- Jan 21, 2005
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About a week ago I put up a post because I had gotten some bites on my legs while I was sleeping. They cleared up after a few days with no problem.
This morning when I woke up, I noticed that my hand was really itching on the first knuckle on my index finger. Now that it has been a few hours, it has swollen up so badly that the "valley" between my knuckles on my index and middle finger is no longer there. I have a swollen, red area about the size of a half dollar coin (maybe a little bigger), and a red, itchy line the goes all the way into the middle of my forearm (toxin from bite in my vein?)?
I'm going to re-wash all of my sheets and stuff tonight... but as long as I feel okay, should I not worry?
I'll post pics when I get home :/
Update:
So today it seems that the swelling has spread (covers about 3/4 of the top of my hand), but isn't quite as puffy.
It doesn't itch as bad as it did yesterday, but it has began to hurt some when I use my hand (brushing my teeth, typing).
By the end of last night, the itching eventually got all of the way up to my shoulder... I could see the "track mark" in my vein while it was traveling.
Is it doctor time?
Update2:
Now that I think about it, seeing a red track in my vein probably should have lead to me going strait to the doctor... but for whatever reason I wasn't very worried about it. I Googled TONS over the last 24 hours to find out any information I could related to bug bites, and all sites made it sound like I was only in actual danger if I had a few very specific symptoms.
It turned out that I didn't have a bug bite at all--I had gotten an infection on my hand from working on my car. The red line was indeed blood poisoning, but my body fought it off fairly quickly (it was gone this morning). The doctor said that blood poisoning can be very dangerous if it lingers, but my body seems to be handling it well. He checked for puss in my hand but couldn't find any--so all of these are signs that there isn't any real problem at this point.
I was prescribed some antibiotics, which he said to begin taking if the marks on my arm came back.
Knowing what I know now, I would have definitely gone to the E.R. sooner... I was just having trouble justifying doing that because i was 99% sure I had a spider bite... It honestly had never crossed my mind that something else was causing this.
Anyway, thanks for all your help guys, I do appreciate it!
This morning when I woke up, I noticed that my hand was really itching on the first knuckle on my index finger. Now that it has been a few hours, it has swollen up so badly that the "valley" between my knuckles on my index and middle finger is no longer there. I have a swollen, red area about the size of a half dollar coin (maybe a little bigger), and a red, itchy line the goes all the way into the middle of my forearm (toxin from bite in my vein?)?
I'm going to re-wash all of my sheets and stuff tonight... but as long as I feel okay, should I not worry?
I'll post pics when I get home :/
Update:
So today it seems that the swelling has spread (covers about 3/4 of the top of my hand), but isn't quite as puffy.
It doesn't itch as bad as it did yesterday, but it has began to hurt some when I use my hand (brushing my teeth, typing).
By the end of last night, the itching eventually got all of the way up to my shoulder... I could see the "track mark" in my vein while it was traveling.
Is it doctor time?
Update2:
Now that I think about it, seeing a red track in my vein probably should have lead to me going strait to the doctor... but for whatever reason I wasn't very worried about it. I Googled TONS over the last 24 hours to find out any information I could related to bug bites, and all sites made it sound like I was only in actual danger if I had a few very specific symptoms.
It turned out that I didn't have a bug bite at all--I had gotten an infection on my hand from working on my car. The red line was indeed blood poisoning, but my body fought it off fairly quickly (it was gone this morning). The doctor said that blood poisoning can be very dangerous if it lingers, but my body seems to be handling it well. He checked for puss in my hand but couldn't find any--so all of these are signs that there isn't any real problem at this point.
I was prescribed some antibiotics, which he said to begin taking if the marks on my arm came back.
Knowing what I know now, I would have definitely gone to the E.R. sooner... I was just having trouble justifying doing that because i was 99% sure I had a spider bite... It honestly had never crossed my mind that something else was causing this.
Anyway, thanks for all your help guys, I do appreciate it!
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