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Hi, my boyfriend why bitten by a spider yesterday, and he has a red blotch with two little hole in it on his leg, and I was wondering if anyone knows what kind of spider would have bit him
I have a spider right on my behind, I didn’t really know what it was at first but it was red, swollen and it only itched, then it got worse, to the point where I couldn’t sit, if I sat I couldn’t get up and walk, it hurt for the transition. It started to drain and it freaked me out, I went to the emergency room and they gave my anti-biotics but now it’s just draining on it’s own and, not to sound gross, but its so uncomfortable, I, no lie, have to put a panny liner on every bottom outfit I wear, it’s annoying and wish it would just be over.
About 4 days ago i was bitten by what i think was a spider but not real sure, i told my grandmother about it and she took me to the doctor and the doctor. said it wasn’t a spider bite but I’m still curious on the 1st day it was a tiny bump then on the 3rd day the swelling got from my elbow to about 5 inches away from my wrist its the 4th day and at about 1am i noticed a black dot in the middle and lots of redness i cant even sleep anymore i just want to know what it is so i can cure it and sleep again
About 4 days ago I felt a small bump on the upper back part of my leg, thinking it was a mosquito bite, since I spend lots of time in my garden wearing skin exposed clothing. It did not itch, which I thought was strange, but it did start to ached a lot. Next day, the area looked like it had a tiny dark hole with purple then dark pink surrounded areas. Very sensitive and heaty. ON day 3, I decided to go to the Doctor and was glad I did. Found out I also had a 101 temperature (I didn’t feel feverish though). She explored the area and said it definitely was an insect bite. Since I live in the city, and have not been to a woodsy area prior to this happening, we ruled out a tick bite.
She prescribed an oral antibiotic and topical cream antibiotic to place on the area. Have to keep the area bandaged in the day when I wear clothing that covers that fits close to the leg, so the material does not rub and continue to cause infection. Also taking Tylenol which makes the pain subside. Still have a low grade fever (99.4) but that is due to the infection. Today is the 3rd day of antibiotics and I am noticing droplets of liquid coming from the area, which I feel is a good sign. Once this drains, the pain should go away and infection heal faster.
My advice to anyone who thinks they have been bitten by any type of insect and the area is abnormal (purplish, swollen, etc) is to take your temperature to see if you have a fever and SEE YOUR DOCTOR. Don’t mess around with a bite. Infections can spread and get into your blood and cause more havoc. The sooner you are put on an antibiotic, the sooner the healing process can begin.
I got bit just below my ankle on Sunday morning (4 days ago). I didn’t feel anything at first, but then it started to itch, so I thought it was a mosquito bite. Monday it just kept itching, but Tuesday it started to swell and it’s tender to the touch. The bite has actually turned in to what looks like a bruise with a dot in the middle for the bite. The main bite area is about .25 across. I’ve already seen a doctor for this, and will be seeing him again tomorrow, but he didn’t say anything about what he thought it could be. My dad said he thought it was a spider bite.
The other day my little sister got bit by a spider and she didn’t know what spider. But she said that she noticed it yesterday and it was that bad but now it’s getting worst and she thinks a black widow bit her. How can I tell if a black widow bit her? And should I go to the doctors and check if it’s dangerous or just leave her alone and see what happens? Please if you have any idea please contact me. Thank you.
I live in Michigan.
I don’t know where I got bitten or when, this just showed up, and I was hoping to have it identified. I live in Holland.
I am pretty sure i have a spider bite but I’m not for sure…..my bite or whatever it is is red all over in a circle as big as like 3 or 3 1/2 quarters…..in the middle is a dot thing its small with a little blackish gray inside the 1 small circle and its really sore all around! also…if you put your pointing finger from the bottom of your arm pit thats where its pretty much at it hurts when it gets touched and when i lay my arm down! so if you know what it is please help me! THANKS :)
my mother got bit by a spider while weeding her front bushes about 3 days ago. she said that it first appeared as a white pimple, which burst and she had a lot of white pus drain from it. now her finger is three times it’s normal size and her hand is quite swollen. there is redness that travels about 2-3 inches above her pointer finger on both sides of her hand. there is a large bump in the area of the bite and is really dark red with a small pin size hole. the finger is quite painful and she can’t bend it.
she says that it throbs and it keeps her awake at night. her doctor put her on antibiotics. i just wanted to know if there was something else she could do for the pain. i am worried about her she is 76 and not in good health. should she see a dermatologist or a doctor that knows about spider bites?
