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Okay, so I’m not sure if this is even a spider bite, but I kinda wondered. It’s just two, itchy little bumps and they’re right next to each other. I thought at first that it was a mosquito bite but then there were two same-sized bumps right next to each other. It might be two mosquito bites, but I just wondered if it could be some kind of spider bite…anybody know if it is??
I was bit by what I think was a spider about 1 /1/2 wks ago. I still have a little scar like a needle prick. The area still itches a little a times and now I feel a small bump underneath where the bite is. Is this something I should be worried about and go to a doctor to look at?
Thank you
I have 4 bites on my right calf and 1 bite on my left calf. The bites look VERY similar to Kristin’s picture (#1043). I was outside having drinks with friends, sitting in chairs on their lawn. Never knew I was bit. I have bad reactions to bug bites and figured that’s what it was but these then turned dark red/deep purple colors. They are tender to the touch and seem to be a hard mass as well. Any clue on what kind of spider it might have been? Headed to the docs soon to get it checked out.
I am looking for some help here. I have a bite that is getting out of control and I am getting worried. Syptoms:
1) The reaction area (the red swollen area) takes up 1/2 of the back of my entire theigh, its larger than my hand.
2) The angry central area( pus filled and oozing with little white and pink pimples emerging and dead black skin) is about 2″ diameter.
3) I feel generally anxious and have had headaches (which I never get)
4) I sometimes feel slightly light-headed and generally weak.
5) My left leg lymth nodes are swollen and sore
6) It has been over a week since getting bit (I didnt pay much attention to what bit me, but do recall thinking…ow, that must have been a spider) it started small for three to four days and then grew…
Ok, I was scratching a bump and I looked at it and there are two red dots that look like fang marks from something and they are pretty far apart even for a spider. they are aproximately at least an eighth of an inch apart and it’s freaking me out cause I don’t know what bit me, and it doesn’t hurt yet but I have felt like throwing up on and off for a while now and I just discovered it.. any advice before something happens to me also my head feels a little funny..
Also, there are no bite marks, no pus bubbles, etc. There are, however, a bunch of tiny bumps in the middle of the smaller spot.
I just recently noticed a red spot on my arm last night when I was getting ready for bed. I don’t know if it is a spider bite or not, but my mom suggested it was. It’s a red spot(about the size of a silver dollar now) with a smaller, dime sized spot in the center. The smaller spot is kind of a red color, but has a strange tint to it to make it look almost bruise-like. The entire area is swollen, fevering, and itches terribly. Anyone know what it could be?
This is a spider bite that my Mom currently has. Was bite 4 days ago. Didn’t catch the spider, but it’s rather small and appears to be brown.
I live in Arkansas, very close to Memphis, Tn. I had a bite show up yesterday morning. I’m not sure if it’s a spider bite though. So I would like to know what it is. It’s a little red bump with a white head on it. It’s not very big at all. I drew a circle around it at about 10 p.m. last night and it still hasnt crossed outside the circle. Around the boump its just barely pink for about a centimeter or so. I looked up Brown Recluse bites, we have problems with brown recluses around my neighborhood. It says they expand quickly and I’ve had this since yesterday and it’s still the same size. It also said that Brown Recluse bites turn brown in the middle and start rotting about 4-8 hours of the bite happening. Mines still white in the center and nothings rotting yet. So I dont know what it is. Anyone know?
I live in California, I have a spider bit that is pretty big. In between the two dots its about an inch! and its red around the two dots about a quarter inch. It itches but doesnt hurt.
i live in california in the high desert. i got bit while i was sleeping one night it didnt bug me till the next night when it started itching horribly then it started to hurt really bad. anything that touched it or brushed up against it would make it hurt even worse. when i woke up in the morning it didnt bother me as much and started healing up that day.that night i got bit again and noticed a spider in my fish tank that had drowned. i didnt notice the bite till later that night again, it was itchy and then started to hurt horibly like the first one, i ignored it and went to bed.
the next morning i woke up and noticed it was very large,red and swollen and had a dark brown crater in the middle.it hurt so bad i had a hard time walking around all day. i have no clue what kind of spider bit me. i still have the bite and i am hoping it will not be any worse tomorrow. i have looked up brown recluse spiders and there bites and they look very similar to the one i have.i am worried cause i have seen horrible pictures of brown recluse bites!!!!
