To be in so much pain from A wasp sting?

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omg the pain is nearly unbearable, my husband thinks I'm just being a baby but I can barely walk and its such a constant pain for the past 3 hours,

Any tips to help would also be appreciated.

@keeprocking

I was stung on my eyelid by a wasp and couldn't open the eye for a few days but, not wanting to turn this into a version of the Four Yorkshiremen, a horsefly sting stayed for weeks, it was total agony, a massive red, swollen lump.

I've still got a scar on my leg from one I got about 4 years ago. It never got infected, it was never scratched and was liberally coated in antihistamine as soon as I realised, but it's still there, looking like a BCG scar the size of a 50p piece.

Wasps are generally easy to deal with. Don't scream, don't flap, don't throw shit at them, don't frighten them. Just move away if they're being particularly dickish and if they're just investigating, stay still or move slowly so you look like something to go around. Got taught that by a beekeeper. And obviously, if you disturb a lot of them, they're going to be pissed off and try to defend their young/Queen. Then you RUN.

When they're still working to feed the colony, they're completely oblivious to you - I had a nest about 10 yards from the back door and they all came over the garden wall, pottered around collecting caterpillars or rasping wood off the shed door and buggered off again.

Mind you, I now have to inject myself with pens that I believe are modelled precisely upon wasp anatomy in terms of thickness, speed and medication delivery rate. They sting like a bastard, no matter whether they're into my outer thigh or upper stomach (can't do the lower stomach because of stretch marks and can't do the front of the thighs because of varicose veins).

I got stung on my arm last week. Little bastard! Due to my allergies, I always carry antihistamines with me so I immediately took one which seemed to help. It was sore for the next couple of days, but nothing too awful.

God, yes they do hurt like fuck, especially on sensitive bits.
A few years ago I was attacked by a swarm of wasps. I was on a dog walk , bent to pick up dog poo and must have disturbed a wasps nest as suddenly I was covered in wasps. They were crawling under my clothes as I ran stinging me.

It's really scary they way they all join in on the attack had more stings than I could count including one on my nipple .

I know it's not funny, having been stung by bees and having an infected horsefly bite, but actually it is making me laugh when I read comments like 'move away if they're being particularly dickish', and 'stinging the shit out of people because they're fucked off'. The idea of insects being 'dickish' and 'fucked off' does make me laugh - it almost makes up for the pain :-)

Rub fresh aloe Vera on it, i had a spider bite that itched like crazy for 2 weeks then I put aloe Vera on it, not a peep since

I was stung by one twice yesterday
Once on my leg though it was an itch reached down to scratch next thing I know the waspy bastard is wrapped round my finger and got me there too

So painful!!

Why aren’t they dead yet?

I got stung for the first time in my back when I was on holiday a couple of years ago. I was laying on a sunbed reading, felt a tickle on my back and absent-mindedly reached round to scratch and the bloody thing stung me. I've never felt pain like it. It spread right across my back. A lady on the next bed had a sting relief pen that helped a bit, but I got in the pool which was freezing and that calmed it down a bit. It was early on in the holiday but it hurt for at least a week. Bloody things. DH calls them the broccoli of the insect world - he doesn't like broccoli and thinks it completely unnecessary, like wasps.

They are awful things. I’d never been troubled too badly until July. I trod on one, one morning & it stung me at least twice on the toe. I was still needing to have an ice pack on my foot until 2am when I managed to go to sleep as otherwise it ached incredibly. I couldn’t how awful it was. I ended up phoning 111 as it was so bad. They said yes they can be that bad! Good luck

My son got stung by a wasp When he was 4 weeks old, he was asleep in his pram (forward facing) and the wasp stung him on the hand.
The screaming was awful and his tiny hand doubled in size.
I was visiting SIL and we took him to the urgent clinic, well the nurse looked at me miffed and asked why im there its only a sting

That's why i now no longer believe anyone who says wasps only sting when provoked... No, they sting because theyr evil little bastards.

Again, sorry, but '... next thing I know the waspy bastard is wrapped round my finger ...'; laughing again. I think they will disappear very soon, now we're in October. I know it doesn't help those who are currently being stung, but we're coming to the end of them for this year. Not sure of the horsefly season, which was my most painful resulting bite (not due to bite, but infection) ever. I have every sympathy for horses, cows, etc who have to deal with those sods.

I got stung multiple times in my mouth when I was 14. I had a can of coke and left it on the side open to do something when I went back I took a sip not knowing a wasp had climbed inside stung me half a dozen times was awful.

I got my first wasp sting about 6 weeks ago. There's a nest in an upturned pot in the garden which is just a few meters from my door. Mostly they don't bother me and I don't bother them, but I do have to cross their flight path to go out into the street or to use the garden tap. I have had a few of them bump into me and the worst that happened was that they buzzed off without saying "excuse me". Then, with spectacular bad timing, one of them bumped into me on a day I decided to wear a looser top. It went straight down the front and stung me 4 times on the upper chest with such viciousness it snapped its stinger off and left it behind.

Honestly, I didn't think it was all that bad after a bit of antihistamine and Germoline. I'd far rather have four wasp stings than a single gnat bite which swells up and keeps me awake for weeks with the itching. And that nest is going to be a pretty cool souvenier when they all finally die off.

I suppose the nasty wasp sting wasn't as bad an experience as when I had malaria as a result of mosquito bites when working on a short-term project in The Gambia. A good friend died if cerebral malaria some years ago.

YANBU. I stood on one barefoot by a pool on holiday and it fully stung my toe. Hurt worse than childbirth