Hi I may have been bitten. I have redness around the area of were it is. There are like two holes, and I don’t know what kind of spider it is from? Can you help me please?
I got bit by a spider on my head. Now I have a very high fever and the bite is starting to look funny.. there is like a black ring around a white head. Should I start to worry?
hi, on my left hand i have what appears to be to bites side by side assuming a spider bite..its swollen sore and itches and a clear pus type liquid coming from bite area my hand feels stiff and cramped…now today my arm seems stiff and swelling is worse.the bites only happen at night never in the day time…i have sprayed my home and have had no luck we are still being bit.any info would be helpful thank you so much.
Folks,
Not sure if all of you have spider bites. Lots of insects can bite and cause problems such as these. Spider bites usually are not felt, Except a black widow. Most cases this spider leaves a huge bump like a mosquito just several times bigger. it usually has the 2 bite makings, because most widows are huge when they bite. Widows are found in moist dark places (under steps, in crawl spaces of houses in sheds, barns that use very low lighting).
They do have webs but are dense and small. I see them most under homes and under large wood or rocks. Widows won’t kill you but you may experince severe swelling, pain, fever etc.. depending on the the reaction to the bite and how allergic you are to this venom. The Brown Recluse is a bad boy spider! These guys hide anywhere were there is little traffic and very quite, clothes, shoes, outside sheds, wood piles, and around storage boxes. They bite because you disturb them. This guys love closets and hanging clothes, if you have found one of these guys you probably have more. You need to get rid of these guys they will breed in your house and be everywhere. You will know this guy when you see it. It doesn’t walk like a normal spider its sort of flat and loves to jump and will actually chase you! I have seen this first hand several times. Widows and Recluses are predator spiders meaning that don’t use large webbing to catch.
They use webbing to store and as an alert, however you will most likely see the and be bite by a reculse without a webbing. These two are nocturnal spiders, meaning they hunt and are most active at night. This is the number one reason for bites. Normally they are(sleeping) while we are active and the bit occurs when we distrube them. Mostll widows are solid black with red hour glass figure on bottom side of sider. It is female! The males are much smaller and to my knowledge don’t bite. The Reculse has a brownish to gray color and if looking down at it you can see a different color that resembles a violin it start middle of back and goes to the eyes. You will not feel this bite usually and normally you wont see the bite just what it is doing to your skin. It leaves a cirlce area around bite and rotes your skin from the middle outward. Depending on your bodies reaction it may get very big and very severe. It usually is treated by minor surgery to get ride of the dead areas. Yes this spider leaves a scare no matter how big
. I have muliple bites from spiders due to my cable tv job. The worst was the reculse by far. My advise is to find the insect that bit you and take it to the doctors office. Look at the spider and determine if it one of the two mentioned. The widow is obvious but the reculse is not and confused with other spiders. Most house hold spiders don’t bite and are harmless.
to, #83- Tim. I have had 2 bites like that before the first one i popped the pimple like thing but it made it soar and swollen. The second one I left alone and it went away in about a week with no pain… if you ever get a bite like that it’s best to leave it alone.
I got bit multiple times a couple weeks ago on both feet. They seemed to go away for the most part then last night my feet started to itch, when I woke up this morning they looked like mosquito bites then all of a sudden got very red and have a watery light yellow pus in them (not a lot) but it drains and fills back up quickly. They don’t really itch now but my legs feel tingly from them.
I was trimming a willow tree here in southern Illinois on a hot afternoon and a few hours after that I was in a swimming pool when I noticed a bite on my front shoulder. I had a friend who works in a hospital look at it and he said it was for sure a spider bite but not sure what kind. He said it didn’t look like a brown recluse. It’s black in the middle, red swelling around it, and it itches really bad. 24 hours later now and it is still swollen. I would really like to know what kind of spider bit me.
hi, I’m out of town and i had a small bump that appeared as a bite so i scratched maybe a day or so i noticed what looked like a white head so i scratched it off but since i first noticed it it has gotten bigger and it has like heat coming from it and when i apply pressure it hurts kinda..help!!! I’m going home on Saturday!
I live in Nevada, and I woke up with a bad itch and so I looked in the mirror and saw my eyes was swollen i bite looks like a spider bite and it’s as big as a dime i have a head ach but i don’t know if that is symptoms or not… please reply soon… thanks.
I’m not sure if what I have is spider bites. But basically there is two red bumps between my thumb and index finger and coming from that is a red trail I don’t know if its a vein that’s infected or why but it goes up all the way just below my under arm. The bumps itch like crazy but the red trail feels tender like a bruise but its kind of swollen. Any ideas?
