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I have not posted here or anywhere in the last ten days or so.
My wife spent the last two weeks in Hawaii. I stayed home to hold down the fort....I was going to go detecting a week ago last Sunday when I felt a stinging sensation on my lower tummy off to the left of my belly button. It was turning red so I didn't go detecting. By Wednesday of last week, it had developed into a very large red sore. The redness was as big as a Frisbee, and the center of it was an angry looking purple color. When I went to an emergency medical clinic on Wednesday, the doctor said it was a classic poisonous brown spider bite. He also stated that it could take at least a month or longer to heal, and there is no known immediate cure. He gave me an 800 MG antibiotic prescription. The pharmacist at Walgreens told me about a "drawing ointment" that could possibly draw the poison out. It is called, Ichthammol. It is also known as black salve. I am calling it a miracle ointment. This picture was taken this past Sunday morning and it shows vast improvement over the day I went to the doctor. I highly recommend this ointment. It will draw out splinters, cinders, glass and many other things from the body. Including poison...It is removing the poison from my bite. I apply the ointment two times a day and put a large band-aid over it.
The doctor said no metal detecting until the swelling and openess of the bite is completely gone. So, I will just have to read the success stories posted here until that time.
I hope this picture does not gross you out too much. It was taken this past Sunday morning.
My wonderful young sister asked if I had been fooling around and got caught, because she said it looks like a gunshot wound.
My wife spent the last two weeks in Hawaii. I stayed home to hold down the fort....I was going to go detecting a week ago last Sunday when I felt a stinging sensation on my lower tummy off to the left of my belly button. It was turning red so I didn't go detecting. By Wednesday of last week, it had developed into a very large red sore. The redness was as big as a Frisbee, and the center of it was an angry looking purple color. When I went to an emergency medical clinic on Wednesday, the doctor said it was a classic poisonous brown spider bite. He also stated that it could take at least a month or longer to heal, and there is no known immediate cure. He gave me an 800 MG antibiotic prescription. The pharmacist at Walgreens told me about a "drawing ointment" that could possibly draw the poison out. It is called, Ichthammol. It is also known as black salve. I am calling it a miracle ointment. This picture was taken this past Sunday morning and it shows vast improvement over the day I went to the doctor. I highly recommend this ointment. It will draw out splinters, cinders, glass and many other things from the body. Including poison...It is removing the poison from my bite. I apply the ointment two times a day and put a large band-aid over it.
The doctor said no metal detecting until the swelling and openess of the bite is completely gone. So, I will just have to read the success stories posted here until that time.
I hope this picture does not gross you out too much. It was taken this past Sunday morning.
My wonderful young sister asked if I had been fooling around and got caught, because she said it looks like a gunshot wound.
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<< <i>the doctor said it was a classic poisonous brown spider bite >>
As in a Brown Recluse? Man that looks terrible. Make sure you follow all the doc's instructions and take care of it fully before you venture out again. What state were you in when you got bit - indoors - outdoors? Damn that's nasty. There will always be time to detect later just get that healed up properly! Sorry to hear of your misfortune.
Crispy
I am following the doctors advice to a "T." I have seen pictures of what a Brown Recluse can do. They are terrible looking pictures. The doctor said he couldn't tell if it was a Brown Recluse or not. He said it was a classic brown spider bite and a bad one.
I am currently in Arizona. I don't know if it happened indoors or outdoors. I didn't feel the bite at all. I didn't even know I had been biten. I later felt the irritation and looked and there it was. I will not even think of going detecting until I get the ok from the doctor. If I never get to go again, I know that I have found my fair share of goodies in the now thirteen years I have done it.
I got this one last year and it almost did me in due to infections and complications. The meds and an over zealous doctor left me with a scar that is about the size of a dessert plate on my back. When everything was over and done with I ended up with some nerve damage from a little bitty spider bite... The quarter is there for size comparison but as you can see in the pic the coin is actually sinking under the skin, (yes it was dipped in alcohol before being placed there) the skin was so deteriorated that even a light touch caused it to give way and sink into itself (Maybe increasing the infection)? I ended up with a saucer size open wound in less than a week before it was controlled by the meds. I won't share that pic here though, let’s just say it wasn't pretty and I wouldn't wish that on anyone... Follow the directions of your doctor, take your meds and be aware of pain and what your body is telling you. If you don't feel right or if the pain is not something you would expect, please tell your doctor and don't think you are a hero for not bothering him/her. As I found out, not all doctors have a real understanding of what can happen from a little spider bite...
I hope all turns out well, Best of luck and I look forward to more of your stories once you are back out hunting...
HH, and get well soon!
Rick
Edited: This pic was taken late on day two and it got much worse after that, very quickly! Take care of yourself...
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Get well soon ! I hope it's nothing too bad!
There is nothing lame whinefestive about a tic bite. They are dangerous critters. Thanks for the get well wishes. The same goes out to you. Ken...The MDH
Do you deal in Foriegn coins at all?
<< <i>kiyote......
Do you deal in Foriegn coins at all? >>
I do not...
for all of us in the southwest this is the little bugger to watch out for !!
there are a couple of different looks to this spider for different areas of the country ,,but they are all as poisonous .
Floridas version
both versions AKA fiddle back spiders in the mid west and northwest !! From the fiddle shaped markings on the backs !!
Be careful out there in the bushes and shady areas ,they hang in the same places as the black widow .
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the recluse poison makes the flesh necrotic by constricting the blood vessels. a remedy that your doctor is probably not
aware of, is to place a nitro patch over the wound, as quickly as possible. this will keep the blood flowing and keep the flesh from
decaying.
i've also heard that electric shock, like a cattle prod turned to a low setting and placed over the wound changes the chemical composition of the poison.
a bite from one of these can kill a small child and send them into kidney failure.
look for webs, recluses spin irregular webs and you'll see what looks like the heads of q-tips in the
webs. these are the egg sacs. if you spot recluse exoskeletons, you have an infestation.
they like undisturbed places and are very difficult to eradicate. it's a protracted battle of denying their food supply and
vaccuming up the webs. any tree hanging over your house, trim it back. they live in the tree all summer and drop down
onto the roof in the fall, into the attic and into the rest of the house. the live about 7 years and can go over 2 years without food or water.
on the positive side, their fangs can not really penetrate human skin. ever so close to being able to, if you press
against them the fangs will penetrate. that is why most people are bitten at night, they roll over or something while
the nocturnal spider is hunting.
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