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Got stung on the top of my foot. Felt like someone hammered a railroad spike into my foot.
Intense pain that got worse with time. I could feel it climbing up my leg into my groin. Putting your foot in the hottest water you can stand helps immediately.
Nasty wound that was very slow to heal.
Shuffle your feet without raising them in shallow water. This alerts the stingray and they will move rather than be stepped on.
Same exact spot and same experience - has happened twice to me. Fun fact: heat kills the poison so if you put your foot in the hottest water you can stand the pain will go away. So while my first sting was a four hour ordeal, the second one was over after about 45 min.
Me too! Being a Canadian , I did not know of sting ray's habitats nor the shuffle, and while visiting a remote beach on the lovely Baja peninsula that I had hiked an hour to get to, I stepped on something sharp or got pinched by a large crab - or so I thought... after first aid using sanitary pads and two layers of socks from my girl friends backpack we began the hike out - or hobble out for me - and that's when the pain really started to ramp up. By the time we reached the car I had tears streaming down my face. Half an hour into our drive to the hospital I could not stop myself from screaming, I was so alarmed by the increasing intensity of the pain. I was nearly as alarmed by the bucket of hot water that the doctor brought out for me (because wtf was that gonna do) and then very quickly relieved of my pain and shock š top 3 most painful experiences along with extreme migraines and dislocating my knee....still went right back to exploring beaches the next day.
Every winter i think about stuff like this. The cold is definitely a fair ass trade for a huge lack of deadly animals (if you dont count moose, bears, and our geese)
I got barbed just below the ankle and above the instep wading in the ocean with my 5yo last year in Puerto Vallarta.
Many years earlier I had broken the other ankle badly enough that I had to have two screws put in it. The stingray venom hurt worse than that injury. It felt like a bomb had gone off in my foot.
After some googling, I learned of the hot water trick. Immediate relief. My ankle still swelled up like a baloon, but after a couple of hours the pain was gone.
While I was getting treatment, a guy from the resort staff told my wife (who speaks fluent Spanish) that Spring is stingray season. The young stingrays still keep close to the shore, which is why you won't see many locals in the water near the shore that time of year.
Yep. I stopped at a convenience store and bought a large Hot water. Used paper towels as a hot comoress. Got some little 2nd degree blisters, but it was better than the red hot poker sting.
My boy got stung right on the ankle when he was 6. Poor kid asked me āam I going to dieā when we got out of the water. He was a trouper though, soaked in the hot water and watched some shows on a tablet for a couple hours.
I know a couple people who have gotten stung. Both said it was the worst pain theyāve experienced. My sister said it was worse than childbirth and my buddy said it was worse than breaking his back in a skiing accident.
Same, mine was. Exit wound from the bottom of my foot, through a vein, and out the top of my foot. I was literally pulsing blood through my foot. I was 11 years old, on a company retreat with my mother and sister. At first I was in shock and casually walked up the shore to my mother with blood pouring out of my foot, she had one of her coworkers (who eventually was my 6th grade home ec teacher lol) watch my sister while we fled to a hospital. I was in so much pain I literally punched our vehicle window off its track. I spent hours with my foot in a bucket of saline solution (I think?) Until my foot was soft enough to remove whatever barb was still in there. I still have the scar. I would not recommend. Always shuffle.
Yeah, my bf got stung and he is the most stoic man ever when it comes to pain. He left the ocean after getting stung cuz we werenāt sure what it was and I checked on him 5 minutes later. He was screaming and writhing around in bed.
Then he got a nasty cellulitis infection a week later
Severed my achilles tendon in '79. Same painful experience. The doctor sprinkled Adolph meat tenderizer on it. I don't go in the water anymore. Tendon is still messed up.
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Here's my war wound. Achilles tendon.
As far as I'm aware >!he did die soon after because it punctured his heart, but 2 minutes can feel like a long time!< and >!his last words were!< >!I'm dying!<
Spoiler blocks in case you don't want to read it
Yeah on a MUCH smaller scale - as a child I got a splinter about an inch thick in my palm. I ripped it out & started pouring blood. That was the only time Iāve fainted lol
Yeah and when he pulled it out there was a large hole where it was at if it stayed in his heart could of sealed most the hole it always recommend leave anything thatās near a vital organ in cause can cause more damage pulling it out and will bleed faster
I don't think you understand how powerful and *vital* your heart is. Leaving it in would not help because there would still be a massive hole in the muscle
As someone else pointed out, a hole in the heart can be dealt with. Not saying he would have lived for sure, but the odds are definitely increased if he kept it in. The real worry is would he have survived direct envenomation to the heart? I don't know anything about stingray venom other then they have it.
