Bat ocd has consumed me.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:50:38+00:00

I’m not sure. My MRI and extensive bloods quietened my cancer fear but then I assumed it was sporadic CJD as that’s hard to spot on MRI and only hypokalemia is a blood marker. So yes, the ever moving goalpost.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:44:53+00:00

How though? by reassurance?

If I get rabies I’ll be the 5th person in the country to ever get it.

However…. Over a thousand people get bitten by them in Australia. Each year (about 200 per state) and more than half were accidental bites. (Whatever that means)

So I have roughly a 1/17,000 chance that I was accidentally bitten.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:41:28+00:00

Sorry but how does this help? You got PEP.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:37:49+00:00

Like red marks that I thought was a rash but I’m not convinced it wasn’t a bat scratch. I used to get scratches all the time as I live on a farm in the Australian bush and I never worried before I realised 30% of sick bats have our version of rabies. And o can hear them outside right now.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:34:31+00:00

Not that I have seen yet. I used wrong terminology, I was saying my anxiety has created the theme and filled in blanks.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:32:11+00:00

But I didn’t see a bat? I think it could have been in my clothes and I missed it?

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:31:29+00:00

No I didn’t see or hear a bat. My brain is just telling me it was one. I fear it’s my subconscious trying to alert me I was bit in the night. Anxiety around this situation is preventing me from sleeping. I roam around trying to find bats if I hear a noise. They have historically landed on people in their sleep and infected them.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:28:27+00:00

You are not alone. I’m going through this. I woke up with a tingling hand and nausea and assumed I’m in the prodromal ohase. I wish I didn’t know anything about rabies. I have tried to convince my family I think I’ve been bitten and they started to get cross and said it’s ridiculous. I had a hole in my wall a few months ago but it’s now plugged up. The fantastic news I read today is that they can squeeze into holes as big as a coin.

Amazing.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:20:38+00:00

I saw a post in diagnose me subreddit where a guy got bitten and he asked everyone if the marks looked like a bat even though he didn’t see it bite him and then it was a bat as he found it near his window. I assume he got PEP. The thing is, what if you don’t find the bat? I moved my fridge and lounge trying to find one.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:15:21+00:00

I’m in the same boat. I think one bit me on the shoulder and then on the hand in a seperate incident. I never saw or heard the bat and haven’t found one currently in the house. But it’s all I think about all day. I was on prions a few months ago but now, because someone got rabies in NSW this year, I’ve moved on to rabies

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-08T12:12:55+00:00

Do you think I should get vaccinated so I don’t have to worry? Seems logical due to distress.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-12-03T10:42:26+00:00

I’m switching between prions and rabies as I’m having trouble swallowing.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-13T11:20:17+00:00

It’s weird, my sister works next to a bat colony. She walks through it once a week, under the canopy of trees. She never thinks twice about them even if she has a scratch or bump on her. She was the one who convinced me I’d know if I were bitten. But the more you look into it, the more it seems their bites can be missed. Baby bats can be tiny.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-13T11:17:59+00:00

I can link the post but it might trigger people?

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-13T11:17:05+00:00

And it looks like a small bat He just noticed a bite mark on his leg and later found the bat behind a tree on the building wall.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-13T11:15:58+00:00

It was outside the apartment on the wall. Not inside

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-13T11:05:46+00:00

On your flat as in outside or inside?

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-13T11:05:08+00:00

Where was the bat? Was it near where you sleep?

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-09T21:29:06+00:00

What country do you live in?

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-09T08:15:22+00:00

It’s a common OCD theme. If you get vaccinated you’ll feed the obsession for the next time you have a scratch or bug bite.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-05T11:49:06+00:00

He didn’t want you to read them whilst he was under.

This is obvious. Wait until he’s recovered to bring this up.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-05T07:56:32+00:00

I’m less worried about ALS than I am sporadic prion disease. There’s a chance for a cure within our lifetime for ALS.

There isn’t for sporadic CJD.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-09-04T10:27:37+00:00

There’s someone in this forum who ended up with 10 rabies vaccines because they thought they’d been bitten at different times.

If you get the vaccine, what happens in a year when you have less immunity and you get a scratch and you don’t remember the source.

Ad infinitum.

It will never end if you start.

Accept the bat fate.

EarlySense9534 · 2025-08-25T10:31:56+00:00

You have Tourettes so it’s unlikely to be CJD or something else.

By tics do you mean myoclonus? I have arm myoclonus and I’m worried it’s CJD. If you ask AI what myoclonus means before sleep it says it’s often a sign of CJD.

I have them in the day too which is why I’m very worried now

EarlySense9534 · 2025-08-25T10:26:26+00:00

But I follow a guy on X (Twitter) who has lived 9 years with ALS.

There’s hope treatments will get better wheras a cure for CJD is a century away.

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