It was just a small hard red bump on my arm...never got all that bad but was concerned when it persisted for so long. It went away on it’s own after 5-6 weeks. Frankly I was glad that it was a spider bite not MRSA. The scientist in me did my research, and since I was in grad school at the time, I consulted with the…

I actually had the opposite experience...thought i had a spider bite, and when it hadn’t gone away for 10 days, I went to the Dr’s who diagnosed it as MRSA and prescribed antibiotics. However the culture came back negative, but the red bump persisted. Went to the dermatologist, who also said it was MRSA, and wanted to…