Insect Bites – ID Help
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Can anyone help identify what keeps biting me? It is something in the house but I never see it.
I noticed a red bump that i thought to be a pimple on my chest. I tried over and over for 2 days to pop it but it wouldn’t pop. now it looks like a tiny bite on the middle and its red around. i squeeze it and clear liquid comes out of a few different places. i hope its not a spider but im not sure what else it could be.
i woke up on Thursday morning with a blackish dot on my cheek. i just thought it was a strange pimple. that night i pricked it and blood oozed from it. it is not a raised lump but in fact a deep one. the next morning it was sore and was a huge bump under the skin. by that afternoon it started to swell and the swelling has risen into my lower eyelid. its sore to the touch and when pricked, blood just pores out. what could it be? the large bump is not discolored , however where the head of the bump is, it is red and black (blood color)
please help.
I got bit under my thigh today, it hurt like a bee sting and I jumped up and yelled but there was no stinger. Initially, it looked like there was a circular small bite taken out of my thigh, like an apple bite, but now almost 7 hours later it’s a white bump and very small. It hurt all day, but the pain has dulled considerably. I live in Socal, so if anyone thinks they know what bit me pls let me know! Thanks
Anyone know what sort of creature caused this?
I was running errands on Sunday and became aware of a painful spot on my leg. I have dogs and cats, and assumed that I’d been scratched, so I just ignored it. When I was driving home from the pet store, I began feeling really, really sick – feverish, chills, shaking like crazy, etc. I got home, piled on blankets and sweatpants and fleece, and still couldn’t get warm. Finally I fell asleep and woke up again a few hours later. I’d taken some Advil so the fever & chills had calmed down a bit. I never made the connection between the fever and the bite, but the next day I realized that the area on my leg had swelled up and felt hard, had a blister in the center surrounded by a red area, and the red area was surrounded by a white ring. Today the blister is even larger and is about to pop. I covered the area with gauze to ease some of the pain from rubbing, but it’s not helping much. It hurts like heck and I’m limping around. At least the fever was gone by this morning.
I’m thinking spider bite. I live in NW Georgia and there are several spider species that could cause a reaction in a person, but I’m just curious to know what this might be. If there’s no improvement by Friday I’ll go to the doctor.
I am a 21 year old female living in Charlotte, North Carolina and I have had a scar on my leg as long as I can remember. It is slightly darker than the surrounding skin and slightly more grey-ish in color. The skin itself has a stretched look to it, like a healed burn might look. What is more is the fact that that particular spot is paralyzed, or permanently numb. It is about the size of a nickel and does not grow hair. When I asked my mom about it, she told me that when I was about two years old, she heard me crying and came running and found what looked like a bite on my leg.
Naturally she took me to the doctor like any terrified, loving mother would do – only she can’t remember what he said anymore. I’m guessing it must not have been dangerous, but I still want to know what kind of bug or spider could possibly do this? I mean, I know it’s small, but it still destroyed the nerve endings there so that I can’t feel and somehow managed to keep me from growing hair there. It seems like, if one were to be bitten in the wrong place, it could do some serious damage. Anyone have any idea about what it could be?
I woke up this morning with two small puncture like holes on my neck. It is slightly swollen and red it look kinda like there’s puss in the holes. I am in pain but have no other symptoms any one know what this could be?
Need to know if these are spider bites on his leg?
Everything here is about spider bite, what about flea bit or something else that you dont see? something is biting me in my bed that i don’t see. No it’s not bed bug. Can you help?
Hi my name is Marsha i live in GA and Iv been bitten by something on my right arm underneath and was wondering if you could tell me what may have bitten me.This will be the third time iv been bitten over the past two months and it always seems to happened during the night while I’m sleeping and it will always bite me either on my right arm underneath or me left arm underneath i have not found any other bites like this on any other part of my body.
The bite place is really big and red and looks as if it has a white ring around it and my arm is really sore and kinda itchy.I when to the ER and they said something did bite me and i now have soft tissues infection.
my 13 1/2 month old keeps waking up in the morning with 1/4 to 1/2 inch red bumps with a red area around it and keep getting a little bigger every day and center is turning into a whitish yellow core… please help identify what is biting her. doc already ruled out bed bugs. thank u they’re all on her face and some on her legs. (about 6 all together)
#492- did you ever find out what bit you?