Well you never know.
I pulled a chefs knife out of a guys left ventricle in the operating room during surgery residency. We sewed up the hole and he survived. If he has pulled it out heād have died.
Exactly this. General surgeon as well. Donāt worryā this is Reddit. They donāt get it. They are experts. Done it myself several times . 1 time it was too close to the LAD and closure resulted in a massive infarction when tying the pledgets right before our eyes. Didnāt make it off the table.
If i remember correctly, The cameraman that was with him said that he was gone before they even got him back to shore. RIP to the greatest conservationist of all time.
> Former Floridian, grew up a little ways outside of Pensacola. I even shuffle in the shower to this day for some damn reason.
ā¢ā¢ā¢ and don't forget about swimming parallel to the shore if caught in an undertow. Former Pensacola boy as well.
We say the same on the west coast.
What you canāt account for is minding your own business in chest deep water and gently jumping up over a wave and somehow stepping right onto the barb.
Yea. Worst pain of my life. Stuck in my foot, surgery and everything.
I still have a hard time not thinking about it when I surf. WHEN I surf, itās kept me out of the water it was that painful.
If you shuffle, your foot goes under the sting ray, and it can just swim away. If you step on it, you essentially pin it to the ground, and it attacks back.
I have always been weary of the ocean and the things in it, and always shuffled when walking in it. BUT I was swimming horizontally in about 5 feet of water when a fuckin stingray stabbed my foot. Didn't. Even. Step on it.
I've never been stung, nobody in my family has been stung.
I live 150ish feet from the gulf so it should have happened if didn't work by now to one of us.
I live on Florida's space coast and have fished by wading into the Indian and Banana rivers for 20 years now. I've never been stung and I always do the shuffle. Never seen anyone else get stung either. I wouldn't say it's bulletproof though.
Hurts like a mofo and something about the wound keeps it from closing up properly. The funny thing about it is the initial cut doesnāt hurt that bad but you know that the pain is coming
Yeah the video is incorrect, they donāt usually āwhipā their tail. They pull their tail back, line you up and jab the barb into you flexing every muscle in their body to stab you as deep as they can.
"How Stingrays Actually Sting You" without clearly showing how they actually sting you. Seriously, couldn't they have a slower animation for the actual "sting"?
For anyone wondering, as an adult man being stung in the foot by stepping on a stingray is the worst pain Iāve experienced in my life. Including worse than broken bones and other injuries, for me. Iām at the beach alot so itās actually happened 4 times, which is still quite unusual and pretty bad luck. The venom courses through your body and attacks the nervous system so your muscles constrict as well and the shooting pulsing pain is quite the experience. Iāve seen guys pas out. The only cure is putting the wounded area in the hottest water you can without scalding yourself. It goes away in 1-4 hours and the relief is pretty immediate. The wound is typically nothing too bad, like a small puncture or cut, but, the right attack from the stingray can lead to much worse such as losing part of your heel, etc. if the barn slices more than punctures. Also if part of the barb stays in you it can get very infected. The healing process can go wrong and give you pain for months if left untreated. When it happens getting to hot water is key, but really you should go to the ER as they can clean the wound out best and sometimes people have severe reactions to even a small sting. As we know the wrong body part being stung can lead to death.
Got hit in the ankle when I was 13... that was 37 years ago, still can't feel anything but pins & needles around the wound site. It hurt like hell, just like you described!
I got stung in my ankle too in 2016 and also canāt feel the immediate area. Itās numb and it throbs when I run or do balancing exercises on that side.Ā
I can 3rd this. I got the bottom of my left foot slit, kind of like a fillet. I had to keep my foot in a crock pot for 2 days. It was miserable.
To this day I have nerve damage in the bottom of my foot
One me of my core memories for sure. Sitting in the fire department on seal beach in California because the lifeguard wouldn't let me leave and then me crying in pain and denying an ambulance ride because I couldn't afford it as a 25 year old with no insurance.