please help me.
so about a week ago, my arm started itching like crazy so I looked at my arm. there was a really tiny pimk bump, too small to be a mosquito bite, about the size of a pimple.it looked like someone poked a hole in the center with a pin, and there was a red dot there. i scratched it open and now it is really red. I don’t think it’s gotten bigger. I haven’t been keeping track of just that one because there has been 4 bites on my wrist, 2 on my elbow, 1 on left leg, 2 on right leg, 4 on my neck, 1 on the palm of my hand, 1 on my temple, and 2 on my hips. they itch a lot, but they don’t hurt. I haven’t been sick, an occasional headache, but the headaches are part of a medical problem. I’m not allergic to anything so it wasn’t something that I might have eaten. it’s been a week and it seems like every day I find a few new bites. help me???
I live in Santa Rosa California and recently everyone that resides in my apartment has gotten bitten by what we believe is a spider. all the bites have abscessed, and have had to be drained over a period of about a week. the bite itches for about a day and has the normal appearance of a spider bite, raised, red and itchy. however on the second day swelling takes over and white blood cells seem to rush to the area causing quite an infection. the bite then abscesses and has to be drained everyday. it is painful and scary that a spider could do this!
I’ve never been bitten by a spider that caused this kind of reaction. the spider that we see the most in the apartment is a fairly large, dark(black or dark brown in the light) spider. i can’t identify for the life of me. it’s not a recluse, it’s not a wolf spider, but its huge for a common spider. they have a largish body, not hairy, and very thin legs. they do not make webs i notice, but tend to hang out on the ceiling or in the heater vents. i have trees backing the apartment windows so logically we thought perhaps they are coming in from outside, but we also think they breed in the main vent system, since they start appearing from there and not necessarily the window. they come out in the heat and disappear in the cold. i’ve noticed them as long as i’ve lived there, about a year now. one other thing i notice is i have spider sheets, and when those are on my bed, i do not get bitten. when i don’t have them is when i notice im more susceptible to getting bitten. do spiders recognize their own shape and stay away?
So I got bit by a spider and the area is just very red and swollen. It also feels like the muscles under my arm (where i got bit) are swelling up. Any idea waht type of spider this was?
My daughter came to me with a bite of some sort. I don’t know what it is and the web doesn’t seem to help so I thought Id post here. Its on her right hand towards the wrist more so aligned with her index finger. It is 2 bumps with little holes like a bite they are raised up just a little where you can notice they are there. They are a little red but not bad with the ice we are putting on there. It doesn’t seem really bad but she says it hurt a little. if someone else has had the same bite or knows what it could be please let me know… I cant get her to her regular doctors until Monday now that its so late and they are closed. I don’t think its an emergency so I don’t want to take her to the ER yet because its not that bad but just for my piece of mind could someone tell me what it could be. THANKS!!!
I have a small, pimple like thing on my leg that is starting to form red around it. It hurts really bad, but no pus or anything will come out of it and will only bleed a little bit. Recluse spiders are very common in my area, but I really don’t think it’s that. I’ve had it for two days and the redness has gotten worse.
I received two bites in one day. The first one occurred in a sunny area while I was trimming a hedge. It has gotten slightly hard, red and swollen but doesn’t itch. The second bite occurred while I was in a Kayak on a lake and I was pulling some water plants up. This bite is not swelling much but is extremely itchy. In both cases, I didn’t see what bit me. This is in East Texas. I suspect they were spider bites of some kind because I didn’t see any flying insects at the time.
Two days, itching
Two days pain
Today major pain and it looks like this.
Any thoughts?
Hi I have had two bites in the past couple months, not sure what bit me, but I had swelling and stinging which eventually went away, but now When I get cold those spots turn dark purple! Does anyone know what this could be??
