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Herpes or Spider Bite?

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From john g

Updated May 23, 2010

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Herpes or Spider Bite?

is this a spider bite?

Tell us where your bite is (arm, leg, nose, whatever)

Right bicep

Why I think it's a spider bite

I just thought I was bitten.

What happened

I awoke to a pain in my right bicep. I felt a pinch-like bite at the time; I woke up in the middle of the night when it happened. I never saw a spider but I recall seeing and killing a spider in our home just days before. The spider's body was no bigger than two pencil erasers side by side with toothpick thick legs. Again, I never saw a spider and I looked around for one around the area of my bed. I applied rubbing alcohol and went back to bed.

Advice

My sis-in-law is a nurse and she said she thinks it might be herpes outbreak. The wound changed, grew over the next five days. It became inflamed with a goose flesh appearance

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