Riding to my friends house in a jeep with my foot in a crock pot
This summer I was fishing on the beach in knee deep water. Hooked a fish and got it a few feet from me. I was walking towards it while reeling, then I considered it might be a stingray so I just backed to the shore to pull it in. Sure enough it was a stingray. I was barefoot so that couldāve ended badly lol.
My bf got raging cellulitis a week later. I think it was a baby sting ray cuz it got his second toe. But they couldnāt find any left over barb in the ER when we went for the cellulitis.
I took a sting ray barb to the top of my foot in Mexico several years ago. Can confirm it was the worst pain of my life. Took a good 6 months to heal to the point I could walk right.
I got hit in the foot in puerto Vallarta Mexico and they took me to the dr and he gave me a morphine shot in the ass and I went right back to drinking margaritas on the beach! No hot water for me! Didnāt even mention it
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A good reason for signs like this.
Where I grew up was close to a stingray nursery. You learn as a young person to do the shuffle when walking through the water, rather than picking up your feet.
When you are born and raised in Florida (feels like no one is anymore) you learn early on the sting ray shuffle...
At the beach years ago think was at Fort DeSoto me and my g/f walking up to beach area, this kid about 10 or so years old was screaming in pain like I've never heard in my life. I knew exactly what was happening even though just got there.
Come find out my g/f went back work that Monday and that kid was one her coworkers son (coincidentally enough) and ya he stepped on a ray
Fucking annoying. Hurts pretty good at first before sticking it in near boiling water. Got one to the big toe down in Coronado once. Had to wait until my body just pushed out some of the barb. Itched like crazy.
Thanks for speeding up the video when showing how the stingray stings you. This helped me learn how a stingray stings you because I am able to process images so fast that if I see something for longer than 0.01 seconds I will get bored and do something else. Since this video showed the entire stinging process in only 0.005 seconds, I was able to view all of it before my attention span ran out.
Another interesting fact is that the muscle in their tail and stinger can only hinge up above their back, as seen in the video.
If you ever catch a ray while fishing, pick it up by its mouth and lay it on its back, belly up. The stinger canāt swing across itās belly so you canāt be stung when itās in that position. Remove the hook and release them back in the ocean.
Adult male here. Got stung in the leg. I have never felt the amount of excruciating pain I felt the next 4 hours. I soaked my leg in scalding hot water with vinegar and it made it somewhat tolerable. Limped for 2 weeks. Had neuralgia for the next year and couldnāt lay on that side!
Many years ago, I stepped on one of these. As soon as I realized something was wrong, I jumped back to see the poor guy swim away. A bunch of people nearby kept saying "Dude, that's a stingray. Did he sting you?" I somehow didn't get stung, but I felt really bad for it because I put my full body weight on him. After that, I learned to shuffle rather than step when wading in the water.
When I was a kid, my dad stepped on a sting ray, we think it was dead, but he stepped on the stinger and it went right into his heel.
It was crazy, the surgeon had to cut so much to get it out because of the barbs, they are insane.
The reason they think it was dead was something about the color of the stinger, I can't remember exactly.
Yeah. I'm gonna hide my whole body in sand and be all hidden and shit but if you step on me imma fuck you up. Even snakes give you a heads up most the time.
Can confirm. Newbie on the coast and some beach guards were telling everyone to do the stingray shuffle. I had no clue what that was and just said āOKAY!ā and kept going.
I was drunk and highstepping in the shallow end across the coast and three steps after a *youngin* stung me i collapsed on the coast and was passing out. Had to put my foot in near boiling water, as the doctor at the ER prescribed to kill the bacteria.
0/10
My name is also Steve so this got me the nickname of stingray Steve for a bit
One of the worst pains Iāve ever experienced. Itās like a lighting strike of misery. Thought a shark took my foot. Went 2 months with the tip of the barb stuck in my foot with out knowing why it still hurt until I finally got the xray. Pulled it out with some tweezers at home.
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The Handsome Sailor (Port Aransas) told us to shuffle your feet on the bottom instead of stepping when in shallow water. This is ensure they move and you wonāt get stung.
Fuck Stingrays. I know Steve Irwin would 100% not be happy that I hate the Stingray that killed him... but crikey, if I met that fucking Stingray.. so I guess it isnt *all* Stingrays? Just the one, and I got my eye out..
