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Tarantula Stromatopelma calceatum

Common Names
Featherleg baboon
Previous Review/Report Link
https://arachnoboards.com/threads/stromatopelma-calceatum.25099/
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Overall rating
3.75 star(s) 4 ratings
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Extremely unpleasant experience.
Bite/Sting Date
26/06/2021
Pain Level
Excruciating pain.
Circumstance
Hi guys, I thought you might be interested to know my experience after being bitten by my adult female feather leg Baboon 7 days ago. I was rehousing her into a new larger enclosure. I used the bottom cut off a 2 litre pop bottle method and placed it over where she was in a cork bark tube which seemed to work at first. As soon as I started to move it she flew down the inside, out the bottom and up the inside of the tank. She then threw herself at me and landed low down on my left index finger where she proceeded to sink her fangs in pumping venom into me for quite some time before letting go and luckily landing in her new enclosure. I quickly put the lid on securely!
Size
6 inches
Damage
2 deep puncture wounds.
Symptoms
I put a very tight band around the top of my finger, sprayed antiseptic on the wounds and rubbed my finger downwards in the hope of pushing out some venom. This was just a guess and knee jerk reaction on my part. I have kept all sorts of OW's over the 12 years I have been in the hobby along with Centipedes etc and never got complacent when performing normal tasks.

The bite was extremely painful at the wound site (this coming from someone who has broken numerous bones over the years and is covered in tattoos) quickly developing into throbbing and aching in my knuckle then my hand. My hand froze into a claw, swelled up to twice the size and I had shooting pains all up my arm along with pins and needles etc. Off to A&E I went. After several hours and a dose of morphine and anti sickness meds I was allowed home with a prescription of co-codamol. Still felt awful and didn't wake up until 8pm that night, the pain had mainly gone and I could move my hand etc although the knuckle still ached.

However as the night went on the pain increased again along with painful cramping and muscle aches. I went to bed at 1am feeling like I'd been hit by a steam roller along with nausea and hot and cold sweats. I went back to bed.
Medical Attention
A trip to A&E, morphine, ECG, anti sickness meds.
Lingering effects
It is now a week later and my hand is still aching in the knuckles ,swollen. Glands under my armpit have gone down but I still feel extremely worn out with achey muscles. The worst part are the cramps! Oh god the cramps! Random and out of the blue in a range of places on the body. Sleeping for long is rather difficult when you are woken by searing pain in a random muscle on a different part of the body every few hours!
Hope the info is useful. Thankfully no harm came to Fanny the Feather leg Baboon in the process but I think I'll be wearing a chainmail suit next time any routine maintenance is required, a clean up crew will probably be added to her enclosure to help reduce how much is required.

I'm not looking forward to possibly another week or more of this.

DO not underestimate this T!
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