Did it go away? I recently moved into an old house and was doing yard work Saturday. It wasn’t until Monday at work that I noticed I was bit. That evening when I got home I examined my calf further and their is a white pimplish bump that hurts like crazy.
Please let me if i need to go to the doctor or just use rubbing alcohol.
Anyone that knows the answer is more than welcome to give me a little feed back, laleeshw [at] aol.com
For all bites, unless bitten by a very poisonous insect, find something from the shops that bears the name of virgin coconut oil I’m sure you’ll find it amazing. I have tried it with bee bites and others.
A slightly raised, pale circle has appeared on my shoulder. It is not much different than my skin tone. it feels very bruised but shows no sign of it. I have this before, but without the pain. It is less than a centimeter around, and I suspect and hope it is just a bug bite.
Any idea what this is, and why is may hurt?
Hello. Lately I’ve been getting these bug bites that come up as pink bumps, the biggest being about the size of a quarter, and the smallest are a bit smaller than a dime. There are usually just a few of them, 5 at most, that appear in concentrated spots like my hand and arm or on my neck and face. They last for about a week and a half, and once they’re close to gone, new ones appear. They usually itch like crazy.
I’ve never actually seen what’s bitten me. Once or twice I’ve felt a little pain right before noticing the bite, but normally I don’t, and I’m awake when most of the bites appear. I’m also the only one in my house getting the bites; I live with both my parents. My mom is convinced they’re flea bites, but from images I’ve seen online they look nothing like flea bites. I’ve looked for signs of bed bugs, but I haven’t found any. Please help me identify them if you can.
hey
me and my husband have been bitten by something and we don’t know what it could be we recently bought a used bed and now we are experiencing small red bites on our bodies, it’s beginning to be really bad because we don’t know where there coming from or how were getting them. they are very small red bumps with a white center there is no puss or swelling but each time we check we find more and more.please if you have any idea please contact us and let us know
thank you
This is an image from a week after noticing the bite(the bite is on the hand, wrist area). The doctors have identified it as a spider bite, but we would like to know what type of spider this may have been from. after day 2 he started complaining of pain when lowering the hand. from day 4 on was having pains on the elbow joints.
We appreciate any input. Thank you!
This just doesn’t look like a normal blister.. any ideas?
Looks like a blister on the bottom of my foot, with a thin red ring, and weird shape a bit larger than a quarter but not “round.”
Thanks, Robert
Here the photo(s) of my insect bite.
Thanks a lot, I appreciate any kind of information!
I wanted to post this picture of a bite I got in northern Thailand. I wasn’t in the jungle or anything. I live in a town called Mae Sot and I was sitting at my dining room table when I think I got bitten. Actually I didn’t notice anything dramatic, but at some point, I noticed something strange on my foot, which i scratched. a few hours later, I started to feel pain all over my foot. That night, the swelling was very noticeable. I got nausea and chills but no fever.
This photo was taken about 36 hours after the bite happened. There is still swelling and redness, with a purple/black center to the open wound site. At 36 hours, the pain was still quite intense, made worse with any kind of activity and the swelling and pain prevented me from bending my foot in any way so i could hardly walk. There were a few red lines starting to creep up my leg and the redness was growing. I went to the hospital in my town, where the doctor told me I had been bitten…. by a mosquito. I was prescribed paracetamol (Tylenol) and ibuprofen. I’ve been icing it and today, day 3, the swelling and pain has gone down and I am getting better. Still, I would very much like to know what other people think because all I know is this wasn’t any kind of mosquito bite!
Thanks very much for your help and advice
Sincerely,
Jen
My husband started getting these small bites and I didn’t have any and then suddenly I started getting them to. We aren’t sure when we get bitten but it just pops up. Its a slightly raised small round itchy red bite with a tiny needle prick hole on the side of it. They aren’t in clusters, just kind of around our body sporadically.
