Snake Bite Stories

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I got bite by one when I was about nine.My hand swoll up three times the size of my regular hand.When it stung me if felt like someone hammering a railroad spike into my hand.I eneded up at ER due to me being damn near allergic to anything that stings.This happened when i was around 9 and Im 41 now and I can still remember the pain of that sting to this very day.

Sounds like you have some cool dogs.

Water moccasins are just mean. They're the only snake that actually seem to want to hurt you. I've seen them in trees while fishing just drop down into your boat and get hostile. And I've heard stories from some old fisherman on Lake Caddo that moccasins will actually chase your boat if threatened.

Wow, what a terrifying experience!! So glad to hear everything turned out alright. That's right up there with true grit for bad rattlesnake bite stories. Do you know how much anti-venom they actually had to use? What year was it that it happened?

It was 10 years ago. I think July 13. I think it was either 65 vials or 165. Ridiculous that I don't remember. He developed antibodies to the anti-venin finally so they had to stop administering it. Because of that, he can never receive it again. Another bite by a pit viper couldn't be treated.

I am from Texas and was bit by an underwater water moccasin on Memorial day weekend 2013. Due to all the snakes popping up after these recent floods, I just wanted to share snake stories with yall.

A couple summers ago, I decided to go float the river with my college friends near San Marcos, Texas.

We had a great time, except the river was unusually cloudy due to recent storms that had moved through the area. At the end of float, we approached a "party area" on one of the banks of the river. We got out of our tubes and started walking through the last few feet of water towards the shore.

While still knee deep in water, I took a step forward and suddenly felt a sharp intense burning pain on my right foot near my pinky toe. Out of instinct, I just kicked real hard cause I thought I had stepped on a nail or needle. I immediately called out to my friends, who could obviously see that something had just happened.

I hobbled over to the shore and kicked off my Nike shoes (which I had worn to keep my feet safe from rocks) to see two fang marks about an inch apart. Inside my shoe, a 1/4 inch piece of hollow fang had broken off and was still lodged under the insole.

The burning pain in my foot persisted for ten minutes or so, but began to go down. It looked a little swollen, but I couldn't really tell because of the panic that set in after the snake bite.

VERY lucky for me, it turned out to be a dry bite with little to no venom going in (25-50% of all moccasin/ copperhead bites are). I still had some irritation and bruising around the area for a day or so, and flu like symptoms that lasted the first 12 hours after the bite. No hospitalization or anti venom was necessary, although in retrospect I really should have gone to get it checked out.

It all turned out fine though, and I still have the fang to this day in a little Tupperware container.

Any other snake bite stories/ victims out there? Let me hear em GLPers.