A woman from Tennessee has been rushed to the ER with dozens of bites over her body, the result of an infestation of brown recluse spiders in her apartment.

Angela Wright of Brentwood, Tennessee, has been monitoring the spiders in her apartment for weeks and constantly begs her building management to do something about the problem.

She has found almost 50 of them lurking in the apartment she shares with her fiancee Victoria Owen.

Until recently, the worst of it were the itchy bites all over her body. She went to a doctor and they gave her medication but she began to feel worse.

Angela Wright was rushed to hospital in Tennessee with dozens of bites all over her body. They caused a blood clot in her lungs

Soon, she was in the ER with a tight chest and having experience hallucinations.

Staff there told her that the bites had somehow caused a blood clot and that it traveled into one of her lungs.

'I realized I needed to go the ER when my chest was hurting. I had a sharp pain in my chest,' Wright told CBS.

'I couldn't walk, I couldn't move and I could barely swallow.

They said I was forming bubbles in my lungs, which could have caused pneumonia, and they said if I would have waited a few more hours or maybe until the next morning if I would have made it, I would have had a stroke,' she told NBC affiliate WSMTV.

Wright has found almost 50 brown recluse spiders in the apartment she lives in in Tennessee

Another of the spiders is seen (left). The woman drew pen around her bites to see if they would grow, as is known to happen, (right) before going to hospital

Wright and her fiancee Victoria Owen have now moved out of the spider-infested home

Wright said she had no idea how dangerous it was until she was there.

Brown Recluse Spiders (file image) release what is known as necrotic venom when they bite

'The bite formed two blood clots that went to my lungs.

'I was seconds from a stroke,' she added.

She now has to take blood thinners for the rest of her life and claims one of the doctors told her that she should not have children.

Now, she is trying to break her lease but claims the management at her building will not allow her to without paying $2,200.

'They said the only thing they can do is give me a 60-day notice and I will have to fulfill that.

'This isn't my problem. I came here thinking this was a nice place to live,' she said.

Brown Recluse Spiders are one of four species which can be harmful to humans in the US.

It releases necrotic venom when it bites which can be fatal in the worst cases.