Spider Bite
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Written by Jim on August 7th, 2007 with
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Hello, Jim.
Your site is awesome. I wanted to post this bite. I after hours of online research, I still don’t know if I need to go to the doctor or not.
I’m pretty sure the bite is from a spider. A friend gave me a pair of shorts to put on (he lives out in a wooded area in Alachua, FL) and I went outside to play with his dog. A couple of minutes after I had changed I felt something in my shorts. I remember patting my thigh shaking the material. The bite felt like an ant bite or something. I didn’t really pay any attention to it. Not long after, the swelling started. It peaked last night with a width of 7.5 inches. The area is very hot to the touch and the flesh underneath feels hard. It itches sometimes and walking hurts a bit but today the swelling went down a lot and the area turned a darker shade of red. There’s a dark purplish spot in the very center and no visible bite marks. I took the pictures with the built in camera on my mac and the lighting isn’t the best. It looks a lot worse in reality.
Currently, my guess is that I may have cellulitis from a spider bite. Any ideas?
Thanks a bunch!
All the best,
Julie
my husband got bitten by what we think was a spider. he just told me about them today and it happened 4 days ago. i have attached a picture. the pictured bite is the biggest. the redness is 2in long by 1 in wide. the scabby lookibg thing is 1/4in. could u tell me what u think.
thanks
elizabeth
Hm, I have some red bump on my leg. I am scarred to death! Whenever I read something about how your tissue starts to be “eaten” away and it leaves a big, bloody hole in your leg it sounds so scarey. It’s been there for two or three days and hasn’t change, how long does it usually take?
light brown with a underbelly marking. black square with 4 white squares at the corners
about i think it was a week ago and i noticed this red spot on my lower back. i was about 1 by 1 cm and looked as if it had a slightly yellow filled centre but wasnt pus.. (at least i dont think it was). As the day progressed i became exceesively tired and had constant dizzy spells as well as a mild headache. I wasnt sick in the stomach. i still dont know if it is a spider bite but it is the msot logical answer.
I have these marks that have been on the side of me for a long time here are the pictures:
My email is joshm44 @ gmail.com
I was bitten on my butt 4 times. Two of the bites are large as a dime red with a white spot in the middle. The other two are smaller. I did not feel a thing. It occured while sleeping. It has been a day now and they are getting hard and iching. Any ideas what it was?
I got bit about 6 days ago. I live in OR and was out in my friends lawn at night and the next day I had a red ring on the back of my leg with a dot in the middle. we went to the pharmacy because my mom thought it was ringworm and they didn’t even look at it but just gave me an anti-fungal cream and told us that diluted bleach would get rid of it. we kept it covered with a bandaid because we were on a family vacation but when we got home I went to the dermatologist and he said it was a three prong(?) spider bite and to put some anti itch cream on it.
I dont really know what to do because I think we burnt my skin with the bleach so I dont know what it really looks like anymore. please help. I am really worried because he told me if the tissue starts to look like it is dying to go to the ER b/c it might be a brown recluse. please help me! it is about the size of a nickle and it is now turning a darkish red and getting really flakey. please email any ideas to jumpergirl1153 @ yahoo.com
thank you,
ella
I got two bites on my arm from what I think was a spider. At first it was like a mosquito bite and they itched like one too, but after about 24 hours tiny bumps started to appear around the bites. I tried squeezing them and a watery liquid came out. They still look like a mosquito bites except that the middle of each one looks like a popped pimple. Please help me find what these are if you know.
I got bit Suday night twice. I woke up and instinctively started scratching I looked at my hand and it was just a small bite, went through my sheets and didnt find anything so i went back to sleep. When I woke up i noticed another bite on the same arm just above the first one which is just above my wrist, and they were starting to swell. I iced them and went to the doctor to get them checked out, he perscribed some benedryl and i went home.
I took the benedryl, which wasn’t in pill form but the liquid. The next day I went to work and the bites were even worse. They were swollen to the point where it looked kind of like I had ping pong balls underneath my skin. I conviently work in a Hospital so I got checked out at the ER and they said my skin looked infected and perscribed a general antiobiotic called Keflex and gave me a pill of benedryl. I took the pill and immidiately started to see resuluts! yes! success!
