KLAXON..................I have a Bite............

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.............a bloody great big one, about 1" across. Been itching all day and when I finally pulled up my trouser leg to see, this is what I found.....and it's driving me insane!!!

So, c'mon Mners - methods of removal please!!

What did that???!!!

How are you this morning?

Another bite has surfaced overnight making 3 beauties in total. My leg is red, itchy, painful and swollen from knee to ankle so am off to the pharmacy and see what they say first.

Sounds like,you need antibiotics.

IV antibiotics I think as sounds like cellulitis. Hope you're better soon

If and when I get these I need antibiotics.

Horse fly or spider bite

It does indeed look like a horsefly bite. It’ll pop all over your bed and make a hell of a mess (voice of experience!)

I hope the pharmacist says it’s ok

The pharmacist sent me straight to A&E, and after a couple of hours wait was given antiB's and steroid cream. Brilliant care by brilliant people. Thank you NHS.

The pain and itching is insane and to be honest when I got back home I really didn't feel well and fell asleep.

The bite near my ankle is apparently 8 bites all clustered together. I can't bear anything touching my leg so am sat in shorts with a cold blow fan going.

The joys of gardening eh!

Blandford fly. No question. Awful things

Oh you poor thing, that looked sore, not surprised you ended up in A&E.

Rest up.

That sounds tough. Hope you feel better soon

Yikes!!

This post is bringing back memories of coming back from a lovely holiday and having a sensation of my lower calf stiffening up. I started off with a wee blister which then grew overnight to something enormous. It was so huge that I couldn’t flex my ankle without it feeling like it would tear.

I went to the GP who chickened out of dealing with it himself and sent me to minor injuries. The nurse took scissors and basically cut the top off then whacked an alcohol pad on it. It was absolute fucking agony.

I then had weeks of dressings and it weeping through my tights.

So. You have my greatest sympathy!! I always thought I might have been overreacting but the stories shared on here have reassured me.

I hope yours gets better very soon.

What a day!

I felt so exhausted most of today thanks to the volcanic heat - like itching on my leg, and so kept falling asleep here and there.

The good news is that the dome-like bite is now deflating, as is my leg, but is still intact, but the ankle - of which the attached image is of - is murderous. It has bruising of around 3" x 3", my ankle has totally vanished, and there are many tiny, crusty blister bites throughout this area. At one point I just had to scratch the area of skin around it and it made me feel quite dizzy.

At least no more have made their selves known!

@chatterbugmegastar - I googled the blandford fly, I don't think I've had the pleasure of it's aquaintance, luckily....looks truly awful.

@Passmethecrisps - I read your tale of woe just before I had my tea .......lovely!

Thank you all for your sympathy, tis much appreciated...... I shall now go make myself a cuppa to go with it!

I'd try an antihistamine. That looks bloody sore. You poor thing.

Deary me OP! I feel your pain - though not quite as severely! I'm allergic to midge bites and I seem to attract them like a beacon. I get bitten all the time and swell up like a balloon with massive itchy blisters everywhere. My record was 27 bites at once a few years back! I distinctly remember sitting on the floor with both legs fully caked in sudacrem like Ross' paste pants from Friends 😂 I hate bitey bugs!! Just an inconvenience nobody needs.

Glad you are on the mend now! It sounds horrible 😨

Didn't want to read and run ... hope it feels better soon!!

Poor you. I used to get this reaction when I was younger. That last picture you posted, if you can avoid scratching it, will eventually coalesce into the blister thing up thread. Then under no circumstances do anything to it until all the red border has disappeared. I had a huge crater in my foot from one I got in Italy once. And always on feet/legs, they didn’t have the same effect elsewhere on the body.
Luckily I grew out of them!

Ouch, hope you are fully recovered now.

Ouch!!

Hi OP - how are you?