I have 1 on my back, my chest and my leg. My husband has most of his on his inner thighs
Hi, I found your blog or something online, and it said to email you the picture of the bite to see what kind it is. I think I got this bite yesterday, the bite itself doesn’t look bad, just a spot with a bruise but ever since about that time I’ve been getting dizzy, and my right eye gets blurry sometimes. I don’t know its its related, but it seems to be. The picture isn’t great, its just through my phone and its hardly showing up. The bruise is much darker. Not like, soo dark but definitely noticeable. The same color as a vein, really. But yesterday, it was a red spot, and a small, but tall bruised bump. Today it is a small red spot again, with a bruise with a weird shape- above & below the spot, and to the left of it. My biggest concern is the dizziness, if you think it could be related. Any input is appreciated! Thank you!
-Kathleen
Something bit while sleeping… it’s a little itchy, but not too bad, any ideal what it might be?
Hi. Yesterday morning I went out paddling on the river where we live (South Africa), this is something we do almost daily. A few minutes into the paddle, I felt a stinging sensation on my upper leg, just inside my shorts. Didn’t think too much about it. I was aware of it for the whole paddle. When I got home, it looked like a Mosquito bite, but with a noticeable hole in the middle. It was not itchy, but burny. Later during the day, it formed a dark (dark red / purplish colour) mark in the middle, with the skin raised around it (quite a big area, but the raised skin is not red). It burns a lot, and is sore to the touch. I have no idea what this could be. I didn’t get to see what it was that bit me.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Still trying to figure out what bit my friend.
Rep; angelina #43. July 28th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
But if there is a deep hole in the center literally, a hole then you may have a parasite. Imbeded tick, bot fly, etc. I have seen the things.. If I have understood you the only thing to do is sufficate it. Petrolium jelly, or somthing thick. If it’s a a larvae it will die and fall out if it’s a tick it will suficate. If there is a local UNiversity talk to an entamologist. Most American Doctors literally wouldn’t know a Dr if it bit them.. Either way find some one who knows insects and parasites rather than some one who perscribes antibiotics. But don’t wait! good luck.
angelina
#43. July 28th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Hello I need to know please what’s wrong with me I have this big bite on my shoulders they look horrible I’ve been having this for almost two months now it seems like it grows and grows more I’m also getting it all around and it looks like a swollen worm.
It looks red and swollen please help it look like a ingrown hair or pimple but is not it has a deep hole inside and around it has redness and is swollen please help tell me what bit me please. Also I need to know what to put on my house so they stop biting please. Thanks!!!
Rep: Jennifer #620. January 28th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
symptoms sound more like a Tarantula bite, poisonus spider, or centipeed.
I suspect the last. The time table ans symptoms fit the best. Species Ostigmus I think, they can cause vesicles to form, be painful for several hours, nausia and even vomiting. can last up to 48 hrs on average. red could be a rxn to inflamation, chemicals in the bite or even noisom bacteria from the centipeed. I know more about desert varieties..
But to be safe. Did he test you for parasites? If you got bitten with by a mosqueto in tiland you may have picked up a nematode, or a virus, or a bacteria…
If it is a centipeed: Disenfect: I use iodie. Ice and take antihistamines. Good luck what ever you decide.
I wanted to post this picture of a bite I got in northern Thailand. I wasn’t in the jungle or anything. I live in a town called Mae Sot and I was sitting at my dining room table when I think I got bitten. Actually I didn’t notice anything dramatic, but at some point, I noticed something strange on my foot, which i scratched. a few hours later, I started to feel pain all over my foot. That night, the swelling was very noticeable. I got nausea and chills but no fever.
This photo was taken about 36 hours after the bite happened. There is still swelling and redness, with a purple/black center to the open wound site. At 36 hours, the pain was still quite intense, made worse with any kind of activity and the swelling and pain prevented me from bending my foot in any way so i could hardly walk. There were a few red lines starting to creep up my leg and the redness was growing. I went to the hospital in my town, where the doctor told me I had been bitten…. by a mosquito. I was prescribed paracetamol (Tylenol) and ibuprofen. I’ve been icing it and today, day 3, the swelling and pain has gone down and I am getting better. Still, I would very much like to know what other people think because all I know is this wasn’t any kind of mosquito bite!
