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Hope you can help me.. firstly we live in Sydney, New South wales (AUSTRALIA).
My daughter came home with these bites. There were 3 in a row on her right thigh (front), one on her left thigh (front) and three on her left calf (back) and two in the ankle region (left foot). They were white middles with a red outer, up to 3 cm diameter, most had white pimple/pus looking spots/centres (the others clear spots/centres). They were hard to touch and after a day or so, felt like orange peel. She had complained they were itchy. We have seen these on one of our other kids some months back.
I am suspecting a white tail spider, but can’t be sure. Can you (or someone) throw some light on this/??
Many thanks for your time.
Michelle
I have 4 red stops on the back of my ankle they are itche also the foot and ankle ache.
hi i live on long island, NY and i think i got a bite… it was just a black dot for a while(about a few months) but then it got a red lump and it was swollen and hard, so i popped it and pus and a little round black “thing” came out…
what do i do? and what is it?
I got bittin a couple of days ago. It seems too big to be a spider bite. There are four bites on my left thigh. Each one has two punctures with bruising around it. They don’t itch.
alright then my name is Chris. I live in Thornbury which is a northern suburb of melbourne Australia. tonight after work I notice a few weird things on my shin and my shoulder. on my shoulder I have noticed a very itchy pimple like thing which I dont think could be a pimple due to the positioning. there is no skin perforation whatsoever that I can see. and due to squeezing what looked like a pimple and nothing coming out I then proceeded to get worried. it is a bit sore and red around the outside of the pimple like lump.
secondly I have this weird perferation on my left shin, there lookes to be 6-8 small bite like marks. it is red around the outside of the marks, almost rash like. it is aching a little bit. not swollen to what I can seebut it is very tender to touch.
I may end up getting told that I am overreacting but I figure it is better to be safe.
also more details should be included whether wise as well. At the moment here in Aus we have been experiencing a freak heatwave so if they are bites of any sort the corporate would have to like the heat or try to hide from the heat. I work in a bar, and a live in a bushy type area. where I live I have noticed a few red back spiders, white tails, a whole bunch of daddy long legs which I know cant bite, and a heap of tiny little brown spiders, some small golden in color spiders and a fair few jet black spiders with longish well defined legs.
any help that can be given will be awesome. if anyone thinks that from my description they can ease my worries calm me down and tell me it is nothing that would be much appreciated.
thanks Chris
ok so I live in Ottawa, Canada and had this small prickling pain on my upper thigh yesterday and just ignored it and went to sleep but then this morning I woke up to find a lot of pus in there and its really painful! I actually squeezed it a bit and after a long time of trying to get it out, i removed something black and sort of long with tweezers Inside of the bite there is a black area that looks about the size of a pinprick, but the bite is swollen to the size of a nickel. My skin is trying to heal over but then opening up again because of the pain of all the fluid build up in there. I keep getting really bad headaches as well, don’t know if th two are related though. It hurts a lot and it really still feels like theres something in there because it wont stop swelling. Don’t know what to do because it hurts a lot and is bleeding profusely! Please help. Is this a bite?
I’ve never had one like this before.
I was outside under a table umbrella and felt something crawl on the right side of my head on my hair then start down behind my ear…I grabbed it to see what it was and got bitten…it hurts really bad . The big blue dotted furry black spider is gone I seen earlier above me! I think it was it…it felt soft and round size of a green pea…..I when felt bite instant pain..I panic and throw it down and went told my husband !!!
There were a lot of ladybugs to…do they bite…my ear feels hot and starting to swell! The bite is really red and is located behind my ear by my jaw! A stabbing pain..if you touch it stings really bad!!!!! 1/24/09 in Florida, Middleburg, 1:25pm…Also we’ve been seeing brown spiders with red hour glass…are they like the black windows?????
Hi My name is Diane, I Live in Maryland and about a week ago I notice that my side of Eye was swollen and had a red dot. now after 7 the swelling has went down and my Husband looked at it with a Magnifying glass. He said it looked like there was a white center with 2 holes in it looks like an infection. He squeezed it and nothing came out from the center and white clear fluid came out from around it. my side of my head inches only on the side where the bite is. Should I be alarmed or should I go to the Doctor or what could it be. I hope some-one can Help me!!!! Thank-You Very much!
Diane Altano
Two nights ago I was barefoot outside and I thought I trod on a stone from the pain. Under my left foot is painfully sore like a splinter but no splinter. Now, more than 24 hours later my right lower leg is very sore to touch. Painful. Is this a spider bite?
What do I do?
By the way, I live in Australia.
Is this a spider bite. It is two days old, it is on the bad side of my upper arm.
I was working in the yard with limbs and moving stones I see the spiders but never readily bother them. It does not hurt unless you put pressure right on it and even then it just feels more like a bruise. I did not run into anything. I hope you can see the red spot in the center.
