Topic awaiting preservation: I got bit by a spider

so last night i wake up with some major discomfort on my toe. didnt think much of it at the time cause i was half asleep. but when i woke up i noticed it was swollen up to an incredible size. as the day went on it got more swollen and hurts reeeeaally bad. so i looked up spider bites on the internet and my symptoms seem to match those of a spider bite. should i go to a doctor or not? what are your experiences with spider bites? i read in another post that someone got bit by a brown recluse and died two days later. kinda scary...but i doubt it was a brown recluse. maybe it was a camel spider. lol.

dude but this hurts so bad i can barley walk. what ever shall i do.

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.
-the late rodney dangerfield

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dude but this hurts so bad i can barley walk. what ever shall i do.

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Nah, don't bother going to a doctor. Just wait 'till your foot falls off and the pain will go away.

Uhh go to the doctor idiot.

I'm sure it's not life threatening but if its hurting you that bad I'm sure he can prescribe something to treat the infection. More likely then night he's going to tell you to soak the infection in hydrogen peroxide, so I'd go out and buy a bottle of that for the time being. Also, put neosporin and a Band Aid on it.

I've never been bitten by a spider but a few weeks ago I had an infection on the tip of my finger. It swelled up to about the size of one of those super bounce balls you get in the gum ball machines. I had to drive over to the emergency room and let the doctors drain it in the middle of the night. It was waaaay too painful.

I hope you feel better though.

(Edited by Jestah on 10-22-2004 19:48)

doctor, yes. Some of them suckers can make your flesh necrose, I reckon a doctor might be able to retard that process a little so time is probably of the essence if that's what's goin on. Depends on how big a black hole you want in your flesh (this can be permanent damage/scarring)

I already soaked it in hydorgen peroxide, already neosporin on with a bandaid. those were the recommened home treatments from the sites i went to but they said they dont really do very much.

But im gonna go to the doctor. my lymph nodes have started to hurt, and im gettin nauseous.

hey i wonder if they spider was irradiated. maybe ill turn into spiderman! sweet! i gotta go tell my mom this, shell be so excited.

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.
-the late rodney dangerfield

A lady I know got bit by a spider while in the fruit section of our local Wal-Mart.
Turned out to be a recluse spider and it did that necrosis thing JKM mentioned.
Nothing like having a weekly muscle scrape for a year and going down to the bone.
Bye bye, shin.

Yeah, doctor.

Get thy arse to a doctor!

Oddly enough, I was dreaming last night there were spiders in the bed and I worried about what would happen if they were black widows since we have quite a few of them around these parts.

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for the life of me I can not figure out why you would post here to find out what to do in this situation. Do you know how many venomus spiders you have in your area?

the freakin Funnel-Web Spiders is one of the deadliest there are.

damn...

Later,

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I hate to be the one to tell you this, but everyone who is bitten by a spider dies. And that is the truth......

Either that or they turn into a spandex-wearing fool who swings around New York and sticks to buildings.

Laters,

AlterEgo

Wow... it's the day I've dreaded, and it's finally arrived. Although I must admit, being Australian, I'd expected snake bite advice rather than spider bite advice, but still... same difference.

Don't bother. Its far too late now. Nice knowin' ya =)

j/k, goto the friggin' doc!

ooh... spiders...






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(Edited by UnknownComic on 10-23-2004 02:12)

I saw some (2) brown recluses the other day - one the size of a quarter, the other the size of a silver dollar (legs included) Freaking HUGE. I squeeled like a school girl, and my uncle gooshe 'em.

norm, all i can say is i hope you are kidding. im pretty sure you are but im pretty gullible these days. anyway the severe pain and swelling seem to have improved rather than worsened over the hours. im still feeling slightly nauseous, but my lymph nodes dont hurt anymore. im still gonna see the doctor anyway...

"web fly! go web! shazam!" not workin...man, when will my spiderman abilities go into effect?

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.
-the late rodney dangerfield

Uhhh..., hate to tell ya this..., but norm speaks the truth.

I was working at this sign and t-shirt shop in hell, also known as Van Nuys, and there was always spider webs below the light switch by the door. And, it was always a good idea to look before reaching for the switch. This hideous black widow looking spider was usually perched there. I say black widow 'looking' because it was too big to be a real black widow...

Unless the city leaders in there attempts to secede from Los Angeles were actually using hell, err Van Nuys, to grow super widows that they could release on the 405 to stop the westsiders from getting on the 101. And the critters we were squishing were strays. I'll bet they were irradiated too. Hah, silly Valley People the obviously never watched edgeumucational TV. Pretty soon they will release there Super Widows only to learn that they have strengthened the Westsiders by a proportional spider strength. We will then descend upon there shopping malls like a horde of frenzied marauders and force them to fund our police and fire services.... Muhahahahaha. Those Bastards.


As far as the whole "is it really a widow thing"? There really was never enough time to inspect the big black shiny spider for its red hourglass. It was... see, swat, squish. Like norm says;

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norm said:

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but everyone who is bitten by a spider dies. And that is the truth......

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And the whole creep factor meant that after the squishing it was..., scoop, shudder. dispose.

No spider bites, no forensic analysis... the boss was all paranoid about not having workers comp, blah, blah, blah. Thank God I'm not working there anymore. Now, I write childrens books.

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Webbing; the stuff that sticks to your face.

I had a dream that a spider was crawling on my face then I woke up and figured out that it wasn't a dream and spat it out. Apparently I just lowered the count to 7 spiders I'm supposed to eat in my sleep in the night.

I also remember having spider eggs hatch in my sleeping bag while camping. That was fun.

PS: me.

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tntcheats said:

PS: me

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Huh? you're a spider? Or do you bite people?

I was once bitten on the ankle by a brown recluse spider. It took over a year to heal and even then it remained pink and a little scaly for about ten years before it finally vanished.

Go see a doctor.

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norm said:

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but everyone who is bitten by a spider dies. And that is the truth......

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And so does everyone else....

Now hear my spider story actually it was my dad's story.
Many years ago my dad was working at the customs in the Rotterdam harbour, in this time not everything was put in containers. Bannana's did not for instance. A lot of tropical spiders could hide between the banana's So when a banana boat enters the harbour my dad always took a scoop with him. He had learned to hit on everything that moved between the banana's with the scoop then use the scoop again to lift that something and inspect it from a save distance.

Ofcourse todays banana's are goin in air tight containers which are gassed out an nothing survives in the container but this was in the ol' days

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Skaarjj said:

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PS: me

Huh? you're a spider? Or do you bite people?

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It's just cause I did nothing but talk about myself

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I got bit by a spider

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My friend, he once got bit by a cockroach and these... these antena like things started growing from his head and and soon... soon he was all slimy and had beedy eyes much like a dolls eyes... ... any weird mutations for you? I mean hey even SpiderMan eventually turned into a ManSpider in one of the episodes!!

If not maybe the bug didn't bite enough. Are you sure it was a bite bite and not just a nibble! Maybe you should consult a Doctor and if all else said here fails perhaps a shovel and large piece of rock might help of course you'll need some empty land as well.

Good Luck O Biten One!!

Ooohhh... ok then tnt... but don't we all do that all the time?


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