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i was laying in my bed last night and all the sudden i saw to red lines on my leg. They burned for like 5 minutes and then stopped. When i woke up in the morning the lines were gone. Any ideas of what it could have been?
On June 21,2010 I found a big pile a baby spiders on the handle of of freezer door and I tried to kill them all. But 2 jumped on me and I killed the one that jumped on my pants but the one that jumped in my shirt bit my on my nipple are. They are 2 red bite marks that are thet size of the tip of a sharpened but unsed pencil tip. It itch’s,burn’s,its numb,sore,and its hot around the area I got bit. The spider was tan with a black/dark red butt. I live in north fort myers,florida and never been bit by a spider before. Please help me! What should I do?
I had the black dot inside a bite-like rash. It itched like crazy and the next day blistered up really bad. My doctor said it was mostly likely poison ivy or oak (and I agreed once it started blistering) but she didn’t know what caused the black dot. Turns out that there is a type of poison ivy called black dot or black resin poison ivy. Google that and see if your ‘bite’ matches the pictures.
Doctor also told me that if you don’t see the spider biting you then it probably wasn’t a spider.
I think I got bit by a spider. Last night there was a pile of baby spiders on the fridge door and I tried to kill them all but a couple jumped on me. Now I have 2 swollen,red,itchy,burning bumps on my left nipple. I also feel like I have a fever now. I am so hot! The spiders were tan with like a black/dark red butt. Are they poisonous? Should I go to the hospital or should I ask my doctor at ruth cooper? It really hurts,burns and itch’s a lot. What should I do?
Yesterday I was outside for quite some time and i got many mosquito bites. I got one on my hand but the bite was about a a third of a centimeter in diameter. Today it is quite swollen (the area around it is swollen). The swollen area is about two inches in diameter and when i touch it, it feels bruise like and there is a slight itching/burning feeling. What do you think it could be? I live in Quebec, Canada.
I have a spider bite on my leg that has been there for three days it has a small sore at the center about the size of a pen point. it is also swollen and pink for about 1/2 an inch all around the bite area, very sensitive to touch and getting a little more painful each day …. anyone know what type of spider this may be I live on a sail boat in south Texas not near any beaches and not a lot of old wood laying around its pretty much all concrete ….
Emily,
It sounds like the bite you have could be a spider bite. I think that your best bet would be to get it checked out by a doctor to make sure that everything is okay. A doctor will most likely be able to tell you what type of spider bit you and if it is dangerous or not.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
Jen
Well, I don’t know if its a spider bite or a bee sting or a mosquito. But, IT ITCHES LIKE CRAZY! Someone said it was a mosquito but I don’t think it is. It is like GIANT! and its a red and swollen it has a shiny red dot in the middle. I say it is about 7cm width and 5 cm long. Some please help me!
About 3 days ago I noticed what looked exactly like a mosquito bite. Since I thought it was a mosquito bite i left it alone thinking it would go away within a few days. But it only got worse. Around the red bump my skin is reddish. There’s a tiny black dot in the middle. No I haven’t touched it or put any cream on it besides the stuff you would put on sunburns because it helps it feel better. It itches if i touch it, but stings most the time.
Is it a spider bite? If so which kind?
We do have spiders in our house, but they are the size of a nickle, and are tiny and black. They look like House Spiders.
my son was outside and got bit he thank it is spider it is on his arm and it is big and red and hot can you tell me what kind of spider bit it can be. thank you my e-mail is lillian410967 [at] hotmail.com
About 2 years ago i was outside and gnats were crawling all over my arm, i knocked them off and tried to scratch my arm but i realized there was a part of my skin that was missing, about the size of a cigarette maybe a little bigger, and then i was going to take a shower and noticed 3 smaller ones that looked the same was on my breast. it didn’t hurt or itch but I have the scar and it is red pink and a little purple. It scared me to death because i have arachnophobia and my dad said it was a spider bite. i was just wondering why some of my skin was missing and how the spider (if it was a spider at all) without me noticing or anything.
I’m from the Tampa area in Florida. One day I went outside and about 3 to 5 minutes later noticed white blisters on my left calf that formed a circle. At first I had mistaken it for burning myself with my heat blanket, but it didn’t really itch as much as I expected it to. I kept a band aid on it but it didn’t prevent it from the blister popping. I’ve had the scar for about 6 months now and for a while you could see the flesh because of how deep it was. I just want to know if this really was a spider bite or a burn. I also have a recent picture of the scar, which is now about 2 cm in diameter. Thank you.
So I think I might have a bug bite or a pimple… but i am not sure. I have this big red bump under my eye and it was swollen under my eye… but it is not swollen anymore. When I squeezed it pus came out.
