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    Soooooo Tuesday night I worked at my retail job. Nothing new, nothing out of the ordinary, blah blah blah...

    It's getting close to closing time (12am) and I stop to use the bathroom.


    WHILST I PEE I get bitten by a spider. I fling the freaking evil spawn of hell and stomp on it, cussing as any proper NY lady would.

    So for the next hour it swells huge, turns Hooker Lipstick Red, and starts to itch and become Gods Awful Sore.

    Egads.

    Well I come home, bitch about it, and my guy says to calm down and just Calamine it and take an allergy pill or two. The bite doesnt look like a Recluse or a Widow bite. Yadda yadda, I do and go to bed.

    Well I had to stay home from dancing the next day due to this ginormous WELT. Its on my upper thigh/ass area and I'm QUITE pissed.

    I end up saying FUGGITABOUDDIT and go to the ER since at the time my Dr was closed. They slap some Vicodin in me and say to just keep taking allergy meds and ice it.

    SO that's my plan. Fun. THanks to this Gods damned state and it's Gods damned army of Evil Murderous Plague of bugs and other mean shit, I am stuck not working. The Dr said not to put makeup on the bite in hopes to keep it VERY clean and not risk getting it infected.

    AUGH!

    If I have to lose out on my weekend money I will be so MAD.

    I hate Florida. I hate the Buick sized bugs, the face-hugging spiders, the biting EVERYTHING.... they're atarting to make the rednecks look good to me.
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    Paige, When you say allergy pill, do you mean something like Claritin? If so, I would also suggest Benadryl every 6 hours and Tagamet twice a day in addition to it. These are the usual meds I recommend for an allergic reaction. In addition, a hot wet washcloth pressed on the area several times a day can also help kill any smoldering infection that might want to pop up. Hope you heal soon.

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    They gave you Vicodin for a spider bite?

    I hate Florida too, and for the same reason. Last time I was there, a huge cockroach FLEW INTO MY HAIR. Violent shudders! I have a major cockroach phobia and I still have nightmares about that experience. Plus there's the humidity, the assholes, the rain... no, thank you. No beach is worth it.

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    "I would also suggest Benadryl every 6 hours and Tagamet twice a day in addition to it"

    I don't know what tagamet would do to help. Benadryl, definatly, claritin may not do much for this. If it was a BW you would have been sick as hell. It may not look like a recluse bite but it still possible that it is. If it is a recluse you will need more than vicodin. I've seen a lot of recluse bites at the prison where I use to work.

    The bad thing about these bugs is that the wound can get really bad, even resulting in tissue necrosis. Please see a dermatologist, if the bite gets badly infected you could loose a part of your ASSets.

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    awww....sorry paige. as a former florida resident, i sympathize with the bug problem. i'm so sorry that you ended up in the hospital because of them! i fully agree with you that they are evil. i had one of those pulse-emitting bug deterrents installed in my apt when i lived there...although it didn't do much good and was likely a crock. feel better!

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    omg. i don't know what i would've done. I've never been to Florida but now i don't think i want to. Big biting spiders that attack while peeing and flying cockroaches...::shivers:: no thanks.

    but i hope you get better!!!
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    Sorry you got bit hon, unfortunately it comes with the territory down here. I knew that cockroaches existed before I moved here. One day I was over at my hubby's friends house and saw what looked like to be a cockroach on steroids. I screamed and they came running, they killed it and said "Aww, that's just a palmetto bug". WTF, that's the biggest f*ckin' cockroach I have ever seen. Apparently they are common down here. My girlfriend from Russia got bit a spider like that once while she was in the bed asleep. Her foot was so swollen she couldn't get her shoes and believe me if she could have she would have worked. Mosquitos are awful here too. So, you'll have something to look forward too once it starts getting warmer . Anyhow, you should take some ibuprofen for the swelling. For the allergy you need to take benadryl. The Calamine lotion should help the itch some too. Keep the wound clean as the doc said don't put make-up on it because it could get infected.

