Spider bite?, pretty sick... look at your own risk. Options

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I noticed something on my leg around 2 weeks ago, possibly longer. I never really paid much attention to it at first, but a few days ago when I realized it had been there for so long, I started looking into it, and it looks a lot like a brown recluse spider bite. However, those spider bites usually show up within hours or a few days. I showed my dad and he put a needle over a flame and tried to puncture it, supposedly there's pus or something in it, and then he poured peroxide on it. It didn't really do hardly anything, so we don't know if it's an infection or not.

My question is... does anyone have the slightest clue what this might be?


(Look at your own risk. If you're easily grossed out, you might not want to look... just a precaution).

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

Brown recluse spider bites don't always hurt right away. In fact, you may not know that you have been bitten until other symptoms appear. Symptoms of a brown recluse spider bite include:

* Reddened skin followed by a blister that forms at the bite site.
* Mild to intense pain and itching for 2 to 8 hours following the bite.
* An open sore with a breakdown of tissue (necrosis) that develops within a few hours to 3 to 4 days following the bite. This may take months to heal.

http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/...?navbar=hw95886

Initially the bite site is mildly red and upon close inspection may reveal fang marks. Within a few hours, the redness gives way to pallor with a red ring surrounding the area, or a "bull's-eye" appearance. The lesion will often appear to flow downhill over the course of many hours. The center area will then often blister, which over 12-48 hours can sink, turning bluish then black as this area of tissue dies. The wound can appear like the following:

* Bull's-eye appearance (common) (Note: If you live in an area where Lyme disease is common (Northeastern states), then this type of lesion is more likely caused by tick-borne Lyme disease than a brown recluse spider bite.)

* Blistering (common)

* Necrosis (death) of skin and subcutaneous fat (less common)

* Severe destructive necrotic lesions with deep wide borders (rare)

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/spider_bite...Bite%20Symptoms

If you're really that worried, you should go see a doctor..
It could be, but it doesn't look as nasty as the ones I found..
http://images.google.com/images?q=brown%20...sa=N&tab=wi
Now those are really nasty bites.