Thank you for your site, and taking the time to look at this
Katheryne
someone please help, I don’t know what is wrong w/ my foot
My story:I was in the shower and i noticed i had something that looked like a bruise on my foot once i got out of the shower i showed the bruise to my mom.. we looked at the bruise closer and there was a red mark on it that looked like a bite mark…
I have not felt any really sharp pain other than my below my knee( the bite thing is on my foot)
My bite thing looks like a red bite mark and around it a bruise
PLEASE HELP IF U HAVE ANY IDEA WHATS WRONG
i found a bump on my neck in the the morning just when i woke up
i took it to my mom and she didn’t know. So at school we called the nurse and they said she be there tomorrow, now my mom is freaked out i need some answers.
my sysptoms are
1: a little red swelling bump
2: it hurt when i touched the bump
3: the bump is half the size of a pea
please help tell me what kind of a spider bite this is
I’m in Michigan & I have a bump on my leg , it’s not round but almost the size of a quarter,darker red outline. It has blistered & oozed a little bit of clear fluid & feels like a burn! Could this be from a spider? It happened while I was sleeping. I won’t get to see a doc till Tues. Thanks!
2 weeks ago i was bitten by something , i don’t know if it was a spider or not
it started out as a little bump, then it started to get red, a day later it was black and as big as a quarter then it was almost a fifty-cent piece size, it is black.
the dr. gave me antibiotic, at is getting smaller, can you tell me the spiders name?
thank you
rosemarie
My husband has a red swollen spot that started out in his heel of the foot that moved to the arm . it is sore, when it is in the arm its no longer in the foot. what could this be
my sister-in-law has been getting spider bites frequently while she sleeps. but my brother hasn’t appeared to get any. their sons haven’t gotten any either. is there any physiological reason why a spider would bite someone over another? we live in the Denver, co, area. i don’t have any photos of the bites.
So yeah , Monday afternoon after I got home from work. I am stationed in Sicily Italy and had responded to a Motorcycle crash that day. I was climbing between the guard rails and some minor weeds. Here is a couple pictures of the bite. It is pain full with a bit of throbbing and tender to the touch. That next Morning I found this spider crawling right next to me after I had shown someone the bite. Just a bit too coincidental if you ask me. The picture is 40 hours post bite.
David
not sure if this is a spider bit but it sure appears to be.
I got this bite like 2 days ago and it wont go away is has jut been swelling more what do you think it could be?
I live in Idaho and I was bit buy a spider on the 24th of december. I noticed that my pinky finger had swollen up to twice the size of the other one . It was hard to bed and the color of the skin turned to a reddish grey color. Two fang marks were visable and the immediate area around the fang marks was a darker shade of red. The fangs marks have finally disappeared and the swelling started going down yesterday. What spider bit me?
Hi, I am from South Africa and got bit by a spider on New Years day. I was not aware of the bite until about 4 hours after when my arm started itching and I noticed the two bite marks. Perfect little marks where spider’s fangs went in. It was painful upon touching, however nothing to worry about. Yesterday a small blister started above these two marks and today I have a circle about 1cm in diameter with a red ring around it. My arm is very painful from the finger tips to the elbow. Have been to chemist and they have given me anti-hesitamine tablets and some sort of topical cream to apply.
I have been through web-sites to find info but to no avail. I saw the little blighter earlier when I was working on the water feature and it was a brownish-greyish color and shiny, about 10mm big. What i really would like to know, is the brown recluse spider likely to be found in South Africa (Johannesburg)? This is the only pic that looks like the bugger that bit me… Should I worry about this bite as the bite-pics that I saw are from a horror film!!! Thank you…
I live CA. I first noticed two bumps, one each leg in the front almost on my front bone. What confuses me most is that there is no pus, holes, or any sort of puncture. I started with about 2 and now have around 8. I thought if i left them alone they would eventually go away it has been 2 weeks and I have gotten more.
They start out small and grow larger. Another confusion, they seemed to at first have no color but just seemed bumps. Only one is bright red because i tried pinching it out of foolishness, the rest are basically just my skin color. They are like knots of something under my skin, you have to feel them to feel their actual shape, their shape is very irregular. When touched it is painful. But also, they do not itch. Not sure these are even bug bites yet, kind of scared now:/ I’ll try and put a picture up.
help me!
My mom was bit at some point in December, and we don’t know how long it has been on her leg. It is hard to tell, but there are two fang bites in the center of the red mark. The whole scar is about the size of a quarter. I imagine she was bitten in bed, but we aren’t sure.
She has recently had severe back pain and symptoms of the flu such as throwing up and severe nausea. Can you identify what spider may have bitten her?
Thank you.
Okay… I live in Florida. I have this bite on my private area. It is red with a white pus jewel. My friend and her sister, both got a similar bite on their legs and torso.. It is painful, especially to the touch, and is about the size of a BB.
