Spider and Tick Bites

[Dhara]

I've got one or the other. My doc doesn't work on Fridays, so off I went to the community clinic. One cortisone shot and 2 days later the swelling and redness has tripled.

I'm gonna see my doc on Monday rather than do a 3 hour round trip commute to a bigger city urgent care.

Anyone else have this experience?

 

[Pogo]

I've got one or the other. My doc doesn't work on Fridays, so off I went to the community clinic. One cortisone shot and 2 days later the swelling and redness has tripled.

I'm gonna see my doc on Monday rather than do a 3 hour round trip commute to a bigger city urgent care.

Anyone else have this experience?

I would think it's too early and too cold for ticks to be out yet... sorry no experience with spider bites. Maybe you should see an ER? There must be one closer than 3 hours, no?

Edit - just looked at your profile, not sure why I thought you were in Carolina...

 

[Dhara]

I've got one or the other. My doc doesn't work on Fridays, so off I went to the community clinic. One cortisone shot and 2 days later the swelling and redness has tripled.

I'm gonna see my doc on Monday rather than do a 3 hour round trip commute to a bigger city urgent care.

Anyone else have this experience?

I would think it's too early and too cold for ticks to be out yet... sorry no experience with spider bites. Maybe you should see an ER? There must be one closer than 3 hours, no?

I'm in CA so we do have ticks here. I've seen them crawling on my cats and removed them.

 

[koshergrl]

I've got one or the other. My doc doesn't work on Fridays, so off I went to the community clinic. One cortisone shot and 2 days later the swelling and redness has tripled.

I'm gonna see my doc on Monday rather than do a 3 hour round trip commute to a bigger city urgent care.

Anyone else have this experience?

I would think it's too early and too cold for ticks to be out yet... sorry no experience with spider bites. Maybe you should see an ER? There must be one closer than 3 hours, no?

Edit - just looked at your profile, not sure why I thought you were in Carolina...

ticks are out. April/May is when they go crazy.

Tick bite of the type you need to worry about looks like a bull's eye.

 

[Pogo]

I've got one or the other. My doc doesn't work on Fridays, so off I went to the community clinic. One cortisone shot and 2 days later the swelling and redness has tripled.

I'm gonna see my doc on Monday rather than do a 3 hour round trip commute to a bigger city urgent care.

Anyone else have this experience?

I would think it's too early and too cold for ticks to be out yet... sorry no experience with spider bites. Maybe you should see an ER? There must be one closer than 3 hours, no?

Edit - just looked at your profile, not sure why I thought you were in Carolina...

ticks are out. April/May is when they go crazy.

Tick bite of the type you need to worry about looks like a bull's eye.

Yes I see where she is now. For some reason I thought she was here in Carolina, where it's freezing.

 

[Moonglow]

I've got one or the other. My doc doesn't work on Fridays, so off I went to the community clinic. One cortisone shot and 2 days later the swelling and redness has tripled.

I'm gonna see my doc on Monday rather than do a 3 hour round trip commute to a bigger city urgent care.

Anyone else have this experience?

I would think it's too early and too cold for ticks to be out yet... sorry no experience with spider bites. Maybe you should see an ER? There must be one closer than 3 hours, no?

Edit - just looked at your profile, not sure why I thought you were in Carolina...

ticks are out. April/May is when they go crazy.

Tick bite of the type you need to worry about looks like a bull's eye.

Yes I see where she is now. For some reason I thought she was here in Carolina, where it's freezing.

Another sweaty day here..

 

[Dhara]

It has a black looking center which is becoming a crater with a red ridge around it, swelling about 6 inches on each side of my forearm.

 

[Moonglow]

It has a black looking center which is becoming a crater with a red ridge around it, swelling about 6 inches on each side of my forearm.

Spider bite..

 

[JakeStarkey]

Recluse possible. The tissue is necrotizing. Get some three and one on it, and go to the ER right now. Do not squeeze it.

 

[The Great Goose]

A tick would still be on you.

we used to just twist their head off and let the head fall off on it's own.

 

[Dhara]

Recluse possible. The tissue is necrotizing. Get some three and one on it, and go to the ER right now. Do not squeeze it.

The ER in my community is crap. What can they do?

 

[Pogo]

Recluse possible. The tissue is necrotizing. Get some three and one on it, and go to the ER right now. Do not squeeze it.

I would listen to Jake. Don't put it off. Today is only Saturday.

 

[Pogo]

Recluse possible. The tissue is necrotizing. Get some three and one on it, and go to the ER right now. Do not squeeze it.

The ER in my community is crap. What can they do?

Crap may be better than nothing, which is what you have if you don't go.

 

[Dhara]

The doc I saw at the local clinic said we don't have brown recluse in Northern Ca.

 

[Vigilante]

Face it, you're going to die! Have a great meal before leaving!

 

[JakeStarkey]

Dhara, don't mess with this. The ER will know how to treat a brown recluse bite. This is serious.

The recluse is rarer in California in the north but can exist there. If it is a yellow sac spider bite, you may be in worse danger.

Cytotoxin is the problem, that's the venom.

We are not doctors. The ER will know what to do.

 

[Moonglow]

Recluse possible. The tissue is necrotizing. Get some three and one on it, and go to the ER right now. Do not squeeze it.

The ER in my community is crap. What can they do?

All they will give you is antibiotics, just eat some moldy bread...

 

[Moonglow]

Dhara, don't mess with this. The ER will know how to treat a brown recluse bite. This is serious.

By squeezing on it...to clean der wound..

 

[strollingbones]

you may have a serious spider bite.....a brown recluse....

 

[JakeStarkey]

Dhara, what did you to piss of moon and vigi?