I live in west central Indiana and found a bit on my shin this morning. It started itching and soon there was a yellow gooy pus coming out. The pus hardened on the bite a couple times and when I would pick it off there was a tingling sensation for about 10 minutes. It finally stopped producing that and is just a raised dot about the size of a marker top and it is red all the way around it about the size of a nickle. can you help me decide if I was bit by a spider and if so, what kind – mainly so I know if I need to go to the Dr or not. THANKS
Yesterday evening, I was working in the garden and I didn’t have my shoes on. I have 3 large, red, swollen, painful, itchy, bites on my feet. I also have the same kind on my neck, though there are 4 of them. We figured out they were spider bites, because my boy got pretty freaked out when I took a step and collapsed into his arms. They hurt pretty bad and the middles of the bite are black on one end and white on the other. They are ovalish, and long. They are very hot to the touch and very red. If I become dizzy or if I start to hurt anywhere else, I am going to the E.R. but that means needles!
This is a spider bite after one week.
It is probably nothing but there are 2 bite marks on my left foot about 1/2 a cm apart. Each mark is about 1/10 of a cm in diameter. So not too big but not tiny. I have had the bights for about a day or so. My left foot is slightly swollen but nothing more than say if I tweaked my ankle. Although the veins on my left foot are more pronounced than the ones on my right. My left foot feels a little numb but my left leg feels noticeably “weaker”, maybe sore, than my right leg (I did not notice this until today leading me to think…).
This could just be from reading with a foot rest and how my legs are positioned. The color of my left foot is no different than that of my right. There is no pronounced swelling around the bight marks either. No pus. I do not feel sick or weak in general. I am not light headed and do not have any body aches. I doubt it is anything serious but it is nice to hear someone say, “Quite your worrying, your fine.” Thanks for your time.
It’s been like 3 days already. I didn’t pay any attention to it at first, but it started to hurt a little. So I had my mom check it out, and she said it looked like a spider bite. I’m guessing a spider bit me while I was a sleep on the back of my left thigh. Now, if I try to touch it, it feels all hard and hurts a little. I’m not sure what type of spider though (which kind of scare me), but my dad said since it’s been a couple of days and no color change has taken place I should be ok. I’m just wondering if anyone knows….when a spider bite you, is that part of your skin die? Why does it feel hard around the bite? Is it normal for a spider to bite someone on the back of their thigh?
laura steven (#10)
that sounds exactly like the staph infection i had..its almost like a mosquito bite and it will itch like crazy..mine took almost 4 weeks to completely heal and go away and because it was so deep i have a scar on my thigh from the procedure..just keep an eye on it and make sure if any thing about it changes take him back to the doctor immediately..even if its just size or color or the hardness in it.
I got bit on the back of my thigh 3 times, I’m not sure what bit me. It itched for a second and then beagn to hurt, bad! About an hour later i feel that there’s a oozing, wet sensation but nothing is coming out and it hasn’t gotten any bigger. its day two and still all the same symptoms and the pain has spread to the whole area around the bite. Is there anyone i can contact in Atlanta? Any input?
Kym, Atlanta
Bites 1 and 2 its from noon and 3 and 4 at 11:30pm; I send you a email about noon, I went to hospital and only antibiotic I’ve taken so far.
I was bite by something on Friday 5/15/09 on my right calf and Friday night started to have leg cramps. On Monday I went to the Doctor and he said it was shingles and gave me an ointment for it. It started to get little pusy blisters on it and now it is a open sore. Does anyone have any idea what bit me?
Sam from Long Island…that sounds like a tick bite. We have them all over here and with the crazy weather we have been haviing they have come out in the warmer weather. Def check it out with the doctor. Have them give you a blood test for limes disease. Better to catch it early when it can be treated then later when you have muscle problems and fatigue.
Were you in any wooded area? or have pets that you let in? go online and look for pictures to compare.
my name is courtney.. i live in rensselaer ny and i was bit during the night about two days ago by a spider.. i have a bump that is red with a white blister.. i was able to pop the blister and dran the pus but now it is swollen…can someone please help me out and let me know what kind of spider it was… thankyou again…
i think i got bit by a spider 2 days ago on my right leg, my calf. It was just a stinging i felt. it looked like a mosquito bite, but this morning the redness has spread and theres a white ring around the red from swelling. Its very sore, red and hard, but I don’t see any pus filled heads, or black marks or anything… just red and two tiny red marks, i guess where it bit me.
I live in SW BC, and my bite has three small dots close together:. on my hand, I found it after my walk on the dike, through tall grass, I would like to know what spider it is.
