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Spider experts, what bit me? Anonymous
Herro, /an/, first-time poster in here. Sometimes I forget there are other forums other than /b/. >_>

All right, so I was bitten by a spider 10 days ago between my big toe and its first-mate on my left foot (fucker was hiding in my shoe). Since that time, I have been in almost constant pain, but not always intolerable. I've spoken to a few people who have been bitten by a brown recluse spider before and they all claimed that they didn't feel it when it bit, but I did. It felt like a bee or wasp sting. Some of my symptoms have been slightly different from other accounts I've read about.

The spider was small, about nickel-sized, and tan. I was too pissed off to take a good look at it before I squished it into oblivion. I live in southern Missouri.

I got medical attention for it pronto and it took two days before I couldn't walk. The venom permeated from the site of the bite across the top of my foot and it looks like a large bruise. The circulation to the area is almost nil. If I stand on one foot, I have to keep the injured one up or else it just starts throbbing and burning with blood. It doesn't look like necrosis is going to set in, hopefully, but the color does change from purple to gray with changes in blood flow (foot down, foot up).

I just want to know who the culprit for this was if it wasn't a recluse. If it was a recluse, how long until my foot begins to cave in?

Thanks in advance!
>> Anonymous
I have bad news. You're going to die.
>> Anonymous
Your foot is already dead.
>> Anonymous
Alright, I hate to do this to the OP, but I've been waiting a while to say this and this looks like the time.

/an/, I'm having a problem at work. I started cleaning outside of the coffee shop a couple days ago and tilted the table we have out there to sweep up cigarette butts and whatnot. I feel something on my hand, and I look down to see not just one, but two black widow spiders. I fling them both down and just wig the fuck out, I take my broom and I crush their small bodies. As I was swinging the broom like an idiort, I accidentally hit the bottom of the table that I had tilted over. What was white at the base of the umbrella stand was not actually part of the stand, but a nest of spiders. About a hundred spiders just poured out and ran all over the place. I killed tons of them but as they started climbing up the broom i said "Fuck that" and ran the hell inside. My manager is acting like it never happened and "whatever", but I have witnesses that saw it happen. Afterwards, we went outside to kill more (with gloves, spray bottles and shit), and counter four more black widows amongst the dead bodies. No one was bitten.

Now. The spiders dispersed after I hacked open the nest, so they are all over the building and under more stuff.

WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?! The spiders are everywhere now! And my manager won't lift a finger like the cunt that she is!
>> Anonymous
>>327378

constantly carry around bug killer and then leave a DEAD ONE on her desk. Or maybe a live one in a jar.
>> Anonymous
>>327378

OP here. No worries, your story is more entertaining than mine. :P I say that you prove to your manager that there is indeed a black widow problem outside, then explain it would be a liability if a customer got bitten by one (I don't know if it is... is your manager stupid as well as a cunt?) Then, convince her to spend some money from the store's register to buy a couple cans of Raid and then just go to town after-hours one night. Unless you have a serious infestation, then maybe an exterminator?

>>327372
>>327373

You, sirs, are and idiot. :/
>> Anonymous
Related to my post a few days ago about flying spiders in SW MO? We're fucked.

Recluse bites do differ from person-to-person. Triple antibiotic ointment and wash it with antibacterial soap every time you take your shoes off, don't let your feet get moist. It may never start with the lesions at all.
>> Anonymous
>Sometimes I forget there are other forums other than /b/. >_>

I suggest you go back to /b/, and stay there. I hope you enjoy your "lol randum xD" humor, and your ANONYMOUS IS LEGION. Forget about all the other boards on here, there are enough faggots on there.
>> Anonymous
>>327495

Um. This isn't /a/ or /v/, we don't need that here.
>> Anonymous
>>327515
No kidding.
>>327495
Quit being a fucking cunt and if you don't have anything to say to OP that's either A. Constructive or B. Humorous, then stfu up put your head back up your ass.

OP>> Did you have the symptoms when you went to the doctor? (Bruising, no circulation, pain)? Because if these showed up afterwords you ought go back to that same doctor and say 'Hey, you didn't fix this'.
>> Anonymous
My feet got bit up by spiders (those little fat ones that like to live by water and on docks). My feet swelled up and I hobbled around for about two days. Only thing that helps was lots of hydrocortisone cream. This was labor day weekend and I still have marks left over.
>> Anonymous
OPerator, here.

>>327495

DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>327527

Well, I went to the ER about 5 hours after I was bitten and they gave me prescriptions for antibiotics and painkillers, no antivenom. If I would have thought, I would have tried to suck the venom out as soon as I got bitten, lol. I don't know if that really works, but what could it have hurt?

I've kept it clean and dry and it IS getting better, slowly but surely. There was a deep burning pain in my foot, which is still there, but much less severe. I can hobble around for about 30-45 seconds now using my heel now before it gets too uncomfortable, which is much improved from what it was. I believe I'll be over it and able to walk (and ride my motorcycle.. beautiful weather this entire time and I've been stuck inside. -_-;) within 2 or three days, maybe. I saw an account on Youtube of a guy who was bitten on the bottom of his foot and he missed a month of work, so I suppose I should count myself lucky.

But what gets me is if this was a brown recluse, all of the pictures I've googled of brown recluse bites have been horrendous gore-worthy images. Is this because they didn't take care of the bite properly or because they were bitten in a different area than me or because not all recluse bites result in necrosis? Or d) all of the above?

This is my first encounter with a venomous creature and I'm just a bit anxious, is all.

tl;dr It sucks to be spider-bitten.
>> Anonymous
>>327584
U-um...sucking the venom out can sometimes make it easier to be spread throughout the body, and also, the venom would be on your tongue - which means your tongue and lips would grow fat and numb, making it hard to breathe.
>> Anonymous
OP-

Go back to your goddamn worthless doctor and get some antivenom.
>> Anonymous
>>327715
You need a spider for that retard