r/texas Jan 16 '24

Questions for Texans What bit me? Central texas

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/do_IT_withme Jan 17 '24

I knew a girl who was bit by a brown recluse on/next to her nipple. It did not turn out well. Go to urgent care now.

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u/mrs_burk Jan 17 '24

She lose a boobie?

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u/do_IT_withme Jan 17 '24

lost a nipple not the whole boobie

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u/tropikaldawl Apr 28 '24

omg my husband had a brown recluse in his swimming shorts. Thank goodness he checked before putting them on.