Hello,
I’m from Greece but right now i’m for vacations to Puerto Viejo de Limon in Costa Rica. This village is near Manzanillo. Yesterday i was laying on the swing. Without to feel any bite i started to scratch right my hand and some minutes later i started to scratch my left hand. I thought that it was from mosquitoes, but the mosquito bite here it pains at the beginning but 15 minutes later you are ok. Today i realize that something wrong cause i saw my both hands to be swollen near the place i was bitten yesterday. I have no idea if it was spider or not. A local person told me that probably it is from spider.
I cannot see any sign from bite. I don’t feel strange and i don’t feel extreme pain. I just need to scratch it one or two times every 5-10 minutes.
I have to say that i put on these bites special liquids for bug bites not more than 30 minutes after i fell the scratch.
Thank you very much!
Hi,
The internet told me you were person to ask about spider bites! That is so awesome you identify bites!
I think I have a spider bite, I got it about 2-3 days ago. I thought maybe it was a tic bite but I’m not sure. It’s just below my calf. We live in Northern California. Could you tell me if it’s a spider bite and if so what kind?
Thanks!
The attached pictures are of a bite that was received on Monday 7/5/10 — the pictures were taken Saturday 7/10/10.
I went to the doctor and he gave me Clyndamiacin and told me it was a spider bite. Any idea what kind it might be and what I should expect? It is very painful, on the back of my thigh it hurts with every move. The redness is more intense at the end of the day. Today it seemed like a pinhole area opened and it “leaked” a small amount of blood and clear liquid. The picture 007 shows the small dab of blood in the center.
Other symptoms include all over aches and pains, and general feeling of being run down.
Thank you for any help you can provide. I would love any suggestions on treatment options. The doctor said he feels it is a necrotic bite and it is going to turn black and the skin will die.
Hi, I’m Lexie. I live in westville IL. Just on Saturday i went camping and woke up to a painful boil type spider bite. I went to the doctor yesterday they popped it seen the white zit in middle and prescribed me to mupirocin ointment, usp 22 grams. But o have started to notice 3 more pimple likes on my knee cap near the main bite. I’m not sure if they are bites to but they itch like crazy. Any clue on what spider && if the pimples are bites too.?
So, I’m trying to figure out what kind of bite i have on my finger? 2 days ago while watching my brother play basketball, i felt a sharp pain in my finger. When i went to look at it, nothing was there, jus a red mark that didn’t really hurt at first . Later that night, my finger started to itch really bad and i jus thought it was a bug bit or something? Well jus yesterdayy, my finger started to swell and itchh really bad, and after a while it started turning red and formed a white ring around the redness?
About 5 minutes after itching it, two little dots formed on it that seem to pop out just good enough to be somewhat noticed. & Every few minutes a sharp pain will come to the spot for about 10 seconds, then it goes away . it’s starting to turn a very very very light purple.. My finger is so big and itchy, and from looking at everyone’s stories, it seems to me that it is a spider bite? if you can help me out, please contact me and let me knoo what this is . thankss:)
My wife was recently bitten on the neck and scalp by what we believe was some sort of spider! ever since that time she has had a persistent headache! she has taken Tylenol but it doesn’t seem to help! Is it possible for the 2 to be linked? what should be our next step? Thanks!
I don’t know what bit me i thank it was a spider my arm was blistered pretty bad and i iced it down and the blisters went away and i went to bed when i woke up my arm was swollen and looked like a rash with 3 sets of fags marks do you know what bit me ??? should i go to the ER?
Last night I must of got bit by a tiny spider (because I would of felt it if it was big) on my eye lid. The whole top and bottom of my eye is swollen. I only have a sliver left to see out of. I feel fine otherwise except a little drowsy from the Benadril that I took. What should I to get the swelling down?
I have a spider bite (I think) I did not feel anything there is a small bite on the top but half a centimeter bite on the bottom it is itchy. Can someone please help me?
help! I have this puffiness on my hand that i got a day ago. its really puffy and it feels like my hand is on fire i have no idea what bit me and my entire left hand looks like a giant puff ball I’ve been putting ice one it but it doesn’t seem to help please help someone.
My leg has a small red bump I noticed last night and it was fairly large last night and hurt when I put my pajama pants on. I looked at it but thought it was a pimple but now I am not so sure. I feel sick to my stomach and earlier I had heat flashes. I dont know what this is really but I drank some water and it made my stomach feel a little better. but I still feel sick. Is this a spider bite? The bite bump has gone down but throbs when I sit down or walk.
