geez you must have a really stressfull life. i thought those people in africa were troubled, but mate i feel sorry for YOU. i think you should rub some baby powder on your painful injury. and dont forget the emergency number... 000.

I was once stung by something, and the mark was there for about 4months. But it was up my boardies. If its not hurting dont worry.
If it is 2 teaspoons of concrete (or vineger) and a cup of HTFU

Harsh Crowd.

I've been stung badly by a jellyfish before and I still have the marks a few months later. They fade eventually.

I got stung at Leighton's last week. Haven't felt a sting like that before. Stung across the face and arm. The sting initially felt like I was whipped with a cat-o-nine tails energised at 415 volts. Pain and welts were gone by the next morning. My old man told me to HTFU and then he got stung two days later and fully sympathised.

Got stung a few times those last few days. It seems that there are a lot of them recently...

When I am stung, I generally hide, sit and cry...

I got hit by 5 at once as I came off my board at Woodie's down near the groin and had to bodydrag back to it after getting hit by the first one and I didn't know that I had lost it into a bunch of the little s**ts. Then went out the next day and one wrapped around my ankle while I was riding along. Looked like I'd been whipped around the neck, chest, arms and back for about 6-8 weeks. All I can say is the pain isn't any where near as bad as the bloody ITCHING. You won't see the scars after about 3-6 months.

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i was watching catalyst on the ABC last thursday night and a segment was on about bluebottles. Apparently the sting from the bluebottle tenticle is a protein base. The best way to kill off protein is with hot water. While an ice pack will help to aleviate the sting, hot water will work much better and faster if you can find hot water on a beach. A five minute hot shower, above 40 degrees will dramatically reduce the pain, way faster than a cold one or an ice pack. Their tenticle is made up of one of the most complex and effective methods of injecting poison known in the marine stinger family.

Different species, different treatments - they can have very different types of venom. Two teaspoons and a nice warm mug wouldn't do anything if you're hit by a Boxy - death is usually the treatment for a large sting from one of them. Then there's the irukandji that can put some people in to some kind of fatal shock response, while other people can deal with it fine. I think they are discovering new types or subspecies of the irukandji as we speak.

I have a stinger suit which has kept me free from instant or prolonged painful death in the last 4 seasons in Cairns. (Running into a jelly wearing boardies and the stinger suit still stung, feeling like I was walking through lines of very tough spider web). It doubles as excellent sun protection too.

I still have the neck to knee figure hugging lycra outfit with me as I'm travelling down the East coast, add an orange ball and leather collar, and it's perfect after 5 wear.

Beats the years in the surf club before stinger suits were invented and we wore ladies stockings on the bottom, and another pair of stockings with the crutch cut out over the top. Running around on the beach wearing those that took some bravado, especially in the NQ heartland.