Radar
Very Well-Known Member
I personally have not been bitten, however my father was bitten about 10 years ago by an unknown sp while walking the dog in bushland. He didn't know he had been bitten until many days later. He collapsed at work 14 hours after the bite, and with a family history of heart attack and stroke this is how it was treated. After running a few tests, finding blood spots on the sheets and puncture marks in his calf that continued to bleed without clotting and spending 4 days in hospital with chest pain, muscle cramps and aches, and burning sensations that moved throughout his body, they worked out it had been a snakebite. He remembers feeling it, but not even looking down as he thought it was just thorns from the low chinee apple shrub he was walking past. He still has hot waves, chest pains and temporary loss of sensation and taste occasionally as a result of that bite, although they are less frequent now days.