As I said, the antibiotic I am taking is a generic for Bactrim and the side effects area a bitch. Weird crawly itchy but-not-quite-itchy feeling ping-ponging all over my body starting 1-2 hours after taking it and lasting for about 10 hours. Also, headache, and loss of appetite, and I can't sleep for hours after laying down. Additionally, an hour or so after taking it I feel like I've lose about a dozen IQ points, like there's cotton between my synapses rather than the proper chemicals. And thirsty. Very thirsty. And I'm very grumpy. I don't know if that's just from being driven mad by the weird itching or if it's mood changes. Also, there were some uncontrolled thoughts the first couple days which kind of freaked me out because that has not happened, at all, in more than two years.
Spider bite:
It has now been exactly 1 week since the spider bite and the spot still itches. That being said, the inflammation has finally started to go down so only the original bite site is really warm, the rest of the ring (it got to about 3.5 inches at its largest diameter) is slightly warmer than the rest of my arm but over the last 18 or so hours has mostly returned to normal skin color. The center is still bright red. Did I mention it still itched? And my whole forearm is still tender to push on. I was also given a topical steroid which I think helped a lot with the inflammation and the joint aches in my elbow, shoulder, hands, and hips has gone away. Yesterday I was experiencing some muscle weakness in my arms, and trembling in my hands, but I don't know if that was from the antibiotic or left over effects from the spider venom. I'm prone to thinking it was the antibiotic. I am also prone to think the bite was from a brown recluse. Some time this week the cat will be spending a day outside and I will take the hamster with me and the house is getting bug bombed.
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| This is a picture taken on day 7 or 8. The diameter of the bite spread a just a little beyond the furthest marker line before it finally began to retreat. |
Additionally, I think I may have developed spider-sense because I was on my computer today and out of the corner of my eye saw movement on our brown and beige spotted carpet (I think they make carpets this color so you don't have to vacuum as often, it always looks dirty no matter what) and turned and smashed an orange/brown spider about the size of a nickle running across the carpet toward me. How did I even see that thing? Thank goodness, my reptile brain still seems to be intact. ;-)
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