you. Odd.

from what I know, the average brown recluse bite wound is blown way out of proportion. I happend to hear from a friend who was bitten by one, he was down in texas as duck guide for a summer. don't get me wrong it's still something you want to avoid as he got really sick. the symptons of his bite included, acheness, fever, cold-sweats and nausea. he was pretty sick for about a week. the actual wound from what he described, it was tiny, and red. the skin around the bite doesn't erode, or crater like all those fake google pictures.

sack of smashed assholes wrote:the skin around the bite doesn't erode, or crater like all those fake google pictures.

It doesn't in all cases, but it can. I don't think those pictures are faked.