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All spiders have the potential to bite, but only a few can actually pierce human skin (they tend to be the larger ones). I was bitten by a giant house spider once (I was trying to pick it up to put it outside) it left two pin pricks of blood in the end of my finger, there were no other side effects.
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other night I felt a splinter sensation back of the thigh and it started to throb a bit so dropped-trou to much eye-rolling from Mrs Pasty and she eventually had a look and said "it's a bite, erm, and I know where from" and looked at the floor where having dropped out of my PJs was a half squished dead brown spider (medium sized). It throbbed for good few hours and I convinced myself I was sweating and getting shooting pains and numbness around the balls. It eased after 4-5 hours but I could still feel a little discomfort for 24 hours and some sensitivity for a couple of days - now, 5 days later, there's just a small hard lump at the bite site....never been bitten by a spider before hence my unnecessary panic - what species was it likely to have been? Medium brown and probably 1.5" diameter