Got bit by a brown recluse...

[iamwhatiseem]

... hoping hard that the painful blister/sore is as bad as it will get.
Usually a recluse bite results in just a painful large blister/sore that takes as long as 6 weeks to heal.
But it can and will turn really ugly depending on how your body reacts. Unfortunately, you don't know how bad it will get till as many as 5 days later... then just like that... it gets real.

 

[Ringel05]

Praying it doesn't get any worse.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Mine ate away at the bite, I ended up with a big necrotic hole.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Mine ate away at the bite, I ended up with a big necrotic hole.

It is on my neck right where your adams apple is.
Apparently that is better than the leg/arm etc, where there is fat. The venom blows through fat cells quickly and spreads to larger areas. An area like the front of your neck essentially has almost zero fat cells. So... hope is, and so far so good, the area will be contained.
I was bit about noon yesterday. It is now 5:12pm. So I am about 29 hours into it. Way too early to see the damage.

 

[Pete7469]

... hoping hard that the painful blister/sore is as bad as it will get.
Usually a recluse bite results in just a painful large blister/sore that takes as long as 6 weeks to heal.
But it can and will turn really ugly depending on how your body reacts. Unfortunately, you don't know how bad it will get till as many as 5 days later... then just like that... it gets real.

I'm pretty sure some of those bites can fester, cause blood born sepsis and end up fatal. I could be wrong. I'd go to the emergency room.

Of course when I was a kid and got a bad bite near my ass, a good friend swabbed an X-ACTO blade with alcohol and cut the wound open so the puss could drain. Purging the core was seriously painful 3 days later.

It's not something to fuck with.

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[JustAGuy1]

It is on my neck right where your adams apple is.
Apparently that is better than the leg/arm etc, where there is fat. The venom blows through fat cells quickly and spreads to larger areas. An area like the front of your neck essentially has almost zero fat cells. So... hope is, and so far so good, the area will be contained.
I was bit about noon yesterday. It is now 5:12pm. So I am about 29 hours into it. Way too early to see the damage.

Mine was on my arm, it went very deep.. I wish the best for you.

 

[aaronleland]

I'm pretty sure some of those bites can fester, cause blood born sepsis and end up fatal. I could be wrong. I'd go to the emergency room.

Of course when I was a kid and got a bad bite near my ass, a good friend swabbed an X-ACTO blade with alcohol and cut the wound open so the puss could drain. Purging the core was seriously painful 3 days later.

It's not something to fuck with.

.

You and your friend have some weird fetishes.

 

[Pete7469]

You and your friend have some weird fetishes.

You got no idea. I wish he was still alive, I'd still be enjoying his company.

 

[BULLDOG]

It is on my neck right where your adams apple is.
Apparently that is better than the leg/arm etc, where there is fat. The venom blows through fat cells quickly and spreads to larger areas. An area like the front of your neck essentially has almost zero fat cells. So... hope is, and so far so good, the area will be contained.
I was bit about noon yesterday. It is now 5:12pm. So I am about 29 hours into it. Way too early to see the damage.

Never been bit by a brown recluse, but I once had a hornet sting me on my upper lip. It swelled up so much till it blocked my nostrils, and I had to breath through my mouth. They said I looked like I was eating a persimmon.

 

[deannalw]

... hoping hard that the painful blister/sore is as bad as it will get.
Usually a recluse bite results in just a painful large blister/sore that takes as long as 6 weeks to heal.
But it can and will turn really ugly depending on how your body reacts. Unfortunately, you don't know how bad it will get till as many as 5 days later... then just like that... it gets real.

Yer fer sure gonna die.

 

[miketx]

... hoping hard that the painful blister/sore is as bad as it will get.
Usually a recluse bite results in just a painful large blister/sore that takes as long as 6 weeks to heal.
But it can and will turn really ugly depending on how your body reacts. Unfortunately, you don't know how bad it will get till as many as 5 days later... then just like that... it gets real.

Go to the doctor.

 

[deannalw]

I hope it heals, and a gorilla attacks you the next day.

That's a bit of fuckery on your part.

 

[Otis Mayfield]

Their poison does "necrotic tissue damage".

How cool is that?!

 

[deannalw]

It is on my neck right where your adams apple is.
Apparently that is better than the leg/arm etc, where there is fat. The venom blows through fat cells quickly and spreads to larger areas. An area like the front of your neck essentially has almost zero fat cells. So... hope is, and so far so good, the area will be contained.
I was bit about noon yesterday. It is now 5:12pm. So I am about 29 hours into it. Way too early to see the damage.

I had a co-worker that got bit by one of those. After about a year of struggle, she finally got it fixed. But she had a divot in the back of her calf the size of a baseball.

Good luck!

 

[Pete7469]

Go to the doctor.

I second the motion. Don't abort yourself. You're not a liberal.

 

[Harry Dresden]

... hoping hard that the painful blister/sore is as bad as it will get.
Usually a recluse bite results in just a painful large blister/sore that takes as long as 6 weeks to heal.
But it can and will turn really ugly depending on how your body reacts. Unfortunately, you don't know how bad it will get till as many as 5 days later... then just like that... it gets real.

what state do you live in?....

 

[iamwhatiseem]

what state do you live in?....

Southern Indiana

 

[Viktor]

... hoping hard that the painful blister/sore is as bad as it will get.
Usually a recluse bite results in just a painful large blister/sore that takes as long as 6 weeks to heal.
But it can and will turn really ugly depending on how your body reacts. Unfortunately, you don't know how bad it will get till as many as 5 days later... then just like that... it gets real.

Where geography did he bite you?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Go to the doctor.

It is not necessary unless it starts going south. They can do absolutely nothing at this stage. Except take your money.
I put ice packs on it religiously which everyone says to do, and that plays an important role in preventing spread.
There is no antivenom in North America.
Obviously if it starts to look bad I will go for sure, you can't mess with infected/open wounds.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Where geography did he bite you?

Neck, about right where your adams apple is.