Tarantula Stromatopelma calceatum

The bite happened during a rehouse, which the specimen freaked out and ran up my long pair of tongs that I was holding in my right hand. It then made a jump forward up my right arm from the long tongs. It then jumped again onto my left hand and bit my index finger. The specimen then ran up my left arm onto my head and jumped a third time into its new enclosure. Which I then closed the enclosure lid.

Symptoms:

Day 1:
Within the first 30 minutes, there was barely any pain and it felt like a typical bee sting. But after 30 minutes, the bite instantly caused the nerves on my hand to twitch immensely. Causing my hand to go numb, but the swelling only went up my index and middle finger on my left hand where I was bit. After a trip to the Hospital ER, it was suggest to place an ice packet on the bitten area and take a pill of Ibuprofen to help. After two hours of having ice on my hand, I just stop placing the ice packet on my hand. Which that entire night My hand was swarming with intense pain that felt like an internal 1st degree burn within my hand. I did manage to sleep though.

Day 2 going Into Day 3:
This is where the real pain comes in to your body. During this day, I've experienced severe and intense muscle soreness, spasms, and cramping. While I had it on my back and sides of my body. The real pain came into my legs, and it caused severe damage. The intensity got so bad, I could no longer control my legs as the nerves and muscles of my legs was causing multiple cramps and spams to happen all at once. At one point, all of my toes were cramping, spasming, and pulling in all separate directions. What made it worst was that my gastrocnemius and soleus muscles on my legs were also pulling and cramping as well. The best way to explain the pain is that I literally cannot and could not control my legs at all. It got so bad, that I went to the Hospital ER twice that day. The first visit was just a report on the cramping, but the second visit, they had to put me on IV's and take blood samples to see what's happening.

After coming out of IV's and waking up (day 3), I was in so much cramping and spasm pain that I had to literally get up and try to stop the muscles and tendons from pulling everywhere on my legs. After it stopped, I was prescribed medicine that would help reduce the muscle soreness and help the muscles relax. The only downside was that they could not prescribe or do much to stop the cramps and spasms from happening. The reason was that finding the exact diagnosis of the problem is too vast and finding the exact reason will take too much time and effort. So the best they could do if prescribe medicine to help relax the muscles from the soreness.

What they found in my blood from the sampling was that most of it was normal and I was a very healthy individual. The only bad signs they found in my blood samples was signs of muscle deterioration which came from the severe cramping and muscle spams. I was suggested to sleep and consume more water to help out the muscles, which they also gave me some of the prescribed medicine a bit early to help deal with the muscle soreness from the cramping and spams.

The rest of the third day was spent on my living room couch resting and trying to relax my muscles.

Day 4 (current day that I'm typing this):
My cramping and spasms had calmed down and I can walk again, although not perfectly yet. I'm still skeptical if it's over, but at least I'm more fine now than I was on day 2-3. I'm still going to relax a bit and take the prescriptions given to me. Although I can still feel a bit of the internal soreness in my left hand and fingers, it's not anything to severe in terms of pain. But my legs are still a bit sore on the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, but at least it's recovering. I'll probably update this report if things take a turn for the worst but this is about it for now.