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• Hi i just wanted to share a bad experience i had with a red back spider on the the 1/5/2010 i was going for a scuba dive at camp cove when i put my wet suit on the ground i noticed a small spider going towards it i got my foot a pushed it away from me, i was puting on my wet suit and my dive gear as i was walking to the water i was getting bitten by something sevral times got my buddie to kill it and sqash it in my wet suit thought it was a ant i tottaly forgot about the spider i pushed away earlier.I was in the water for a bout 15 min when i sudenly got a very bad pain in my chest but it went away then about 60min into the dive i notice i was feeling sick i made my way to the suface as i swam to shore i was laying on the beach vomiting up. I went home and layed down after a while i came good i drove to a friends place as time went on i felt worse thought i was going to pass out i went home, about 2 am in the morning notice a very sore and painful burning on my back it was the bites on my back and relized that spider i pushed away must have got into my wet suit and bit me about 5 times on my back, i fell asleep i woke up for work did half a shift and collapsed as work had to get a ambulance to st george hospital where i found out i had been bitten by a female red back spider they told me the male doesnt make u sick at all but the female can make u very sick but cant kill u and its very painful it was and more as it when on. They told me about the antivenom and what it can do to u if u have a reaction to it so i didnt have it as time when on for a few days i was experiencing in my body that something was trying to get out i was so much in pain and sweating,muscular weakness,stiffness,swelling of the bites dizziness and fainting i then collapsed on the 4/5/2010 and rushed to prince of wales hospital where they gave me the antivenom well im still sick and suffering with so much pain and wanted to know if im having a reaction to the antivenom or is this part of the poison getting out of my body i hope someone from here can tell me. How can i stop all this pain.