Author Topic: Stings in bad place (Read 13504 times)

leominsterbeeman · « **on:** September 22, 2004, 01:22:57 pm »

I just got stung today on my chin, it doesn't hurt, but it is swollen pretty bad. I now have a chin like Jay Leno , and 1/2 of my lower face is swollen. I look like the elephant man.

Forwhat ever reason, stings on the face and head, tend to look worse, any ideas as to why?

Finman · « **Reply #1 on:** September 22, 2004, 03:40:01 pm »

Quote from: leominsterbeeman

I just got stung today on my chin, it doesn't hurt, but it is swollen pretty bad. I now have a chin like Jay Leno , and 1/2 of my lower face is swollen. I look like the elephant man.

Forwhat ever reason, stings on the face and head, tend to look worse, any ideas as to why?

When I started bee keeping I awolled "quite normally". Now my resistance have raised and my face stand about 5 stings. If it goes over, It swells but not stay than 24 hours.

I am more sensitive for wasp stings tahn bees.

Which hurts most? When bee stings to stomach or at head skin.

"stings on the face and head, tend to look worse, any ideas as to why?"

Form of face is very delicated thing. Somethimes my arm has been like that of Popeye the Sailor Man
http://www.alyon.org/generale/theatre/cinema/affiches_cinema/p/poo-pro/popeye_the_sailor_man.jpg

He had got some stings?

Anonymous · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2004, 01:02:34 pm »

I can't explain for you why face stings seem to be worse, but I can agree. I have been stung 7 times this year and the ONLY sting that got swollen was the one on the end of my nose. It was swollen for about 2 days. I have had stings on my hands, neck and forehead. None of these was even noticable after a day. My freind says the worst place to get stung is between the nose and upper lip. Anyone have that experience?

Finman · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2004, 02:03:26 pm »

Quote from: Anonymous

I have had stings on my hands, neck and forehead.

My top is about 600 stings during 24 hours.

I catched 2 swarms. Firts was wild and grazy.

Another I catched in the cow stable. I had placed there trap hive. It was allready nigt and I now wonder, why I did not went home to sleep. I was all nigt in the stable and bees stung me whole night in the darknes.

I sweb all the time stings with knife from my skin.

golfpsycho · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2004, 10:30:55 pm »

Inside the mouth tickles a bit. Tough to get the stinger out of your tongue. Make sure there are no bees on that honey filled burr comb when you eat it. Right under the finger nail is always fun too. I find most places just itch a bit and then are gone. But a few remind you that they really didn't want you in there in the first place.

Umbriel971 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 28, 2004, 02:18:07 am »

I would expect that stings to the face and like swell more due to lack of fatty tissue and the bodies overactive histamine response to the cranial area. Just my two cents...

Matt

firetool · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2005, 02:09:46 am »

I got stung on the inside of the for arm this morning and it swoll for about 2 and a half inches in each diretion and is very sore to the touch. When I flex my wrist it hurts. I did get the stinger out very quikly with out squsing it.

Brian

Beth Kirkley · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2005, 07:51:16 am »

You got stung just this morning!? What a bummer.

I hope the rest of the day gets better. If anything else happens though..... like scald your tounge with coffee, or get bacon grease in your eye..... well, I'd go back to bed. :)

Hope it doesn't turn out to be one of those days. LOL

Get well,
Beth

Jerrymac · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2005, 08:33:51 am »

Brian,

"One a day keeps the Doctor away" pertains to apples, not bee stings.

jxbeeman · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2005, 10:08:39 am »

i was stung last summer on the neck right next to my throught. it didn't hurt too bad but swelled up quite well. it was just after i released the bees out of the vacum. they were just a little pissy. later

Rich V · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:52:23 am »

I got stung once on the lip, by a wasp. Boy did that sting!!

beemaster · « **Reply #11 on:** March 21, 2005, 12:29:22 pm »

Well... I got stung on National Public Radio - lol. Which hurt a lot less then when I got stung on my stinger :shock: (hope the mods allow that one)

There aren't too many place I haven't been stung, but stings are not stings - I'll take a hundred honeybee stings to one yellow-jacket sting any day of the week!!!!

Die Yellow-jackets Die!!!!

beesharp · « **Reply #12 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:26:31 pm »

...and I thought I was the only one to get stung in a sensitive male area.

It wasn't really that bad with the exception of Mrs Beesharp's amusement over my discomfort.

We moved bees a couple weeks ago and I must've got 30-40 stings for the first stings of the season. I didn't feel good most of the day, but the 10 or so I took on one ankle bothered me the most.

