bites that just won't quit

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else have mysterious bug bites received at Baitcon that still haven't gone away?

I haven't been scratching them, and most of them have gone away but a few are still around, and one in particular took a turn for the worse today.

I *was* using hydrocortisone or lanacaine or after bite on it (depending on what was handy) and taking benadryl at night, but last night I didn't take any benadryl, and today I discovered that it had grown even larger than before! Not cool.

I can only assume that this one isn't a mosquito bite, since I've never had a mosquito bite that looked or behaved like this. :( What else was biting this summer at Baitcon?

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[lionessprite.livejournal.com]

I got stung by a particularly vicious little black ant - I saw it do the deed, no less. It caused a half-dimed-size welt on the back of my hand, which lingers still (and I take anti-allergy meds daily anyhows). Noticing, and digging out, the stinger (or mandibles, or whatever it was) helped a lot.

I could just be independently allergic to this ant. Or the toxin could be similar to that of bees, etc., which I am known to be non-systemically (thank goodness) allergic too.