Something started to itch in my back while I was in the shower.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230334)
Chile
December 30, 2022 9:11am CST
I scratched it and felt that it was a huge wheal. I got out and tried to see it but I couldn´t. I will have to wait until my friends arrive so that they can see what it is.
Meanwhile I discarded skin cancer and other mayor problems. It must confess that after I had a lymphoma and several skin cancers, I am quite afraid that one of them might prove to be more aggresive.
But the wheal is giant to the touch, at least the size of a quarter. I put on a corticoid cream meanwhile and the itching is less. But something has to be done. I am thinking about a spider, a bug that comes around in this part of the year. And I ruled out the brown recluse (we have it here) because I would feel badly.
I hope Dixie and Humberto tell me what to do and it helps. I´m sure that a spider is the only bug that could have done that. Today I turned my bed and there was a tiny spider between my sheets. I killed it savagely but it wasn´t the brown recluse.
Is there anyone here who doesn´t HATE spiders?
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
30 Dec 22
I hope you're only having an allergic reaction to something. I am scared of being bitten by a spider. The cream should have made it stop itching completely, though, if it was an allergic reaction to something... I hope Dixie gets to your house soon.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
The itching stopped but there is a gross wheal. Dixie will come at around 6 to take me to the mountains.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
@DaddyEvil It is very big so I think that I´ll have it for days. It is bigger than a quarter.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
30 Dec 22
@marguicha Sometimes it takes time for welts to go down after using corticoid creams. I hope it disappears before Dixie gets there. I'm glad the itching stopped.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
I would not be writing here if it had been that spider.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
@LadyDuck I hate all animals inside my house. Even Luna hardly places a paw inside. And I have a special rug for her that I wash often.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
I´m sure the bug that bit me was poisonous but not as a brown recluse.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
31 Dec 22
@much2say I know. I remembered later that I have antihistaminic pills so I took one.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Dec 22
@marguicha Probably so since the bite made you itch like that.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
30 Dec 22
It's probably a spider bite. I hate spiders; but I hate ants worse.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
I have not had ants inside my house for many years. Once in a while, I kill one inside with a finger and that is all.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
31 Dec 22
@LindaOHio I´m so sorry. Years ago, in another house, I had ants every summer.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
30 Dec 22
@marguicha We get them in the house the same time every year. I HATE THEM!!!
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
6 Jan 23
I don't hate spiders. I play on them. I hate bugs.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
6 Jan 23
If one of them had betten you, you would not have them as friends
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
7 Jan 23
@marguicha our spiders are harmless. They never bite. I said that for I have never bitten so far.
@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
Me too. I am specially scared of the brown recluse as we have it here. But I know today that a spider bit me but it wasn´t as spoisinous. Still I am worried.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
@Beestring Dixie and Humberto will check it and fill a prescription if I need it. Humberto is a doctor.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
30 Dec 22
@marguicha Is there a wound? Do you need to put on some antibiotic cream?
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@shaggin (74988)
• United States
30 Dec 22
I used to get bit by spiders at night a lot when I lived a my mothers house growing up. I believe they were called the common house spider. We never had them here until my husband remodeled the bathroom. I think they must have been in the walls and when the walls were torn out came out and bred.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
This spider that bit me is not deadly, but still, the wheal is the size of a quarter.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
31 Dec 22
I don't mind many spiders. But if they don't stay where they belong they have to go
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
1 Jan 23
I don´t mind spiders. But I do mind them if they bite me
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
1 Jan 23
Humberto said I was not to worry as it was better. But I am with a corticoid unguent and an antihistaminic.
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