Hi There,
We live in South Africa. Since Sunday (13 June) the gland in my upper leg, where my leg and my abdomen join has been swollen and VERY tender, to the extent that I cannot walk correctly. on Monday evening I noticed a small sore on my tummy (not painful at all) but did not think anything of it. I did not sleep on Monday evening, I had a terrible fever, headache, nausea, and flu like symptoms. Tuesday I went to the doc and he said it was a spider bite. Gave me a shot and some meds and I had to lay on my back for a day. Today I am not feeling any better and my right arm has a lot of pain and is a little numb.
We were in botswana for a week at the end of may / beginning of june. What type of Spider could it have been???
I was bit by something. I live in southern California. And as much as this embarrasses me the bite is at the top of my butt crack. First few days were just sore. I had thought that I had bruised my tailbone or something. Then I became feverish for a few days and the bite swelled. My wife took a look at it and proclaimed it a brown widow bite. She started me on a regiment of motrin allergy meds and ice/heat packs.
OK been a week of this… It hurts worse. there had been white, brown, and once black pus coming out of this thing. It hurts to get up so much i lay on my stomach and try not to move. And I am at near dangerous amounts of motrin with little noticeable effect. Does anyone have any advice?
Hi, I live in east Texas and i have a bite on the very back of my thigh. It happened while i was asleep last night, i have seen brown recluses around my house recently but the bite doesn’t match those symptoms. it’s a small red bump about the size of a mosquito bite, it’s very tender to the touch but otherwise doesn’t hurt. I killed a small black spider this morning in my room. The spider didn’t have any bright colors. Can anyone tell me if this is a spider bite and if it is what kind made it?
i have had a bite for 3 days. small and red but the surrounding skin is irritated and it is painful to touch. not a mosquito for sure. we often find jumping spiders around the house. could that be what bit me?
I live in Ontario Canada and my step dad was out fishing yesterday morning and we think he was bit by some sort of bug. We aren’t sure what bit him but the top of his left foot in swollen and has red blister like blotches on the area where we believe he was bitten. 24 hours after (now) he is feeling very sick, tired and weak. should he go to the hospital? and do you have any idea what could be the cause?
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thank you.
I have a spider bite on my foot that is a small welt with two extremely tiny red dots on it. The welt is huge compared to the actual bite. I’m not sure if the spider that bite is deadly or not.
I have been bitten several times by a spider. I did not see it. My whole leg is very painful, and it seems like the pain is spreading up my leg. Is this normal?
Hello I live in upstate NY
I have a bite on my left arm and that’s the side I usually sleep on. I noticed it the other day and I have 3 or 4 bites (maybe) they are red, puffy and are tender to the touch. sometimes it kinda makes my whole arm ache. sorry didn’t have time to look through all the postings. If you would like a picture or any more information please let me know.
Thank You,
Jennifer
Okay so exactly last week, on Saturday, I had my graduation dinner. I was inside the whole time, until it was picture time. It was already dark (maybe that could help with identification of what ever bit me) and i spent about 45 min outside. After that, I went back inside, and noticed 3 bites just above my right hip. I know i did not have them before i went outside. It was a little painful and irritating. It did not itch at all though. The next day, i took a closer look at it, and noticed two holes on one of the bites, that’s what made me think something bit me, maybe a spider. However, it’s spreading now. Now i have another similar bite closer to my back and i have two more next to the first three i had. It can’t be bed bugs because I’m pretty sure we don’t have bed bugs and it happened right after i went outside. It’s been a week and i still have these “bites”.
They are starting to get more painful and very discomforting. The area around the bites hurts, kinda like a bruise, and the bites have gotten red, as if I was bleeding or something (but i wasn’t). I posted up pictures. If someone has had a similar problem or knows what this is please help. I do have a doctor’s appointment next week, hopefully it’s not too late to tell what i have by then. OH, and it is not herpes! My mom keeps insisting that it is, but I just went for a STD check up last week and I am clean of herpes! Ah, this is getting more and more painful, if anyone could please help identify the little stinker that might have bitten me!
I live in Boston and have never seen a spider in my apartment. I was at a meeting outside the city and there was an annoying mosquito flying around which I ended up killing. That night though, I noticed I was very itchy on the inside of my arm near the elbow. Normally mosquito bites make the site puff up but this one did not. It has been 2 days and the area is very itchy and it looks like 2 bit marks less than 1cm apart. This and the itchiness make me believe it is not a mosquito bite.
The bites themselves are raised, but the area that is irritated is not- just red and about the size of a golf ball. I have stayed away from scratching, but not sure what has given me this bite. It looks very mild so I’m not worried- but it’s annoying to boot!
Too bad my boss still has my hydrocortisone.
