Have you ever been bit by a black widow?

Hmmm-my ex.

I was bitten by a black widow on my neck and by a brown recluse on my left thigh.

Fortunately my doctor had me on a low-dose Cialis prior to and during the B.R. bite and the drug prevented tissue damage by dialating the blood vessels where the venom would've caused constriction and tissue damage.

Not the 8-legged type or the 2-legged type. lol

Never bitten by a black widow - but as a kid I was bitten by a black dog.

More times than I would like to remember. One things for sure, When stacking cinder blocks in southern Arizona watch where you put your hands,,,,,,,ouch!

I was out with this black woman whose husband had died, we were making out and she bit me on the neck, ouch!

I was in camp Shelby Miss and I did not know what hit me, I thought I would die for about 24 hrs- I could not see or walk and felt like I was on fire but had a temp of 94.5- it was diagnosed and I took some shots and recovered in 48 more hours

No, but I used to play with them. Stupidly.

Nice, lol

Not one of my brightest moments as a nine-year-old, I admit.

Didn't see the spider, but probably a hobo spider, since there aren't a lot of spiders in my area that can do that much damage.

Is that a recluse? What kind of damage?

I found a brown one like that but was about two times the size of the one you show above. I captured it and took it to school to the Biology teacher to see if he could indentify it. He took it to the near-by university. Later he told me that it was a freak, or cross-bred of some kind, but could not indentify it.

said it was a hobo spider. If it was twice the size of the picture, it was a tarantula.

Thanks for the reply.

The spider that I captured didn't have the full bulk of a trantula, but the size (heigth) was there. I caught this spider in a hog feed bucket, you could actually see it eating something from the bottom of the bucket. The only thing in the bucket, on the bottom, was grain.

This was in late spring in Ohio. It almost look like your spider but was bigger. The Biology teacher was told that it may be a freak or crossbreed. I'm not even sure if spiders do crossbreed? When I captured it, I used an empty Maxwell coffee can. The spider was slightly cramped for leg space with the can upright.

The picture was a close-up.

Thank God!!

i don't know what kind of spider it was but it hurt and i had a big bump on my leg

No, but I have been entangled. :)

Not by a black widow. Can't recall if I've ever been bit by any other dangerous spider.

i havent been biten by a spider be for