Wasp Sting
Let me just start off by saying that I can barely walk today and no shoe will fit on my big fat foot.
Yesterday evening I was outside cleaning up some toys around the yard when some INTENSE labor-like (yeah it really seemed that bad at the time) pain hit me.
Anyway,I looked down to see a wasp on my foot and it had stung me twice. I know you are laughing at me thinking can she be serious? Is she really comparing a wasp sting to labor? She must be out of her mind. But I am serious. That thing HURT.I felt like screaming, cussing, and crying but I kept my cool because I didn't want to scare my two boys and my niece.
I had recently read in a woman's magazine to put an onion on a sting so I did and it seemed like it took some immediate pain away for about a second and then it started swelling. It looked worse last night but now the swelling is going up my ankle which is weird since I got bit near my big toe.
I've googled wasp stings and it looks like I'm NOT going to die since I didn't die within the first hour. LOL. But I am in PAIN. Apparently, I'm having a mild reaction.
That sting brought back some childhood memories of being stung but I think this sting was the worst one yet. So tell me some of your bee/wasp/spider/other biting thing horror stories to make me feel better and to feel less like an idiot since I am being such a big baby over this.
Let me just start off by saying that I can barely walk today and no shoe will fit on my big fat foot.
Yesterday evening I was outside cleaning up some toys around the yard when some INTENSE labor-like (yeah it really seemed that bad at the time) pain hit me.
Anyway,I looked down to see a wasp on my foot and it had stung me twice. I know you are laughing at me thinking can she be serious? Is she really comparing a wasp sting to labor? She must be out of her mind. But I am serious. That thing HURT.I felt like screaming, cussing, and crying but I kept my cool because I didn't want to scare my two boys and my niece.
I had recently read in a woman's magazine to put an onion on a sting so I did and it seemed like it took some immediate pain away for about a second and then it started swelling. It looked worse last night but now the swelling is going up my ankle which is weird since I got bit near my big toe.
I've googled wasp stings and it looks like I'm NOT going to die since I didn't die within the first hour. LOL. But I am in PAIN. Apparently, I'm having a mild reaction.
That sting brought back some childhood memories of being stung but I think this sting was the worst one yet. So tell me some of your bee/wasp/spider/other biting thing horror stories to make me feel better and to feel less like an idiot since I am being such a big baby over this.
Yesterday evening I was outside cleaning up some toys around the yard when some INTENSE labor-like (yeah it really seemed that bad at the time) pain hit me.
Anyway,I looked down to see a wasp on my foot and it had stung me twice. I know you are laughing at me thinking can she be serious? Is she really comparing a wasp sting to labor? She must be out of her mind. But I am serious. That thing HURT.I felt like screaming, cussing, and crying but I kept my cool because I didn't want to scare my two boys and my niece.
I had recently read in a woman's magazine to put an onion on a sting so I did and it seemed like it took some immediate pain away for about a second and then it started swelling. It looked worse last night but now the swelling is going up my ankle which is weird since I got bit near my big toe.
I've googled wasp stings and it looks like I'm NOT going to die since I didn't die within the first hour. LOL. But I am in PAIN. Apparently, I'm having a mild reaction.
That sting brought back some childhood memories of being stung but I think this sting was the worst one yet. So tell me some of your bee/wasp/spider/other biting thing horror stories to make me feel better and to feel less like an idiot since I am being such a big baby over this.
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My daughter was about 2 or 3 and my hubby was sleeping because he worked night shift. Well, I put cartoons on and went out to cut the grass with the riding lawn mower. We had a huge back yard and I always cut it. I love to cut grass by the way. Well, I cut the grass counter clockwise instead of clockwise and I had made 2 swipes and apparently got into a yellowjacket nest. They started stinging and was going up my shorts and down my shirt. I got off of the lawn mower screaming like a banshee and running to the house. Hubby came out in underwear only and daughter was traumetized. He pulled 12 stingers out and my hands went numb so we went to the ER. They gave me a shot that made me dopey and I have never cut the grass there again. Nor will I ever.
Whenever I get stung by anything, bee or wasp, I cry like a baby because I think it hurts so much. You're not alone!
Oooo Petite, Grumpy and Renee I am so sorry you get stung!!! I can only imagine how much it would hurt!
I was bite once by a wasp right by my ear but I was a kid....I remember it happening but not the pain that went with it...
I hope your foot gets better soon!!!
I read your saga at 1:30 this morning as I was still in agonizing pain over a wasp sting at 6:00 p.m. I was desparately looking for a remedy as I could only keep from rolling on the floor in pain if my foot was frozen in ice cubes. I made a baking soda paste and reduced the pain to that of a burning sensation.
I have been stung many times but I have never had a reaction like that. I too had compared it to labour pain and people thought I was being over dramatic. Thank you for verification. Some stings are worse than others just as some labours are.
I was on an every 8 hour, intravenous pump, cocktail of three antibiotics at the time, for an infection from cat puncture wounds, so, I didn't want to introduce an antihistamine to the mix.