I got a spider bite on my ear (kinda’ in the inside). The reason I say it is a spider bite is because you can see the two little dots that spiders usually leave. It is getting swollen and I have pain behind my ear and it is starting to run down the right side of my neck. The only thing you can see if the swollen part where the bite is. There is nothing where I am getting the pain but I am noticing that the pain is growing and hurting more.
I got bit stung probably several months ago. I didn’t catch what the bug looked like, I was taking out cardboard at my job and then all I know is it hurt like a son of a gun, and then swelled and turned very white like a bunch of venom was going in me. It was swollen for a couple days. And now its been months and i still have a spot on my hand that itches and feels like a bite, its not swollen tho. I’m poor and don’t want to go to the doctor if i don’t have to does any one know what this might be ?
hi! My son is seven years old and came home from a relatives house this weekend with a bite on his left wrist. It has four puncture sites and a very light red ring around the bite. He has had diarrhea and vomiting all day. (has had a slight temp of 98.9) A friend of his has the same symptoms but no bite (maybe a virus?). I can’t tell if the bite is related to the symptoms or not. I have boiled out the bites w/peroxide, this seems to have abated the itching. Any thing specific that I need to watch for? There also seems to be a slight fever coming from it. Thanks for the assistance!!!
Tena
i slept at a friends house and woke up with a bite mark on my back i went home and the bites multiplied. now i have 6 on my hands my forearm there is two my lower back there is about 26 and my somach has about 10 . 2 on my foot and 3 on my boobs . im freaking out they look exsactly like misquito bites but the ones on my back where welts . and they itch like crazy.
on the #299 that is a spider bite. Its from a common garden spider. We have them here in Colorado. If you use a mild lotion for itch it will pass. It takes a few days and will get better. Some are sore also but that will also pass. DO NOT POP THEM OR SQUEEZE them it will make the bite a whole lot worse and get very painful. The popping of them will release the poison into the blood stream and it can cause problems. Just leave the bite alone and it will go away after a few days. If you pop the bumps it will last for weeks.
I have the same bite as picture 17 on my arm. Been there for a few days and wouldnt go away. I messed with it and now its 3 times the area and beet red. Odd thing the area is real hot to me as well. Can someone tell me what the spider is that causes this damage? We live in the Pacific Northwest, good old Spokane WA/ And I have been bit by a brown recluse before. I dont remember these problems though
getting bit…do not see it or hear it. I live in the woods of southern Ohio.The bite are very itchy,raised and start getting itchy if I get to hot. I’ve tried to treat with cortisone cream. How do I identify something I don’t see?
I have small white welps on me, this has been going on for 3 days now. I get them they itch and go away within a hour or so. Seem to get them mainly while sleeping . Sometimes I get several small ones in a circle or line. ??? What in the world is this?
My 7 yr old was bit by something thought to be a spider bite. We didn’t know he had been bitten by anything and sent him to school the next morning. About an hour in we received a call that his right elbow was swollen, had two fang-looking marks, fever in the elbow, and red blotches around it. The picture I am sending shows his bite when we got to the ER (his pediatrician recommended we go straight there since it was swelling so quickly) He had visited my brother’s house the night prior and when I told my brother where we were and why, he informed that he killed two large wolf spiders later that evening my son had visited and one had babies on her back (maybe making her more aggressive?)
ER doc told us he couldn’t identify exactly what the bite was and treated with a large dose of antibiotics injected and a ten-day 500mg Keflex dose 3x day for home. Do these look like a wolf spider bite? My son said his arm “tickled” and felt like it was asleep but never hurt or itched? Can’t seem to find pictures of wolf spider bites anywhere. Your input is appreciated. We are fairly positive that this isnt a brown recluse, however, the doctor wasn’t so I’d like your advice. Thanks!!
Got bite 4 days ago on the back of my leg…I had no swelling..It looks like a little red Dot..It hasn’t bigger got nor smaller..but actually it looks the same… my only concern is my leg is very sore.. it has lighten up some, but still sore..I went to the doc. and she said it didn’t look like a spider bite, but just wondering when my leg soreness will go a way…..Thanks so much…I need feedback..
i got bit by a bug and i have 6 little bite marks in the center of forearm. It itches really bad and its very hard in the center. when i scratch it, it hurts. within the last couple of days the spot has started to cover up more of my forearm. Hopefully someone can help me out.
