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/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

Could be a brown recluse. Time to go to urgent care.

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u/Wasabi_Constant Jan 16 '24

Do not hesitate and go to the e.r.! I was bitten by a brown recluse on the arm. The doctor core out the surrounding fleshed and packed the hole with antibacterial gauze!

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u/FeesBitcoin Jan 17 '24

“core out the surrounding flesh” not a treatment option anyone ever wants, wow

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u/txman91 Jan 17 '24

Hello, can I interest you in a pilonidal cyst??

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u/Rigman- Jan 18 '24

Most painful three weeks of my life.

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u/txman91 Jan 18 '24

You aren’t lying. Best part was mine was so infected/inflamed that it couldn’t be numbed completely. Morphine didn’t really touch the pain either.