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Thank you. Very thankful for the post and comments. Feels best when elevated, standing feels like a balloon.

In order to prevent this it is important to do the “Stingray Shuffle” when entering the water of Southwest Florida’s beaches. She said, “There is no evidence of a drainable abscess in the area.” Hopefully the antibiotics and my body will continue to fight the fight and naturally dispel the infection.

I learned that hydrocortisone cream does nothing for this- I didn’t seek medical attention either so I just basically put Neosporin on it multiple times a day.

It feels and looks a ton better even though I spent the entirety of Saturday walking.

I do feel like I can move my toes more and the upper part of my foot which is great! Place affected area in very hot water (as hot as you can stand but not scalding that you burn yourself) until pain dissipates. Now, 12:30am on day 8.5 (1.5 hours ago) I woke up to unbearable itchiness. It felt like a crab pinch when I got stung and my toe was immediately bleeding when I got out of the water.

Wilderness Environ Med. What to do now? They have unpleasant side effects but it would I think relieve that. And I had a bit of the itching people have talked about, but not any more. Wow, 48 hours…let me know how it turns out! I’m hoping the antibiotic will clean whatever may be left in there out over the next week. My own foot turned a really nasty bluish purple and ringed with little red dots until they all meshed together into a giant rash. The night it happened i felt pretty unwell – sickly and headache . When I finally got out of the water, all I had to show for my pain was a small puncture, that was bleeding profusly.

Stingrays and sharks belong to … Good to hear I am not alone on this and seems like where I am is the same place and just confirms that it was a stingray Today it looks a little red, is a bit swollen, and is tender above the scab. (4) should the wound heal itself and resolve on its own, or do I need medical attention? Welcome to the club, the club no one really wanted to be in. Worst pain ever!!!

Today it is the same, warm, itchy and swollen. It helped me a lot. It’s hardly gone down and he has lots of bruising almost 7 days later. I’m from Scotland ( was on holiday in Florida ! ) Good luck hope yours starts to feel better too!!

Like everyone else here, I drove from Malibu to East LA as quickly as possible and plunged my foot into a tub of extremely hot water. I wish you the best while it heals and that you don’t get an abscess like I did. I called my PCP and got in right away. Updated September 2018. There is little known about the toxin in a stingray sting, other than it is protein based and might be dangerous. My sting is doing well now is is starting to heal nicely, but rather slowly.

Thank you for sharing your experience and I hope it only gets better . Rod Brouhard is an emergency medical technician paramedic (EMT-P), journalist, educator, and advocate for emergency medical service providers and patients. Did you happen to experience the wound site getting inflamed, red or itchy around day 7 or 8? Debating to call doc back but looks like this is not an unusual course of healing. Keep the comments coming everyone! A month later and I’m still sore around the puncture site. When I got stung it was in San Diego, CA.

Lymph nodes? @Chesca I am not too concerned and I have not seen a doctor, as the initial sting was painful, but bearable. It’s crazy to hear that it’s still hard to find anything on the vast internet! I started to notice feeling a little itchy so I am so glad I found this forum! It looks kinda creepy too, but it’s not uncomfortable enough for me to get it addressed again. Intermittent annoying pain, twinging, tingling, itchiness for about a year or until the wound fully heals. Has anyone else experienced swelling away from the initial poke that has come back with an itch?
I was stung (doesn’t seem like that word does the pain any justice, does it?!)

I hope everyone is healed by now, seeing as how I’m posting a few years after y’all.

A few days later the PCP called to give me the official report.

How’re you coming along?

Now I’m almost to the end of the 2nd week and the redness and swelling is gone, and itches only occasionally. Trying not to itch it of course, but it’s hard. It's going to hurt, but chances are that it won't kill you unless you get stung several times or in a vital spot.

Ugh! Trust your gut here. Then the pain and swelling and redness began the following day on the 9th.

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I don’t think I’ll ever forget my experience back in May, I honestly thought it would never heal, but hallelujah, it took total maybe 3 weeks to be 100%.