![]() Recluse venom is a neurotoxin, so it messes with your nerves as well as soft tissue. Ever wake up and find that you've been sleeping on an extremity and it is so tingly and dead that you can't even move it? Now add to that an itch so deep that you can't scratch it, and even if you could, it wouldn't matter because you can't feel the scratching from your fingers. The venom creates a modest necrosis in a generalized area around the bite which feels like. The big indicator is an intense, deep itching at the site which doesn't typically happen with tick/lyme. Had to ask SWMBO to do a THOROUGH check :)įever and nausea are typical for strong reactions to a Recluse bite. I'm getting tested for Lyme right now (gave blood, waiting for results) for these exact symptoms, although I have not found any bite spots. ![]() The necrotic spot on the bite is probably 3/8", puffy area around it about the size of a quarter. When i do get to feeling better, one of my first moves is to load up some insecticide and kill every insect i can on the property. Im just curious if anyone has some real life data to share. Im stuck in bed or laying on the couch and i regularly get the cold sweats so bad i soak my clothes, the sheets, blanket, etc. This makes a full 7 days of feeling miserable. Labs were good so i was released with another antibiotic to add in. Got a iv of saline and some pain meds while my blood was tested. I was worried it was getting out of hand so i went to the emergency room yesterday. I did a tela-doc appt over the weekend and got cephalexin proscribed. Now its been a full week of feeling completely miserable like i fell off a roof or got hit by a truck. Noticed the bite probably tuesday and started feeling the body aches and lethargy wednesday. I got bit probably sunday-monday of last week. ![]() Just curious if anyone here has dealt with a confirmed brown recluse bite.
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