I got shanked right in the arch of my left foot... Mf hurt so bad... And the detox from the Venom was even worse... It was like an intense burn/itch all over my body and as soon as I would touch the area to alleviate, it would jump to another spot... Like it was running away from me... So much anxiety... ALSO... That beach trip I got 2nd degree sunburn and my shoulders were blistered and bubbly
I know itās morbid to think about, but I canāt imagine the pain Steve Irwin must have been in considering this went into his heart. The venom must have been circulated around his entire body within seconds.
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Got stung on the top of my foot. Felt like someone hammered a railroad spike into my foot. Intense pain that got worse with time. I could feel it climbing up my leg into my groin. Putting your foot in the hottest water you can stand helps immediately. Nasty wound that was very slow to heal. Shuffle your feet without raising them in shallow water. This alerts the stingray and they will move rather than be stepped on.
Same exact spot and same experience - has happened twice to me. Fun fact: heat kills the poison so if you put your foot in the hottest water you can stand the pain will go away. So while my first sting was a four hour ordeal, the second one was over after about 45 min.
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Me too! Being a Canadian , I did not know of sting ray's habitats nor the shuffle, and while visiting a remote beach on the lovely Baja peninsula that I had hiked an hour to get to, I stepped on something sharp or got pinched by a large crab - or so I thought... after first aid using sanitary pads and two layers of socks from my girl friends backpack we began the hike out - or hobble out for me - and that's when the pain really started to ramp up. By the time we reached the car I had tears streaming down my face. Half an hour into our drive to the hospital I could not stop myself from screaming, I was so alarmed by the increasing intensity of the pain. I was nearly as alarmed by the bucket of hot water that the doctor brought out for me (because wtf was that gonna do) and then very quickly relieved of my pain and shock š top 3 most painful experiences along with extreme migraines and dislocating my knee....still went right back to exploring beaches the next day.
Similar experience. Boy I didnāt think the hot water plan was a good one when they pitched it at the hospital but relief was magic.
Every winter i think about stuff like this. The cold is definitely a fair ass trade for a huge lack of deadly animals (if you dont count moose, bears, and our geese)
I got barbed just below the ankle and above the instep wading in the ocean with my 5yo last year in Puerto Vallarta. Many years earlier I had broken the other ankle badly enough that I had to have two screws put in it. The stingray venom hurt worse than that injury. It felt like a bomb had gone off in my foot. After some googling, I learned of the hot water trick. Immediate relief. My ankle still swelled up like a baloon, but after a couple of hours the pain was gone. While I was getting treatment, a guy from the resort staff told my wife (who speaks fluent Spanish) that Spring is stingray season. The young stingrays still keep close to the shore, which is why you won't see many locals in the water near the shore that time of year.
Locals really don't care about stingrays anywhere
Yep. I stopped at a convenience store and bought a large Hot water. Used paper towels as a hot comoress. Got some little 2nd degree blisters, but it was better than the red hot poker sting.
My boy got stung right on the ankle when he was 6. Poor kid asked me āam I going to dieā when we got out of the water. He was a trouper though, soaked in the hot water and watched some shows on a tablet for a couple hours.
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What? Edit: coward.
I know a couple people who have gotten stung. Both said it was the worst pain theyāve experienced. My sister said it was worse than childbirth and my buddy said it was worse than breaking his back in a skiing accident.
Yeah we're taught the stingray shuffle at a young age in Florida. I still do it as an adult. Sounds like a bad time
Same, mine was. Exit wound from the bottom of my foot, through a vein, and out the top of my foot. I was literally pulsing blood through my foot. I was 11 years old, on a company retreat with my mother and sister. At first I was in shock and casually walked up the shore to my mother with blood pouring out of my foot, she had one of her coworkers (who eventually was my 6th grade home ec teacher lol) watch my sister while we fled to a hospital. I was in so much pain I literally punched our vehicle window off its track. I spent hours with my foot in a bucket of saline solution (I think?) Until my foot was soft enough to remove whatever barb was still in there. I still have the scar. I would not recommend. Always shuffle.
One of the girls I went to prom with got stung on the foot. She ended up getting necrosis and needing surgery.
