OT: Ive been bitten!

mudcow007
mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
edited May 2011 in Commuting chat
by something with hankering for blood i reckon

my leg just above my sock is all inflamed, it was like this when i work up so took an antihistamine tablet but the swelling hasnt changed

i normally get bitten like mad every summer but haven't had a reaction like this before

i will try an take a pic

does anyone else get bitten on here?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,073
    mudcow007 wrote:
    by something with hankering for blood i reckon

    my leg just above my sock is all inflamed, it was like this when i work up so took an antihistamine tablet but the swelling hasnt changed

    i normally get bitten like mad every summer but haven't had a reaction like this before

    i will try an take a pic

    does anyone else get bitten on here?

    Horse fly perhaps, i've seen them around already - last year was a nightmare down here.
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  • pitchshifter
    pitchshifter Posts: 1,476
    Sure do, I like to think I am tasty.. Only one on the arm so far this year.

    Sounds like a Horsefly bite if its swollen that bad..
  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    I do but normally only abroad.

    Got bitten on my shin a couple of years ago. Didn't hurt but had a 6 inch circular bruise type thing, deep purple for about two weeks!

    I always seem to react worse than other people I am with if there is any biting going on. Never swolen up too badly though. Hope it goes down. We are the way insects pay back motorists and their windscreens!
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    ive had a few nag fly bites in the past but they have never reacted like this, seems pretty angry to me?



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    skinsosoft moisturizer from Avon is suppose to be really good as fly repellent, make you smell like a girl though....

    looks like i might have to be getting my deet out!!
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,073
    either that's a really poor image or you need to MTFU dude :lol:
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    ha its a really bad picture....cheapest nastiest blackberry
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,073
    Horsefly bite, looks like a bruised knee ...?

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    Nope that's my ankle

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    Got that one standing outside a pub in Farringdon
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    pfft call that a bite!
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    antihistamine tablets are great for insect bites much better than creams etc.
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  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    mudcow007 wrote:
    pfft call that a bite!

    +1. I think we need a dose of MTFU as opposed to any cream or tablet.
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Looks like a flea bite to me, they itch to high heaven.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    A tiger? In Africa?

    Probably escaped from a zoo.
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  • Fireblade96
    Fireblade96 Posts: 1,123
    Got bitten by something last week on the forearm, still swollen now.
    I react badly to bites, sadly mosquitoes think I'm delicious.

    Best have a precautionary GnT :-)
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    mudcow007 wrote:
    ive had a few nag fly bites in the past but they have never reacted like this, seems pretty angry to me?



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    skinsosoft moisturizer from Avon is suppose to be really good as fly repellent, make you smell like a girl though....

    looks like i might have to be getting my deet out!!
    Puberty has given me bigger spots than that...

    Get a staple, pierce it. Press the juices out between two fingers. Put vaseline over the 'wound' :roll: If it hurts a little.

    Sheesh.
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    the pimperly spot thing is my sweet sweet leg juices oozing out, the bite is a hard lump across my leg, its really hot aswell.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 30,227
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Get a staple, pierce it. Press the juices out between two fingers. Put vaseline over the 'wound' :roll: If it hurts a little.

    Sheesh.

    :roll: And it'll be nice and infected by the morning. Treat as per mozzie bites: don't scratch it, don't pick it, keep it clean - a dab of savlon and maybe some sort of dressing if it's likely to get rubbed. If it gets infected it will take longer to go away and will scar - not the sort girls like either.
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Speaking as a doctor, I'd say amputation is the only way out of this.

    In my real job I'd say 'pfffft'.
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    SimonAH wrote:
    A tiger? In Africa?

    Probably escaped from a zoo.

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  • Clare_M
    Clare_M Posts: 68
    Horseflies are the devil incarnate. Still got scars from a couple I got a few years back. Horrible things :(
    I was a fatty, then I took up cycling and can now eat cake guilt free!

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,073
    Erm if you do die can I have your bike(s) please? you know it'd be a waste otherwise :lol:
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  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    and can you shave your legs please..that hair is making me itch..
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,073
    moonio wrote:
    and can you shave your legs please..that hair is making me itch..

    I know horrible isnt it :lol:

    Alps version of my smooth legs, oh look Castelli :lol:

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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Now that is the second photo I've seen you.take of.your.own legs. This.is starting to look like some form of narcisstic perversion old bean.
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  • roundthebend
    roundthebend Posts: 205
    I get attacked by little black flies most years. They tend to live near standing water or on lawns and when they bite they often draw blood out onto the skin.

    I "think" they are called Blandford Flies.
  • pianoleo
    pianoleo Posts: 135
    It hadn't occurred to me that the delightful Badger-brewed drink (more like ginger beer than anything else) was named after an actual fly!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 30,227
    pianoleo wrote:
    It hadn't occurred to me that the delightful Badger-brewed drink (more like ginger beer than anything else) was named after an actual fly!

    Eh? It's written on the bottle.
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Oh MTFU....a couple years back I was hospitalised at 2am to have piriton injected into the vein due to horsefly bites on my leg (6 bites, double the size of that). That horse fly has simply taken a nibble. :lol:

    That was a fun night in the RD&E....not
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  • Confusedboy
    Confusedboy Posts: 287
    Best thing to do with horsefly bites is not to have them. Bloke I used to work with came in one day with a really horrible painful boil on his arm, which was swelling noticeably and getting worse during the day. He wanted to MTFU and ignore, cos that's the type of hero he was, but eventually we got him to go to the first aider. The first aider lanced it and wiggy worms about an inch long came out, hundreds of 'em. And they'd eaten a hole in the flesh of his arm!

    Guy in Casualty, cos that's where it all ended up, reckoned horsefly bites are always infected with something.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,073
    SimonAH wrote:
    Now that is the second photo I've seen you.take of.your.own legs. This.is starting to look like some form of narcisstic perversion old bean.

    :roll:

    Would that not be the third photo of my legs including the one with a bite?
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,073
    Pah! horsefly

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    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.

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