My daughter is 2 and has a “bite” on the inside of her thigh. I noticed it yesterday morning 6/9/2010 and it was about the size of a golf ball and was red and hard. I took her to the dr that afternoon and they said it was def a bit or some sort and said to watch it. It had gotten bigger from the time we found it from the time I took her to the dr, Well last night about 8pm it had gotten bigger so I called the dr and they had asked if the dr that saw her gave her antibiotics and they didn’t so they told me to give her benadryl and Motrin so I did. This morning we wake up and it’s not as red but its still there and so is the swelling. The inside is kinda rough and purple and some shiny spots like the when you barley scrape or burn your self. Any thoughts or comments are greatly appreciated. She has not messed with it but maybe 2 times. The day before it appeared she was itching the spot and I looked ans there was nothing
i think i was bit by a spider about two days ago. See, when i was putting my ballet leotard on yesterday i noticed a large red bump on my hip bone, its diameter is about the size of a ping pong ball and its solid red with no other colors as far as i can see. It is very itchy and is lifted up about a centimeter so it does seem swollen- i told my parents and my dad thinks its a spider bite while my mom thinks its a huge mosquito bite. That’s what it looks like, a big mosquito bite but huge!!! What does this sound like? There is one red line about half an inch long stretching out of it on my skin.
Yovani,
I wouldn’t ever pop a spider bite, your best bet is to go see a doctor if you think that you were bitten.
Hope this helps!
Jen
Looks like I been bitten by something in my arm and my arm hurts sometimes but then by whole body starts to hurting to i don’t really know what bite me
i don’t know if my bite is a spider bite but i got this red bump under my armpit.. its hasn’t changed size over the time.. its been four days now… and i feel bone and muscle pain.. also the side i got bit at hurts when i touch it.. now on day four the appeared a red ring around the bump.. i don’t know what this is… HELP
About a week ago I got some bites on the back of my thigh. (I think I got it when I was out in the woods that week but I’m not sure.) I’m not even sure if it is a spider that bit me, but I think it was. I noticed them a few days later and they were only slight bumps and looked kind of like blood blisters (not all the same size). They did not itch or hurt. Now they are scabs, still varying in size. They only hurt a little bit now but they do itch. The scabs are also starting to peel off very easily. I have no idea what this could be. -.-
I live in Northern Utah and it’s spring.
#8 ok is like a big bubble of black?if it is then it might be a tick bight i dot know what to do to help it but that’s what i know.
I was in Idaho recently for two weeks. I appears as if I was bitten by possibly a spider. (not sure) I have five small holes (pin size) on my hip. It looks just like a red hive around each hole. It itches off and on. The weird part is that is is numb around the area all the way to the inside of the groin area. Any ideas? Too embarrassed to go to the Dr’s. I was bitten around one and a half weeks ago, and it is not going away.
Today I woke up in so much pain that I thought I had broken my toe. When I finally pulled it out and showed it my parents, they thought it was just a spider bite. I can not put any pressure on it because when I do, I get a shooting pain up my left leg. It also hurts extremely bad when I touch it. I am going on a walking study trip with my students today and I don’t know what I should do. Should I call the doctor?? Please help!!!
I have what the DR says are probably spider bites, they just suddenly appeared, no idea where I was when I was bitten, I don’t know if spider bits appear immediately or they can take hours to appear or what they are ,big lumps more red where they get irritated, white where they don’t, I have one on my forhead that looks like a regular moisquito bite but it is June in south Dakota and very few moisquitoes are out this time of year here.
I have had them for two days and they are starting to go away, they are huge, bigger where clothes irritate them and on areas with out a lot of fat and blood supply, ie larger on inside of thigh than on arm and forehead. Lower leg not so big, more like the one on my arm. Hard to take pictures of them, they are red with definite center that looks like where the stuff the skin reacts to went in, especially as they decrease in size and irritation. I usually do not even react to mosquito bits, so this out of the blue reaction is strange.
I live in Tampa, Florida and I think I got bitten while asleep. Above my knee and next to it was bitten. The bitten spots got red, hard and swelled to the same size as my knee. It itches a lot and when I do itch it hurts and slightly stings.
I was in NC over the weekend when I noticed a bite/sting on the back of my neck, it swelled up and was pretty red well it’s 4 days later and now I have stiffness in my neck, severe headache and blurred vision, should I be worried and be checked or could they even tell me anything?
#100-erica
a red ring sounds like a possible indication of lyme disease. I would have the bites examined by a doctor.
Sent you an email with the pictures…I live in Southern Utah. I have small red bites on my body all over me like on the picture attached. Bites are on my legs, hands, arms, stomach, e.t.c. I find about 4+ new bites on me every day.
A couple of days ago I found one of these bugs on me and killed it. I saw another one the next day, but it got away.(They are fast runners) Then today I finally found another; it was on my bed; I caught it and I took pictures of it. This bug has 8 legs and it is the size of an ant.