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    I know right Vicodin for a spider bite? Wow, that is extreme. But on another note here, we have many spider bite patients come into the ED and be admitted. The doctor does not know what type bit you until a few days later (opening hole of the skin for example) unless you bring the spider body in with you.

    My mechanic was bitten in bed by a yellowish red spider, about 4 days later he was down. Ended up in the ED with a drainage tube for infection. that is what i find odd the main treatment of a spider bite will be an antibiotic...these bites can infect very easily.

    Allergy meds..only if you seem to be having an allergic reaction, i.e. hard time breathing. Swelling and redness are normal for a "nasty" bite.

    I would watch the bite, see if it opens...puss etc. Other than that your body will have to take over the healing.

    Strange.....No antibiotics. Oh well.

    Good luck, fast healing.

    Pamela

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    Want some at home remedies? Prolly not, but just in case, heres what you could do. If you don't want to wast time letting your body absorb the venim from the bite you can make a charcoal poltice. To do that you need powderd charcoal, or charcoal tablets from the health food store, flax seed, and dried onions from the spice section of a store. You put about 2 tablespoons of the charcoal, and a teaspoon of the flax and onions in the missle of a paper towel, fold it into a neat little square, tape it down with surgical tape, then dampen it. Leave it on for a halph an hour and then check the difference. The longer you leave it, the sooner it heals, but be sure to air it out once every two hours. It will be gone in no time.
    I have no idea why doctors don't use these old remedies, they get rid of things so much faster sometimes.
    Also, if you can find a place that will sell sweet grass, it helps your body take out the toxins faster then benedryl, wich just masks the reaction and makes swelling go down(fixes nothing). If you can find sweetgrass in your lawn yourself, go for it, it grows in Florida naturally.
    If you really want to go at war with the bite, you can invest in some pills with Barberry berrys or root in them. That will help you clear out any toxins in you that could be making your system over react to the bug bite(like when your getting over a cold your more suseptable to new colds. When your body is smoking, drinking, or natural toxins that just build up, it makes it more suseptable to a reaction from bug bites). Barberry can make you loose your livers water retention though, making you appear to have lost a couple pounds from your gut.
    Good luck, and don't take my word for it, check out homeopathic healing sites, if it floats you to do so. If nothing else cut an onion in halph and put it on the bite. Things like that really work good.
    BTW make up clogs, and this draws out, so no worry on the covering it warning from the doc.
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    Oooh..one more thing..depending on the type of bite it is, after doing the onion or poltice thing you might find that there is something white sticking out from the bite(like a black head), simply pull it out slowly with tweasers. This could be either a puss build up that is filled with the venim, or a venim sack.
    Two other things, blah..so much that can help here..putting an x into the head of the bite can help the venim seporate and make it easier for it to get out(but thats normally in miskito bites) and hot baths with salt are good .
    I hope you can work this weekend! *hugs*
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    When I visited FL. it was strictly for pleasure not for business. So of course, I went to the beaches on the keys. I soon came to learn that the pretty beaches are ifested with an invisible evil known locally as NO-SEE-UMS. Tiny evil little biting flies that annoyed the be-jeezus out of me while I was sunbathing. Then, to top it all off, when I came back home (about 3 days later after my beach excursions) I had a reaction to the bites (surprise!!!) My whole body was covered in ITCHY ITCHY ITCHY red horrible bumps. That horror lasted for a week even with lotions and claratin. My doctor actually thought I caught chicken pox again. It was BAD. Next time I go on vacation, I will bathe in bug spray.
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    Aww paige im so sorry *hugs*
    You people are making me scared to go sun bathing in flordia... im scared to pee now

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    Once i was on my way to MArathon and stopped into a gas station to pee and was walking up to the door and just happened to look to my left and saw the biggest, fattest, most gross black snake EVER. it was just LYING THERE around a garbage can. Of course i FREAKED OUT and was screaming bloody murder. the gas station people came out, looked at me, looked at it and said, "it's a copperhead" WTF I don't give a shit waht it is. The only good snake is a dead one as far as im concerned.

