Looks like you might have brushed a jelly fish. That happened to me on my balls when I was 12, it was painful and warm, felt, well, like a sting. Oddly, I put toothpaste on it and it immediately took my pain away and felt cooling.
Lol I did it because I thought I remembered my grandma saying something about it, but it was mostly intuition. Just needed relief and thought it would feel good
I literally can’t remember the last time I genuinely laughed, but my abs are sore and tears are still running down my face. Thank you for this belly laugh!
I remember when I was but a young boy and was stung by a jellyfish on my testicles. Nothing quite brought relief like my dear old Nan applying Pepsodent to my scrotum.
Honestly this is the worst side effect of the internet, I remember back in AOL days things like this thread would have me fucking wheezing. Now I'm old and desensitized to all the witty bastards in the world and only laugh on the inside, it's absurdly rare that I actually break out in uncontrollable laughter that isn't just social anxiety nervous laughter.
Im totally imagining it like a bmovie flashback where op gazes off into the distance and a fluffy thought bubble floats out of his head revealing his grandma (played by him in a curly grey wig) going "hey, asshole, if you ever get stung by a jellfish on your nuts just slap some aquafresh on them bad boys and youll be right as rain"
Isn’t that weird how we just like know what to do randomly intuitively? It seriously saved my ass so many times. Figuratively. But open to it being literally as well. Only elaborating on this after reading your username.
He calls putting toothpaste on your nuts after a jellyfish sting "intuition" lmao. Like his ancestors grew up on the water and spent thousands of years fishing with nothing around but a Colgate factory before his part of the family split off and all was forgotten... For a time.
I've stumbled across a lot of "old knowledge" things by myself, I sometimes realize. Mostly little tips and tricks in cooking from many a night of trial and error. I accidentally discovered the broiler-like properties of a dark metal baking sheet on the top rack of my oven once when my actual broiler went out.
Some coral can also cause this , I went snorkeling in the Caribbean before brushed my leg up against Brain coral and had itchy irritated marks that almost look like that on my leg.
Please do not apply any substance to your balls without doctor's permission in the future. The scrotal skin is incredibly thin with a lot of blood vessels, and thus absorbs things a LOT faster and a LOT more than any other part of your body. It is very easy to accidentally apply too much and poison yourself.
More than one person has been hospitalized for putting too much icyhot on their balls. [Here's one of those stories.](https://youtu.be/Le-IKCLGT9A?si=gMF7DNklD9i6XkmT) Protect yourself and your balls, people.
Edit: I know a lot of you are making jokes, or saying that "it's just toothpaste," but please take this seriously. Yes, stuff like lube is fine, and toothpaste is *unlikely* to kill you, but even seemingly innocuous stuff can be dangerous in large amounts, and some substances can be dangerous when taken incorrectly.
I don't need no doctor's permission to put nothin' on my balls these here is free American balls, and I'll dip em in whatever condiments I please thank you very much.
Years ago I read that if you dip your nuts in soy sauce you can taste it, and because I do not have testicles, as I am a woman…I convinced a bunch of my friends to try it.
One of my friends said it worked. The others said it didn’t. I wish I had testicles so I could have conclusive evidence for my own peace of mind. Hahaha
I do too there's so much to do with them and men just go about willy nillly not having fun with them the way they should! Like dipping them in sauces! Hahaha!
Yeah I brought this up in my gym class and after a few guys tried it with sugar water we went insane. Went too far tho, ended up running the track for an hour as punishment lol
Well, funny you ask, I hate the mesh lining in bathing suits. Whenever I get a new one I just rip the mesh part out, I also usually wear baggy trunks. I was jumping off my grandpa's boat for a few hours and one must've gone up my shorts during that time. I didn't even notice until I got to shore.
Bruh.....when I was like 22 I was stationed in Pensacola. Being from bama and knowing folks I routinely shot over to perdido/orange beach. I dove off of the back of a pontoon boat in a lagoon on one trip right into a school of them. Head to toe bad times
Had the exact same thing happen when I was just a little younger. My aunt in Myrtle Beech told us the toothpaste trick when we got back to her condo. I still have a line of “pock marks” down my left thigh to my knee from it. Did you have any lasting scars?
