To be stung by a wasp at 1.30am

Poor you, how awful! I'm also very wasp phobic, the thought of being stung during the night is very unnerving! I'll be looking out for a wasp in my bed in the future.

My last sting, 9 years ago, made my leg swell up like a balloon and it took 2 weeks for it to heal. (It was actually like a jellyfish sting I had many years ago.)

Oh God. I'm severely wasp phobic but had all the windows in the house open yesterday thinking the little sods are probably gone for this year. Last thing before closing my eyes I wondered if one had got in but thought nah.

I will be vigilant OP - thanks for alerting me. I hope your poor leg feels better soon.

I had a Teams call earlier in the summer at home for work. Took off the headset and a HUGE wasp fell out of my hair.

I'm not the better of it.

Were your sheets dried out in the garden?

Happened to me years ago, got in to bed, felt sting in my arm and it was a bloody wasp in October! My arm blew up like a balloon - had to get antihistamines - now am v wary of being stung but thankfully haven’t been since.

OMG now I am terrified.

I am anaphylactic to both Bee and Wasp stings and the thought of having to cope with that alone at 1.30am fills me with terror.

My Epi-pens live in the kitchen (handbag when out) but will be coming to bed with me in future.

@Zanatdy I can relate to this! Our roof is a nightmare for nests.
The worst one was under the bath upstairs...
When we took the side off (a long time after the wasp man came to deal with them) the entire void was filled with a huge papery nest. It was massive! 😮
We kept getting them everywhere in the house, all times of the day, and the next year they came back in a different spot. Haven't seen many this year though, probably hiding somewhere👀
Worst run-in was in lockdown, cutting the hedge and disturbing a nest...got stung about 20 times, all over. God, they were so painful 😭
I was running down the garden squealing and flapping whilst DS's and DH just watched from the house...
Barricaded myself in the bathroom with 2 stuck in my bra, doing their thing😡
Absolute (environmentally necessary) bastards, I'm so scared of them now - just thinking about the stings makes my hair stand up 😟

Sorry, long story OP! I found a damp flannel/tea towel helped and I tried the warmed teaspoon trick (make it hot and apply pressure to the sting with the back of the spoon). Not sure if it worked really but anything's worth a go...
Mostly used cold aloe vera gel and lots of very, very vocal weeping and wailing 😬

You have my sympathies. Please come back and post again otherwise we'll all think they DID get you!

Get some antihistamine tablets in and some waspeze spray. It is that time of year. Don't walk around in your bare feet- they are often crawling, and shake your curtains before you go to bed. I am channelling my late mum, she was a wise woman.
[I once woke up when I heard a small thud. Put the light on and there was a huge wasp under my window. It had fallen out of the curtain top].

I used to have to check the curtains at this time of year, as wasps would hibernate tucked into the pleats at the top. Then when the heating came on in a month or so they'd all wake up and come buzzing out, bleary eyed and hangry.

Not when they blunder about like a drunk scaffolder trapped inside a cupboard full of mismatched tupperware.

Hate wasps. They sting for no bloody reason. Just walking down the street doing the school run and bang flys out a bush and in my leg. Bastards.

Saw one yesterday putting the washing out and thought fuck sake it’s that time again. They need to be more like bee’s leave us alone we leave you alone.

The same thing happened to me earlier this year, stung on the finger in the middle of the night. I posted a thread at the time, I was outraged !!!

Seen literally one wasp this year.

I have probably seen 3 wasps all summer but then i woke up with one in my hair last week . It still makes me shudder.

Oh god I hate wasps. I once had over 200 live ones in my flat when I had 3 live nests in the attic and gutter. Not joking when I say it was the worse 3wks of my life until they all went and it’s really made me so fearful of them. I can’t even see a photo of one. This is the time of year when they really start going crazy as they die off. This was late October when the nests happened as I had been away for half term. So pretty much almost November. I don’t know how my then 8yr old and I didn’t get stung.

take an antihistamine if you have any if still red / swollen

Well they did say it was too loud for one!

I do a compress first of a cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol, take Tylenol and then ice.
I woke to being bitten on the back of the neck by a spider once (horror) and a carpenter ant back of my knee another time. Not fun. Sympathies. 💐
eta: might also want to take an anti-histamine.

Daddy long legs are completely silent.

Aww that’s so painful! You may have already done this- clean the bite with soap & water
place a bag of frozen peas or ice wrapped in a tea towel on the sting for 10 mins on, 10 mins off
That’ll help the swelling go down and numb the itch.Hope you do get some sleep.

I shared a prawn with a wasp for lunch today. I watched it fly back and forth, cutting small sections off with it's mandibles, taking each one to its nest. I didn't get stug, but massively sympathise! It must feel extra unjustified being stung whilst you peacefully slept in your bed!

Hope the sting wears off soon - it’s so painful @peppermintteadrinker