Brown Recluse. Anyone else have the pleasure?

[LEADPOISON]

Bitten last Sunday ... Itching at bite site, Diaphoresis, N/V, fever, then bite site begins to color with white border. Through Midweek more of same (-NV) but worsening of skin rash over most of body. Woke this Sun. am without fever. Been kind of a tough week and it ain't over.
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[ringo1597]

1987, I was bitten on the top of my left foot.

Didn't know it at the time, until I knew something was wrong.

Long story short, had to have surgery, removed all the dead tissue, very painful.

 

[bamabiker]

This is why I hate spiders. Killed a brown recluse on my work bench a while back.
I hope you went to the doctor. Some bites require surgery and skin grafts.

 

[diamonback68]

Not to scare you, but a few years back we lost a member here from a Brown Recluse bite, true story, but I don't recall his name, others may. Don't mess around with it, get help.

 

[A10]

A buddy in Portland was bitten by one four years ago and he still has trouble. Nothing to fool around with there...

 

[jaykellogg]

Here is what they look like.

 

[CHASLX200]

I don't want that pleasure.

 

[Memphiscbrider]

I've come across them plenty times. Never bitten though. I'm usually pretty quick to end their lives before they end mine. I only kill them when they are in the immediate area of where I live or frequent

 

[Marshwheeling]

As a rule, I don't kill spiders because they eat so many insects. The brown recluse is an exception.

Once on a dirt bike weekend on a South Dakota ranch a guy got bit. The fever put him in bed for a day and a half, effectively ruining the weekend for him. I heard he had trouble for weeks afterward.

 

[357-RevolverGuy]

I once spent an entire summer during my college years living in an apartment that was infested with recluses and I got to learn a lot about them first hand. Never got bit but my girlfriend at the time unfortunately did. She ended up with a scar on her back which took almost 4-5 months to heal.

They like to lay low to the floor and their webs are funnel like and usually between cracks. I was told that if you are the type of person who leaves clothes on the floor, or have cardboard boxes around, or newspapers on the floor, it does attract them. The other thing is if you have a roach or ant problem they will stick around. The only way I was able to get rid of them was with sticky traps. I'd lay them all over the kitchen floor and living room and would typically find 7-10 in the morning. Did this for a month and eventually never saw them again that summer.

 

[finesse_r]

If you have not done so, you need to see a doctor ASAP. The bite of a brown recluse can be worse than that of a black widow. I have never been bitten but they are in the area I live in, so I keep an eye out for them.

 

[crsides]

Never heard of a brown recluse when we were kids, but black widows had a BAD reputation. Word was a bite from a black widow and you were done for. I got my first black widow bite a couple weeks ago. It turned red and itched for a day or two. that was it. I looked it up on the net and the advice was to take an aspirin. I was kinda disappointed.

Charlie

 

[Smitty357]

Few years back i was bitten on my adams apple while riding 4 wheelers. I never knew anything bit me until a few days later. Same as you, it just got worse over the days from the beginning.

Emergency room had to cut it open to drain it.

 

[sigp220.45]

Camp Bullis, Texas, 1984. I still have a hole in the inside of my right forearm. Nasty bug.

 

[Tom Beavert]

I got a bite of some kind mid shin while trenching sewer lines, the flesh died,
brown Recluse was all the dr. could come up with. Rather funny, I sat down and showed him the leg, he ask what the 'F' happened there.
good luck
tb

 

[Franklin]

I was bitten back in 1987 on the left shin, ended up in emergency room 2 days later under went surgery to cut it open and drain, and spent the next 8 days in the hospitol off my feet as they were worried my bone structure in my leg would not support my weight. It took a long time to heal 12 months, and I still have a scar and a void in my leg at the point where I was bitten. GO TO THE DOCTOR.

 

[LEADPOISON]

Thanks for y'all's concern. I am under care of surgeon at this time. See him tues for update. Pretty much a wait and see how much damage finally done, then surgical debridement and skin graft is required. I tell you, those 8 Legged Freaks pack a punch (and don't even feel the little twit)!!!!

 

[chud333]

I'm not the least bit concerned with snakes but i dislike and
try to stay away from all spiders.
Hope you heal up OK and don't lose too much skin in the affected
area. As with others i've been around Black Widows alot (never
bitten though), as i always gave them plenty of room.
Just how far north is the Brown Recluse home range?
Anybody know ??

Chuck

 

[Nframecollector]

OUCH! Hang in there!

 

[model70hunter]

Good move in seeing a Dr. I'm knocking on wood for me. My cousins wife was bit, #2 size pencil hole in her forearm. A guy I worked with was bit on the calf, did not know it until the hole started. Another worker and another workers wife both were bit and went straight to the Dr. and it was fixed quickly.

Beastly little boogers, the venom causes the skin and muscle under it to slough off.