Has anyone here ever been stung by a jellyfish, trodden on a stone or scorpion fish or been bitten by a sea snake?

Only on Fluther! Actually, the beach I live near in Florida has many rays at cetain times of year and people do get stung. I’ve not been but heard it is very painful and the best treatment is applying the hottest water you can. People have told me it stings for a week. I don’t know if there are medical treatments as well.

I have been stung by them in North Carolina.No treatment necessary as I am invincible.
It was pretty mild and I did nothing…Man O Wars are a different story…a friend told me that he buried a guy in wet sand until EMS arrived.

I was stung by a jellyfish on my honeymoon. My hubby thought it would help to rub sand on it… wrong. We bought benadryl cream and I took benadryl pills (which make me miserable), but basically everything hurt for a few days (clothes, air, movement, etc.). It slowly got better and eventually went away.

For those people that live in jelly areas this infomation may be of use to you:
A recent study by Birsa et al., (2010) have shown traditional methods to treat jellyfish stings to be incorrect. Ethanol, ammonia and vinegar have been proven to increase nematocyst discharge and increase pain when stung by a portuguese man-of-war, the sea nettle or the sea wasp. Vinegar is thought to help in stings in some species of jelly sting however if you get stung by any of these 3 do no put vinegar or alcohol on the sting! Lidocaine antiseptic spray is apparently the best thing to put on a jellyfish sting.
This is what Birsa et al., state in their results:

When different chemicals were added to skin in contact with tentacles
the sensation felt was divided into three categories: (1) treatment
caused an immediate relief or at least a reduction in the stinging sensation
relative to the untreated arm in contact with a tentacle piece; (2)
treatment caused an increased stinging sensation compared to untreated arm; (3) treatment did not produce any noticeable difference compared
to the untreated arm. Deionized water, meat tenderizer and urea
treatments fell into category 3 while ammonia, ethanol and acetic acid
were in category 2. Lidocaine hydrochloride solutions fell into category 1
since they reduced the pain associated with the jellyfish stings and
reduced the amount of swelling and redness associated with jellyfish
exposure.

Birsa et al., (2010) Evaluation of the effects of various chemicals on discharge of and pain caused by jellyfish nematocysts. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 151, 426–430

I was stung once around my knee my a Portugese Man-of-war when I was around 9 and I’ll never forget it! First my knee started itching and then swelling immediately. My dad peed on my leg, which I later found out was not proven to help any. I can’t say that it didn’t help but perhaps knowing that my dad was trying to help me made me feel a little better…despite that his help included urine :)

We live very close to Long Island Sound. The water is cold most of the year, but in late summer it warms up enough to make swimming tolerable (or maybe I’m just a wimp). Unfortunately, the jellyfish arrive with the warm water. I stay out of the water, but my insane children do not. One summer, we had the kids at the beach and, in spite of the jellyfish being clearly visible, our daughter decided to go swimming. She was about 8 or 9 at the time. Well, we were sitting on our towel watching her, when all of a sudden she started screaming and made a mad dash for the shore. In between sobbing and crying, she managed to tell us she’d been stung several times by a jellyfish. The lifeguards at the beach keep spray bottles of vinegar nearby, and one of them came over to spray her wherever she said she’d been stung. Within a few minutes, she said the stings barely hurt. She described the feeling as “being repeatedly stabbed by red-hot needles.” She had faint red marks where she’d been stung. :(

The next time we went to the beach, there were even more jelly fish. Our daughter still went swimming. She took a beach net with her and used it to move jellyfish out of her way. She’s either very brave or just plain crazy, but she didn’t get stung again. Now we take our own spray bottle of vinegar to the beach and I spend even less time in the water.

I got attacked by a nest of wasps once. An underground nest I stepped on while climbing up a hill to get out of some small woods. I feel a sting on my ankle, it’s just one sting and I’m like fuck it…before I discovered video games, I used to want to be an entomologist haha, so I got stung plenty of times catching bugs.

But then I started feeling stings everywhere on my legs, and ran up the hill in a panic, by that time they were all over my shirt and in my hair. I freaked out, but luckily most of the wasps weren’t stinging me, except the ones on my legs and on my hands while frantically brushing away the ones on my shirt and from my hair.

I’m unsure if wasps are poisonous, some are but I denno about the common wasp, I don’t think so, but I got home and took a bath to soothe the pain. It took forever, and I had marks on my legs and hands for like three days but it eventually went away. :/