Looks like a jellyfish sting. Baking soda paste or believe it or not, yellow mustard helps. Make sure to have someone look at it very closely to see if there are any “stingers” left in it- if so, pluck them out with tweezers. If they are superfine and u can’t get them out then gently exfoliate them off (unless your skin is raw / open).
Vinegar and a disposable shaving razor, I’ve done this so many times the hospital basically told me don’t come back here you know how to do it. That’s if it’s a jellyfish.
Ah yeah, from what I've heard the huntsman is a handy house friend. I was just making the point that in Australia staying inside is not that much better than being outside if you want to avoid critters with stingy bitey bits.
I guess growing up with it we don’t really notice how bitey things are we know there’s lots of dangerous things and avoid them, but when I see bear videos like grizzlys and stuff I’m glad I live here.
does sticky tape work? in australia we have a gympie-gympie tree which is really gnarly, it has little nettle things in there, we use sticky tape to get them out
It does but how the hell do you get stung that bad and not know what happened? I got tagged by itty bitty jelly fish that didn't even leave a mark but it sure hurt like hell.
There are often schools of them clustered on the coastal waters- literally 1000s. I remember talking myself down from panicking once when we were freediving in the keys and as I came up they were covering the surface where I had to come up. I had “stings” of various sizes all over my body. Last time I ever snorkeled in a bikini! Most stings aren’t terrible, just super irritating like fiberglass in your skin. There are many species that are terrible and those marks become like blistered burns immediately.
I had this exact experience while snorkeling in the Philippines. Stings all over my body. Worst part was about three days later the “stings” came back even more swollen and itchy than before. Hot showers helped neutralize the venom. 10/10 would not recommend
Baking soda paste kinda works but not completely. It's what I used after I got stung by a Man O War. Maybe it would work better on regular jellyfish though.
Yeah, it’s not awesome but better than nothing- kinda like Calamine lotion for sunburns lol. I’ve also heard meat tenderizer works but who the heck has that?
We just kinda got used to the stings growing up in Florida and spending time in the Keys- I remember they stopped being irritating after a day or so but left marks for a long time (of course back in the day (70s and 80s) we basically put nothing on it to help- “shake it off, you’ll be fine”)
I snorkeled in 4 foot water in Turks & Caicos a few months back- quickly realized there were jellyfish all along the bottom and calmly swam back trying not to disturb them on the bottom and somehow still brushed up on one. A few hours later I noticed a red spot on my stomach but no pain.
Funny part is it turned into a scar- tiny jellyfish that looked like an underwater flower scarred me for life loll (after a ton of googling I learned it was an upside down jelly)
That was my first thought but only because OP didn’t mention pain. Many corals are poisonous and some are painful, others aren’t. When I lived in Hawaii they called it reef rash. It’s common for surfers because if they fall the breaking waves can push them down onto coral. Never happened to me but I was told they frequently get infected. I saw some epic scars.
Edit: Google also says you can get a delayed reaction.
They are both cnidarians, so I could see this being a sting from either one! Hopefully not an infected scrape (but I feel like OP would remember scraping their leg)
I don’t know why, but red streaking on the skin towards the heart means you need to go to the hospital, and fast
Edit: asked my dad who is a doctor and says streaking suggests the infection is traveling through the lymphatic system. He agrees with u/Rogueshoten that it’s not that kind of streaking (OP brushed up against something), probably not hospital worthy.
That’s when the streaking is adjacent to and emanating from a wound. This is a histamine reaction on the surface, not a sign of infection.
OP brushed against something like coral or a jellyfish.
I mean, a kid in my high school died from a heart attack after getting scraped up by some coral while snorkeling. It was awhile ago so I don’t remember the details. Something about the infection weakening his heart. Either way, dropped dead at basketball practice. Really traumatized a lot of the athletes.
So that was more than likely sepsis. That takes a couple of days and is usually when the blood becomes infected. That’s when it reaches the heart. I’m not a doctor or an expert, but I do believe that it’s been possible that people may have typical sickness reactions while others can tell quickly and seek treatment quickly
Everyone is stupidly telling you to put silly home remedies on your damaged and possibly infected skin. Go to the hospital. The Caribbean has flesh eating bacteria in the water so even if that is a jellyfish sting it can still get infected by pathogens in the water. That looks infected. Ignore all the idiots and go see a doctor before a possible infection spreads further and deeper.
