brown recluse, my life flased before my eyes

[kami240sx]

so i was cleaning up my living room and i looked over my right hand and there it was a giant 1/4 inch spider with mean lookin' legs walking past me. so is this a brown recluse?

[Just another 240]

did u cook it and eat it? j/k

[Eklectrick]

what's a brown recluse?

[s0ldats]

steps:

1. cook2. eat.

no, really though, glad it didn't hurt you. how big is it? do you still have it?

[Eklectrick]

and what's with the cooking and eating spiders jokes?

[kami240sx]

its about. . . 1/2 an inch at most? i heard recluse's aren't big at all and yeah, i put it in this clear box, might feed it bugs later

. . . am i gonna die?

[240_Keyy]

http://consumptionjunction.com...age=1

DONT LOOK AT THAT LINK IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACHE!!!!!!! However, it is the documentation of what a brown recluse is and what the bite does......

[JohnI3laze]

OMG that is horrid. Brown recluses are tiny BTW, and they are aptly named because it is unlikely any of us will ever encounter one. I see you are from Texas too, and I had heard they only dwell in Northern areas(not sure about that though)

[240_Keyy]

trust me, there are brown recluses here...

[JohnI3laze]

Here in the forums?!:eyecrazy eek

[Aries]

there are many here in Texas...

[Toahk]

Quote »http://consumptionjunction.com/feat...0&Type=3&Page=1[/quote]

holy **** did that guy go to the doctor or what? is there no treatable cure for the spider bite?

[s0ldats]

its about. . . 1/2 an inch at most? i heard recluse's aren't big at all and yeah, i put it in this clear box, might feed it bugs later

. . . am i gonna die?

if it didn't bit you you're still gonna die....of natural causes

[yashin]

dude, that's nasty

by the way, did anybody else notice the rest of the webite, what the hell, what kind of weird mix of p0rn/spider bite website is that?????? whatever floats your boat i guess

[InNeedOf240]

holy **** did that guy go to the doctor or what? is there no treatable cure for the spider bite?

Read the caption of the picture..

[240_Keyy]

lol, cj is strange, I have seen every picture on that site for the last 3.5 years and I have even made a number of submissions (random roadkill, and funny signs and stuff)

[SingleCamSam]

Got bit on my thigh by one back when i was in high school. The spider was tiny so i didn't think much of it (like a moron). Three days later it looked like i had gangreen and i was in the hospital. I believe it's some kind of necrotoxin since basically it ate my skin off. After a few graphts it's fine but you can still see the scar tissue. Bottom line is: If you don't know what kind of spider it is DO NOT MUCK WITH IT!!

[Megaseth]

look on the back. it will have a fiddle shape in light brown. and i was wondering about that site too. I see guys with hands rotting off and then college-f*cj stuff and free p0rn. but like said before, what ever floats your boat :rolleyes . and yes, we have quite a few out here in Texas, but they dont come out that often, mostly hang out in the garage. i almost sat my hand on one about the size of a quarter and then we burned one with an egg sac on its azz. and i think the venom is a hemotoxin, but i might be wrong. didnt zebrahead find one on his driveway?

[SingleCamSam]

Yeah, just a theory. I'm no venom expert but what i had looked like bites i've seen from a Puff Adder and i believe that they use necrotoxin.

[gibbo80]

the brown recluse is very small and that does look like one. Their venom i dont know what it is called but it really isnt a poison like a snake, what it does is makes it so the wound will never heal. This is what kills you; infection setting into the wound is the dangerous part. If the wound is not treat, im guessing by cutting the infected skin off it will never heal. It pays to pay attention in biology

[gibbo80]

It is found mainly in the southern and Midwestern states especially Arkansas, Oklahoma and MissouriDistinguishing characteristics are the presence of three pairs of eyes arranged in a semicircle on the forepart of the head and a violin-shaped, dark marking immediately behind the semicircle of eyes with the neck of the violin pointing towards the bulbous abdomen. The spider's venom contains an enzyme that destroys cell membranes in the wound area with affected tissue gradually sloughing away, exposing underlying tissues. The sunken, ulcerating sore may heal slowly up to 6 to 8 weeks. Full recovery may take several months and scarring may remain. Plastic surgery and skin grafts are sometimes required.

I guess i was a little off but heres the important info from ohio state university

[Sygerwulf]

Their venom is a neurotoxin and affects everyone on a different level. On small animals it'll usually cause them to go into shock and eventually coma, and then their body rots away. With humans it varies greatly. A small girl in Arkansas got bitten 3 years ago and died within 8 hours of the bite.

The venom itself is only that fatal for somewhere between .5-1% of the american population, and it only really causes detrimental affects (i.e. skin irritation and decay, stomach sickness, terrible headachs) to about 32% of the population.

I know all this shyte because when my mother remarried we moved in with her new husband and the crawlspace under the house were several nests of them and they were constantly getting into the house. mostly on the far ends of it. We just killed 2 of them last weekend lol. My mother was bitten and didn't know on her pinky finger and it slowly started to develope a pit, so she put meat tenderiser on it for about a week and it eventually went away, the salt drew out the poison. I've been bitten a couple times and all it ever does to me is it leaves a rather painful bump for a couple days and eventually goes away. My step dad thinks he's been bit before but can't remember lol. I hate the thought of having to stay down there with them this weekend but oh well.

[tex240]

those little bastards are mean. i am from texas (hell) those and black widows that i really dont like are all over my huntiing lease and i HATE them.

[Megaseth]

that really sucks. we dont have too many black widows around here. but i see brown recluses quite often. and having them in your house sucks, but what about in the office. a pregnant mother getting in there and laying some eggs. you'd never find them. atleast in a house you know where they could be and they have only so big a space to hide in.

[Repo Man]

There are plenty of brown recluses in Georgia. Along with those damned fire ants. Same for Louisiana. You guys are correct with what you've posted about that spider. Their bites suck. I had a buddy at basic training that got bitten by one. Of course, he played THAT for all it was worth.

If you're bitten and you're not sure by what, be sure to have someone else look at it. You may not be thinking quite clearly if you're under the influence of some random venom or reaction. Don't ask me how I know...

[Megaseth]

Yeah, the best thing to do is get it looked at a.s.a.p. the sooner you catch a bite from a brown bastard, the easier it is to treat.

[bigE]

ABout 10 years ago I was bit by a spider in my Football pants, on the side of my knee, near the back of my leg. Didn't think much of it, until a couple of days later I had a blister there, and my leg was swollen, so I pop the blister, big mistake. The next day I had a hole in my leg, and it got bigger. So I went to the doctor, had them check it out, they ran some test, and said they were positive that it was a Brown Recluse. They gave me some cream to keep on it, I couldn't walk for over a month, ate into the mucles tissue. The hole in my leg got about 5 inches in diameter. After about 2 months, I could walk again, and it slowly started to heal on its own. Now I have a good size scar on my leg. A couple of years after it happened I saw a special of them on TV, and they said the bite can be fatal to smaller people, and they showed some gruesome pics.

Eric

[C-Kwik]

If I remember correctly, the venom actually kills the cells in the area of the bite. The severity can vary based on several factors. Sometimes a bite victim will never fully recover and it may take years to heal. It's an amazing little spider. Too bad it doesn't turn us into spidermen. I wouldn't mind swinging from tall buildings and being able to hang on ceilings. Then I'd get a cool job in the NSA or something.

[89240sx]

i got bit by one.... and ya that looks like a brown recluse.

[Get240DiZzY]

After reading all of this, I feel like there's spiders crawling on my legs. EEEK!!