I would hassard a guess that such a severe reaction may indeed be a sign of a developing allery to stings and an epi pen is in order.
Yellow Jackets don't leave stingers. They are Wasps and can sting repeatendly.
Yellow Jackets are Wasps and can sting repeatedly. However, they can also leave their stingers if the get it in too deep in the skin or if they get it stuck in a skin fold. For example, last night when I was loading up my baby's stroller I was stung by a yellow jacket on the center knuckle of my pinky. The stinger got stuck because I immediatley clenched my hand in pain. Trust me...I know my insects...it was a Yellow Jacket and it DID leave it's stinger.
Well similarly I was mowing the grass around 2 this after noon and surely enough i ran over a nest of yellow jackets... One of them stung me pretty badly on the inside of my anlke, kindof close to my achiles tendon.. I sat down for a bit and watched the sting site as it started to swell.. After about thirty minutes or so I had almost forgotten about the whole thing.. But about 2 hours later my ankle began swelling more and more.. Eventually i became unable to walk on my foot.. I've been taking benadryl but I cant really tell if it's helping.. Now its 1:25 am and its as swollen as ever and my entire ankle aches...
As I read these comments now, I can't help but to laugh. Somehow for the last 32 years I have avoided being stung by a wasp or a bee. Yesterday I was not so lucky. Mowing the lawn seems to be a common theme here... I'm guessing that the wasps didn't like that I was infringing on their territory. The first sting was on my leg. It hurt like heck and I am sure that I said a not so kind word or two. I went inside, took out the stinger, applied some antibiotic ointment, and went about my job. Wouldn't you know, about half a hour later, I got stung again once or twice. This time, no stinger, but it hurt even worse! While it wasn't quite like labor, I must say that I did think of the paint being like labor. Its a good thing my neighbors didn't hear me as I was yelling at the wasp to get the *** off me! The paint continued on through the evening, and I finally had enough of the pain...so what's a girl to do? I took half a vicadin left over from a prior surgery. Let me tell you, this did not help one bit. I woke up several times throughout the night in pain... much like when I was in labor. It was hard to find a position that did not aggrivate the large enough area that was reddened, sore and hot. Anyhow, I made it to this morning and the paint still didn't seem to be gone. I think it took a good 18 hours before the pain subsided. Now I just have a lovely rash on my arm and leg to remind me of this oh so lovely experience.
I have a bee's nest in my attic and one of the bees went in my shoe, as I put in on it stung me on the side of my big toe. It swelled up and 3 days later I am still in agony. I have taken antihistamines and a cream for the area and although the swelling has gone down I can't seem to shake off the pain. I have never been in labor but when it stung, God did I scream and curse, I've never felt anything like it from such a small pin-prick. I stupidly removed the sting with tweezers therefore squeezing the venom in further. I wish I knew how to get rid of this pain, its like walking on broken glass.
Several years ago, I was walking in the back yard in flip flops, when all of a sudden, I fell to the ground from a very INTENSE pain and burning in my foot that shot up into my thigh. I nearly cried the pain was so bad. Soon after, my foot swelled up. I couldn't walk on it, nor drive. My brother took me to the closest MedFirst, where the doctor said I was having an allergic reaction. I believe I was put on antibiotics for it. Anyhow, I had to sleep with my leg and foot elevated for several nights. Couldn't work, cause I couldn't stand on it even for short periods of time. The swelling and pain lasted for days. I remember trying to go out with a friend 2 or 3 nights after it happened, and I was in so much pain, we had to leave. Couldn't drive either (right foot). It really really hurt!
Having just yesterday gone through the trauma of having an exquisitely painful plantar wart on my pinky toe debrided and treated with acid (feels fine when they do it but just wait till a couple of hours later - it's like someone hitting your foot with a mallet) I wore sandals to work to take the pressure off my poor little pinky. My exposed, tender flesh and gimpy gait obviously really appealed to the local insect life as a honey bee flew out of the grass, lodged himself between the sole of my sandal and my foot and stung me on the same darned toe.
I am SO not one for swearing but even I was amazed at some of the language that came out of my mouth. I didn't know I knew half those words!
A colleague very kindly dosed me up with Benadryl which made things a whole lot better until a couple of hours ago when the drugs obviously wore off. My whole foot is now hot, red and swollen and I just can't wait to see how much fun I have trying to walk to work tomorrow.
My sympathies - everyone reacts differently to these things. There are those who can just brush a bee sting off as a minor irritation. And there are those like you and me for whom it's a truly crippling and brain-frying torture trip.
As for me, I'm off to buy Benadryl first thing in the morning and I'd suggest you maybe do the same!
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I just got stung by a wasp in my barn. The thing got me in the foot. I hobbled to the house cussing all the way. When I got inside I wasn't sure what to do. A friend told me to mix up a salt and water paste solution and apply that. I did and the pain resolved almost immediately. This DOES work. Thank GOD! Now it's benadryl and relax and hope it doesn't start again.
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