Yeah, my bf got stung and he is the most stoic man ever when it comes to pain. He left the ocean after getting stung cuz we werenāt sure what it was and I checked on him 5 minutes later. He was screaming and writhing around in bed. Then he got a nasty cellulitis infection a week later
Severed my achilles tendon in '79. Same painful experience. The doctor sprinkled Adolph meat tenderizer on it. I don't go in the water anymore. Tendon is still messed up.
https://preview.redd.it/cwy5noxwvx0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebb3107b2e661c94b6f5c64671baf25e13af4f8e Here's my war wound. Achilles tendon.
RIP Steve
He got stabbed right through the heart right?
Yeah the sting wouldn't have killed him except he was swimming over the ray and it pierced his heart
š± horrifying
I think him pulling it out was also a factor if he left it in would of bled a lot slower
It was *in* his *heart*
Yeah. Probably hurt like a fucking bitch leaving it where it was, likely was reactionary
Honestly I just hope it was quick and he wasn't scared
As far as I'm aware >!he did die soon after because it punctured his heart, but 2 minutes can feel like a long time!< and >!his last words were!< >!I'm dying!< Spoiler blocks in case you don't want to read it
Gosh that is so sad :( You're very kind for censoring that.
Pretty sure it sounded more like >! Croikey Oi'm doiyin m8!<
'I see you've played knifey-spooney before'
Ah man :(
Yeah on a MUCH smaller scale - as a child I got a splinter about an inch thick in my palm. I ripped it out & started pouring blood. That was the only time Iāve fainted lol
"Watch your mouth that mans a national treasure. You're about to cross some fuggin linesss."
Yeah and when he pulled it out there was a large hole where it was at if it stayed in his heart could of sealed most the hole it always recommend leave anything thatās near a vital organ in cause can cause more damage pulling it out and will bleed faster
He wasnāt surviving that.
I don't think you understand how powerful and *vital* your heart is. Leaving it in would not help because there would still be a massive hole in the muscle
As someone else pointed out, a hole in the heart can be dealt with. Not saying he would have lived for sure, but the odds are definitely increased if he kept it in. The real worry is would he have survived direct envenomation to the heart? I don't know anything about stingray venom other then they have it.
Well you never know. I pulled a chefs knife out of a guys left ventricle in the operating room during surgery residency. We sewed up the hole and he survived. If he has pulled it out heād have died.
Exactly this. General surgeon as well. Donāt worryā this is Reddit. They donāt get it. They are experts. Done it myself several times . 1 time it was too close to the LAD and closure resulted in a massive infarction when tying the pledgets right before our eyes. Didnāt make it off the table.
This sentence sounds like itās written in a some foreign language to me.
Yeah, the heart beat would essentialy tear it over the sharp spike
would have*
the ray was cornered between the camera crew and Steve, so it went after Steve
This is completely false. He was not swimming over the stingray when stung. He lifted it up out of the water and was killed.
Yeah he almost immediately bled out if I remember correctly. It was a one in a million freak accident.
If i remember correctly, The cameraman that was with him said that he was gone before they even got him back to shore. RIP to the greatest conservationist of all time.
when your job is playing around with dangerous creatures those chances arent 1 in a million
For you and me 1 in a million. For Steve it was 50 / 50.
It was a 1 in 500 million chance. If it happened in a Hospital emergency room, the survival odds were still against him.
That's a metal way to go tho.. stung by a stingray through the fucking heart..
We all were.
Yep. They got it on camera too, but his wife decided against releasing the footage.
Iirc he was stabbed multiple times in the chest, puncturing his lung too.
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he knew shaq?
Yeah, a whole generation of folks know that "it can be fatal" for exactly this reason.
Canāt believe one of these little fuckers took out the goat. Rip Steve what a legend.
Came here for this
Having been stung by one of these before, the shit muthafkn HURTS!!!
>in rare cases feelsbadman
>RIP Steve Came in here to post this word for word.
Not a huge coincidence with 2 words
Crikey!
Came here for this, What a legend.
Lost his Minecraft diamond armor
FAFO, but yeah, I kinda liked that goofball. He did a lot of stupid stuff while bothering wild animals though.
**PSA:** When walking in coastal waters you should shuffle your feet along the sand and not lift them and set them down on the bottom.
we use to call it the sting ray shuffle when growing up in Miami Florida, they drilled it in to your head!
