Hours later a red lump appeared about the size of a Canadian dollar ,what we call a looney..lol, Anyway there was a lot of pain , dizziness,the area was hot to touch,my lymph node on the left side of my face under my ear was swelling, So I decided on the way home i would stop into the walk in clinic and see a Doctor ,he refused to believe it was a spider bite stating we don’t have spiders that bite at this time of year in Alberta.. yeah right,

He gave me antibiotics, three days later the scab formed the skin was dead..I went and seen… another Doctor she gave me more meds…I had a fever and chills face was swollen and my eye was almost swollen shut ,under my eye was filled with fluid

PS I was on vacation now in Banff Canada with my family,I spent the entire week at the lodge in our room,To weak and fatigued to go anywhere. It sucked, dam spider ..Well when we got home i went to the hospital since now I have a nasal infection and my sinuses are all clogged up, I think this was because of the spider bite…the doc gave me a tetanus shot and a topical ointment.

Exactly 1 month to the date and the scab fell off leaving a crater on my face like a chicken pox scar.I will continue to use the ointment for infection and moisture so hopefully the skin will continue to knit and heal. I have to say I am now more afraid of spiders and will be for sometime.

That being said, the best way to keep these crawlers out of your home is…spiders! I know that seems odd, but it has to be the right kind of spiders. The three best are 1: Jumping Spiders. They are those little fuzzy, compact spiders you see on windows and plants. They twitch from side to side, jump from place to place and often have really big eyes and often white spots. Their primary prey is other spiders. They will attack, kill and eat them! They are harmless to you and will even crawl on your hand without harming you.

2: Wolf Spiders. They are the big, nasty spiders (look at Roger B’s photo above. That’s a Wolf Spider. They also kill and eat other spiders. I caught one here at my home in Salt Lake City, and tossed it into a basement window well where a Black Widow was nesting. Two hours later, I had one Wolf Spider, one empty nest and no Black Widow! Wolf Spiders are a bit poisonous but not aggressive. 3: Daddy Long Legs, which technically isn’t a spider, but they too attack, eat and kill spiders.

I actually capture jumping spiders and turn them loose in my house. Since I’ve started doing that, I’ve only killed two Hobos this year. Before, I killed as many as a dozen. Here’s the formula. Two to three Jumping Spiders in the house. One Wolf Spider in the garage and one for every window well. Daddy Long Legs? Leave them alone when you see one. Don’t mess with the Daddy Long Legs. They are wanderers and really fragile. If you try to catch them, you’ll only hurt them.

I left in tears with yet another antibiotic prescription in my hand. (Which I never got filled, BTW.) Long story short…..SKIN SAVING ADVICE from one who’s been there: OK, I was dutifully taking the first meds as I mentioned above. I went into work, and fortunately, a massage therapist works directly across the hall. When she saw me, she immediately pulled me in, and massaged the sinuses all over my head and neck (not touching the bite area). She explained that the venom will hide in sinus cavities, and can re-appear later! GROSS! She then told me I would feel like I got hit by a truck the next day. Sure enough, the next morning I vomited tons of black stuff, which I assume was venomous. Meanwhile, the sore was not scabbing over yet, and was raw and red, about the size of a pencil eraser, with necrosis lurking in the shadows.

Another wise would recommended Collidal Silver, and told me it would dry out the infected area. Within hours after applying a little of that, the scab started to form, and the necrosis ceased! I swear this is true. So, if I EVER get bit again, and if YOU are bit, please don’t completely trust a regular physician, who will ply you with meds that may or may not help. (Although it may be necessary to treat a secondary infection only. It does no good for the bite itself.) All I can say is what worked for me….a massage and collidal silver. Thank God I am left with minimal scarring under my eye. It is noticeable, sort of like a big red chicken pox mark, but I can live with that, considering I could have lost half my face. My husband and I have now officially avenged every living Hobo on this planet.

The next few days it stayed the same size maybe a little bigger but it was peeling and I could see two like fang marks. It then turned black in the center and was still hard. Also before this was using neosporin and band-aid so very little drainage, left band-aid off because I thought it was going to heal because it stopped draining. after about a week black spot about size of a dime but still red size like quarter and raised greatly, It began to hurt much worse.

I put a band-aid on it last night and this morning their was more pain and it had drained a bit more. I took the band-aid off to change it and kind off touched around the wound sight and yellow stuff poured out, mass. I wanted to get sick it was gross. Now there is a whole and it stings. I put neosporin on it and band-aid but it hurts. I thought was bitten by brown recluse because I looked up the bite on the internet then found because I live in WA state it couldn’t be a brown recluse.

Looked like one from afar (saw one the other day in my bedroom but not going near it to find out) Now I am told it was a hobo but your bites don;t look like mine except maybe the one on the toe. Only worse. So what is it and is it going to get worse? Small hole in stomach at site so far.

2 Different spiders, I have a lot of these running around my place near Rochester NY.