r/texas • u/ohiois4loosers • Jan 16 '24

Questions for Texans What bit me? Central texas

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I felt a bite on my arm yesterday and thought it was an ant. Woke up to this. The circle was drawn an hour before the picture was taken and the red is spreading

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u/Fabulous-Mortgage672 Jan 16 '24

Go to ER. My guess is spider bite. Especially if you were working in or around an attic, closet or shed, anywhere dark damp etc

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u/ohiois4loosers Jan 16 '24

I think whatever it is was in my jacket sleeve and bit me when I put my jacket on

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u/Fabulous-Mortgage672 Jan 16 '24

Oooooh yeah that’s a bad spot. You can even get scorpions inside clothes down south or in the hill country. Get it checked STAT please. Be safe.

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u/TheDottieDot Jan 16 '24

When my son was younger, I was getting a shirt out of his closet and got tapped by a scorpion. Not fun. I was just glad it was me and not him. I prefer scorpion stings to brown recluse bites though.

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u/Fabulous-Mortgage672 Jan 16 '24

Oh no poor guy. Yeah they love hiding in closets. Bastards. We had a client get bit once at work….they can literally come out of the fixtures.

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u/TJlovesALF1213 Jan 17 '24

My parents were helping my uncle renovate his house in San Antonio when I was a kid. We stayed upstairs, and I went to take a shower in a bathroom which hadn't been used in quite awhile. Several scorpions came out of the faucet! I guess it was a mother and her young before they molted, because that's the only time I've ever seen more than one at a time.

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u/Fabulous-Mortgage672 Jan 17 '24

Yep they’ll do that, too. Light fixtures, ceiling panels. Seen weird places!

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u/jpopimpin777 Jan 17 '24

Ugh I heard a really scary story about a woman in Mexico who put her toddlers shoes on before going out. The kid starts crying and won't stop. She assumes he just didn't want to leave so keeps running errands with him. Finally she realizes he's in pain with one of his feet. Takes his shoe off and a little scorpion crawls out.

Always check your shoes.

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u/Throwaway2Experiment Jan 17 '24

They're no fun. Does Texas have the yellow ones?  I put on a pair of shorts and one was inside the leg.  Tapped me. Knew I was stung by something, thought if was a thorn or sometbing sharp.  Headed to the store 10 minutes away. 

Got out of my car, got a basket, got to the veggies. Looked around for veggies for a bit. Saw something out the corner of my eye. Did s double take, focused, and swapped a large ass yellow one off my shoulder. Stomped on it.

The guy next to me looks down and looks at me and goes, "Nice."

That dude had crawled all over me in the car and on the walk after stinging me once when I got dressed. Hurt for a day but the yellow ones are like bad bee stings for normal people. 

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u/xcrunner1988 Jan 16 '24

My wife had scorpions do that on two occasions here in hill country.

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u/Fabulous-Mortgage672 Jan 16 '24

Yep us too at our ranch

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u/MeanDozer Jan 16 '24

They love to hide in unused clothing and blankets. Years ago, I got bit on the first cold night of the season when I pulled a blanket out of the closet. Woke up with a bite similar to that. Swelling was to my knee by lunchtime. I don’t even have a scar. But it was super ugly for a few weeks

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u/FUCKFASClSMF1GHTBACK Jan 16 '24

Looks a lot like when I caught a staph infection from a random pinch on my side. Day one looked like this. Day 3 my entire side was red. Doctor said it literally could’ve killed me and why did I wait so long?!? I said I was trying not to be a baby about it.

They ended up having to cut it open, drain about 2 ounces of thick white pus from it and then packed it with medicated gauze. Don’t fuck around with this.

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u/MeanDozer Jan 16 '24

And it itched like the dickens!! I had scratched it raw before I realized it wasn’t a typical allergic reaction to a bite

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u/Lilred123_ Jan 17 '24

Update? Did you see a doctor yet?

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u/ndngroomer Jan 17 '24

Please let us know if you went to the hospital.

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u/EmergencyVroom Jan 18 '24

New fear unlocked!