Scorpion - what would have happened if it pinched me?!?

When we live in se GA, a friend of mine had one in her couch(we have NO idea how it got there) and as she was getting up, she put her hand back in the coushin and it bit her! It was just a little one, but she said it hurt!

Well, if you're not allergic to them all you end up is real angry. It feels like someone put out a cigarette on you!

If it pinched you it would probably hurt a bit but nothing more.

What kind of scorpion was it? Some are more docile than others naturally.

I got stung by one when I was younger, right after we moved to FL. Not fun - if it's a small one, it just hurts like hell, swells up, but nothing serious.

Now my skin is crawling...thanks for putting imaginary scorpions all of over me.

I don't know you, but I'm glad you're not dead.

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BTW - I'm not trying to make light of this, but you would know if the scorpion stung you. If you are interested in seeing a funny exerpt of Sealab w/ a scorpion and a BeBop Cola machine (featuring sodas such as Mango Reinhardt and Fizzy Gillespie), PM me and I'll find the link for ya!

I still feel it crawling on me! I have the heebeegeebees.

I'm in AZ. But not originally - I always thought that if you were stung by a scorpion that you had to rush to the hospital for some sort of anti-venum or else you were a goner! LOL Now I see why my husband calls me dramatic.

I'm glad to hear that getting stung is not the end of the world. But still, I don't know if I've ever been so scared. Breathing.... breathing...

My boyfriend lived in Florida for 10 yrs and is trying to convince me to move down there with him. I told him I'm not a fan of bugs, alligators or other critters who can in some way kill me. And don't even get me going on hurricanes.. lol. I'm too old for snow, ice and cold -- but dangit.. it limits the amount of critters because it gets so cold!

Mmmm.... I've been stung several times (they like to hide under things in the garden ) and it stings bad but it's not like, life threatening, excruciating "oh my god, I'm going to die" pain, it just stings like hell. I had a real small bump from where it got me on my finger but it went away after a few hours. Alot of people freak out when they get stung and i think that makes it worse, its not so much the bite as much as the fear and panic that sets in. The US has several varieties of scorpion and only one is known to be deadly, the Arizona Bark Scorpion, and even with that one fatalities are limited mainly to people who are already susceptible to venom in general ( bee stings and such) or those who have compromised immune systems and small children and pets. Intense burning and Numbness in the area stung is the most common side effect.