Any ideas on what could have done it? They seem to appear only when we wake up. I checked out bedbugs, and it doesn’t match up. What could it be? Please help! I don’t want to find out its poisonous!
PIC OF SOME TYPE OF SPIDER BITE, I THINK. IF SO WHAT KIND IS IT AND WHAT SHOULD I DO ABOUT IT? THE AREA AROUND IT IS VERY HARD, IT’S ITCHY, AND PRETTY SORE.
My son got bit a few days ago and in a couple of days it looked like the image 21 on the page 21 what is it ?what can I do to doctor it I need help
I live in western Iowa. On Christmas day, my thumb (lower thumb print area, not the entire finger) was sensitive, which I assumed was just a minor skin irritation, similar to what I’d had on my upper arm and lower thumb the day before. The next morning it was bright red, hugely swollen and stung like holes being drilled into my thumb. I thought perhaps it was frost bit, as I’m out in the cold quite a bit due to one of my jobs. The next morning I found two dark purple spots, about a half inch apart. They are raised (although it is hard to tell, because the area is so swollen), and seem to be made up of tiny individual circles.
My emergency doctor said she had never seen anything like it before.
We’ve pretty much ruled out frostbite – it would be one continuous black mass. It’s possible that it’s a really bad reaction to a cat bite, although I have never been allergic to cats in my life. It’s possible I was bitten by a cat at the vet clinic where I work. But even that seems a little unlikely, which leaves maybe some sort of bad bug bite. It’s not infected – the doctor took a blood sample and my white cell count was normal.
I’ve researched spider bites as much as I can, and haven’t found anything like what I have. The pain has subsided a little (it’s not constantly burning), but it still throbs. It’s never itched. If anyone has any idea on what this could possibly be…please tell me. It’s making it very hard to work normally. Thanks.
hello. My name is Chris,and I think I’ve been bitten by some kind of spider. Couldn’t find one anywhere,and didn’t see it.I felt a prick in my back Sunday the 14th,and since then then the bite has spread around to my side,with a trail forming.Bite area is itching and sore,all the way around to front left side of my stomach.I have similar symptoms as shingles,but I have never had chicken pox,and the pain is nowhere like the pain associated with shingles. I am sending you three pics to post,to see if anyone has seen a bite like this.It does resemble some of the bites on your web page.
Thanks.
Chris
We are not sure that this is a spider bite. The bite occurred on Monday or Tuesday of this week. Can you help?
As I had a dream last night about a black and yellow spider, I decided to do some investigating about them, and instead stumbled upon numerous descriptions of potentially dangerous spider bites. Spider bites that are instantly painful, cause fatigue, black or red coloring underneath the skin, and possibly dizziness are most likely black widow spider bites. These bites are very dangerous for children and the elderly as they do not have the full health of an average adult. Bites that are not as painful immediately but cause dizziness, take days to develop into something worse, show a blister and then formulate into an ulcer are from a brown recluse spider. Both of these need immediate medical attention as they can be deadly with days to develop and no antidote.
I’m in Madison Wisconsin and I believe I’ve been bitten by a spider
I noticed the mark three days ago. It was small, red and a little tender. Within the day it turned a dark bruised purple and was very sore, like a bruise. I ignored it and thought nothing of it until I woke up the next morning and it had grown and was pusing. Now it is even larger (about the side of two pencil erasers) pusing, and has a red circle around it the size of a half dollar.
I was really ill last night, my heart rate spiked and I vomited all through the night. I was wondering if this was related or not?
Any ideas?
ps. i dont have any pics right now. but i forgot to tell you that i felt very sick and i was fine before i had the bites. the room was spinning while i was sitting down…
i think i got bit by a spider.. on my knuckle. its been 3 days and i just noticed that my knuckle is swollen and there are 2 red bumps beside eachother,and there are white stuff coming out of it.there very sore and very infected, i think it was a spider, iv had it since i came back from babysitting.. iv tried squishing them liek a zit but it hurts too much i managed to get some infection out but its still very sore and teh bumps are still there and red. but the swelling went down a little.
……please give me some advice please………..
Hi my mum thinks she was bitten by a spider beause she has this rash and these pimple things and they keep spreading. But I don’t know if it was a spider or somthing else. Please help.
Zoie
I have what I think may be a spider bite but am unsure. It is a two prong bite. The area directly around it has no discolorations. About a cm off of it though is a purplish ring, a bruise like color. It’s not raised and does not itch. Please if anyone knows what this is tell me.
