I recived a sting from this scorpion about a month ago........ It is a three and a half inch female...... I was stung while retrieving a molt from the cage...... I did not see her sitting right next to the molt...... As I grabbed for the shed I placed my index finger right on her back...... I took the sting on the side of the finger right at the first joint...... At first I felt nothing more than a pin prick...... As the minutes ticked by the pain increased...... On a pain scale from 1-10 I would give it an 8 or a 9 at the worst of it...... It kind of felt like the after effect of hitting your finger with a hammer...... Alot of thobbing and a constant pain...... Nothing I did made the pain any less...... The pain spred all the way up to the wrist and at one point to parts of the forarm...... The finger swelled to about two times its normal size..... I was not able to move my finger at about an hour into sting...... Very painfull..... The whole time I was waiting to feel sick and light headed but it never came.... The pain started to go away after about 9 hours and the swelling was gone about 2 days later...... I got full mobility in my finger about 4 days after and the site of the sting was sore for a good week and a half....... I did not recieve any medical help and had no lasting affects after the pain and swelling went away......