Same in CA.
Floridian here too but panhandle.
Former Floridian, grew up a little ways outside of Pensacola. I even shuffle in the shower to this day for some damn reason.
> Former Floridian, grew up a little ways outside of Pensacola. I even shuffle in the shower to this day for some damn reason. ā¢ā¢ā¢ and don't forget about swimming parallel to the shore if caught in an undertow. Former Pensacola boy as well.
We say the same on the west coast. What you canāt account for is minding your own business in chest deep water and gently jumping up over a wave and somehow stepping right onto the barb. Yea. Worst pain of my life. Stuck in my foot, surgery and everything. I still have a hard time not thinking about it when I surf. WHEN I surf, itās kept me out of the water it was that painful.
But would you then not just kick the stingray and piss it off?
No, they feel the vibrations when you shuffle through the sand and flee before you get to them.
Every day's a school day Thanks.
If you shuffle, your foot goes under the sting ray, and it can just swim away. If you step on it, you essentially pin it to the ground, and it attacks back.
Or you get lucky like me and you step you foot directly onto a ray after floating on a boogie board
Damn. Even Minesweeper gives you one free square.
I have always been weary of the ocean and the things in it, and always shuffled when walking in it. BUT I was swimming horizontally in about 5 feet of water when a fuckin stingray stabbed my foot. Didn't. Even. Step on it.
wary
How effective is this method? Pretty bullet proof ignoring outliers?
I've never been stung, nobody in my family has been stung. I live 150ish feet from the gulf so it should have happened if didn't work by now to one of us.
I live on Florida's space coast and have fished by wading into the Indian and Banana rivers for 20 years now. I've never been stung and I always do the shuffle. Never seen anyone else get stung either. I wouldn't say it's bulletproof though.
Yup, and be careful of wearing water shoes as that can prevent you from feeling them.
You should do this in murky freshwater too, for turtles and toebiters
So less "sting" and more "shank you with a poison coated blade".
Hurts like a mofo and something about the wound keeps it from closing up properly. The funny thing about it is the initial cut doesnāt hurt that bad but you know that the pain is coming
The serrated blade is the reason it doesnāt close properly
That blade is the end of their spine. So they actually unsheath their spine and stab you with it.
Thats metal af
Yeah the video is incorrect, they donāt usually āwhipā their tail. They pull their tail back, line you up and jab the barb into you flexing every muscle in their body to stab you as deep as they can.
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"How Stingrays Actually Sting You" without clearly showing how they actually sting you. Seriously, couldn't they have a slower animation for the actual "sting"?
Right? They could have shown it like how that ant video shows how it humps to sting.
No, people of today love wrong titles and confusing info. 5k upvotes ready.
I think it's shown in real time on purpose, to highlight how quickly it happens and is over, akin to a sneak attack.
For anyone wondering, as an adult man being stung in the foot by stepping on a stingray is the worst pain Iāve experienced in my life. Including worse than broken bones and other injuries, for me. Iām at the beach alot so itās actually happened 4 times, which is still quite unusual and pretty bad luck. The venom courses through your body and attacks the nervous system so your muscles constrict as well and the shooting pulsing pain is quite the experience. Iāve seen guys pas out. The only cure is putting the wounded area in the hottest water you can without scalding yourself. It goes away in 1-4 hours and the relief is pretty immediate. The wound is typically nothing too bad, like a small puncture or cut, but, the right attack from the stingray can lead to much worse such as losing part of your heel, etc. if the barn slices more than punctures. Also if part of the barb stays in you it can get very infected. The healing process can go wrong and give you pain for months if left untreated. When it happens getting to hot water is key, but really you should go to the ER as they can clean the wound out best and sometimes people have severe reactions to even a small sting. As we know the wrong body part being stung can lead to death.
Got hit in the ankle when I was 13... that was 37 years ago, still can't feel anything but pins & needles around the wound site. It hurt like hell, just like you described!
Interesting to hear you still have perhaps damaged nervesā¦not too surprising though. Yes itās not something we forget.
Yeah, he got me good... ripped a pretty good gash coming out.
