So I've had my 6yo female pastel for about 2 months now. She was totally docile and calm with daily handling. 2 weeks ago today, she bit me hard during her feeding due to stupid human error on my part.

Within a few days after the bite, she went blue, so I left her alone until she finished shedding, which was over this past weekend. Well, now when I open her cage, she recoils like I've never seen. When I put my hand on her tail to pick her up, she recoiled hard and hissed at me. I tried a couple of times over the weekend with the same results... very atypical from how she was before the bite/shed. Has anyone else seen similar behavior, and if so, how long did it take for the python to settle down again?

Ever since the bite, I personally feel more nervous around her. I definitely want to handle her like before, but when she recoils hard like that, my new instinct is to pull my hand back just as fast in anticipation of a strike. I wonder if she knows that I am more wary of her bites now, and can sense it, and is responding to that? Sorta like a vicious circle? I don't know, pretty strange and I hope both of us can get back on better terms with each other!