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Yakult · 2008-10-12, 11:44

So I woke up at around 5:00 AM with a swollen ring finger (right hand) and an itchy area near my thumb (metacarpal). I was freaking out at finger and thought that I broke my finger while sleeping (haha...), but I realized that my roommate left the door open.

However, I see no -clear and visible- bites. It may be a bug/spider bite due to the itching, but I'm not too sure due to the lack of a clear and visible bite (and the fact that the thumb's metacarpal is far from the ring finger... odd that those two separate areas would have symptoms: the metacarpal itching and the ring finger swollen and unable to be bent).

After eight more hours of sleep, the swollen finger got a bit better and it is less swollen. Good sign I guess, but what do you guys think? Bug bite? This is the first time that I had something swell up THIS MUCH. In fact, my previous bug bites only swelled up on the area of contact, but this time my entire finger (and a little bit of the area following it) was bloated.

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Yakult Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005	Case Study: Waking up with a swollen finger... So I woke up at around 5:00 AM with a swollen ring finger (right hand) and an itchy area near my thumb (metacarpal). I was freaking out at finger and thought that I broke my finger while sleeping (haha...), but I realized that my roommate left the door open. However, I see no -clear and visible- bites. It may be a bug/spider bite due to the itching, but I'm not too sure due to the lack of a clear and visible bite (and the fact that the thumb's metacarpal is far from the ring finger... odd that those two separate areas would have symptoms: the metacarpal itching and the ring finger swollen and unable to be bent). After eight more hours of sleep, the swollen finger got a bit better and it is less swollen. Good sign I guess, but what do you guys think? Bug bite? This is the first time that I had something swell up THIS MUCH. In fact, my previous bug bites only swelled up on the area of contact, but this time my entire finger (and a little bit of the area following it) was bloated.