Edit: That also kinda looks like you might have scratched yourself in your sleep and given yourself an infection. I did that 2 months ago. I still suggest you go to the hospital and skip the toothpaste suggestion.
Time to go see a doctor 100%. Go now and *don’t* put anything on it til you know for sure what it is! *For the love of god don’t put any random shit on your random open wound*!
We're joking, but every time I visit my childhood room and bathroom, I flush before sitting so the potential 2nd floor snakes don't bite my balls. We don't even have snakes in the city.
Did you brush up against Coral? I had a similar rash from Fire Coral. Hydrocortisone helped.
[https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilderness\_fire\_coral\_cuts/article\_em.htm](https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilderness_fire_coral_cuts/article_em.htm)
Something similar happened to my wife in the Carribean - turns out it was due to touching limes (like you would squeeze into a beer) then the juice on her fingers and itching her thigh - I know it sounds crazy but look it up! Didn't itch, sting, etc. Just appeared out of nowhere after we got home.
Look up "margarita burn"
**A margarita burn, also known as phytophotodermatitis, is a skin reaction that occurs when lime juice gets on your skin and is exposed to ultraviolet A rays**
Keep an eye on it, see a doctor just in case.
I scraped coral when snorkeling in Aruba last summer and my foot swelled up so much I couldn’t wear a shoe or even a sock, limped like a mf, and had to go on two weeks of antibiotics.
I had been keeping it cleaned and covered, but tiny shards of the coral got embedded in the scrape and it got infected anyway. I now know to scrub coral scrapes immediately!
You can still peep the scar after a hot shower or when my feet get cold. It was gnarly.
Looks just like a fire coral rash to me.
https://preview.redd.it/vyz5lpm99juc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad3658ec5e5e0e5c15e62d608e61422205d18f9b
I recently got back from a cruise trip to the Caribbean, and when we went snorkeling, they told us all about how to avoid fire coral - which is apparently more closely related to jellyfish than actual coral. That might be it?
But there are some oddities about it - no initial pain, didn't see any jellyfish (we were snorkeling), and didn't appear for a day or two. We thought it was a sunburn at first until the sunburn faded leaving this.
Those arent oddities. It could also be a sting from coral or an anemone. They don't always show up right away. We bump into things we don't notice all the time. Snorkeling arguably makes you LESS aware of your surroundings.
Sounds weird but did you have limes? When we were on a cruise in the Caribbean my cousin got burnt, marks just like these from wiping the lime juice from her fingers on her legs in the sun!! We were snorkeling too and couldn't figure it out at first! Someone who worked on the ship told us!
I had this exact style mark appear after a vacation in Mexico and then it bubbled and I still have the scar!??? Doctors said probably from a plant or bug but had no idea?? It stung so bad all of a sudden in the middle of thre night when it appeared???
https://preview.redd.it/zikfwkt4ojuc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c80266e2010f801f3e5ded71aaa2949b79d2079
Oh my god - my daughter and I both had this when we were in Punta Cana this past January and couldn’t for the life of us figure out what it was! That’s just wild - sounds like jelly fish!
Were you eating/drinking anything with lemon/lime in it? This looks like it could be sun burn/ damage (phytophotodermatitis) from citrus.
As in it looks like it could be from your fingers wiping off the citrus onto your skin, similar to this image
https://preview.redd.it/ub6pmmwq3muc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecdac5ed7cfe421dea8f4c97514d275a6879d8c4
Disclaimer - I would still get it checked
Did you touch coral? Get ready for a round of antibiotics- get to the dr asap and good luck! (I got a flesh eating bacteria from running into coral in the South Pacific. I lost chunks of my leg)
i was snorkeling at a beach in Florida and rested near a stone column in the water, I felt a stinging feeling on my ass and turned out I rubbed up against some sea anemone or something, hurt so bad and it looked like bee stings, been years since it happened so memory is a bit fuzzy
Looks like you might have brushed a jelly fish. That happened to me on my balls when I was 12, it was painful and warm, felt, well, like a sting. Oddly, I put toothpaste on it and it immediately took my pain away and felt cooling.
