I believe I was. I was bitten on the back of my thigh and I would up with a super itchy large rash which eventually went away, but it hurt like the dickens.
My daughter got bit last year and ended up in the ER. They said they thought it was a brown recluse but wasn't sure. She was on two different antibiotics.
Yes, Ive been bitten by Tarantulas, Black Widows, Brown recluses, and many other types, mostly growing up in the SW US but do to my size spider bites really have little effect, so far. I don't go looking for spiders, they find me and have been bitten twice by western diamondback rattlesnakes which were a tad more serious but still here