Just fyi...brown recluse is not that common here, but crawling into clothing is a characteristic as you see below.
by now, finding out what it was fades and we hope you are better by now???
good for you having the antibiotic, just in case...
that was not characteristic of the fire ant to inflame the whole ankle and take that long to show up. Must have been scary. I hope you are ok now?
I think some of us who have had fire ant bites underestimated the severity of what you experienced.
I know I did.
from uf/ifas/edis
The brown recluse spider is a shy species that bites humans when trapped in clothing or rolled onto when people sleep in bed. Persons bitten by the brown recluse usually do not feel pain for two to three hours, although a sensitive person may feel pain immediately. A blister arises around the area of the bite. The local pain becomes intense, with the wound sloughing tissue often down to the bone. Healing takes place slowly and may take six to eight weeks. If the bite of a brown recluse spider is suspected, collect the spider and consult a physician immediately.
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