Normally if it is a Brown Recluse bite you will start seeing a black ring form around the center of the bite and get bigger. Thats because the bite causes tissue necrosis or the tissue to die. It will keep getting bigger and bigger. The onlt thing they can do is to debreed the area of dead tissue. If I remember correctly this black area will start with in a day or so. From what you describe I dont think it is a Brown Recluse bite, but I could be wrong. I would definitly get it checked.

 

I second bhardy, Get it checked out. It may have been a spider bite but non life threatning. From what you described it is not a brown recluse. If it were a recluse you would have a very dark ring like mark that would be about the size of a tangerine maybe a baseball by now. They are not pretty. A good friends wife lost the entire back half of her right leg(calf muscle) due to the brown recluse. The bite happened in the early morning and she didn't see a doctor for three days; two days later in the hospital they had to remove 80% of the muscle tissue in the back of her right leg. Three years ago and she still has to have a full leg brace to walk, and probably will for the rest of her life.

The brown recluse scares me more than the widow due to what effect the venom has on the body, but I don't like the fact that you can only take the anti-venon for the black widow once in a life time. Supposedly if taken twice it will have a reverse effect and add to the amount of toxin in the body..most likely resulting in death.

I've been tagged by wolf spiders and other unidentified ones. nasty looking small area that feels like a skeeter bite. Wash and add alcohol(the rubbing kind), take benedryl, dont mess with it.


Something I've always worried about is the grandaddy long leg. It's supposed to be the most poisonous spider out there but it's unable to bite due to it's size. Now I don't know if that's true or not but if it is, what happens when you find the mutant long leg and it bites the crap outta ya?!?!?!? That's food for thought.

 

And if it's not a bug bite, there are too many new strains of staph bacteria being reported, many start as skin sores. They can blow up quickly, and if you get an infection in the foot, which has more bones in it than the rest of the body put together...amputation.

 

I6power, YOU'RE GONNA DIE..............maybe.................if you don't get checked out..

Don't take a chance.