What kind of insect bit me?

Wow! I got bitten by something yesterday. Woke up this morning and noticed the area between my bottom lip and my chin was swollen. I can definitely see a bite mark as well which was white this morning but has now receded.

I know, not much to go on.

I’m in Phoenix, Arizona and have not been anywhere remotely rural in weeks. The only places I was yesterday was home, church, and a convenience store.

Does it hurt? Itch?

No real itching. Not really that painful, most of the pain is from the swollen aspect of it. Kind like that numbness you experience from Novocaine.

Could possibly be Brown Recluse, which would be very bad: http://phoenix.gov/fire/bitessna.html
Talk to poison control. Now.

Impossible to diagnose online. Heck, even doctors mistakenly diagnose things as spider bites which aren’t. It really could be anything.

Well, I hope it wasn’t a house centipede, like the one that bit me last summer. >shudder<

Didn’t know they had those.

Based on the bite location, maybe the kissing bug?