Can a spider bite keep occurring? My boyfriend of 2 yrs keeps getting bit. Same symptoms each time. The red ring around a quarter sized blister. Real itchy. He saw a doctor the first time. They prescribed ointment and some antibiotics (said they weren’t sure if it was a spider bite) and I don’t know if they actually helped. But, the blister will eventually die down, days or so later. Yet, because its so frequent that he would wake up with a few more around his legs and hands every other week or so we just stopped going to the doctor. We tried everything even switching to another bed mattress. Is it a spider bite? I know for sure it’s not bed bugs because I know how those look like. The blister part really throws me off. So far I have not been bitten, though I do not really live with him, I only sleep over from time to time. But still, nothing on me. Actually he even jokes I may be the only repellent because he hasn’t gotten bit when I’m around. I have seen spiders in the apartment. I don’t usually kill them because I’m not quite an insect killer, but I might be regretting that now. Please help, I can certainly send photos to help. Side info, he resides Upstate NY. Thank you for your time and possible inputs. Have a great day!
Can you please help me identify these bites. These bites in the pictures I got about a week ago. I have been bitten like this before and it took almost 9 mon. for it to clear up. We have a camp in upstate New York in the woods. The smaller bite is on my inner thigh. All the bites occured while I was sleeping.Can you please help me identify these bites?
My son, Tavis (age 7) was bit by what we are assuming is a spider; we can see two distinct puncture marks, and the area surrounding the bite is red. See attached pic’s. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nathan
Well here goes… Approx Sunday afternoon noticed what I thought was a small little pimple on my collar bone, right on the ball, there in the middle. i fussed with it for a sec and then let it go. It is now Thursday morning and its huge, swollen, red all around, tender, and has a large marble like lump under it. It looks like yellowish green pus wants to come out, but never does. I haven’t been poking or proding it. It is very tender, and hurts to move my neck and hurts to touch. I don’t know if this is a spider bite, or what is going on. Any help. I am frightened. I live in the middle of Nebraska.
Hi, My name is Jenn and i think i may have a spider bite im not sure but it started out as a small pimple like thing and now its gotten bigger and hurts if its touched or irritated and idk what to do cuz it hurts if yu hve any suggestions let me know thanx
it sounds like a brown recluse bite they are very poisonus but it sounds like it is fine just dont let the swelling go up and kep going to the docor for prognosis and they will determine the rest.I hpoe it gets better.
hey i’m from minnesota and yesterday my dad got up and said his elbow was really sore. he thinks he got bit but he doesn’t know for sure. his elbow is really red and swollen. At the end of his elbow it is really soft and squishy like. it’s really wierd. he took a couple of pain killers but they only helped a little. there is no pus but there was a really tiny bump. could it be a spider bite?
When nothing else was avail to take the sting out of a jelly fish sting, urine seemed to decrease pain and swelling. Sound gross but seemed to work and also seems to help spider bites as well.
I live in Alberta, Canada and i woke up saturday morning with a bump on my leg that resembled a boil, but it is now day 3 and there is a dark red bump in the middle and than a larger red circle surrounding the bump. Not sure if this is a spider bite, or if it is a dangerous one. Can someone please help me
I have four bumps on my abdomen, two (one large, one small) on my right side – one on my left side – and one just below my breast. They have been red and inflamed for over 5 days now and don’t really itch until i touch them. Hoping they’re spider bites because I’m not really sure what else they would be..
the bite is very sore it looks like:big,red swelled
white dot in the middle,I feel bad,sore throat,
arms and legs heavy,100.8 temp.acheing everywhere,
little sick before bite.
I have a bite on the inside of my thigh, very painful been there about 2 days, very large red circle surrounding the bite itself. The center of the bite is very swollen and hard in the middle and it is slowly starting to become swollen in the surrounding area, it is black on the tip. Apeared to be zit or ingrown hair at first but has just gotten worse… Contemplating whether or not i should get it checked out? I want to try and pop it but really don’t think it will help….. anyway just thought i would share first hand expierience to help others with questions. Hopefully its not serious…
I was bite directly on top of my knee. The spider is believed to live in my basement. Not sure where at. I was sleeping downstairs and I felt something bite me. The spider was fairly big. But my knee is swelling by the day and it has began to get a blister on it. It’s starting to hurt to walk now. Does anyone know what type of spider this could be?
I was bitten by a spider this morning while feeding the horses-the spider had a web attached to the barn and I didn’t see the spider-thought he had gone wherever they go during the day…came in the house and it bit me on the neck. So far, no redness, swelling, pain, n/v, dizziness, etc-was bitten about an hour ago-just a small red bump. Thanks all!!!
hey yall, i was in texas last June, and I was doing a lot of outdoor activities, that explained my any bites and over 50 chigger bites… (that was a nightmare) always take showers is my advice. Anyway, i noticed one day that my hands were not even. My right hand inbetween my first and middle knuckle was puffy (or swelled). It didn’t hurt, nor was there a heat source. It turned shades, i’d say a little bit purple… but almost not noticeable. It stayed puffy for about 2 weeks. what kind of spider do you think bit me?
thank you.