Again?!!! Cincha!

I have another spider bite that is growing. I got it two days ago while talking to my neighbor in the backyard. I noticed some itching on my legs while we were talking and when I got in I had two bites in almost identical spots under my jeans and about ten mosquito bites on my exposed arms. The mosquito bites calmed down quickly, the bites on my legs didn't.

They didn't  itch as much this time, but I woke in the middle of night when I scratched open the one on my left thigh. That's the one that's getting worse. It now has a fat (1 to 1 and a half inch) pink ring around it. I've been putting triple antibiotic cream on both of them at night, and the steroid cream on them during the day. It seems to be helping the one on the right, not doing much/anything for the one on the left.

This time you can see two individual bites on the left one. So, hey, confirmation of a spider.

I'll wait it out until Monday, it won't have killed me by Monday, and then I'll go into the clinic.

Joy.   -_-

I hate spider bites.

Why me?

Bug Bite getting Bigger?

Yeah,

The, uh, bite on my arm is getting bigger.

It's measuring exactly two inches by two inches and is now touching the crease of my elbow. The entire red area itches or alternately tingles and my shoulder and forearm feel sore though I'm not sure if that is real pain, pain from nursing the arm or psychosomatic.

I took another antibiotic, not amoxicillin anymore, they changed it to sulfamethoxazole. One at 4:45 and now one at 10 pm. The next one when I wake up and my appointment is at 10:45. I also took two more benadryl as the nurse practitioner who saw me suggested I not take more than that.

I have also drawn another series of dashes around the red area as the other ones I drew have rubbed off. Sharpies are not what they used to be.

I took my temperature, it was 98.6. which is 1 degree above my healthy normal but nothing serious.

At the clinic today the woman who saw me pushed on the bite quite a lot and said it looked like a bite that had gotten slightly infected. She tried to get it to drain some. She said tomorrow it would either be much better or much worse.

Why does being healthy not keep one from infection and/or toxin?

Sick and or; a Health Update

Well, I've been having problems with tiredness and headaches and feelings of pressure in my face so I went to the doctor on Wednesday (Thursday? Wednesday? Gosh, I can't remember). I also talked to her about my migraines and asked if I might get some Topamax as it had helped me previously and helped my mom. She voiced some concern about the Topamax as I only get migraines a few times a month so I didn't think she'd written me a prescription for it, but when I got to the pharmacy she had. She also said I might have a sinus infection (or the allergies this year are going to kill me. Really, I have been eating raw, very local, honey for a year, has it not helped at all?) so I got antibiotics. She prescribed some nasal spray which I didn't buy because it was $30. O.o No, not paying that much for a bloody nasal spray. I have a saline spray I can use.

Then on Friday night I noticed a bite on my arm (my father, who used to be an RN, says it looks like a spider bite). It was pretty itchy by Saturday so I took two Benadryl last night.

So, to recap, last night was Amoxicillin, Benadryl, Topamax. Today the bite is bigger and itchier. I now have a circle drawn around it. It doesn't seem to be responding like cellulitis (heat is making it much much worse, not better) so I hope it isn't. I feel like my head is on a balloon. Very very dizzy and disoriented, but no fever.

My arm itches, and itches like mad if I start to move much.

Trying to make it to 8 pm before I got back to bed.

This is what the bite had become by day 3