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    How did I not feel that?

    I was working outside wearing gloves and kind of felt something in there. It was irritating but I just shook my hand and didn't think much about it.

    Now I have about twenty pretty painful and very itchy bites or stings on my wrist and forearm. It's kind of alarming. They're little and all over the place. How did I not feel that?

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    There are little bugs/spiders that dwell in shrubs like pawpaw and flowering quince that bite/sting like crazy and you don't feel it until after it's too late. Those are seriously nasty little buggers. Maybe something like that.

    They provide a widespread area of swelling (in time) and horrid itchiness.

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    Could they be nettle stings? I brushed up against one that grew in our compost pile. It sure felt like little stings. Extremely itchy, to the point of painful, and swelled up into little bumps, which went down after many hours but a rash remained for a day. I didn't notice till after I'd pulled the plant out, did you have your gloves off shortly before you noticed?
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    You where to busy doing what you were doing.`could they be red ant bites those are nasty

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    Was putting in some moss roses and dang little black ants chewed me up - knew right away.
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    It blistered today. Then I got the same thing in an inconvenient place on my chest. Fortunately, that spot doesn't really hurt. I sometimes sleep with my arm across my chest.

    Pharmacist thinks it's poison oak which means it's creeping in from the woods. Time to get my goats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by janedoe View Post
    It blistered today. Then I got the same thing in an inconvenient place on my chest. Fortunately, that spot doesn't really hurt. I sometimes sleep with my arm across my chest.

    Pharmacist thinks it's poison oak which means it's creeping in from the woods. Time to get my goats.
    I guess I shouldn't laugh but someone in my gardening group complained of mosquito bites on her, ahem, butt, after needing a pee break while hiking. And I know of a similar story but it was poison ivy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowshoe View Post
    I guess I shouldn't laugh but someone in my gardening group complained of mosquito bites on her, ahem, butt, after needing a pee break while hiking. And I know of a similar story but it was poison ivy.
    I hear you. Let's just say I have some very comfortable bras. The worst I've ever seen is my sister hitting a cactus in the desert when we couldn't find a rest stop. My mother pulled out the quills on the spot. Not good.

    I have a disposable hazmat suit and some really nasty shoes that I was going to throw out. I'm going in.

 



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