Wound up bumping into the neighbor who is a nurse when heading out the door getting ready to hit up urgent care. She said to give it another day and see if it gets worse. Since she works in the E.R., I can only imagine all of the non-emergency emergencies that she's seen, and I decided to take her word for it. If it gets worse I am to go to urgent care, not the E.R., lol. She made that clear, because there isn't anything they can do for it besides give me some antibiotics anyway, and the wait will be much shorter.
It's blistering up once again, oozing some lovely junk and there is a dark red spot in the middle. The red streak thing has almost entirely disappeared-should I be nervous about that??? lol. Now the nausea has subsided, but I have had a constant headache. I'll let you all know how I'm feeling tomorrow-thank you guys much for all of the information and for keeping me calm, lol. I'm on the verge of paranoia over this thing-I had a pain in my back, left side (I get chronic kidney infections and fake ones-all symptoms there just no bacteria-a lot), and immediately recalled this:
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The venom also induces in its victim an immune response. The victim’s immune system releases inflammatory agents—histamines, cytokines, and interleukins—that signal specific disease-fighting white blood cells to the area of injury. In severe cases, however, these same inflammatory agents can themselves cause injury. These secondary effects of the venom, although extremely rare, can produce these more significant side effects of the spider bite:
* Destruction of red blood cells
* Low platelet count
* Blood clots in capillaries and loss of ability to form clots where needed
* Acute renal failure (kidney damage)
* Coma
* Death
lol. Of course it isn't that terribly bad, but needless to say, I freaked a little.
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Sorry for the long post...
I'm my own guinea pig.
29 Sep 2007, 9:09 pm
