Stung by a bee!
 

A stupid yellow jacket stung me about a half hour ago. I haven't been stung by a bee for probably twenty years or more, so who knows if I'm allergic or not? Or whether I'm more or less apt to be now, with the MS?

I figured, well, it's been a few minutes and I can still breathe, so I guess all is well. Then I cleverly did a little research and found out that an allergic reaction can present up to several hours after the sting, even a whole day! And guess what? Almost all of the symptoms are stuff I deal with all the time anyway. Dizziness? Tingly? Aaargh.

So now the rest of the day I'll be thinking, Does my throat feel funny? Stupid bee. Stupid me. *sigh*

Do you have any Benadryl? You could take one or two as a preventative. Those things really hurt, darn bees anyway. :hug:

Look for a change in color on your cheeks, itching/hives, shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea, swelling at the site, etc. Like Wiz said, take a few benadryl just to make sure if you want.

When I was a kid my mother would make us put mud on the sting and let it dry. Just another old wives tale? Some say baking soda paste, some say ice, I don't know what the medical peeps say these days other than use a credit card to remove the stinger and watch for signs and symptoms of allergic reaction.

When I came home from my festival a few weeks ago, we discovered a nest of yellow jackets under the front stairs. No stings, but the next day I got a can of that newfangled foaming wasp and hornet killer and had the old man flip the stairs and the landing and coat them with the foam. They left...:)

I was stung yesterday too....at first I just thought it was my usual junk
but soon found out I was stung a few times...ouch! I hope it feels better
now.:hug:

There's also a remedy you can get at the drug store.....I can't remember the specific name of it but it's an amonia stick that you dab on the area. It really worked for me. I stepped on a yellow jacket nest (that's how I learned they live in the ground!! :eek:) and was stung multiple times on my legs and arms. My MIL brought it to me and it really worked. I'd never heard of using amonia. Hope you feel better and don't have a negative reaction.

Sox, I pushed the "thanks" button twice and it wouldn't let me thank you. So THANKS! (Now it probably will work)

Oweeeeee!!!!!!! Those yellow jackets are so persistent too.......hope you're both okay tonight!! Another home remedy is water and meat tenderizer paste. It really takes away the sting. If my memory serves me correctly (my ex was a bee keeper at one point until he developed an allergy) honeybees are the only ones that leave their stingers behind as the sting literally pulls their "behinds" out of their body and they die. All the rest can come back for more. :(

Ugh, I really dislike anything with a stinger that flies around :(

I heard that and I thought Oh great! So the huge bees - bumble bees, carpenter bees, they can keep on getting you. Lovely.

:rolleyes:

And those carpenter bees are just plain nasty. They hunt ya down. Way worse than yellow jacks and wasps and all. And YJs are bad enuf!


Feel ing okay B2Y? For 5 bucks, you can do a YJ/wasp trap - lowe's or home depot is where I got mine. Mine lasted about 2 months, time for a new one.

Once when I was on a river trip, one of those black and yellow fuzzy bees was flying around. I swung at it with my paddle and it came back after me and flew up my SHORTS and stung me twice before I was able to beat it to death inside my pants...

Just a mental picture for you all of a 6'2 wet woman trying to run a rapid while jumping around fighting a ferocious bee, who will NEVER swing at one of those again...:eek:

I'm allergic and carry a bee sting kit with me. You may remember DebbieD and Wiz mentioning at the gtg last year I was running from the yellow jackets. LOL Anyway, for me it is massive swelling to the point it looks like my skin may burst and it can. No hyperventilating except when I see one. lol The doc said I am between a person who swells excessively and dies. Thanks doc! That explains why I freak out when I see one. :rolleyes:

I wasn't aware that Carpenter bees and Bumble Bees could sting. We have carpenter bees here (they've bored holes in the eaves of the garage). They dive bomb us when we dare to venture into their "territory" but they've never stung us.

Funny story.....we used to have carpenter bees at the old house. They loved our wood privacy fence around the pool. Made big holes in it and guarded it like it was their own! Whenever DH would go out to clean or put chemicals in the pool he'd take a whiffle ball bat with him (those little plastic bats that kids play with) and smack those carpenter bees into high heaven! It was so funny to watch (from the bedroom window). He'd be out there jumping around, swinging that stupid bat for all it was worth, sending bees sailing all over the place. Mostly into the pool, though, so he got to dip them out! :D It was hysterical to watch because he was such a big, tall guy. That little bat looked like a spoon in his hands! :p

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I have a phobia like fear of bees/wasps, especially yellow jackets, because they are so aggresive and will keep stinging you until one of you is dead.:eek:

Well, I won that round, Sal. I was at the post office when he stung me. I killed him, then Deanna killed him again. That'll teach him.