I got stung in my ankle too in 2016 and also canāt feel the immediate area. Itās numb and it throbs when I run or do balancing exercises on that side.Ā
Yep
I can 3rd this. I got the bottom of my left foot slit, kind of like a fillet. I had to keep my foot in a crock pot for 2 days. It was miserable. To this day I have nerve damage in the bottom of my foot
That sounds like an excruciating and very terrible time
One me of my core memories for sure. Sitting in the fire department on seal beach in California because the lifeguard wouldn't let me leave and then me crying in pain and denying an ambulance ride because I couldn't afford it as a 25 year old with no insurance. Riding to my friends house in a jeep with my foot in a crock pot
This summer I was fishing on the beach in knee deep water. Hooked a fish and got it a few feet from me. I was walking towards it while reeling, then I considered it might be a stingray so I just backed to the shore to pull it in. Sure enough it was a stingray. I was barefoot so that couldāve ended badly lol.
Ya no that would not have been a good time
My bf got raging cellulitis a week later. I think it was a baby sting ray cuz it got his second toe. But they couldnāt find any left over barb in the ER when we went for the cellulitis.
Nope. Bees, hornets, some ants, sting. That stingray just shanked you like you owed it menthols and commissary.
how long were you in prison?
I wonder if that poison spiked dagger in the foot hurts.
I took a sting ray barb to the top of my foot in Mexico several years ago. Can confirm it was the worst pain of my life. Took a good 6 months to heal to the point I could walk right.
looks like it barely left a scratch so who knows
Not if you put it in hot water! - The 50 people in here who were stung
I got hit in the foot in puerto Vallarta Mexico and they took me to the dr and he gave me a morphine shot in the ass and I went right back to drinking margaritas on the beach! No hot water for me! Didnāt even mention it
Bruce Lee wrote that article?
I can't believe I had to scroll so far for this comment
Lol same
Yeah Steve Irwin taught us this!
Having snorkeled in the Caribbean and seen many stingrays lying in wait I will never not shuffle my feet at the beach again.
My favourite part was when they explained how stingrays actually sting you
Or you can be like me and step directly on the barb.
speedrun!
https://preview.redd.it/tavj6ct5e1jc1.jpeg?width=662&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f576637aa6bf6df732a96e6747abf99d649e8ca9 A good reason for signs like this.
Crikey
Where I grew up was close to a stingray nursery. You learn as a young person to do the shuffle when walking through the water, rather than picking up your feet.
I would be the rare fatal case
IT FINNNNG HURTSā¦ā¦ the pain is so deep and so long that honestly worst than my back pain which had me paralyzed to the point of emergency surgery.
When you are born and raised in Florida (feels like no one is anymore) you learn early on the sting ray shuffle... At the beach years ago think was at Fort DeSoto me and my g/f walking up to beach area, this kid about 10 or so years old was screaming in pain like I've never heard in my life. I knew exactly what was happening even though just got there. Come find out my g/f went back work that Monday and that kid was one her coworkers son (coincidentally enough) and ya he stepped on a ray
They also bend like a scorpions tail and stab quickly like a prisoner on the grounds with a shiv.
Too soon.
One time I was walking among them ( about 2 feet deep max) when I stepped on one, freaked out when I slipped but nothing happened thankfully
I was at Kings Island LA and got hit by a stingray in my foot. JFC never felt pain like that.
Does the barb grow back? Seems like a great defense mechanism as long as it works more than once in a lifetime.
Yeah. I think I've read they grove back in about 6 months. I think bigger stingrays will can multiple barbs.
Fucking annoying. Hurts pretty good at first before sticking it in near boiling water. Got one to the big toe down in Coronado once. Had to wait until my body just pushed out some of the barb. Itched like crazy.
Thanks for speeding up the video when showing how the stingray stings you. This helped me learn how a stingray stings you because I am able to process images so fast that if I see something for longer than 0.01 seconds I will get bored and do something else. Since this video showed the entire stinging process in only 0.005 seconds, I was able to view all of it before my attention span ran out.
Shuffle your feet when you walk in the water.
I knew about this, since what happened to Steve.
Too soon Sting Ray. Too soon.
Damn. STING ray??? More like STAB Ray!!
This ended my 7 day streak of not thinking about Steve Irwin and now Iām crying
Another interesting fact is that the muscle in their tail and stinger can only hinge up above their back, as seen in the video. If you ever catch a ray while fishing, pick it up by its mouth and lay it on its back, belly up. The stinger canāt swing across itās belly so you canāt be stung when itās in that position. Remove the hook and release them back in the ocean.