I don’t feel any pain when being bitten. In fact on the first bites I didn’t know I’d been bitten until it started itching.
Is this bug dangerous? What in the world is it? I’d sure like to know as soon as possible to find a way to get it out of my house.
Thanks so much in advance!
I live in Oklahoma city Oklahoma
I got bit in my backyard it is a bump but it caused a rash that is spreading down my foot.
I don’t know what it is.
I was sleeping in shorts in South Carolina in a fairly clean apartment, however I found a bite. The area is blackish and irritated – bulging out at least half a inch. I doused it in peroxide, should I be concerned?
I believe I was bit by a spider. The area is big, swollen, rock hard, has a hole in the middle and itches. What kinda of spider could have bit me?
I don’t know if it is a spider bite or not, but my sister says it is. I don’t know what kind but i would like to know. The bite on my chin is hard and round and it’s the color is the color of my skin, its also the size of a dime. The one on my cheek bone is also the same color but is smaller, but it was red earlier when i woke up. The one on my nose is red and small and is a little itchy, the other one on my nose is the same but not as itchy. And the one closer to my ear is red and small but bigger than the one on my nose but smaller then the chin one is red and is itchy and comes out like a pimple. Can you help me out?? I’m like freaking out..
i walking walking in my boots into school when it felt like either someone jammed a needle into my ankle, or a spider bite/bee sting (but it hurt 100x what a bee sting does) it was all i could do not to yelp. 12 hours after all there was was a tiny red dot about a millimeter in diameter on my ankle. 24 hours later it looked about the same but with mild swelling. 36 hours later it looks like a bad ankle sprain and hurts if i walk on it. my whole ankle is swollen to where i can barely get my shoes on. any info would be great thank you!! im freaked out!
if i suspect that i was bitten by a spider and it left a pimple looking mark, should I pop it to get the venom out?
Sarah,
I have the whiteheads, too! Does anyone else have them? So far, I have no symptoms (fevers, nausea) but the bite is very itchy and has whiteheads. Is this bite dangerous? Is it even a spider bite? Please send replies, soon!
hello, my name’s missy and my brother, my mom and i are living in an apartment in Omaha, NE and we have recently been bitten numerous times by some sort of spider, it bites in random places but only comes out at night, as we have no clue what it looks like or any leads to what it is. after it bites us we develop a small, red welt; about the size of a nickel at first, and it itches really badly. but when scratched, it eventually spreads around the welt.
my brother was bitten by one on his arm and within scratching it, it spread up his arm following his vein. we believe their is poison in his blood, we have not yet had a chance to see a doctor, but were planning too. my mom thinks it might be a brown recluse.i’ve tried researching it but nothing comes up. please send me some info on what it might be or how to solve it. thank you.
I felt something crawling on my inner thigh yesterday and tried to slap it away. I did not see what it was. Today I have a series of small bruises in the area. Is there anything I should do other than keep a close watch on it?
Thanks
I found this spider on my couch in Central Indiana. Unfortunately I have no other information about it such as web or anything…all I know is it was big.
Hi , I’m from Westchester County, NY .Last night right when I was going to sleep something felt like pricked my forearm. Then when i spread out my blanket I saw there was some type of a spider egg on encasing . Then a cream/translucent spider came out i don’t know if it was a baby but the area where i got bit swelled up a bit and then i started to get shooting pains in my arm. The area where it bit me has gone down but when i touch it , it feels sensitive , should I be worried?
I don’t know if it was a spider, but something definitely bit my outside about 2 weeks ago. I didn’t feel the bite, but had what kind of looked like a blood blister the skin was not hard like a blood blister and the blood looked bright red instead of purple) in the crook of my arm.
After about a week the blood blister thing went away and you could see 2 puncture marks and the area around it (under the skin) is hard and in a line going towards the inside of my arm. It then was just a red area and still is, but now I have what looks like a blister next to it with a small swollen line going from one to the other.
Heard of this kind of reaction to a spider bite before? If so, any idea what kind?
I don’t know if I was bitten by a spider or not. I have had many little spider bites that have not done much to me but leave scars. This one however I have never had anything like. Its red and hard where the bite it located. It also itches severely. I have started to get headaches and an upset stomach that feels like its burning. The bite stings as well I can’t really see it because its on the back of my knee. I went camping this weekend and stared to fell really itchy and I thought it might be a tick cause everyone else had gotten bit by those.
But when I reached down to get it there was nothing there just a bite so I scratched it a little and left it alone the next day it was hard and swollen and it itches really bad. I have a nurse in the family so i asked her about it she felt it and everything and said to watch it to make sure it doesn’t get worse. I have noticed that the bite has gotten a little darker then it was yesterday. So I was wondering if anyone knew what I should do??