The dermatologist ruled out ringworm. It looks like a bulls eye to me. I have Lyme disease. We never found a tick on my husband & really has not been in any wooded areas. Any ideas b4 we see dc today.He also has had some dizziness,blurred vision, stomach, groin pain, cols sweats….
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Hello, My name is Margie can i please have some information regarding a spider bite that my granddaughter got, i need to know what kind of bite ASAP…….
I was near the woods in Northern VA yesterday. I felt a tightening pain on the inside of my finger where the knuckle bends. Immediately a small blue circle (blood) appeared under my skin. I described the feeling as having a warm pea inside my finger, though there were no raised bumps or swelling. I wouldn’t call it a burning pain, but a painful tightening of the area under the skin.
I didn’t see an insect or spider bite me, but a minute later I did see a red ant next to me. This morning the blue circle is not as defined and is larger, about the size of a nickel, and the area is not as painful. Can anyone shed some light on this? Was it a red ant bite? A spider bite? Should I get it checked out?
hey y’all,
about seven days ago a gosh dang spider bit me in the face square in the face on my right cheek and it hurts bad and its all red and swollen and it hurts so much bad and it got worse the 2nd day cause it was small and it got bigger and then the 4th day it was real big like the size of my whole cheek but with a little hard white part in the middle and my momma said it was nothing to worry bout but she didn’t seen it because she lives in Tennessee and I’m in north Carolina so i don’t believe her and it hurts real bad and if y’all can help or make it feel better or tell me what to do i sure would like it
Hi my name is jackie,
I live in central florida. About a week and a half ago i was moving some stuff around in my garage. Afterwards i had multiple cuts and scraps on my hands, and didn’t investigate any in particular. Later on in the day on one of my fingers, the skin started peeling away. Within the next few days i peeled off more skin, and the tip of my finger had pruned up like it had been in water for several hours. It stayed pruned for a little over a week, and now it has swollen back up and become red. For about a day it was a tad painful when pressed but now It is tender to the touch, and it feels like a blister but there is no bump or anything. Could this be a spider bite?
It is the weirdest thing I have ever had happened to my skin. I am going to make an arrangement to go to the doctors because i haven’t been able to find anything similar to my situation in any online research
Hey…yesterday I woke up because my foot itched like crazy, when I look at it i had two large bright red bumps on my foot one about the size of a silver dollar and the other about half that. About ten to fifteen minutes later I felt a weird sting, almost like a mosquito bite, and then looked and there were two more bites only on my pants line they are about the same size as the ones on my foot. This morning i woke up with two more only a lot smaller…..I live in the Capay Valley Ca, I’m not sure what kind of bite they are but if you could give a little advise it would help a lot.
Jess
I live in Michigan and my husband was bit by a spider and it is red, pus filled and hard like a golf ball-he keeps opening it so it can drain-it’s very painful and located on his thigh. It happened on Saturday night and here it is Thursday and is still sore. Any ideas of what kind of spider it was from and if he should get medical attention?
Two days ago I was standing under an awning and saw a couple of brownish spiders crawling around on the ceiling. If I remember correctly they were kind of shaped like black widows, but not the right color. A little while later I felt something itchy in my shirt. Unfortunately polite society dictated that I didn’t reach down my shirt to see what it was. Now this morning, I have five marks on my chest– at first they looked like mosquito bites but the largest of them seems to have a bruise rowing up underneath. The whole area has tiny red dots like broken capilaries under the skin. Could these be bites from a cupboard spider?
Hello,
I live in St. Louis, MO and over the weekend I received a bite, didn’t notice when it happened, it started off as a round red bump 1 across with a small dark spot in the center, about 24 hours after I noticed the bump the redness and swelling grew to around 5 long by 2 wide and started itching, after another 24 hours the area that was itching began to get bumps, little bigger then goose bumps. There is still a little brown scab in the center but the area that was red has begun to turn purple like a purse roughly 60 hours after noticing the bite. Area bitten is front upper thigh, 6 below belt line.
Another thing that I noticed, unknown if it is a side effect of the bite, my big toe has been hurting since about the same time as the bite occurred, feels like it is stiff or sprained, hurts to walk correctly so I kind of limp.
Thanks for any incite.
Ryan
vicky and spider bite i have the same thing. i’m gonna try a hot soapy bath but my mom said the bump was the venom. so i researched it and came up with a wolf spider they don’t make webs because they hunt and if you are bite by it you need to see a doc i have been told they are not deadly but even so don’t move a lot or it might spread don’t put a band-aid on it use ice but i wonder now because you said that the marks go away away after a shower but when i look hard on mine i see multiple bite marks. please help and i will try to go to doc if they don’t go away and i will report back.
i have a little bite followed with red lines? not sure what it is.
Daughter got bit by something think it was spider not sure…
kids say it was smaller than dime brown and had a white circle on back
spot was white at first then swollen became hard had a one inch red diameter and was hot. It also became one pus pocket which she popped and it was oozing (sorry) she went to dr today they gave her anitibiotic and drew around it but would still like to know what it could be can anyone help?
Thanks
PS now more the shape of NC ha ha ironic since that’s where we live!
hi, i recently noticed i had 3 bites on my legs. i’m not sure whether they are spider, but i’ve never seen them before. please reply if you think you know what bit me. the bites are just 3 red rings, about the size of a penny. i think the rings were a bit raised when i first noticed them, and they occasionally itch from time to time, but other than that, there are no symptoms. i’ve had them for 3-4 days now, and they aren’t changing. i think i got bite while i was sleeping. please reply!
I live in West Virginia and live in an apartment building that’s crawling with bugs. The other day I saw a spider with 3 white dots run across my room. Then two days later, I wake up this morning and lift up my pant-leg and noticed a little red/irritated bump about the size of a pimple. I put ice on and the swelling went down but its still kinda there. It doesn’t itch and I don’t feel any pain at the moment.
Hi,
So about….4 or 5 days ago I was at work when I noticed a sore spot on my back. Thinking it was just a small zit, I tried popping it through my shirt, so it’d relieve the pressure and not hurt when my shirt brushed it. When I got home, I noticed it was a red bump with a black head. However, I was wearing a black shirt, and it’s on a hard to see spot on my back, so I just figured it was prolly full of fibers from the shirt. I’d been camping and had a sunburn that was peeling, so when my back started itching badly, I didn’t really think much of it until I noticed that the places I itched were bumpy.
Cue noticing three more bumps (not counting the first) on my back. The first bump started to swell badly and I realized the black (after much scrubbing) was a sort of scab. To try and relieve some of the pressure, I picked the scab off intending to pop it and get the pus and nastiness out. Underneath was an almost green jelly like substance, like pus but thicker. It stuck to the back of the scab, and the edges of the now crater in my back.
Squeezing did not help, I had to dig the stuff out. Next day, I have three more bites(now totaling 7 in all, 4 on back, three on leg). One on my leg is pretty bad. Today, now about a week after the first, I did the same thing with the bite on my leg as I did with my back. I removed the black crust (always starts off as black dot in the middle of a red, swollen, mound with a white-ish top) to find the green goo again, this time spreading out under my skin that is surrounding the area.
An insanely disgusting amount of it. The area round it is a deep red. I’m wondering if anyone has had this problem or knows what bit me. I know I should go to the hospital, but reality sucks. I’m a 19 year old who works minimum wage at a coffee house, and my insurance dropped me on my birthday. So any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi I live in the country in East Tennessee. My 5 month old son just had a bite appear on his arm today after a nap. It has a single pin hole in the center of a raised bump. The bump is kind of white around the hole. It’s not really red around it, it looks like a bruise. The only way I can explain the way it looks is, if you were to take paint on your finger and touch your arm with it and smear it in one direction, that’s what the bruise looks like.
Like its smeared, darker by the pin hole (bite) and the lighter as it goes away from it. It doesn’t seem to hurt him when its touched. He has been a little more fussy today and isn’t really wanting to sleep. We called our local children’s hospital and all they said was if its gets worse bring him in and take him to his doctor…but its the weekend and we cant take him til Monday. Any ideas what kind of bug this may have been? Thank you so much!
number 7, i think maybe it is the detergent or bleach you use on your sheets that is the problem. It would make since then that it goes away when you shower if its just an allergic reaction and because if it you get hives.
hello there,
my names lizeth and i live in los angeles,ca and when i was talking on the phone with some friends. i saw a little spider crawling up my elbow that was black but i didn’t get to see if it was a regular spider or a venomous spider. 1 day past from my rash and it is still the same size.also when i go to sleep, i have a sensation that i have a hole ton of itching in my legs and head, but my mother said it’s just a sensation of the spider bite. i have been putting cream but it won’t disappear.
the spider bite is like a mosquito bite but it is white in the inner core and the outside core is kinda reddish pinkish. the size of the rash looks like the size of a quarter now and it kind of itches while i’m typing this.
if any of you kind people would like to help me, please do, feel free so. i’m waiting for a lot of information
– lizeth