Jim

latebee · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2005, 12:38:24 am »

When one of the little bees gets in under your viel,all you can do is cringe and hope for the best. Sometimes they won't sting sometimes they do,usually near my mouth or nose. One thing I am very conscious of is wet clothing, you might as well have nothing on, they can sting right through the wet cloth. Beemaster says it best though, when he said he would take a hundred bees sting to one sting from a yellow jacket. I for one HATE yellow jackets even if they do have a purpose in life--death to all those nasty,mean,foul tempered,honey robbing,picnic spoiling,kid chasing so and so's that give our gentle honey bee a bad rap. :x

Lesli · « **Reply #14 on:** March 22, 2005, 07:19:23 am »

Just to make you all jealous, apparently I don't react to stings. I feel pain for a few seconds, but within half an hour, I can't even tell where it happened--even when I got stung on the lip.

Shrug. The variety of nature, huh? I hope this doesn't mean I'll develop a sensitivity just as fast...

Jay · « **Reply #15 on:** March 22, 2005, 12:56:46 pm »

Lesli, this must be the evolution of the beekeeper!! :lol:

fredtioga · « **Reply #16 on:** March 31, 2005, 07:40:32 pm »

When I was 16 I starddledled a hive body to move it. The bees fell into my shoes. I had to retreat, and use unlaced sneakers to finish, my feet were swollen.

Much later removing bees from under siding at my wifeâ€™s grandmothers, a bee got under my veil, stung me, but what really got me was it then pulled my eyebrows.

The sting I remember best happened when working a hive in the garden.
It was a good day. My Wife was walking from an out building, along the road by the garden, with an un-hatched & abandoned robin's egg. A bee made its way up my leg. I dropped my pants. Wife was silhouetted against the sky. She wondered what was I doing. The bee made a beeline to her forehead. Stung, she crushed the egg.

Agility Mom · « **Reply #17 on:** March 31, 2005, 08:34:34 pm »

Some of the best laughs I've had in a while. Beekeepers are tough!

My hands seem unaffected by stings but one by the eye did swell up for a day or so.

bill · « **Reply #18 on:** April 04, 2005, 01:12:42 am »

the most painful one I have had soo far is on the eyelid. but it didnt last but about an hour. when I have a viel on the are always hitting the screen like a bullet trying to hit my eyes but this time I just was stopping to adjust the cover and one hit my eyelid like a bullet none of the otheres we even concerned

lively Bee's · « **Reply #19 on:** April 04, 2005, 04:40:26 pm »

Quote from: Lesli

Just to make you all jealous, apparently I don't react to stings. I feel pain for a few seconds, but within half an hour, I can't even tell where it happened--even when I got stung on the lip.

Shrug. The variety of nature, huh? I hope this doesn't mean I'll develop a sensitivity just as fast...

Lesli,

Im the same way I dont react to stings. I have been told by the doc that at any time a person that has no reaction to stings They could become highly allerigc to them. So I try to stay on the safe side :)

melliphile · « **Reply #20 on:** June 15, 2006, 12:17:23 am »

Perhaps the reason for increased reaction in the face and head is due to the large number of vessels in that area.

Chad S · « **Reply #21 on:** June 15, 2006, 09:49:01 am »

I had a bunch of bees crawl up between my t-shirt, and my outershirt last Friday evening. They stopped at the bandana around my neck, and 5-6 proceded to sting me in the throat. I crushed them in my hand, and ran to the kitchen where my wife tried to wipe the others that were up my shirt off before they got me. I couldin't lift my head off of the pillow that night. I also got stung in the hand, and it looked like a blown up sergical glove. I was so mad at that hive of bees I almost broke out a can of raid! My fault though I did not wear the clothing combo that I usually do, and I didn't bother putting a belt on.

Chad

Joe · « **Reply #22 on:** June 15, 2006, 12:22:33 pm »

I was stung 27 times by yellow jackets once and then a few years later I was stung another 9 or 10 times by a different yellow jacket nest. I've had honey bees for almost 4 years now and have only been stung a combined total of 7 times, one of which was on the face. I don't seem to have too much of a reaction to the stings and don't remember the yellow jackets being all that bad either. I kind of think the yellow jackets are cute, they don't bother me at all.

GT · « **Reply #23 on:** June 15, 2006, 01:38:54 pm »

Not a bee sting story but similar..my mom reached for her soda can, took a sip and felt something strange. A yellowjacket had been inside the can, stung her tongue..ouch

Hi-Tech · « **Reply #24 on:** June 16, 2006, 12:54:51 am »

One of the commercial beeks I help on occasion just recovered from a single sting on the very end of a very private place. He said he dropped his pants in the bee yard because that stinger had to come out right then even if he received another sting in the process. He said the swelling was minimal but it was still sore two weeks later...... OUCH!

ctbee · « **Reply #25 on:** June 29, 2006, 04:55:58 pm »

Hi-Tech- Thanks for helping me with a decision. I have been undecided as to whether to get a full length protective suit or just a jacket. After reading your post I ordered the full suit.

I got my first 2 stings this morning peaking in a hive before I went to work. I was surprised I hardly knew I was stung. The one on my neck was hardly visible while the one on my forearm is swollen pretty good and is tender to the touch.

