# So, I got bit by a spider. WARNING\< GRAPHIC PICS INSIDE

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**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-got-bit-by-a-spider-warning-graphic-pics-inside/245846/31 "2009-08-03T13:55:38Z")

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> [@Gift Suggestions?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gift-suggestions/21166/23):
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> MRSA
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> I’m telling you this, please listen.
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> See an infectious disease doctor. The Albany area only has a few.
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> **Nurses and doctors mis this diagnosis all the time** , especially in the capital region. They hate to admit it though. It may be too late now to test properly.
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> web snippet: MRSA and Staph infections **can be easily mistaken for a brown recluse spider bite**  **which can have a very similar appearance on your skin. Unless you saw a spider bite you, chances are good it’s community-associated mrsa** (CA-MRSA) instead.
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> According to Tom Frank, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S., an assistant professor of family and community medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, if you think it’s a spider bite, get a culture test because what you are seeing is probably community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA).
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> According to Frank, of all the patients who believe they have a spider bite, “77 percent of patients presenting with soft-tissue infections are showing up with MRSA on culture.”
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> If you believe you have a spider bite, consider visiting with your doctor or an infectious disease specialist (an I.D. doctor) to get a bacterial culture test to confirm what is causing your condition.

Everyone can keep saying brown recluse all they want, if it were me I think I would get checked out, screw taking chances.

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