What got me?

[Jim Schue]

I spend a lot of time on my back porch, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. But this is not a mosquito bite — it's something entirely different. It got me on Monday night, and today it seems to be getting worse. It raised two welps on my neck, and they're painful. If I were betting, I'd say it's a spider that got me, but I have no idea what kind.

 

Anybody ever seen a bite like these? Any suggestions? I'm thinking I may have to go to the doctor tomorrow if it doesn't recede.

[Bert]

I spend a lot of time on my back porch, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. But this is not a mosquito bite — it's something entirely different. It got me on Monday night, and today it seems to be getting worse. It raised two welps on my neck, and they're painful. If I were betting, I'd say it's a spider that got me, but I have no idea what kind.

 

Anybody ever seen a bite like these? Any suggestions? I'm thinking I may have to go to the doctor tomorrow if it doesn't recede.

 

I was going to say spider also but I would think you would feel a spider climb up to your forehead, atleast that looks like your forehead.

[stickymitts]

Definitely a vampire.

[Bert]

May want to just call he doctor and see what they say. Some may say take some Benedryl and see how that works before coming in.

[Jim Schue]

I was going to say spider also but I would think you would feel a spider climb up to your forehead, atleast that looks like your forehead.

 

It's the left side of my neck. As soon as it hit me, I swiped at it and I think that's when it got me a second time.

 

Mosquitoes love me, so they're constantly landing on me when I sit outside.

[Randy Parker]

Mosquitoes love me, so they're constantly landing on me when I sit outside.

 

They are demon mosquitoes, sent by their overlord Garth "Lucifer" Brooks.

[mcpapa]

They are demon mosquitoes, sent by their overlord Garth "Lucifer" Brooks.

 

And here I thought you were going to say sent by Getslow, the Mephistopheles of Mosquitoes.

[Bert]

Does it burn at all? No pain is a good sign but still may want to talk to a doctor.

[Jim Schue]

Does it burn at all? No pain is a good sign but still may want to talk to a doctor.

 

It hurts.

[Bert]

It hurts.

 

Hopefully that is the swelling stretching the skin, whatever the bug got under your skin.

[LRCW]

You don't want to fool around with spider bites from a brown recluse. They can get nasty in a hurry, and cause significant tissue damage. I recommend seeing a doctor right away.

[lawildcat]

Rub some dirt on it.

[Bert]

If you want to be gross you could lance it and then squeeze out some puss and then post a pic of it.

[All Tell]

Brown Recluse Spider. It's venom causes the tissue at the site to become necrotic. Also very easily infected. See a doctor just to prevent the infection.

Here's a pic I found on the web. Do your self a favor. Don't look there until AFTER you get it better but get to a doctor quick.

 

 

[Jim Schue]

Brown Recluse Spider. It's venom causes the tissue at the site to become necrotic. Also very easily infected. See a doctor just to prevent the infection.

Here's a pic I found on the web. Do your self a favor. Don't look there until AFTER you get it better but get to a doctor quick.

 

 

Unfortunately, I looked at some of the bite images. Eeewwww.

 

I'm at the doctor now.