Worst bug bite/sting you ever had

On three separate occasions I've been hit by a nest of yellow jackets... the worst one I was climbing a ladder and they came out of the ground and got me when I was almost to the top. I had stings on my eyelid, upper lip, behind my ears, 5 in my arm pit, all over my legs and back, after getting hosed down with a garden hose my parents were pulling dead bees out of my hair. Over 50 stings that time alone.

Actually, a few years ago I got stung by one of those huge black hornets right on the collar bone and it was worse. I was trimming the bushes with an electric hedge trimmer and thought I cut the cord with the trimmer. Like an electric shock to my neck.... my arm tightened up and the hair on the back of my neck stood up. Then it hit me again in the middle of the neck and jezus...it was actually more painful than when I had a nail go through the bottom of my foot and out the top. Seriously it still gives me chills thinking about how painful that was. :embarrassed:

Edit: I called them hornets... they were Paper Wasps. Number 3 on this list of most painful stings. http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/the-10-most-painful-insect-stings-in-the-world/

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When I was 15 and on vacation with my parents camping in Glacier Natl. Park and I got bit on the legs by some huge mosquitos. They were at least 1/2" long and the welts they left were the diameter of a golf ball. Itched like nothing I had ever felt. We eventually got to some town and saw a doc. Gave me something he called strawberry cream, which it looked like, and it really helped.

I was hiking with my girlfriend & going off trail to make a shortcut to the garden of eden in the santa cruz mountains. I stepped into a large nest of baby yellow-jackets. Ended up with 50-60 bites/stings on my legs. That took a cortisone shot to clear up.
 
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i spent the first seven years of my (after USAF) career as a surveyor.....it's way too late to go into, maybe i will tomorrow evening, but i've encountered just about every manner of aggressive fucking insect that exists in the midwest.
 
Bald faced right in between my shoulder blades. I couldn't put any mud on it.

Get stung? Make some mud and put a blob on it...it will suck the toxin right out. Change the mud a few times and let it do its thing and you might only have a tiny red dot after about fifteen minutes.
 
I've been stung a few times...nothing major.
My wife is allergic....like deathly allergic. Before we met she told me she damn near died from a sting.
 
Young private, Panama, got bit on my able by something and it itches like crazy, so bad that I scratched it open a bit. My boots aggravated the open wound until it had a scab, got infected and one day a friend said "dude, get in the car Lisa's taking you to the hospital. You got black veins going off of that thing."

Long story short: admission, getting the wound scrubbed with iodine and a wire brush without anaesthesia (quote from the nurse " this is gonna hurt like Hell, so just yell if you need to") and five days admission.
 
I don’t think I’ve ever had a serious sting or bite, at least not from a bug. Which is amazing given that I grew up running around in the woods and I currently have a yard infested with numerous wasp nests.
 
Peen Simmons said:
I stepped on a bee when I was a kid..
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Same. Was barefoot in the grass after swimming. I was only about 4 years old, so my recollection of it is that it was one of the most painful things ever. Probably tripled by the anxiety that came with realization that the stinger would be removed.
 
Got into some chiggers a time or two camping with the boy scouts. Nasty, itchy welts all over the place from the waist down.

The most memorable was when I used bug spray on a huge wasp nest that was right outside of the bathroom window of my apartment in Caracas. (The window was metal louver things that were never 100% closed, so I didn't like it there). After I nuked it I went downstairs - 10 floors down - for a run. As soon as I stepped out of the building, a wasp flew right at me and stung the crap out of my ass.
 
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When I was a wee lad and we lived in N.M we had a wood pile out back, it was home to wasps and I regularly got stung...like once a week it seems :embarrassed:
 
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