Comments on: What It’s Like to Get Stung by a Lionfish… A Reminder to Wear Gloves

By: Jbell

Jbell — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:30:00 +0000

Stug by lionfish, while in the Cayman Islnds. The fish injected its spine into left middle finger. After soaking in hot water, swelling reach all the way to my shoulder before it stopped. My finger proceeded to turn black and I was in tremendous pain, like nothing experienced before. 5 hour later was in the ER where after having IV peds, I was taken in to have the dead black skin cut away. Leaving me with a hole in my finger the size of a nickel. Have returned back to the states. My hand is still numb………will see a doctor first of next week. Avoid all contact with lionfish

By: jeffry r. johnston

jeffry r. johnston — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:21:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing the link and finally satisfying this curiosity of “I wonder what it’s like to…”

By: stunreefer

stunreefer — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:55:21 +0000

While working in a local fish store a few years back I had the pleasure of experiencing this… not fun! It was a baby Volitan, and you’d think it would not be too bad… wrong! At the time I wish it would’ve bit off my hand and gotten the whole thing over with

By: Jeremy Maneyapanda

Jeremy Maneyapanda — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:04:53 +0000

Over ten years ago, I got whacked by a lion with 4 good strikes across the back of my hand. For 15 days my hand was swollen to the point of not being able to touch my index finger to my thumb. The pitting edema continued for about a month. The pain for the first day is something I wont forget. I actually bit my tongue several times (which, I guess constitutes chewing) and didnt even know it because of the pain. I will never again house a lionfish, or other venomous fish.

By: Nicholas Sadaka

Nicholas Sadaka — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:08:48 +0000

My brother and I just saw a case of a lionfish stinging on Animal Planet this weekend where the guy had a severe reaction…certainly does not seem pleasant. They also have these series from I guess the with John Stoneman and I’ve found 2 sets at Best Buy-one 6 disc series was about the Coral Reef and the other was about Killers of the Reef and one episode was specifically about poisonous and venomous creatures. They showed a ray using it’s barb on a dummy leg, they disected a scopionfishes spines so you could see the venom and it was all very interesting. I’d really recommed his series’ if you can find them.