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Just had my first wasp sting!
Steady40
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It flew into my shirt, not sure why. It's painful but not as much as I was expecting. It's still in the house, however I'm sure I've picked the sting out of my back.
Websites say that wasps don't lose their sting, but it looks like one, what else would it be? Does that mean that I shouldn't be too fussed about it anymore, as the sting is now down the sink?
Websites say that wasps don't lose their sting, but it looks like one, what else would it be? Does that mean that I shouldn't be too fussed about it anymore, as the sting is now down the sink?
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If it gets painful, antihistamine and an ice cube on it will help. I think you're going to live though
Oh ok, it looked like a wasp as it was thin and long, but it was a bit darker in the house.
Thanks, it looked like a wasp, but like the other person said, it could be a small honey bee. mistake I made was taking the sting out with my fingers:( But yes I'm confident I will live
I got stung on the leg by a huge hornet once and it hurt like hell and my leg blew up like a balloon.
I've also been stung by hornets which was quite bad because I must have trod on a nest back in the days when I wore short pants and they chased me for about 50 yards..........stinging my legs.......:o
Horseflies are particularly nasty as well because when you get one you tend to get a few.....they seem to hunt in packs......:o
wasps don't generally leave their sting behind. They sting you in a stabbing motion, moving the stinger in and out of its abdomen very quickly.
It's a honey bee
On holiday with another couple.
Spain.
Pre kids we'd splashed out on a villa with pool.
Within minutes of arriving we were in swim gear for the pool and I grabbed my camera for a snap of my wife and our friends.
I stepped back against a post and yelled as I thought someone had jabbed a lit cigarette into my bum cheek.
Fifteen minutes after arriving I'm lying on my belly on the bed as my wife, a nurse, rubs the sting with an ice cube whilst crying laughing
I've been stung twice in my life, both times in the same year, on the soft part of my upper arm, and the second on the side of my breast.
Bloody horribly painful and you think it's going to stop and it gets worse and worse and it made me bloody nervous of wasps when I was all 'just ignore them you silly folk with your crazy backward ways' before.
bastard insects.>:(
It reminds me well how horrible my ex was. I was out with our two under 5s and called home for him to collect me because I really didn't think I'd make it home. The bastard refused
Have you been stung since? I only ask as similar happened to my mum, who was stung again at a later day and she then went Into shock and was rushed to hospital,
I got stung on the tit by one 3 times in quick succession (the sneaky blighter was hiding in my bath towel and got me as I started to dry myself). The afflicted bosom was so swollen it looked noticeably bigger than the other for days. It looked bigger even when I was wearing a jacket.
After that, I developed an allergy to wasp stings. Not a dramatic, life-threatening, anaphylactic shock type allergy, but I get huge itchy lumps all over my body when I'm stung, and get wheezy.
No, I've not been stung since but now I'm very wary of wasps
When I was working out in the country in a boarding kennels I was bitten by a horsefly. My hand swelled up so badly I couldn't use it and it was weeping white stuff for days. The itching drove me potty. I'd rather be stung by 10 wasps than go through that again.
I would mention it next time you see your gp and they can refer you to allergy clinic, my mum was injected with so many stings once a week and then that changed to monthly. This was back in the 90's though so they may have a quicker way of doing it now, but she had to carry round a adrenaline pen incase she was stung prior to the allergy clinic referral