Thanks.
I woke up this morning with a bruise on my right foot but the weird thing is, I didn’t drop anything, run into anything, and I wasn’t stepped on. There’s no reasonable explanation for the bruise. I had been out by the campfire last night and wearing flip flops, and the mosquito were horrible. There are little red marks where the mosquito bit me but there is a huge circle around the top and center of my foot. As the day went on, the bruise stayed the same color, but it started to swell as time went on tonight. It’s about 4 inches in diameter and it hurts to walk. I showed my mom who said it’s most likely a spider bite and to give it a couple days to stop swelling. I took a picture on my phone that I’ll send, but I don’t know how well you can see it. Thank you for helping me!!
hi im drew and about 18 hours ago i woke up and noticed that my right knee was extremely sore and when i looked it looked like a giant pimple so of course i popped it thinking it would go away and i am having the same exact symptoms as the earlier comment by
Suzanne
#33. July 20th, 2007 at 11:11 am
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i have a hard bump above my temple it has a small hole like a bite it is sore. now i woke up and the side it is on my eye is puffy under it like water in it what is this?
on my right ankle i have a small circle of red bumps. they don’t hurt or itch really but i found it rather weird that 90% of the hair in the circle is gone. the circle is about the size of a dime or penny. any suggestions as to what this is or maybe just an allergic reaction. i am allergic to dust mites.
Last Monday, I noticed a red area (the size of a nickle) developing on my calf. Now, a week later, its about an inch in diameter and is black and blue in the middle (no white halo). Oh, and I also have poison ivy which doesn’t help the situation. I’m really worried about the bite and am currently on antibiotics b/c my doctor is not sure what it is. I would appreciate some feedback for my issue..I’m getting scared b/c it hasn’t gotten any better since the black and blue appeared last Thursday.
I went to bed feeling a small bite on my arm itching. Woke up feeling dizzy, sick, stomach ache, leg pain, and just not quite right. Noticed the next day that I had 3 bites on my calf that itched like crazy. Now they are oozing and red circled, and still itching. But I do feel better…Any ideas? Any suggestions for treating? Thanks!
So, I got some sort of insect bite on the top of my right foot two days ago while looking for something in my car barefoot. I didn’t feel anything, but after about 10 minutes I looked down and I saw something that closely resembled a mosquito bite, and itched slightly. I went to bed that night with it looking like that; the next morning my foot was swollen and red for about an inch to two inches around the bite. Although nothing showed, it felt bruised and was difficult to put shoes on.
I’ve been taking benadryl and trying to elevate it, but nothing seems to be working. Today the condition persisted until about 6-7:00 PM, when the foot in question swelled more, the skin got hot and tight, and the foot started to be difficult to move. The color of the skin changed about two shades deeper from a pink to a deeper red. I don’t know if this is a spider bite, because there is no ring or anything around it, but I’ve never had any reaction on this scale to any mosquito or ant, fire or no. If it’s not a spider bite, what is it?
put it under a microscope and see 2 large pincers….. No other symptoms but expanding rash and itch. I work at a research agency so I may are still there, disproportionate to how it looks (just light pink, flat area). But I noticed this am in the sunlight light streaks coming from the area towards my elbow,
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I have developed these bumps in 3 days after being bitten by a tick (I found, and removed the tick within 4 hours). Are these bumps related to a tick bit, or something else. I was in a heavily wooded area (Northern FL) fishing when I got the tick on me. The tick was on my back, and there is a bump where I removed him. But there are also bumps on mt inner thighs near groin area, under my arms, more on back, and some on stomach. They have a reddish raised appearance, with a white center that contains what looks like a pinhole in the middle. Should I be concerned, or is this something non-threatening that will go away on its own. I am sending 3 photos. Is this even tick-related, or something else?
