How long does a sting or bite pain last for?

[rich p]

I had a severe pain in the neck once...
...but I put him on ignore

 

[PeteXXX]

I know pain! I've been married for 27 years...
Well, 33 if you count the first one as well!

 

[Crackle]

Is he still with us?

 

[alicat]

Best not to go to A&E. You may encounter a fresh out of med school doctor keen to try anything to remove the pain. Take one chainsaw. Apply to neck of patient.

 

[rich p]

Best not to go to A&E. You may encounter a fresh out of med school doctor keen to try anything to remove the pain. Take one chainsaw. Apply to neck of patient.

I see that you live in Staffs, which may affect your jaundiced view of the local hospital

 

[G3CWI]

Wasp sting while cycling last week. Acute pain for 20 minutes (cycling buddy looked on amazed as I cycled along swearing and nearly in tears). This was followed by several hours of less intense pain while hand swelled to crazy proportions. Antihistamine the next day did very little, it now ached and itched - and looked like a red balloon (the whole hand - not just the site of the sting). The swelling subsided after 72 hours. The actual site of the sting is still itchy a week later.

...I must be lucky.

 

[mjr]

Calamine lotion

How much? An ocean?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfRITVdz4k

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I see that you live in Staffs, which may affect your jaundiced view of the local hospital

It is Accy though, I can't see a problem with the chainsaw headectomy.

 

[Dave 123]

If it was a sea urchin you need to piss on it.

Why would you need to piss on the sea urchin? That's just wrong.

 

[fossyant]

Soft arse !
Got stung by a wasp a few years back, between the eyes, as I was destroying a nest. No more than a nettle sting really.

Out on the MTB, you just have to ride through nettles some times.. crap happens.

Horse fly bites are supposed to be not nice.

Anti-histamine (piriton) and you'll be fine.

 

[fossyant]

PS Cyclists don't go to A&E unless something is missing, or very broken. Don't turn up in lycra, with broken ribs, and struggling to breath, and some fat old twit behind you will start going on about cyclists to his mate !! That was a year before my spine was busted. I exercised superhuman control that day.

 

[fossyant]

PS, if wearing a bin lid, especially with the bug scoop editions I wear, just pop on a skull cap/bandanna/buff on yer bonce before said mushroom is fitted. Bugs won't get through, sweat goes into said covering, and no drippy eyes.... Barsteward bugs, can't get their stingy bits in your noggin.

Same goes without a mushroom, get a buff !!

 

[Firestorm]

Yeah right, Rocky!
I'm still reeling from the thought of @Firestorm being bitten on his boThomas lip

Lol
Still working out how to switch off the ridiculous autocorrect on my new phone...

 

[outlash]

Why would you need to piss on the sea urchin? That's just wrong.

I'd guess there wouldn't be a queue of people waiting to piss on the OP even if he was on fire...

 

[outlash]

ASJT

Bless you.