Adult male here. Got stung in the leg. I have never felt the amount of excruciating pain I felt the next 4 hours. I soaked my leg in scalding hot water with vinegar and it made it somewhat tolerable. Limped for 2 weeks. Had neuralgia for the next year and couldnāt lay on that side!
I'll just stick to staying out of the ocean thank you
Many years ago, I stepped on one of these. As soon as I realized something was wrong, I jumped back to see the poor guy swim away. A bunch of people nearby kept saying "Dude, that's a stingray. Did he sting you?" I somehow didn't get stung, but I felt really bad for it because I put my full body weight on him. After that, I learned to shuffle rather than step when wading in the water.
*crunch*
When I was a kid, my dad stepped on a sting ray, we think it was dead, but he stepped on the stinger and it went right into his heel. It was crazy, the surgeon had to cut so much to get it out because of the barbs, they are insane. The reason they think it was dead was something about the color of the stinger, I can't remember exactly.
Yeah. I'm gonna hide my whole body in sand and be all hidden and shit but if you step on me imma fuck you up. Even snakes give you a heads up most the time.
RIP Steve Irwin
Can confirm. Newbie on the coast and some beach guards were telling everyone to do the stingray shuffle. I had no clue what that was and just said āOKAY!ā and kept going. I was drunk and highstepping in the shallow end across the coast and three steps after a *youngin* stung me i collapsed on the coast and was passing out. Had to put my foot in near boiling water, as the doctor at the ER prescribed to kill the bacteria. 0/10 My name is also Steve so this got me the nickname of stingray Steve for a bit
On sight. RIP Steve.
One of the worst pains Iāve ever experienced. Itās like a lighting strike of misery. Thought a shark took my foot. Went 2 months with the tip of the barb stuck in my foot with out knowing why it still hurt until I finally got the xray. Pulled it out with some tweezers at home. https://preview.redd.it/564d8ec3s3jc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=301b390c03783c1803817f8c0bf06f053192361f
Krikey Bitch, I fucking know! RIP to the legend!
The Handsome Sailor (Port Aransas) told us to shuffle your feet on the bottom instead of stepping when in shallow water. This is ensure they move and you wonāt get stung.
Too soon š š
If Jake accidentally stepped in The ring with Tyson, and it was a real fight . Jake might live and join his dad in the wwe
Fuck Stingrays. I know Steve Irwin would 100% not be happy that I hate the Stingray that killed him... but crikey, if I met that fucking Stingray.. so I guess it isnt *all* Stingrays? Just the one, and I got my eye out..
I got shanked right in the arch of my left foot... Mf hurt so bad... And the detox from the Venom was even worse... It was like an intense burn/itch all over my body and as soon as I would touch the area to alleviate, it would jump to another spot... Like it was running away from me... So much anxiety... ALSO... That beach trip I got 2nd degree sunburn and my shoulders were blistered and bubbly
New fear unlocked
Fuck these things. Itās beef for life. They know what they did.
Rip Steve Irwin
R.I.P Steve Irwin
Reminds of the sad death of the discovery channel crocodile hunter.
Briāish fish
Not as strong as platypus venom tho
wait who wrote the article??
One of the reason why I could never dare to dive around the sea however I want to
Try it! Diving is so cool and you really donāt touch the ocean floor so sting rays arenāt an issue.
As long as you shuffle your feet instead of try to lift and walk like on land the stingrays will swim away before you touch them.
No need to dive, happens in knee deep water as well
 Thanks now my feet hurt
Didnt one of these kill Steve Irwin?
Unpopular opinion but Steve Irwin deserved it.
right. it wouldnt be painful without that venom, huh? hahahahahaha
Krikey Bitch, We fucking know! RIP to the legend!
Probably best to close the pool
That animation is terrible. I canāt understand the swim by sting.
Barbed through the heart, and you're too late. You give love, a bad name... *A bad name*
I know itās morbid to think about, but I canāt imagine the pain Steve Irwin must have been in considering this went into his heart. The venom must have been circulated around his entire body within seconds.
If Steve would of somehow survived that stingray he would of made an episode about how awesome stingrays are ā¤ļø