My husband was working in a timber mill Wed night..in England…didn’t notice anything until he came home from work Thu morning (it is now Fri night) and he has 3 bites…near his knee,on his ankle and on his arm. Trying to find out what bit him as he has had a bad reaction to them….he’s in lot of pain..temperature,drained,swollen,red..was oozing orange colored, transparent fluid and can barely move leg now. Got meds from doctor but still trying to find out what bit him. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated…thanks!! Bec
So here is my story. On Friday May 21, 2010 I hoped out of bed like usual, noticed that my right arm near armpit was a bit sore. We had plans to take our kids to six flags, so I showed my husband and told him I think I must have been bit in my sleep by a spider. Go on to six flags and around noon i noticed that my arms looks red, like I had tiny flat bumps on my arms that somewhat resembled a sun burn, by six when the park was closing I noticed that my legs looks red. I was really thirsty. On the way home I developed chills and generally felt crappy. When I got home and jumped in the shower I saw that my entire body was red, bright red like I had been sun burned really badly, face puffy and I was freezing. I layed in bed with my legs crossed over one another and could tell my heart was beating fast. I called my mom and asked her if any of us children has ever had a reaction like this from a spider bite.
Next morning woke up and told my husband I need to go the the dr, I felt as if I couldn’t keep my head up, i just wanted to lie down. when I get to the urgent care facility, the nurse taking my vitals thought I was sunburned( I had SPF 85 on the day before at the theme park) I assured her my entire body was red. My pulse was 158 and I had a weak pulse, and fever around 102. I was severely dehydrated so that wanted to start me on an Iv fluids. They had the hardest time finding my veins, which usually isn’t the case, finally the put me in a surgical type room in the clinic and the Dr came in to try his hand at finding a vein for the iv, he tilting me up and down, looking at my feet, tried several times in my jugular and started pulling down my pants looking for a deeper vein in my legs. The nurse thankfully felt like she found a lil vein in my hand and was sucessful. They were able to draw the blood and start the IV, He thought I had Toxic shock syndrome, so did a pelvic exam. Started me on two antibiotics at the clinic and sent me home with my iv still intact to come back the next day for more fluids and Iv. Sunday comes still running fever and looking a really puffy and still red and running fever. My arm just below the bite started looking purple and really swollen. Finished another round of antibiotics and went home. Monday I was to return to the clinic, and I did. There was another Dr there and he thought as well it was Toxic shock from a spider bite. I wasn’t feeling any better so we decided to play it safe and go the the ER for further evaluation. My white blood count was even higher that on Saturday and they started me on two more IV antibiotics and admitted me. Heart rate was around 130. Had antibiotic every eight hours. Tuesday the Infectious disease Dr came in and thought that I had a systemic reaction to a recluse spider bite. Took me off of antibiotics and put me on depsone for the necrosis.
Two days later my hands and feet had red spots on them that felt like blisters, very painful esp to put your hands in warm water, my body started peeling like I had a sunburn. Area just under bite that was purple, turned into a scab and peeled off. Hand and feet peeled two weeks after the bite and cuticles on my hands and feet fell off.
Oh I forgot to mention, the day after I got out of the hospital I found a baby brown recluse in my sons room, at least I thought it might be. Then one week later my kids yell they found another spider under the crib in my sons room I run in there and kill it. I looked online and saw that in indeed looked just like a brown recluse, decided i better clean out my sons room really good. Moved all the furniture and found one more dead under his dresser and one under a shoe alive in his closet, put them in a jar.Had the exterminator come out and spray and confirmed they were indeed brown recluse spiders, ever since I pretty much find them daily on glue traps. Or crawling on the floor on our white carpets in the bedrooms. Finally convinced my hubby to clean out the garage where there has been a lot of brown recluse spider. Ahhh..
I got bit on my finger about 26 hours ago by something while I was in Florida. It looked like a mosquito bite at first, red and raised in the center. I’m not sure when it changed, I’m assuming over night, but now the raised area is white, sometimes a light pinkish, and a good chunk of what was red now looks like a bunch of dots, sort of like blood clots. There is still a bit of area that is red as well. It’s fairly small too, only about the size of my finger nail. I’d really appreciate help in IDing what this is so I can stop panicking. Thanks!