I live in Newberry Springs CA and I got bit by something on my temple and I tried to pop it but it just got worse. After a couple of my days it swelled my eye shut and my face was swallowen. So i went to the doctors and they put me on an iv and the swelling went down but now its been over 2 weeks and my hair is starting to fall out where i got bit. I dont know what it is the doctor have no clue either. there were no pus pockets when i was in the hospital
I was out cooking with a couple of my friends when i saw this little white spider on the wall i didn’t notice that it had climbed or jumped off me to the wall. a couple hours later my arm started to itch and i look at my arm now its all red and swollen where the bit is. its just 1hole for it and the spot where i was bite the hole is brown. when i can ill get a picture up.
My son got into some poison ivy the other day and it has spread, well when i was Dring the sores this afternoon I noticed that one of then was really red around a pimple looking sore, so I ran my finger over the sore and noticed that the skin around it was extremely hard and hot. So I went ahead and put on some calomine lotion and as I was putting it on, it popped and a little bit of pus came out. After this happened I cleaned the wound and noticed that it was starting to turn purple around the now open sore and it looked like there was something black in the hole.
It is extremely painful to touch and it seems that the hardness around the sore is progressing further out. The hardness , the redness and the slight purple color is in a complete circle around the sore. Any ideas as to what it could be?
i was planting flowers on sunday and didnt notice anything bite me on monday morning had a small itch on my leg by tuesday morning it has turned into a large red circle size f silver dollar it has one single small red fot in the center by wednesday it is darker red and light red around the outside it still itches like crazy. Been felling really tired dont know if that has anything to do with it or not. I live in Va. dont really know what spiders are in this area wondering if I should see Dr.
i live in long island New York. i have this random bite that appeared yesterday. it is the size of a green fly bite but there is a red ring around the bite. It is very sore when someone touches in the general area. I can barely touch anywhere on my arm. any info?
This is a picture I took last year of a spider that lived on my porch. I don’t know what it is and was wondering if you could tell me. As you can see it is the underside of the arachnid. Also, I have many sacs in my shed that are approx an inch in length and 1/2 to 3/4 in diameter. They are clustered together in many areas or stuck tight in corners. Could they be spiders or do you think it is some other insect. I think something is boring the wood on the ceiling but I do not see any holes, debris falls on the motorcycle seats that is almost like small pebbles. I do see spiders in there but not many webs.
In reference to #6 and #7, The same thing happened to my 2 year old daughter the other night. She has about 20 bites only on her legs and around her ankles. They dont seem to be bothering her but the pharmacy seems to think it was something from outside in the tall grass and had the reaction a couple days later, but I am not satisfied with just that answer. I too thaught it was bed bugs but its not, Also thaught flees and she was having an allergic reaction to them but we have no animals therefore they could not survive in my home. If anyone knows what this is or even a suggestion of what it may be please let me know. Thanks
For three years now i have been fighting a spider i believe. Come the weather warming up i start to get eaten alive. The bites are about a nickel in size and they swell around to about a silver dollar in size. the center looks like a really bad hikky. it is a dark red blood color. I have fogged;cleaned;changed furniture; in the room. I have treated the walls and windows outside the house as well as made sure that there are no plants close to the windows. Yet I still get attacked. I don’t know what to do anymore.
I got bit on the face by a spider sometime last week, I think on Tuesday evening as I slept, so I never saw what bit me. I have a large, quarter sized raised lump on my cheek…doesn’t hurt, no puncture marks nor does it bother me other than being aesthetically displeasing and a very slight itch very seldomly. Today I pulled back the shower curtain and found a blackish spider, about a nickle size in diameter. It’s legs were not all the same length if that helps at all, seems like his back legs were fairly short in comparison to the front. I wish I would have thought to take a picture but instead I smashed him and washed him down the drain :(
I live in Indianapolis, IN and there tends to be a lot of spiders around here, though most of the ones around my house are much smaller. My friend who is a registered nurse said it definitely appeared to be a spider bite but looked okay…any idea what bit me? I have seen wolf spiders in the area and thought this could have been a baby one but he wasn’t hairy per say…
If your having problems two weeks later after a spiderbite; go to the hospital; do not delay.
When you start seeing purple color; it is attacking your muscles; go to the hospital; NOW.