Terry-Newbee

BEE C · « **Reply #26 on:** June 29, 2006, 05:33:25 pm »

Beeing new at this I was cocky when I didn't swell the first few times. Then I got stung on the middle of the forehead, if I was a devote hindu, I might have taken it as a good omen...it didn't swell for about ten hours but I felt woozy. I woke the next day to my fiance laughing at me. My eyes were swollen like a husky malamute dog...It didn't go down for three days. Positively the worst.

Denise · « **Reply #27 on:** June 29, 2006, 07:42:22 pm »

My hubby got his first stings day before yesterday. He was grabbing the boardman feeder for a refill on the newest hive (the swarm) and got jumped. He was only wearing shorts so 2 of them nailed him. I was surprised since we are constantly around the hives and have never been stung. They are all very tolerant of us puttering around. I guess they took offence to him taking their feeder even if it was empty. He put on his suit and got it so I could give it a refill.
He said he hadn't been stung by a bee since he was a kid. He's been stung by Yellow Jackets many times over the years, but no bees. It didn't swell at all and really didn't bother him. The Yellow Jacket stings were bad though. He swelled like a balloon and it hurt for hours each time. Nasty buggers. I can't stand them.

Valarie · « **Reply #28 on:** June 30, 2006, 05:16:47 pm »

Yesterday my husband and I did a removal at a construction site. The bees were in the outside wall of a 2 story La Salsa Restaurant being built. We had to climb 4 stories of scaffolding to get to them. As soon as we got there my husband got a brutal sting on the upper lip. We put on the jackets quick! The removal was fun, this was the first time we tried tying the brood comb into empty frames, and I think it went well! As I was taking off my jacket, a hitchhiker stung me on the forearm. This is our first year and we've only been stung 10-20 times, but today we're swollen. I thought my husband's lip was gonna split, but it's doing okay now. With his lip and my forearm we look like Daffy Duck and Popeye.
Too bad she didn't sting me in the bicep

Kathyp · « **Reply #29 on:** June 30, 2006, 07:05:53 pm »

i have been very fortunate not to be stung by my bees yet. each year i am treated to one or two yellow jacket or wasp stings. i almost look forward to the much milder bee sting! :)

one recommendation: even though none of us probably have had severe reactions, and the experienced keepers probably have developed some resistance to the stings, a bad reaction can come out of the blue for all of us. especially with multiple stings.

benadryl is a handy thing to have around. i buy the childrens liquid as well as the tablets. the liquid tastes like hell, but works faster. liquid is 25 mg per tsp. at the first sign of any reaction outside your norm, take 50 mg and if you do not have improvement within 1/2 an hour, take another 50. if symptoms are getting much worse within that 1/2 hour take the second 50 mg sooner. if things are not better with 100 mg, i'd get some medical advice. any respiratory symptoms require immediate medical attention.

any airway sting should be treated regardless of your normal reaction. it does not take much swelling to close an airway.

Hi-Tech · « **Reply #30 on:** July 02, 2006, 12:42:26 am »

I took a friend on a removal with me today. he wore my suit and i wore a jacket veil. We used a bee vac and all went well until we dumped the bees from the vac to a hive. Those bees were very upset! My friend took one sting in the hand through his glove. I took 6 or 8 stings through my jeans and 3 in the right arm through the jacket! No bad swelling but one place on the inside of my arm is sore. this was my first multiple sting session....

GTBee · « **Reply #31 on:** July 06, 2006, 03:18:36 pm »

Quote from: latebee

When one of the little bees gets in under your viel,all you can do is cringe and hope for the best. Sometimes they won't sting sometimes they do,usually near my mouth or nose. One thing I am very conscious of is wet clothing, you might as well have nothing on, they can sting right through the wet cloth. Beemaster says it best though, when he said he would take a hundred bees sting to one sting from a yellow jacket. I for one HATE yellow jackets even if they do have a purpose in life--death to all those nasty,mean,foul tempered,honey robbing,picnic spoiling,kid chasing so and so's that give our gentle honey bee a bad rap. :x

Being a rather rotund fellow, I can say that bee stings to the stomach area don't affect me at all. A quck pin prick and that's it. Anywhere else on my body and I'll get a little swelling.

Zoot · « **Reply #32 on:** July 06, 2006, 11:02:32 pm »

Just took about 40+ stings all over my face and neck about 2 hours ago. I was just taking a "peek" in my topmost super on one of my hives (no veil or suit of course) and they nailed me instantly. No idea what got into them but they were really angry off. I have never attempted an evening inspection before and have always been warned against it. I guess the old timers were right on that one.

As for reaction to the stings - I've never experienced much beyond the initial pain of the sting. Pretty much the same deal tonight though being really scared seemed to highten the overall unpleasantness of the experience. Then there was the indignity of the swift retreat...

keeper007 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 06, 2006, 11:20:13 pm »

i got stung on the arm while trying to hive a wild hive and just after i cut the last piece of comb of i had an army of bees on me

the bad news is i got stung on the arm

the good news... my arm swelled up and made me look buff! 8)