The next night i woke up with two more bites, one on the inside of my arm just over my armpit, this bite however had more of a red center where as the other two have more of a clear center, they more or less look like little blister centers, and since then have two bites on my left foot one on my toe which is swollen and one on the base of my foot, which is driving me INSANE. I live in an apartment, and my first bites encountered on my couch because we’ve a packed up my bed, and since then I’ve moved to the floor. We sprayed for bugs, but something still seems to be lerking in my house, and its only attracted to be because all these encounters that took place I’ve slept next to my boyfriend… Somethings biting me and im afraid so many bites might get me really sick! any advice?
hi can you help find the spider that bit me
thank you
my name’s shannon, and here’s my ‘bite’
I noticed a spider bite on my rib area when I woke up in the morning. At first it was the size of a pimple and then by the next day it grew to be 4 times the size and extremely painful. It was never itchy, only stinging from mostly the inside of my body. The whole area around it is very sensitive and even a light shirt touching it hurts. I went to the doctor and he said not to worry about it. It’s getting worse and the pain is almost too much for me to handle. I am going to go to the doctor again (different one) and see what they say. Inside and the surrounding area is now rock hard and the hardness is spreading. The pain feels like someone is stabbing me with a knife. I have no idea what kind of spider it can be but I am sending you a photo of a spider that is very common in our neighborhood and in our backyard. I have been killing black widows lately as well. We live in Porter Ranch (Northridge), california. I hope this helps. I have no idea who you are but my 9 year old daughter found you and told me to e-mail you. Thanks and have a wonderful day.
I’ve been reading all the posts on spider bites, and am certainly hoping that what I have is nothing to worry about.
I think I may have been bitten by a spider yesterday afternoon while cleaning trash around the back porch. I didnt notice anything until this morning as my finger is a bit swollen. What it looks like is a small hole that is inset in a slightly yellow triangle. At first I wasnt even considering it to be anything but a bug bite (there are LOTS of bugs here). However, the triangle patter underneath has me concerned. I thought about popping the stuff underneath, but after reading up on articles, I assume that is not wise. I have no health insurance and dont know any doctors in this area. It is very sensative to the touch. I am moving back to Oregon this week and would like to get this taken care of asap. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Blessings!
So i got what I thought was a mosquito bite on my index finger, it looked like one, but a half an hour my finger has swelled up quite a bit and its getting numb, like the numbness is moving down my finger slowly. The skin is tender when I touch it..what is this? should i seek medical attention?
First noticed as itching and stinging
Swelled and hot, very red.
Finally popped one side at a time and 1 day apart.
I actually saw a half moon shaped white head before it popped.
Next day the other side of the half moon appeared and it also popped.
Deep hole remains and seems to be on the mend or possibly growing inside?
No other symptoms, I usually have very little adverse reaction to stings and bites.
Mike
I have these bumps under my arm. They are not itchy or anything like that. They are just there in a pattern. I was wondering what they could be. I doubt I was bit by a spider. I am sending a picture also. Please let me know what you think.
i have a big bump filled with little red dots that i got 3 days ago on the tip of my finger it doesnt hurt at all but it kinda tickles but not really were not sure what it is if any one knows please help
i live in paris texas and i got a bite my dad said its a spider bite but i dont know. it has two little marks where i guess the spider bite me and its swollen dark pinkish to red i can send a photo anytime you want.
I have a spider bite on my upper leg. I woke up one morning with it. It isn’t blistering, but it is a lil pussy and white. I have a circle of red dots around the bite. I would like to know what type of spider this could be. My mother said the reason I have the red dots is one of two reasons. Either an allergic reaction or the spider was poisiounous. Just not enough poison to make me sick. If you could reply and give me an answer to this I would really like to know.
My son has a bite on the upper left side of his chest. It is about the size of a half dollar. The inner circle of the bite is a darker pink color than the outer circle. It is definately raised and appears to be swollen. When I touch the center it feels hard. He hasn’t really been scratching it very much. That’s what kind of worries me. It makes me think it’s a spider bite and not a mosquito bite. He was also bitten twice on his arm, but those bites are normal in size and color etc. I don’t see any kind of mark in the middle to indicate the exact place of the bite. He hasn’t spoken much of the bite all day. It doesn’t seem to really bother him at all. Thanks! Christina
this was taken 12 hours after bite. pain full, itchy and burning all day, shocks of pain, growing bigger every hour. now 20 hours later lil bigger darker color, skin is hard. found a silky crazy stringy web above my bed with a brown spider in it. i got bit in my sleep, woke up in pain from the bite on my right neck collarbone area, about 4 hours ago went numb on my right arm and neck. what the heck is living in my room? i feel like the right side of my body is on drugs
I think i have a spider bite but im not sure. It is bigger than a quarter and is raised. It has what looks like a pimple in the middle of it. It itches occasionally but not all the time
I live in Santa Barbara, CA and was bit by a spider about 2 weeks ago on my inner thigh. At first the area around the bite was red and hurt to touch. About three or four days after I got the bite I had a fever and was achy all over for about 24 hours. The bite then turned black and there is still a little black area where the bite was. Today we just found a huge black spider at my boyfriend’s house and I’m afraid that was what bit me. Any help in identifying what kind of spider it was would be greatly appreciated!