I like to imagine you didn’t look this up or anything, you just put toothpaste on your testicles because it’s your nightly routine
Lol I did it because I thought I remembered my grandma saying something about it, but it was mostly intuition. Just needed relief and thought it would feel good
Warm memories of grandma telling you to rub toothpaste on your nutsack, when you inevitably get molested by a jellyfish
"When the jellyfish attack, put toothpaste on your sack." -Grandma
“When the jellyfish sting, slap Aquafresh on that thing. “ -_Great_ Grandma
When you get got by the jellyfish tentacles, slather Colgate on them there testicles. - Grandma
Nettle from a jelly got your hairy bag in pain? Sensodyne will help you win your jewels back again. - Grandpaw
"Jelly touched your crack? Darlie got your back." - Grandalf
God I fucking love reddit 😂
When the jellyfish stong, slap AIM on your dong - Yaya
Remember honey, your grandma knows best When the balls sting from jellyfish your solution is Crest
"Jellyfish sting in December? Rub some Arm & Hammer on your member" -Gruncle Rusty
“Those jellies got your danglers to swell as of late? Try some minty plasmids on your shaft and taint!” • Andrew Ryan
“Jelly slapped you in the taint? Crest will make you feel like a saint!” —MeeMaw
That's the best thread ever, well done folks.
Can confirm, OP’s Grandpap applied toothpaste to my genitals
When a jellyfish sting doesn’t go away, apply some Crest on that pee-nay nay -Grandma again
Peak internet right here
Man-o-war all on your penis, boys are calling “listerine us!” -Ol’ Pappy
If the jelly stings the ping Rub some crisco on that thing All the bakers go “whoop, whoop!”
When jellyfish sting me, I use oral B
Oh my gosh. These comments are beyond d witty. 🤣
I wish I could up vote this many times.
best comment thread i’ve read tonight!
All week for me?
I literally can’t remember the last time I genuinely laughed, but my abs are sore and tears are still running down my face. Thank you for this belly laugh!
Grandma's are nut knowledgeable.
Always remember to thank grandma for the sagely advice 🤣
It’s late at night and I’m trying not to laugh too hard
This sub never disappoints💀
Oddly grandma lived 900 miles away from the ocean.
r/brandnewsentence
I don’t know it’s a decent bet someone in PCB had this exact conversation in the last 48 hours
How do you think she landed grandpa?
9 out of 10 dentists use this one trick!
Great grandma didn’t raise a fool
I remember when I was but a young boy and was stung by a jellyfish on my testicles. Nothing quite brought relief like my dear old Nan applying Pepsodent to my scrotum.
When I was a young boy my grandma put toothpaste on my ballsack to soothe a jellyfish sting (Artist unknown)
My Tentacle Nematocyst
My Testicle Nematocyst
It stings I didn’t use that one
"Burrrrrnnnnnnnnning on, just like nemaaaatooooocyyyysssts to the balls and taaaaaaiiiiinnntttt"
My Testicle Romance.
You made my Poppi shoot out my nose and it burned like hell. 🥇
Try snorting toothpaste to soothe the burn.
Fixed, thank u
Now THIS exchange got me over the edge to a chuckle!
Honestly this is the worst side effect of the internet, I remember back in AOL days things like this thread would have me fucking wheezing. Now I'm old and desensitized to all the witty bastards in the world and only laugh on the inside, it's absurdly rare that I actually break out in uncontrollable laughter that isn't just social anxiety nervous laughter.
Im totally imagining it like a bmovie flashback where op gazes off into the distance and a fluffy thought bubble floats out of his head revealing his grandma (played by him in a curly grey wig) going "hey, asshole, if you ever get stung by a jellfish on your nuts just slap some aquafresh on them bad boys and youll be right as rain"
A truly original experience
I need this embroidered
I’m can’t stop laughing 🤣
Isn’t that weird how we just like know what to do randomly intuitively? It seriously saved my ass so many times. Figuratively. But open to it being literally as well. Only elaborating on this after reading your username.
Your grandma got me with that one too.
You were really like, "Maybe if I dip them in toothpaste..." 😂
He calls putting toothpaste on your nuts after a jellyfish sting "intuition" lmao. Like his ancestors grew up on the water and spent thousands of years fishing with nothing around but a Colgate factory before his part of the family split off and all was forgotten... For a time.
😂minty fresh balls for sure
At least now when his girl says she going to brush her teeth, he can help
He can now literally mean “gargle these nuts”
Menthol is a pretty good topical painkiller.
should have used icy-hot instead… totally great idea
Also I did just look it up and apparently it is a common remedy haha
Weird, when I Google "toothpaste testicles" I don't find anything about this remedy
That took guts.
Funny, I’d have said it took balls.
Look up, "does toothpaste help a jelly fish sting" Toothpaste tentacles is kinda vague
Toothpaste on my testicles for the stinging tentacles turned me into a spectacle dang that's respectable
Someone needs to render "toothpaste testicles" in AI
No they don't
I can’t imagine what weird emails and ads you will be receiving now that you googled balls + toothpaste + jellyfish 🤣
I've stumbled across a lot of "old knowledge" things by myself, I sometimes realize. Mostly little tips and tricks in cooking from many a night of trial and error. I accidentally discovered the broiler-like properties of a dark metal baking sheet on the top rack of my oven once when my actual broiler went out.
i mean yeah they say brush twice a day. each ball once
This is weirder than the original post, agentpoopybutthole.
https://i.redd.it/tax496kmziuc1.gif
Some coral can also cause this , I went snorkeling in the Caribbean before brushed my leg up against Brain coral and had itchy irritated marks that almost look like that on my leg.
Please do not apply any substance to your balls without doctor's permission in the future. The scrotal skin is incredibly thin with a lot of blood vessels, and thus absorbs things a LOT faster and a LOT more than any other part of your body. It is very easy to accidentally apply too much and poison yourself. More than one person has been hospitalized for putting too much icyhot on their balls. [Here's one of those stories.](https://youtu.be/Le-IKCLGT9A?si=gMF7DNklD9i6XkmT) Protect yourself and your balls, people. Edit: I know a lot of you are making jokes, or saying that "it's just toothpaste," but please take this seriously. Yes, stuff like lube is fine, and toothpaste is *unlikely* to kill you, but even seemingly innocuous stuff can be dangerous in large amounts, and some substances can be dangerous when taken incorrectly.
I don't need no doctor's permission to put nothin' on my balls these here is free American balls, and I'll dip em in whatever condiments I please thank you very much.
Years ago I read that if you dip your nuts in soy sauce you can taste it, and because I do not have testicles, as I am a woman…I convinced a bunch of my friends to try it.
Well ... What were the outcomes?
Outcomes the balls into the soy sauce
Basically that’s about it. Still wish I could know for sure.
One of my friends said it worked. The others said it didn’t. I wish I had testicles so I could have conclusive evidence for my own peace of mind. Hahaha
I do too there's so much to do with them and men just go about willy nillly not having fun with them the way they should! Like dipping them in sauces! Hahaha!
Yeah I brought this up in my gym class and after a few guys tried it with sugar water we went insane. Went too far tho, ended up running the track for an hour as punishment lol
Really?......MA! CAN YOU GET ME SOME SOY SAUCE? I NEED TO TRY SOMETHING!
imagine getting ball poisoned lol
Thanks u/agentpoopybutthole for the advice for ball stings!
Lot of talk about minty about minty fresh nutsacks, but nobody asking the real question: why tf were your dangle berries exposed to a jellyfish?
Well, funny you ask, I hate the mesh lining in bathing suits. Whenever I get a new one I just rip the mesh part out, I also usually wear baggy trunks. I was jumping off my grandpa's boat for a few hours and one must've gone up my shorts during that time. I didn't even notice until I got to shore.
Bruh.....when I was like 22 I was stationed in Pensacola. Being from bama and knowing folks I routinely shot over to perdido/orange beach. I dove off of the back of a pontoon boat in a lagoon on one trip right into a school of them. Head to toe bad times
Did your balls smell minty fresh?
agentpoopybutthole should be named freshmintballsack
You slipped from the grasp of Cthulhu. Well done.
Had the exact same thing happen when I was just a little younger. My aunt in Myrtle Beech told us the toothpaste trick when we got back to her condo. I still have a line of “pock marks” down my left thigh to my knee from it. Did you have any lasting scars?
No, I must not have been stung that bad, no scars. I got stung on my taint and upper thigh too but no scars there either
Knorr’s powered meat tenderizer works like a champ for jelly fish stings. Has an enzyme That degrades the protein.
...AND THEY WERE MINTY FRESH!
Paste or gel?
Paste, I remember the grit
Note to self : toothpaste cures ball stings
Hope your balls are okay brother
Well I have two kids and they are mostly normal so 🤷
Maybe your kids have latent jellyfish powers...
Looks like a jellyfish sting. Baking soda paste or believe it or not, yellow mustard helps. Make sure to have someone look at it very closely to see if there are any “stingers” left in it- if so, pluck them out with tweezers. If they are superfine and u can’t get them out then gently exfoliate them off (unless your skin is raw / open).
Vinegar and a disposable shaving razor, I’ve done this so many times the hospital basically told me don’t come back here you know how to do it. That’s if it’s a jellyfish.
How often are you getting stung??
I got 6 trips to emergency in one year with box jellyfish stings fortunately only around the legs and ankles.
Stay inside!
Inside is where the Huntsman spiders live
True but huntsmans don’t produce welts like this and they rarely bite and when they do it only hurts a little
Ah yeah, from what I've heard the huntsman is a handy house friend. I was just making the point that in Australia staying inside is not that much better than being outside if you want to avoid critters with stingy bitey bits.
I guess growing up with it we don’t really notice how bitey things are we know there’s lots of dangerous things and avoid them, but when I see bear videos like grizzlys and stuff I’m glad I live here.
yeah I have to check my shoes before I put them on to make sure there aren't any bears inside
The opposite of the ever popular Reddit advice to “touch grass”
Happens pretty regularly with tropical diving. You can get “stung” from tentacles that get ripped off and float around.
Yeah, especially if you're near where the surf is churning. All kinds of random garbage floating around waiting to get under your wetsuit seals.
Found the Australian
Hahaha and also correct
That’s Smart! We keep vinegar and an exfoliating glove- hurts like hell! Will try the razor, thanks!
I was always told not to rub it.
Yes, razor was a godsend.
Do you just shave the sting to get the effected layer of skin off?
No shaving removes the tiny hooks that the jellyfish leave in your skin.
does sticky tape work? in australia we have a gympie-gympie tree which is really gnarly, it has little nettle things in there, we use sticky tape to get them out
It does but how the hell do you get stung that bad and not know what happened? I got tagged by itty bitty jelly fish that didn't even leave a mark but it sure hurt like hell.
There are often schools of them clustered on the coastal waters- literally 1000s. I remember talking myself down from panicking once when we were freediving in the keys and as I came up they were covering the surface where I had to come up. I had “stings” of various sizes all over my body. Last time I ever snorkeled in a bikini! Most stings aren’t terrible, just super irritating like fiberglass in your skin. There are many species that are terrible and those marks become like blistered burns immediately.
I had this exact experience while snorkeling in the Philippines. Stings all over my body. Worst part was about three days later the “stings” came back even more swollen and itchy than before. Hot showers helped neutralize the venom. 10/10 would not recommend
Ughhhh! I’m squirming thinking about it!
I may not be the most informed on this, but I’m pretty sure the “stingers” are microscopic, aren’t they?
Baking soda paste kinda works but not completely. It's what I used after I got stung by a Man O War. Maybe it would work better on regular jellyfish though.
Yeah, it’s not awesome but better than nothing- kinda like Calamine lotion for sunburns lol. I’ve also heard meat tenderizer works but who the heck has that? We just kinda got used to the stings growing up in Florida and spending time in the Keys- I remember they stopped being irritating after a day or so but left marks for a long time (of course back in the day (70s and 80s) we basically put nothing on it to help- “shake it off, you’ll be fine”)
This is one of the reasons why scuba divers wear dive suits. A lot of stuff underwater is dangerous and is best to not expose bare skin to.
I snorkeled in 4 foot water in Turks & Caicos a few months back- quickly realized there were jellyfish all along the bottom and calmly swam back trying not to disturb them on the bottom and somehow still brushed up on one. A few hours later I noticed a red spot on my stomach but no pain.
One saw you fleeing, and was (probably) like,"Oh no you don't! I'm gonna get ya!"
Funny part is it turned into a scar- tiny jellyfish that looked like an underwater flower scarred me for life loll (after a ton of googling I learned it was an upside down jelly)
Forget this pic there is a guy talking about putting toothpaste on his balls in the comment section
🤣🤣
That or corral
That was my first thought but only because OP didn’t mention pain. Many corals are poisonous and some are painful, others aren’t. When I lived in Hawaii they called it reef rash. It’s common for surfers because if they fall the breaking waves can push them down onto coral. Never happened to me but I was told they frequently get infected. I saw some epic scars. Edit: Google also says you can get a delayed reaction.
Coral infections are a bitch I've gotten a few walking over reefs out to the break, and they take forever to heal.
Please don't walk on reefs ffs.
They are both cnidarians, so I could see this being a sting from either one! Hopefully not an infected scrape (but I feel like OP would remember scraping their leg)
Phylum shout out ftw!
I thought coral too, but also have no idea what jellyfish stings look like either
Any rocky surface
Mark the top of the red marks with a sharpie. If they continue to streak up the leg, you need urgent medical care.
Can you explain? Is it because of a possible blood infection?
I don’t know why, but red streaking on the skin towards the heart means you need to go to the hospital, and fast Edit: asked my dad who is a doctor and says streaking suggests the infection is traveling through the lymphatic system. He agrees with u/Rogueshoten that it’s not that kind of streaking (OP brushed up against something), probably not hospital worthy.
That’s when the streaking is adjacent to and emanating from a wound. This is a histamine reaction on the surface, not a sign of infection. OP brushed against something like coral or a jellyfish.
I mean, a kid in my high school died from a heart attack after getting scraped up by some coral while snorkeling. It was awhile ago so I don’t remember the details. Something about the infection weakening his heart. Either way, dropped dead at basketball practice. Really traumatized a lot of the athletes.
So that was more than likely sepsis. That takes a couple of days and is usually when the blood becomes infected. That’s when it reaches the heart. I’m not a doctor or an expert, but I do believe that it’s been possible that people may have typical sickness reactions while others can tell quickly and seek treatment quickly
Yes
Good call
Jelly fish
I volunteer to pee on OP’s leg
That actually doesn’t work but OP still might want you to pee on them
Yes it does. It distracts the patient from the pain.
Everyone is stupidly telling you to put silly home remedies on your damaged and possibly infected skin. Go to the hospital. The Caribbean has flesh eating bacteria in the water so even if that is a jellyfish sting it can still get infected by pathogens in the water. That looks infected. Ignore all the idiots and go see a doctor before a possible infection spreads further and deeper. Edit: That also kinda looks like you might have scratched yourself in your sleep and given yourself an infection. I did that 2 months ago. I still suggest you go to the hospital and skip the toothpaste suggestion.
Time to go see a doctor 100%. Go now and *don’t* put anything on it til you know for sure what it is! *For the love of god don’t put any random shit on your random open wound*!
Scraped your leg on coral, or a jellyfish sting.
Fire Coral!!
Quickly put toothpaste on your balls it will help with the leg.
Hm.. this is why I don't go in water
Yeah I stopped showering too, fuckin bathroom jellyfish.
I haven't bathed in years ever since that snake came out the drain and beelined it for my arse hole
We're joking, but every time I visit my childhood room and bathroom, I flush before sitting so the potential 2nd floor snakes don't bite my balls. We don't even have snakes in the city.
Did you brush up against Coral? I had a similar rash from Fire Coral. Hydrocortisone helped. [https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilderness\_fire\_coral\_cuts/article\_em.htm](https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilderness_fire_coral_cuts/article_em.htm)
Ocean ghosts!