For all you SpiderBite Fans; If you have on going problems after getting bit by a spider; which has lasted up to a year and longer; please be advised that if it was a fang bite or what we call a Chelicrae/fang (which are generally black) make sure the sleeves of the fang or Chelicrae haven’t been left in the Bite Wound – if this happens you can have dire health (reactions) problems for years until
the Black Sleeve is removed; professionally.
Even as many professionals miss this problem; they will be plagued by the Spider Bite Victim ongoing health problems; until these professionals take a closer look into the wound; itself.
Just take a closer look; please… David Giovine CDNN
Hi there, i live in a cold wooded area and i got bite by a spider a little while ago on my face and the hole surrounding area turned red and swollen. It’s been there for a couple of days now and it’s just been getting worse if anyone could tell me what might have bitten me that would be great!
Yesterday I came home and thought I had a mosquito bite but when I itched it It became painful and started to swell, later I noticed another bite on my forearm again when itched it hurt really bad, like stinging. Today it hurts worse and I notice it’s gotten bigger in both spots, when I look closey I notice 2 dots in the middle of both bites and little skin color craters around it, what is this? I’m worried, please help!!
i was bit about 2 days ago,
on my left butt cheek,
i don’t know when i got it or from what exactly,
but its the size of a quarter, its swollen, red, there’s a tiny white spot in the middle, sore, and itchy
and i have a headache and abdominal pain(I’m not sure if they were cause my the spider bite)
I’m from Michigan.
does anyone know anything i could do about it?
or maybe what type of spider it may have come from?
if so please email me.
rotmanjas@apsfalcons.net
My son I believe has a spider bite but I am unsure. We notice a few days ago a very large black and blue bruise on the heel of his foot. He is only two years old and he was walking around on his toes and saying “hurt, hurt”. It was so dark we assumed he broke his foot somehow! But then we felt we were jumping to conclusions as we always do and we didn’t want the hospital to say “them again?”. :-) That evening we noticed a small lump in the middle of the affected area on his foot and it was very hard, also discolored so we believe it was some kind of bite. the bruising subsided and gave away to his skin on his heel cracking and peeling with deep grooves appearing, almost like the athlete’s foot you would see in an adult male, very severe. I am worried that this is some sort of necrosis of his skin from a bite. Much of the skin has peeled off. It is hard and dry looking, his other foot looks fine.
We live in Northern New England, and brown recluse spiders do not live around here. And we don’t even know if this is even a spider bite at all. Any thoughts?
There is no more pain, he just keeps picking at his foot. But there are some dark spots in the grooves which look almost like dried blood.
Mine is basically the same as Kami’s. I have around 4 bites, 2 much smaller but obviously from the same bug. I suspected it to be a fireant bite, but it felt more of like a stinging electric-shock sensation. started out like a mosquito bite, turned into a pimple like form, but an off green-white color and oozed clear fluid. It popped and left a dark indention in the center of the bite mark. About the size of a dime each and they are red and hard-ish. They almost resmeble “vampire bites” since two of them are convieniently placed near eachother. I live in north-eastern Texas, close to Oklahomla. I never saw a spider, but i felt the stinging sensation on the way to school, but I was careless to check what it was.
Georgia –
Small, dime sized redness began 2 days ago. No severe pain (I know you are thinking Brown Recluse when you see GA, but so far the pain is merely from swelling) and after 48 hours the redness appears to be spreading to about the size of a quarter. Any advice?
I think very much so that i have a spider bite on my leg, around the rear area of my calf, i seen the spider shortly after killing three more while cleaning.. it appeared to be a somewhat pale grey color, small in size maybe size of a pea, but its burned for a while since it occurred last night. when it happened it hurt, only a little, felt a stingy sensation then burning. looked and it was a tiny little red whelp. today it has developed a white head, redness expanding from bite site, and the white head had turned a slight pale greenish, off white color. its hard around the head of bite, and redness, swelling persists, been sort of tired today, which is abnormal for me, abdominal pains, and slight headache. itchy and tender around site especially inner area of redness around bite.
im not exactly seriously worried nor concerned, but since its still hurting and redness around bite has increased along with changes like this i am concerned slightly today. can anyone offer and advice, maybe what it was that bit me since i actually didn’t catch the spider in action biting my leg…i live in central Texas, and spiders are real common around here, i just don’t want this to become and infection or something nastier… HELP!