https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 08:35:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-793962 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:17:19 +0000 BSB 793962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One time. Very minor, though. It was just a little irritation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-793246 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:24:02 +0000 BananaPancakes 793246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ree723: That was totally it!! I think I've seen it twice now. And I get so excited when I see them mentioned, for some reason. I think it's because they're so scary and because we don't have them here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-793222 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:35:32 +0000 Ree723 793222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BananaPancakes: I wonder if it was the same show my sister and I watched on the irukandji! It was two researchers, a man and a woman, out studying them, wearing stinger suits, but they both still managed to get hit with a broken tentacle I think? I can't remember how exactly it happened but the woman had the worse of the stings and I think spent two weeks in hospital. My sister and I still talk about that documentary we watched too!</p> <p>Regardless, I am petrified of the box jellyfish and stingers up here and will be sticking to our swimming pool! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792956 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:26:35 +0000 Maysprout 792956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've gotten a couple mild stings from small jellyfish, they itched and stung and swelled a bit but the marks were gone after a few days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792891 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:35:19 +0000 DigAPony 792891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, on my forearm while I was snorkeling in Mexico. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792884 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:31:32 +0000 AmeliaBedilia 792884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. DH and I were both stung in Africa. No jellyfish in sight and we were walking in the ocean in waist high water. I was stung, yelled, and then 5 seconds later, DH started yelling too. Good story now. this happened almost 3 months ago and the marks are still there but lighter. I wonder how long it will take. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792770 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:22:55 +0000 Meridian 792770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh my gosh, this is a scary thread! I can't believe so many of you actually have been stung! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792704 Sat, 18 May 2013 09:13:10 +0000 BananaPancakes 792704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh yeah, lots of times. Sometime during scallop season, they're all over the place, so you're whole body is basically stinging. I hate those years. </p> <p>@Ree723: My SIL and I watched a show years ago about the irukandji, and to this day we still talk about it. We have some weird obsession with them and will call each each other any time we see something on tv about box jellyfish. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792663 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:28:17 +0000 heffalump 792663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, when I was little. I have to admit, I'm still scared of the ocean because of that. But I still do go in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792653 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:21:34 +0000 Lindsay05 792653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, while snorkeling the GBR in Australia. Got me right above the lip. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792642 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:09:14 +0000 Anagram 792642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have, when I was about 14. It was really hilarious actually.</p> <p>I was on a church trip, and a guy not in our group was stung pretty badly by a jellyfish and the lifeguards were all helping him. So our youth group leader told us we should join hand and pray (in the water! LOL) for this guy. And about halfway through the prayer, my friend starts screaming. We all thought she was joking, and then I got stung, and then we all started getting stings. Ironic. </p> <p>A whole jellyfish colony ran into our prayer group. The crazy thing about jellyfish stings is that you can see exactly where they land on your body...like, I had an imprint of a jellyfish with it's tentacles on my leg.</p> <p>It was also super painful. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792563 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:47:52 +0000 Boheme 792563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, on the butt! I had actually gotten out of the water due to jellyfish and got back in for one second to rinse the sand off. An older man and his wife came to my rescue with a credit card to scrape the tentacles off! So embarrassing but it seriously helped! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792530 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:05:33 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 792530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, by a man-o-war jellyfish. I thought it was a piece of seaweed so I tried to kick it off, but it was actually a jellyfish and had wrapped itself around both of my legs. It felt like a million fire ants were stinging me at the same time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792526 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:51:29 +0000 skibobrown 792526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. I was stung by a portuguese man-o-war at the beach in Florida when I was younger. It was so excruciating. Way worse than a bee sting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792486 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:29:15 +0000 mrs. 64 792486@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, quite a few times. Pretty mild stings though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792425 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:32:04 +0000 anbanan15 792425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, some very mild stings and I've had "seabather's eruption" which was much worse, IMO. It's basically being stung by immature nematocysts like jellyfish and anemone larvae all over your body. </p> <p>During a fields study in a Bermudian mangrove forest nearly half my class received multiple stings from Cassiopea xamachana. The area of the study was covered in them and the majority of the students began to freak out...stirring the jellyfish to the surface with their flippers during our exercise even though they were told to remain calm and not kick. Sigh. So many people got stung by so many jellyfish! Luckily I was not one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792420 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:30:08 +0000 MsLipGloss 792420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: wow! You learn something new every day! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792411 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:35 +0000 lovehoneybee 792411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: "Despite its outward appearance, the man o' war is not a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which differs from jellyfish in that it is not actually a single organism, but a colonial organism made up of many minute individuals called zooids.[1] Each of these zooids is highly specialized, and, although structurally similar to other solitary animals, they are attached to one another and physiologically integrated to the extent that they are incapable of independent survival."</p> <p>(sorry, C&amp;P from wiki. I thought it was interesting, lol). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792403 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:21:16 +0000 babycanuck 792403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes - while swimming with dolphins with my niece in Jamaica. Mine wasn't too bad, my niece's was worse, and then DH got stung the next day on the beach at our resort. His was bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792399 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:20:11 +0000 MsLipGloss 792399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: I thought those were jellyfish? *scratcheshead* either way, OMG! That is so so scary! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792393 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:16:49 +0000 wheres_c 792393@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I went scuba diving, there were a ton, and one got my friend in the face! Luckily his mask was covering his eyes but his whole face was swollen! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792374 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:53:40 +0000 lovehoneybee 792374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. Not a jellyfish, but related: when I was younger my, a brother, a stepbrother and my dad were out surf fishing off of Padre Island. They were about 100 ft ahead of me (I was trying to bait my hook) and suddenly my dad screams at me to get back to shore. I think there's a shark or something, because all three of them are moving away, and then all three of them are screaming. </p> <p>Turns out my dad had walked into a Portuguese Man O' War. My brother and stepbrother backed away from him...right into a second one. I was far enough back to avoid being stung, but my brother had a tentacle wrap around his leg from his calf to his groin (sort of like a candy cane). </p> <p>I don't remember how bad my dad and stepbrother were stung, but they were all in agony. Someone on the beach gave them vinegar to pour on the stings, but apparently that makes it worse (I don't remember how they reacted to it, it was nearly 20 years ago.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792358 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:37:01 +0000 littlepenguin 792358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, once while diving. We were on the surface swimming and I pushed one away with my gloved hand. Without thinking I touched my face. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792341 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:30:05 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 792341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, thankfully! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792335 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:27:51 +0000 travelgirl1 792335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, while snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It hurt like hell but I was so seasick (and hungover, awful combo, ha) that getting back on the boat felt even worse, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792319 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:16:12 +0000 MsLipGloss 792319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ree723: I just did some googling - holy crap! that is really scary stuff! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792299 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:09:36 +0000 Pepper 792299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thankfully, no! I have seen them wash ashore in South Florida though... which should make me nervous about going in the ocean, but I still do. They gross me out! </p> [attach=830/13/mmyz80.400x434.photo--13-.JPG] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792287 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:05:18 +0000 Smurfette 792287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792282 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:03:33 +0000 wheres_c 792282@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. Hurts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-been-stung-by-a-jellyfish#post-792275 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:01:35 +0000 Ree723 792275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, but living in Australia, it's a perpetual fear of mine! Of course the jellyfish here are fatal (box jellyfish from Oct - May) or excruciatingly painful (irukandji) and so it's something I'm hyper aware of when swimming in the ocean! </p>