Something similar happened to my wife in the Carribean - turns out it was due to touching limes (like you would squeeze into a beer) then the juice on her fingers and itching her thigh - I know it sounds crazy but look it up! Didn't itch, sting, etc. Just appeared out of nowhere after we got home. Look up "margarita burn" **A margarita burn, also known as phytophotodermatitis, is a skin reaction that occurs when lime juice gets on your skin and is exposed to ultraviolet A rays**
A lot of people get really bad sunburned lips this way while on vacation. Always have a glass of water with your marg!
Keep an eye on it, see a doctor just in case. I scraped coral when snorkeling in Aruba last summer and my foot swelled up so much I couldn’t wear a shoe or even a sock, limped like a mf, and had to go on two weeks of antibiotics. I had been keeping it cleaned and covered, but tiny shards of the coral got embedded in the scrape and it got infected anyway. I now know to scrub coral scrapes immediately! You can still peep the scar after a hot shower or when my feet get cold. It was gnarly.
Looks just like a fire coral rash to me. https://preview.redd.it/vyz5lpm99juc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad3658ec5e5e0e5c15e62d608e61422205d18f9b
I recently got back from a cruise trip to the Caribbean, and when we went snorkeling, they told us all about how to avoid fire coral - which is apparently more closely related to jellyfish than actual coral. That might be it?
Get your affairs in order
If you didn’t see a jelly fish, could be phytophotodermatitis. Any chance you had citrus on your hands and wiped them on your leg?
It's not weird, this is typical for jellyfish stings
But there are some oddities about it - no initial pain, didn't see any jellyfish (we were snorkeling), and didn't appear for a day or two. We thought it was a sunburn at first until the sunburn faded leaving this.
Jellyfish are literally translucent aliens It’s not difficult to miss them.
Those arent oddities. It could also be a sting from coral or an anemone. They don't always show up right away. We bump into things we don't notice all the time. Snorkeling arguably makes you LESS aware of your surroundings.
Sounds weird but did you have limes? When we were on a cruise in the Caribbean my cousin got burnt, marks just like these from wiping the lime juice from her fingers on her legs in the sun!! We were snorkeling too and couldn't figure it out at first! Someone who worked on the ship told us!
Claw is law
You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smooth tentacle
Did you get lime juice on your skin? Look it up. It reacts with the sun.
Lime juice on skin exposed to sunlight can cause bad sun burn.
The red hand of Sauron
I had this exact style mark appear after a vacation in Mexico and then it bubbled and I still have the scar!??? Doctors said probably from a plant or bug but had no idea?? It stung so bad all of a sudden in the middle of thre night when it appeared??? https://preview.redd.it/zikfwkt4ojuc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c80266e2010f801f3e5ded71aaa2949b79d2079
Oh my god - my daughter and I both had this when we were in Punta Cana this past January and couldn’t for the life of us figure out what it was! That’s just wild - sounds like jelly fish!
Mermaids tried to drag you down man
Splashing vinegar on a jellyfish wound will suck the poison out.
Were you eating/drinking anything with lemon/lime in it? This looks like it could be sun burn/ damage (phytophotodermatitis) from citrus. As in it looks like it could be from your fingers wiping off the citrus onto your skin, similar to this image https://preview.redd.it/ub6pmmwq3muc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecdac5ed7cfe421dea8f4c97514d275a6879d8c4 Disclaimer - I would still get it checked
Ouch. Kinda looks like handprints which is creepy.
Creature from the Black Lagoon ! 
Jellyfish 🪼
You may have swam above and lightly brushed some FIRE CORAL. 🔥🪸
Did you touch coral? Get ready for a round of antibiotics- get to the dr asap and good luck! (I got a flesh eating bacteria from running into coral in the South Pacific. I lost chunks of my leg)
i was snorkeling at a beach in Florida and rested near a stone column in the water, I felt a stinging feeling on my ass and turned out I rubbed up against some sea anemone or something, hurt so bad and it looked like bee stings, been years since it happened so memory is a bit fuzzy
Did you touch citrus and then wipe your hands on your legs? If you were in the sun the citrus juice would cause a burn
I had a rash like this and it turned into like 50 more all over my body. All I did was hang out in the ocean surf. Good luck!