Maybe now you'll be cured of your MS. Ya think?

Nah...that's honey bee stings, Bets..:)

Actually a yellow jacket is considered to be of the wasp family. I don't care, I hate them all.

I remember once when my son was about fourteen or so, there was a bee flying around in the house, and I was hollering "A bee! A bee! Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!" My son calmly starts telling me, "Actually it isn't a bee. It's actually a wasp. It's not a hornet, because they...."

By this time I was ready to flatten him AND the bee. "I don't need an entymology lesson," I hissed at him. "Just kill it!"

They're all bees to me.

Plus if my husband tells me one more time that if we didn't have the bees, we wouldn't have food to eat, I'm gonna flatten him, too.

Well then, I guess I can blame my excess weight on bees, too! Two reasons to hate them!! :p

Beware sneak attacks
 

:eek:I am allergic to stings and carry an epi pen. However, fat lot of good that will do me if I don’t see the little blighter and he stings me in one of the many “dead zones” created by my neurological injury.

In fact, my husband has to check me over every night for burns, splinters, bites, etc…. Surprisingly, that’s a whole lot less erotic than it might sound to the uninitiated. On the positive side, I no longer have to shell out for Novocain at the dentist and I’m saving a fortune on oven mitts.

I'll tell you what, it was almost worth getting stung just to read all the helpful/clever/funny comments on this thread. Almost. :D

I couldn't helped from laughing at your statement, "I killed him, then Deanna killed him again. That'll teach him." My husband is like that with snakes. One time my husband killed a snake by chopping the head off and then beat it to death. :ROTFLMAO:
My daughter and I just was laughing so much at this whole thing.

Hope everything is ok now and that you are feeling better. :grouphug:

You guys crack me up
 

I wandered in here by accident from the TBI forum. Since my brain boo boo, I’m always getting lost. Sometimes it doesn’t work out well. For example, who knew they didn’t sell the New Yorker in the ADULT book shop? (Seriously, what could be less adult and more juvenile than porn?) This time it worked out great – I stumbled upon the funny people. What kind of drugs are you MS people on?

Between us, they’re a pretty serious crowd over there in the TBI forum. Don’t get me wrong, as a two time loser (spinal and diffuse axonal injury), I know it’s tough. Still, if I’m going down, I’m going down laughing. Heck, if life was fair, there wouldn’t be any country music.

Rite Aid Bite & Sting Relief
 

My grandma swore on tobacco with spit for any kind of sting. Nothing better than watching grandma hock up a nice load of spit and mix it with her cigarette remnants and then lovingly apply it to your sting. LMAO

Eewwwwwwww!

:Noooo: :vomit2:

I'm going to, like, need a computer program with spread sheets and stuff to organize all my various fears and phobias.

I used to be afraid of bees (which I still am) until I knew there were bees and wasps, both of which have different sub-categories. Two separate fears (multiple-sting, and sting-once-and-die).

So now under the main fear folder "flying stinging insects", I'll have a folder "wasps" and then a sub-folder "yellow jackets".

And now I hear that there are more than one kind of yellow jacket. Great. Now I'll have to set up MORE folders after I find out their first names.

My uncle showed me a yellow jacket he caught in his pool. It was at least 1.5 inches long!!! Where did that come from? I told him it might be the queen or they have mutated and I am so out of here if they did!

I'm right in front of you..:D

About 12 years ago, soon after being diagnosed, I was paralyzed and still had some paralysis later on and looking for a cure I started the bee stings, I worked up to 6 bees at a time, it helped the symptoms and the paralysis but I couldn't take anymore of the pain so I stopped. It only helped the symptons until the next day anyway. I know some people that have bee sting parties and would let 25 bees sting them. This sounds crazy since I am actually talking about it.

You know, I give myself a shot every day of my life, but when I pick up that needle, that sucker isn't alive. Injecting myself is bad enough. I can't imagine stinging myself. With a live bee. :eek: