Best On-Bike Bee Sting Remedies?

[kmehrzad]

Hopefully you'll never get stung on the inside of your lip as I did a month ago while on my ride 20 miles from home. OUCH! That sucker hung onto my lip for dear life. I almost crashed but managed to pull back on the trail and continue the ride. It's the worst pain I've felt since childbirth. My lip was swelling and aching all the way home and even into the following day (and that was after benedryl and icing it).

[tulip]

Ssssting Stop. I don't know how many s's, but there's a few. You can get it at a drugstore.

[Blueberry]

There used to be little green tubes called sting kill (single app). Some pharmacies carry them. They work on bees and fire ants...

Here ya go: http://www.sting-kill.com/

CA

[VeloVT]

Hopefully you'll never get stung on the inside of your lip as I did a month ago while on my ride 20 miles from home. OUCH! That sucker hung onto my lip for dear life. I almost crashed but managed to pull back on the trail and continue the ride. It's the worst pain I've felt since childbirth. My lip was swelling and aching all the way home and even into the following day (and that was after benedryl and icing it).

This happened to me this summer too. I didn't almost crash, but it was a scary moment because it happened just as I was being passed by a minivan on a quiet residential street (no shoulders, pretty narrow). I was consumed by anxiety that I would swallow the bee -- I was breathing hard at the time and it seemed like for a few seconds it was flying around in my mouth (I'm not 100% sure this actually happened, but it was a moment of panic because the second it hit my lip I knew it was a bee and it had stung me. Somehow it got spit out , and somehow I managed to hold my line and not steer into the minivan.

Luckily there was a woman in her garden who saw me stop and probably heard me shout unintelligibly to my boyfriend. She let me go into her bathroom so I could take out the stinger. I don't think I've ever been stung before, so I was surprised at how large and intact the stinger was. I have always read that you are supposed to scrape the stinger out, so I expected it to be difficult to see/grasp. The stinger in my lip was maybe 3/4 of a centimeter long and quite easy to pull out. Half of my lower lip swelled up pretty big for 24 hours, then it got better. It wasn't really that big of a deal in the scheme of things, since I'm not allergic, but it made for a scary couple of seconds.