On my upper back thighs I have noticed that when I’m trying to sleep I keep itching and it’s been keeping myself from sleeping the past couple of nights.I don’t believe it’s bed bugs, none were found on or in my bed, and although I haven’t had the pox or the pox vaccine and I’m 14 years of age, the bites don’t resemble any pictures in which I’ve seen.The bites are 1-3 millimeter size, a dark pink maybe red color, and I haven’t been out of town or to a friends house.
I live in Madrid, Spain and two days ago I went to a barbecue where i was sitting on the grass for a while.
I didn’t feel anything much at the time but at some point I thought I might have been bitten by something.
The next morning I woke up with a really itchy ankle and since then it’s gone from that to quite a painful reaction. When I put pressure on that foot I feel incredible pain. Today it was ok after I got used to the pressure and actually I played football without it troubling me at all but tonight after I had been sitting with my feet up for a while I tried to go to the kitchen and couldn’t walk on the bitten foot.
I’ve sent a close up of the bite and a picture of my entire foot for the scale. I’ve highlighted an area around the bite that has gone quite hard and is really painful to touch.
Tomorrow I’m going to seek medical help for this and will send an update of the situation.
Thanks for this website. It’s really helpful!
Last Tuesday, (6/30/10) I found a mark on my left pinky that hurt pretty bad. I popped it. Immediately, since the skin did not return to it’s position as it would with a zit of some kind, I knew it was different. Well, since I live in FL, there’s two possibilities. One, a spider bite or fire ant bite. That night when I was bitten, there were ants crawling on me. And, spiders, I haven’t seen much except that very horrifying large one a few months ago. Anyways, my pinky is in constant pain. If anything rubs it, hits it, it hurts. It’s a throbbing, burning, stinging pain. Not itching. I’ve popped the thing 3 times now. Where the bite is, it’s gone up toward the left side of the knuckle and down a little. It was red and today (7/3/10) it is purple. I mean, we’ve tried soaking it in hot water with salt, vinegar, neosporin, NOTHING is working It’s turned purple as of now. I hope I can go to the doctors soon.
My sister was bitten about 4 days ago by something though I’m not sure what. It has since inflated and was popped causing puss to leave. She has not been to the doctor yet, I have been hoping to identify the type of bite it is before seeking medical attention. I believe she was home when when she was bitten. We live in the Philadelphia, PA area. Please help us identify the type of bite and if its something serious.
Two or three nights ago I was outside with some friends until about 11:30 in their backyard. I got bitten by something, a lot. I have approximately 21 bites. They are located on my back, neck, elbow, both legs, and both feet. Their is an abandoned house down the street with an in ground pool full of water, with obviously will attract Mosquitoes. I’m thinking I had an allergic reaction to the bites…? They itch insanely and sometimes my feet hurt/cramp up. Any suggestions as to what I have been bitten by? By the way, I live in the center of Indiana and I’m 13.
I woke up today with what I felt was two slightly painful bug bites on my leg. Being late for work, I rushed out the door without any closer examination. The pain was a slight irritation that persisted for a couple hours while I was at work whenever my pants rubbed against the bites. When I had a minute, I checked them out again and noticed it wasn’t exactly two bites, but an oval shaped blister about an inch, inch and a half long. By this time it had popped and I cleaned the pus from the bite. Two slightly smaller, slightly harder mounds still remain, and I am not sure if these are also pus blisters or perhaps hardened tissue.
The bite is slightly irritated and remotely red, but not to any extreme extent. I’ve been keeping ice on the bite as a precautionary step, but I am not sure if it is serious enough to go to the doctor right away or wait and see how it develops within the next day. Through internet searches (which aren’t helping my nerves at all) everything seems to point to a brown recluse spider bite. I live in south eastern Michigan where, as I understand, these spiders are not too common.
Anybody have any similar circumstances?
I have a huge red circle maybe the size of a frisbie, and I noticed it keeps getting bigger. It has no scar just a tiny dot in the middle. It’s on my upper thigh and like I said it’s getting larger and larger. I tried cream and it will not work. And I refuse to go to the hospital. All I need to know is what it’s called and what can I do/use to heal it. please I need to know as quickly as possible. Okay Thank-You.