I was stung by a scorpion last night.

[panader0]

I was asleep on the couch and woke to a very painful sting at 11:45.
I was stung in my left armpit. I have been stung before and
immediately thought it was a scorpion. I got up and went to the bathroom to look at
my armpit in the mirror. A small red spot where the pain came from. I returned to the
couch and turned on the lights and searched. Nothing. I killed one about a week ago in the kitchen.
We leave the door open for the cats for a couple of hours in the morning.
I had trouble going back to sleep because it hurt pretty good, worse than my previous two
stings which were many years ago.
This morning I have tingling numbness in my left arm and even a bit in my right arm.
Little fuckers!

[zanana1]

1. That's a horror story!

If I ever saw a scorpion, I'd faint.

[panader0]

3. They're common creatures here in SE Az.

[soothsayer]

2. Yikes!

I’ve seen that people use blacklight flashlights to try to spot them in their homes.

[magicarpet]

4. What a horrible way to wake up.

What a tender spot to be bitten.

Hope you heal and mend with no complications.

[panader0]

5. The numbness should end in a day or so.

No doctor treatment is needed.

[bobbieinok]

6. One summer in HS in 50s I was a jr camp counselor at Camp Fire Gils camp

One lunch the camp director told me to be very still---a scorpion was on ceiling above me! I freaked!

I remember sneaking a look--grief!

[2naSalit]

7. Try this for relief...

Take a bandana or some thin fabric, pour a quarter to half a box of baking soda into it, wrap it into a packet, wet it well and place on the affected area and keep there for at least an hour though I would recommend that you keep it there for longer. This should neutralize the poison and help draw it out. Most venom is acid based so this could be a quick remedy. I use it for spider bites and the like.

[panader0]

8. I'll try that if it doesn't feel better.

I'm usually the I'll get over it type. Thanks for the tip.

[2naSalit]

10. You're welcome.

Hope it feels better soon... being an area of the body containing many glands, could be a good idea to try it.

[SheltieLover]

22. I've used on bee stings & it is great!

Omg - I don't know how anyone could live where scorpions are!

[panader0]

25. I learned that wet tobacco is great for bee stings.

Once a friend of mine and I brought home a hive from Tucson to here, about 100 miles.
The bees were mad and were sealed in the stacked supers duct taped together. When we were
taking the hive off of the truck, the tape ripped and thousands of angry bees burst out. We ran
like hell. I was faster than my friend and was only stung a few times. He had 30-40 stings and was in pain.
I still smoked back then and took the tobacco out of a few cigarettes and wet it and put it on his back
on the stings. It helps. He was sick for a day. Scorpions are not the worst around here. There are
diamondbacks and the worst is the mojave rattler, guaranteed to cause necrosis.

[SheltieLover]

28. Good to know!

Yikes...sounds like a tough environment!

Thx for sharing about tobacco!

[irisblue]

30. The fact that you have a routine, freaks me the hell out.

Geez Louise!!

[2naSalit]

32. Things like that never bothered me until

I got bit all over my face by (I think) hobo spider(s). It was horrible and I never learned about the baking soda thing until years later. Would have saved me a lot of pain, agony and nerve damage had I known back then.

Due to climate change, all kinds of creatures are migrating northward, including nasty spiders. I was surprised to find hobos at nearly 7K ft but they were there. Now, whenever I sustain a bite of nearly any kind, the stuff on my face flares up so I have to act quickly when that happens, baking soda mixed with cosmetic grade clay (Keeps it on your skin longer) is my go to fix... My mentor in herbal medicine uses a slice of a garlic clove too.

[csziggy]

34. I make a paste of baking soda and benedryl cream

When I used to keep it around, I'd add meat tenderizer to the mix. Plaster it on the bite, cover and refresh every six hours or so.

The baking soda neutralizes the poison, the meat tenderizer breaks down the proteins in it, and the benedryl helps control the allergic reaction.

It worked for me for years, then I started getting more and more serious reactions to wasp and bee stings. My doctor gave me a script for an epi-pen, but ironically I was stung again until years later. I ended up going to a walk-in clinic - the sting was next to my nose and by the time my husband drove me there, I couldn't breathe out of my nose at all. They shot me up with stuff, watched me for an hour and sent me home.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

9. One of my freinds

Has pet emperor scorpion.
She also has 2 different species of tarantulas. I've held all of them. No bites or stings.

And a gigantic iguana named Lei. She has a huge dewlap and is very masculine looking,but she's female,and very sweet. She's about 7 1/2 feet long nose to tail.