    I feel all itchy and gross now.

    Hope your bite gets better. The south is just gross like that sometimes. (that's how we keep the yankees away!) JUST KIDDING I LOVE THE FOLKS FROM UP THERE!

    Copperheads are not black. Also a KING snake is a very good snake to have living around the homes, they EAT venemous snakes!

    I thought a snake was only a good snake until it was dead as well. Then i got my first one at 12! They are very beneficial. Hot (venemous) i don't deal with anymore.

    Not to get off track here...but yes Florida is LOADED with many creepy critters these days. Thanks to the warm weather, and the jerks who turn out un-wanted "pets." And this does include the popular Tarantula! Which is rare to bite.

    It's these little shit spiders that do us the harm...I HATE the spiders (excluding Tarantulas) they are all Venemous!

    I have Wolf spiders that will be all over my garage....damn things have no fear.....

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    Jackson - Tagamet is an H2 (histamine-2) blocker. It is very good at blocking stomach acid production, but also blocks the production of histamine in general. Histamine is the substance your body releases against the allergens causing an allergic response. This is why it is part of the standard protocol for treating an allergic reaction. At this point, Paige is describing a typical localized allergic reaction. If it gets hot, increases in size, drains pus or enlarges and has a soft central area, infection is a real concern.

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    soy your story reminds me of my friend in australia.. he went to potty one day walked in the bathroom and there was a SNAKE in his toilet... the thing apparently crawled through the sewer pipes or something... he showed me some pics the thing was over 8 feet long *shudder*

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    ^^^ this is why I ALWAYS look in the toilet before sitting (even at home) and i NEVER go into the bathroom with the light off... scared a spider may be hanging from the ceiling and hit me in the face!

    Sorry Paige - hope it gets better soon!

    As per doctors not using old remedies. How the heck would doctors/drug companies/government make money if they gave you a remedy that costs $4 at the local drug store? They make their money off giving you a prescription for antibiotics/vicodin/allergy stuff... which im sure cost a pretty penny!

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    He gave me the Vicos because my entire thigh and ass cheek was in SO much pain... I couldnt sleep, I couldnt wear jeans... ow. I now have enough Benadryl to make a second Great Wall. I just hope the redness goes away so I can work soon. Waugh.
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    WOW! Dang. One of my cherished mementoes of Puerto Rico is a picture of a three inch long cockroach in the shower. He was using my body loofah & shampoo & everything! LOL Seriously, some at-home remedies for bug bites are: meat tenderizer, baking soda, and good old Epsolm salt, which draws toxins/ fluid out of a welt (just rub it on & soak in it.)

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    OMG
    I swear I'll never complain about Canadian winter ever again. I'll shovel the six feet of snow, hell I'll roll around in it naked. Thanking that it keeps creepy crawlys like that away.
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    Bit by a spider while peeing?!?!?! My god, I think I just threw up a little...and I even like spiders...

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    Im all itchy and nervous now....and I refuse to put my feet on the floor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah
    They gave you Vicodin for a spider bite?
    My sentiments exactly. I'm still a little jealous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexxaHex
    My sentiments exactly. I'm still a little jealous.

    Hell, if the welts didnt ruin work for me, I'd invite the damned things to bite me so I can get more... LMAO.
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    Y'all like Vicodin? Really? It makes me puke my guts out for days. And when I'm not puking, I'm lying around feeling like I've got my head stuffed in a pillow. I will never understand why people take that stuff voluntarily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by boxingdoc
    Paige, When you say allergy pill, do you mean something like Claritin? If so, I would also suggest Benadryl every 6 hours and Tagamet twice a day in addition to it. These are the usual meds I recommend for an allergic reaction. In addition, a hot wet washcloth pressed on the area several times a day can also help kill any smoldering infection that might want to pop up. Hope you heal soon.
    Heh..... so you also believe a H2 blocker enhances the effect of the H1 blocker? Spiders out here carry S. aureus in their bites, so Clinda 150mg qid is pretty standard.

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