I don’t know what this could be. It looks like a bullseye, middle is a perfect circle around the 2 purple dots and that’s white. Then its red to make a 1/2 dollar size, its tough skin where the final red circle is. So only 2 perfect circles and the 2 fang marks in the middle. HELP please

Twenty-seven days in the hospital. He will be recovering for a long time. We have no idea what type of spider it might have been. He was not aware of when it happened only when the spot began itching. It was already filled with the fluid by the time it began itching. I suggest that everyone keep their tetanus shots up-to-date.

It does not seem like you have a spider bite, it sounds like bed bugs.

Although I am concerned since I’ve never encountered any spider like this although I don’t have a picture I know that it has a small brown body with very long brown legs and is very fast moving. I have looked every where online and couldn’t find any information on these spiders.

I live in British Columbia, Canada, in a suburb remotely near to Vancouver, B.C.

I must have been bitten last Friday, November 11th.

FIRST DAY: I woke up to go to the bathroom Saturday morning and I felt a soreness in my groin. I took my magnifying mirror and looked at what was causing this discomfort. I saw
what appeared to be a spider bite. It had a red center about the size of a pea and was red and swollen around the area.

I took both sides of this swollen bite and squeezed real hard to see what would come out.
I noticed a lot of pink sticky discharge, quite a bit of it as I continued to squeeze this out until I hoped it was all gone, I squeezed it so hard that both sides of the bite were together and felt as though nothing more was in there. At the time I noticed that some of this discharge (venom?) even fell on the bathroom floor, a little puddle about the size of a dime. I put my finger in it to see what it was and it was pink and sticky too. Boy, I sure used a LOT OF PRESSURE on the bite, I just squeezed and squeezed that bite and I am glad that I did because I expect that it was venom that I squeezed out.

As I had to wait until Monday when my Doctor’s office was open I also used Hydrogen Peroxide on it. (I am a firm believer in having a fully stocked medicine cabinet as best
I can and waiting for these items to come on sale even though I did not need the meds right away I knew that I would probably need them in the future).

SECOND DAY: the bite area looked a little calmer but the area of the bite had enlarged to about the size of a shelled peanut. There was white flaky skin all around this area. I continued with the hydrogen peroxide and tried not to think about it until Monday. Haaa! Good Luck!

THIRD the bite looked a little larger with the accompanying white flaky skin around it. I continued with the hydrogen peroxide and said a little prayer and wondered if my angel was watching and knew about this disaster and if so, what was my Angel going to do about it.

Today the bite looked even larger. I phoned the Doctor’s office and began the regular process of setting up an appointment. She was looking at an opening in his schedule for about a week ahead. Somewhere in between I told her that I think it is a spider bite. She then said that she does not think that I should wait a week to see the Doctor and that I should call the next morning to see if there was a cancellation.

FOURTH DAY: The bite looked a little calmer but with the white flaky skin around the bite.
I phoned the Doctor’s Office the next morning, which was Tuesday, and the Nurse said that she had a cancellation for 1:45 that afternoon. I said that okay I would be there.

Well, I phoned Handy Dart, a transportation system that comes right to your door and delivers you right to the door of your destination and will even open the doors for you, for seniors and disabled persons. The driver helps you up the stairs into the van if f you need the help (I do not, but it is there for those who do need it), They charge $2.50 per trip, if you buy the bus tickets it will only cost $1.90). tWhen I called the dispatcher of Handy Dart she told me that same day scheduling is almost impossible , I went on stand-by but they still could not give me a ride to the doctor’s office that day.

So I phoned the Doctor’s Office back and told the Nurse that I would not be able to attend my appointment. She said that I should apply Hydrogen Peroxide to the bite and an anti biotic cream (I used Polysporin – Fast Heal). She told me that if I have any further problems with it that I should call the Doctor’s Office.

The medical insurance is income based here (I pay nothing for the medical insurance as I have a low income rate), so I really have no reason to not have the Doctor take care of the bite. I also live just about 4 blocks from a major hospital which I can go to if I have to go to the Emergency Section on a weekend, at no charge to me.

I looked at the bite again this morning and the bite area is about an inch long (this bite is longer than it is wide). Still has the white flaky skin surrounding the bite. There is just a very small swelling? at the site of the bite and there has been almost no swelling since the first day when I squeezed the daylights out of it. I am glad that I did because initially it was a large swelling.

I continue to keep watch over the bite and if anything about it further troubles me, (since I believe that the venom is gone), then I will either go to see my Doctor or go to the Emergency Room at the Hospital.

I did not send a picture of the bite as it is in my groin, a very personal area. Even did not really want the Doctor to look at the bite there.

I will continue read this Forum on spider bites and read your experiences with this real problem, you make me feel better. Thank you.

She then puts a band aid over it and leaves it alone – it heals but then the cycle repeats itself (hard core, pus, etc.). Can anyone tell me what type insect (spider) could cause something to last this long? Again, this happened in Puerto Rico about 30 years ago.