But a wild scorpion, I would have to either get a container and put it outside or kill it somehow so my cat doesn't think the scorpion is a toy.

Getting stung in the armpit that must've hurt. The thought of getting stung there makes me wince.

[panader0]

11. I believe this was a bark scorpion. Lots of tarantulas here too, furry and harmless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_bark_scorpion

[I_UndergroundPanther]

12. I'll have to look up bark scorpions

Never seen one of those kind before.

[Hoyt]

13. Prefer them in the bottom of a tequila or Mescal bottle.

[panader0]

16. I happen to have a bit of El Jimador aroung here.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

17. What is El Jimador?

[panader0]

18. It's some pretty decent tequila.

Cheaper than some of the fancy ones, but smoother than Cuervo.
Literally, el jimador is a guy who trims agave (tequila source) plants with a long straight hoe.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

19. Oh okay

Glad you got something to take your mind off your pit in pain.
I thought El Jimajor was some chemical to kill scorpions with.
I live on the east coast.
Know nothing about how to keep pest scorpions out of my house we don't have house scorpions here.

[Rainbow Droid]

14. They can kill cats, so please be careful! Cats usually treat them with caution, but still...

I'll never forget my eldest cat instantly treating a black widow spider as a deadly threat the instant she saw it. She attacked it with the full cat superpowers suite -- vicious lightning strikes with full claws with ears back and snarling which for her, a lazy fatty, was incredible to see. A totally different reaction than she ever had for most spiders.

But yeah, be careful because if a scorpion should manage to get a sting in on your cats it might well prove fatal, especially since most scorpion stings on cats will end up on the nose or face.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

20. Wow didn't know that.

I know centipede bites can hurt a cat. My cat Bigfoot
Was scared of centipedes.
He'd seek me out meowing a certain way.
He would lead me to the centipede so I would kill it.
He stayed upset if I threw it outside. He needed to know it was dead and wouldn't be back.

[Rainbow Droid]

31. Yes, my cats treat centipede as dangerous threat too. I've been bitten in bed a few times

and the bite (I know not technically a bite, who cares) is quite painful. Bigger centipedes can also kill cats and even humans occasionally, usually by allergic reaction and sometimes more than a day after being bitten. The larger the centipede is the more dangerous and painful the bite. I hate them much more than spiders because spiders almost never look for a fight but centipedes will pick a fight with anything that angers them off no matter how large, ven inanimate objects. They're one of the most aggressive and bad tempered life forms I've ever studied.

[captain queeg]

15. I lived in OK for awhile years ago

The little bastards were everywhere along with most everything else that was poisonous in America. Water moccasins all over in the lakes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. I've never seen a scorpion.

All we have here is bears and wolves.

[Chainfire]

23. Not many scorpions here

But last week, picking wild blueberries, I got into a nest of Red Bugs, (Chiggers) I am estimating 250 bites, each one itches like hell for about three or four days. I looked like I had a bad case of measles.

[MLAA]

24. Take care!

We live in Tucson and the first time my husband saw a small scorpion in the house he took a paper towel to pick it up. Yep, he got stung. Despite his protestation I gave him a Benadryl and took him to the emergency room. They checked him out said they would have given him a Benedryl and sent us home 🙂. However they did caution if it got worse to come back because sometimes there are complications.

[panader0]

26. Turns out that there are several benefits of scorpion venom. Always look on bright side.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180226165153.htm

[DFW]

27. What do the doctors say out there in this modern era?

"Take two hits, and call me in the morning, if you can remember my number?"

[panader0]

29. I thought it was lime and coconut.

(Nilsson)

[RobinA]

33. I Have Never Seen

a scorpion, nor to I live where one would ever be, but they became one of my most feared enemies when I read John Steinbeck's The Pearl, in which SPOILER ALERT! one kills a baby. I was pretty young when I read it or it probably wouldn't have scarred me for life.

[ailsagirl]

36. The only Steinbeck book I read was "Travels with Charley"

I enjoyed it immensely.

I'll probably skip "The Pearl"

[ailsagirl]

35. The nerve! It's not as if you disturbed its nest-- it came to you

Ouch!!!

[flying_wahini]

37. A scorpion woke me up to a sting on my chin. He got crushed when I clawed him off.

3 am prior to my very last final in college. Yes, On my pillow.
I looked like Jay Leno.
Hurt bad, like someone had hammered a nail in my chin. Just awful.