I've been stung by those little bastards several times, and never really thought much about it. The worst I ever felt was a little nausea for a couple of hours.
But last night, actually about 1:00 this morning, while I was asleep, one of them crawled up into the bed and stung me. It must have hit a vein or something. After a few minutes, the sting itself had pretty much stopped hurting and I went back to sleep. When I woke up this morning, my lips, tongue, toes, and the bottoms of my feet were all a little numb.
If you've ever donated plasma, you know that tingly feeling you get in your mouth and maybe fingers when the anti-coagulant hits you? It felt like that, but not quite as strong.
It's now 17 hours after the sting, and I still feel a little nauseous. The numbness in my feet went away pretty soon after I woke up, but the weird feeling in my mouth persisted almost all day.
What seems really weird to me about a scorpion sting is that it never leaves a mark on me. If I get stung by a wasp or even a honey bee, there will be localized swelling and redness (and in the case of a red wasp, localized fever and general nausea). I can still feel a little discomfort where this thing got me last night, but if you were to try and find it by looking for it, you would be out of luck. There is just nothing there.
Wow, that was a nasty sting. I haven't been stung by a scorpion since I was a boy, but I don't remember anything worse than a lot of localized pain. Same with wasps.
ReplyDeleteI hope the numbness wears off quickly. It's always a scary feeling when part of your body loses sensation.
A lot of it depends on the person being stung, some people are more sensitive to it than others. It could have been a larger one, also.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a toddler in Las Vegas, I remember a neighbor that got nailed by a large one on the hand, and his whole arm swelled up until the skin was stretched tight and shiny, and he had to be hospitalized.
My theory is that since I was a sleeping target and not able to react instantly, it was able to dump its full load of venom into me.
DeleteI feel much better today.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that. If I get stung above the waist by a wasp, I get light-headed and have a bad headache for a couple of days.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid and my brothers and I would get stung by wasps or scorpions, my mother would make a paste of baking soda and water and plaster that on the sting for a while. It seemed to ease the pain. Ever heard of that remedy before?
ReplyDeleteYeah, except we used baking soda and vinegar. It reacts, but then whatever was left was used as a poultice.
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