To be stung by a wasp at 1.30am

[peppermintteadrinker]

i mean...I think it is bloody unreasonable of the wasp.

I just woke up to a sharp pain in my upper thigh. Thought I had been bitten. Flung off the duvet and put the light on. .. and there's a sodding tiny wasp on the floor.

My leg is on absolute fire now and it really hurts.

I mean ... The middle of the night, in bed, in nearly October and the window is shut. What the hell? I'm in agony and need to go back to sleep as I've got to get up for work in 4 hours. 😭

I've done the vinegar thing but it is still hurting like hell.

Is this an omen? What the HELL?!

Had to share with someone, if anyone is up. Ow...ow...owwww.

We have bats in our roof so no wasps! My sympathies to those who have been stung. I don't know how painful that is as I have managed to live to my early 70's without finding out!

They come in with the wood from the log store all winter. Last year we had them in an air brick, kept appearing in the kitchen.

@Compash DH assumed that I would want to smash it to a pulp with the fly swatter, but I felt, knowing my luck, if I opened the jar it would somehow manage to get me again, so I put the jar in the freezer, and left it there for 2 days, just to be sure it was really dead.

The most frightening episode I’ve had with wasps was when I was in New Zealand with my Dad. We did a horse riding trip (I am experienced, my Dad is not) and there was an American couple there and a load of Chinese tourists. At one point in the ride when the American lady had fallen off her horse and the guide was attending to her (whilst I was sat on my horse holding her horse for her) the Chinese group managed to stop on a wasps’ nest. So there we were in a wooded area with angry wasps. Horses were getting stung and that was resulting in a real life game of buckaroo with Chinese people getting an equine assisted gravity check left right and centre, the American man got bucked off too. I ended up holding about 4 other horses at one point whilst also trying to stay on my own horse as they all wanted to run away every time another one got stung. I
was trying to keep an eye on my Dad who was in his 70s at this point, telling him that if his horse as much as flinches to get off as it hurts a lot less at no speed than being removed by a tree branch as the horse hurtles past it. One of the scariest experiences of my life I think.

I hate them. I had a wasp fly into my 10 week old son's pram and I grabbed it and it literally stuck to the parm of my hand stinging and stinging. I had to pluck it off. I normally run from them as I'm terrified.

Diphenhydramine
learned that 40 yrs ago
beasty that time was hiding on carnival ride
very cheap too

We say the same here in Canada! 😄

Yep. Wasps nested in our wood pile one year when I was a kid. It was a cold snowy December and we suddenly had a few flying around like mad having been woken and warmed by the fireplace in the living room! 😳

Maybe try and antihistamine if you have one.

New fear unlocked

We've got rid of our wood burner recently, but this used to be a yearly occurrence 😫
I hated that buzzing noise and sometimes there were loads of them!
I've 'kindly' given away the remainder of my wood to my sister...probably should have warned her 😬😬

@Ecci that sounds awful. We have lots of hornets here but they seem pretty docile, at least compared to wasps. They are absolutely bloody huge though. I remember my poor old dad didn't have his glasses on and came down the stairs once when he was visiting and told us there was a strange yellow bird trapped in his room... I am very soft hearted and catch and eject all insects and arachnids (except for bloody mosquitoes).

I am now doing a duvet and room check at night. This is why I prefer the winter months - the little blighters are usually dead or hibernating.

I sympathise entirely, OP, something similar happened to me a couple of years ago.
It was summer, in the middle of the night and I needed to blow my nose. I reached out for a tissue from the box on the bedside table, went to blow and felt an excruciating stabbing pain in my cheek. I honestly though a blade of some kind had got caught up in the tissue.
I put the light on to try and fathom what had happened and saw a large dying wasp on the floor. The next morning my cheek was so swollen it was affecting my eye and I looked like a lop-sided hamster.
I went to the GP because I was concerned about my eye which I couldn't open properly and came home with a bagful of meds -- antibiotics, steroids, antihistamines and so on. The doc was concerned in case it might affect my breathing/airway but luckily it didn't seem to.
But the pain! It really felt like my cheek had been sliced open by a sharp knife. I have since read that some wasps are attracted to paper. Who knew?

Another one here who is going to be checking under my duvet tonight 👀🐝👀

Gosh .. feeling like I got away lightly reading some of your experiences.

I'm so glad I'm working from home today. I've been taking antihistamines and feeling totally spaced out now.

It's still burning. Seems to be getting worse before it gets better.

Anthisan? Germaline?

Yes thanks. I got a load of cream and anti itch gel and antihistamines yesterday. It'll calm down tomorrow hopefully

Thanks for that. You just made me look fearfully towards the pleats on my bedroom curtains 😞

I read somewhere that this time of year is when they're at their most dangerous/angry, as the chemical that powers their eyes stops working, so they're flying around blind and angry 😱

Bloody unreasonable wasp !!!!

You 100% have my sympathy and thanks for the warning I will only crack open the window just enough to air the room. I am allergic to the sting, have to use an epi pen and still end up in A&E for a cortizone injection. I am hyper alert to the buggers. Actually saw some near an outdoor foodstall recently and ran the other way. I have been told there were less about this summer due to cooler weather, but it only takes one in my case!

Isn't September peak wasp time?

what I want to know is dont these wasps and creepy crawlies sleep? wasps esp sting in the day and in the night so when do they actually sleep and give us all a break!

OP, I hope you're feeling better now and the soreness is settling down. I hope the shock is easing too; it must have been horrible to have had that happen in bed of all places. And we're nearly into October. . .why aren't the little bar stewards dead yet???

I don't like wasps. Given the drop in insect populations and the implications of that for the environment, I try to avoid killing them, but the sight of that skinny little stripey sweater hovering in front of me or near a window gives me the horrors like nothing else.

The reason that wasps are such a nuisance at this time of year is that their nests are breaking down as the queens and workers die off. Before they die, they go off foraging on rotting fruit and other decaying and fermenting vegetation (they like the sugar) and turn into lager ladettes. Because they're drunk, they are more likely to have interactions with us which are fatal for them and at the least, painful for us. And also because they're drunk, the usual rules, eg, ignore them and they'll leave you alone, don't apply.