Anyone been bit by a brown recluse?

same for my fraternity brother.

looked like a sweet pea sized divit in bicep.

Have a low grade fever off and on but that’s about it.

More off than on

My mom was bit right below her front shoulder on her chest. At first she thought it was a boil then came the fever and vomiting a day later. She ended up in the hospital where they lanced the bite and installed a drain tube. It was amazing the puss and infection that the doctor would get out when he would press on it every couple hours. Piles of IV antibiotics and a week later she went home.

I don’t know what kind it was but I have been spider bit really bad once. I started a new job running a yard/warehouse. My first order of business was to organize and clean up the tool room. This summbitch got under my pants and into my boots. A week went by and I had a purple mark about the size of a quarter and more redness around it. I had picked it good but it wasn’t going away. Ended up getting some antibiotics to clear it up.

Now having said that I’m tending another bite right now but not nearly as bad.

I got bit on the left side of my belly as I was helping move Mom from HSV, AR to the Funroe area.

There's nothing fun about wearing a seat belt directly over the open, weeping, wound for several hours while bouncing over the roads.

My son got bit by one while at school in Arkansas. It ended up getting infected and he got sepsis and ended up having to have surgery on his neck to remove the infection that had him almost paralyzed.

Go to the doctor and take the antibiotics. Trust me.... my son wishes he had taken the antibiotics he was given.

My lab almost lost her foot, go to Dr immediately.

Guy I was in basic with got bit on cheek, put a hole thru it and had to have surgery to fix it. Consolation prize, when he got it cleared up he got to restart.

Never been bitten by one thank goodness but knew a man in Houston area back in the early 90s who eventually succumbed to a bite from a Brown Recluse. This was a healthy 80 year old man, cleaning out a storage shed, who was bitten between his index and middle finger on his left hand. Like most men thought little of it. Started getting infected or doing what they do and still did nothing. Started noticing red streaks running up his arm....finally went to the doctor. They eventually amputated most of his left hand...it was in BAD shape but the damage was apparently beyond repair....he lived about a year after being bitten, about 6 months after amputation. It was a bad year...he went downhill quick, from a very active 80 year old who still drove, cut his own grass and hunted and fished regularly to being nearly immobile and bed ridden for the last 7 or 8 months of his life. They are serious. He died of heart failure, not a spider bite, but it was at least directly connected. Imagine living 80 years, being healthy, having spent a good deal of his life outdoors (he was an electrician so he was outdoors a lot) and being basically brought down by an insect bite. Of course had he sought medical help faster it may have been different.