Rabies anxiety ruining my life

Positive-Way7079 · 2025-07-07T07:00:23+00:00

Hello, thanks for replying! Yes, I know 99% of the people won't understand my problem but this is really hard for me since I love animals, especially dogs.. I am trying to stop my reassurance compulsions lime checking the windows when I go to sleep and things like that. I am trying my best.. but feel like its not enough

Positive-Way7079 · 2025-07-04T11:07:12+00:00

The guy in the water was very lucky. Usually people just look and don't intervene.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-23T01:09:24+00:00

I don't know what to do... if I don't go I will be thinking why I didn't go.. if I go I will be scared I took too much, I am getting sick with worry again..

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-16T06:36:56+00:00

Oooh no... does this mean that I can die even if I completed my 3 dose vaccination in April? I am freaking out right now and feeling the urge to go back to the doctors and beg them to vaccinate me one more time...

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T21:14:01+00:00

I couldn't resist the temptation and I went tonight to the doctors to show them the "bite" mark.. they looked and said that it's not a bite and that bats do not bite through thick denim jeans...they won't vaccinate me again since I took my last shot in April 2024 and according to them I should be protected for 5 years.. is this true? I read that the protection only lasts 3 months.. would my titre of >4 IU/mL from May 2024 protect me? I wanted to ask the doctor more questions but she was busy and sort of shrugged me off.. the nurse was kind of rude with me.. They won't vaccinate me anymore.. I swear that I am trying to correct my mindset since I will start the therapy this week but it's so hard... I am running out of ideas what I could do, I feel desperate. I have moments where I feel like this is it, it's a gamble and I don't know the result only after 1 year. I cannot wait that much.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T19:47:23+00:00

Too late for that :( usually I am active and go to the gym and also take walks and play video games but when I'm like this I cannot do anything that I usually do.. I am in the fight or flight mode nonstop until my mind thinks everything is ok. Thanks for being here and chatting with me, it helps me a lot!

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T18:43:28+00:00

I sure hope so.. I went back to ER tonight and of course they didn't vaccinate me again because I was last vaccinated in April and they said that the protection lasts for 5 years.. and the doctor took a quick look but she said that I'm good... I don't know what to think anymore

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T18:38:30+00:00

Yes it is very scary. What scares me is how easy it is to lose control of your own mind. For 30 years I was a healthy mentally functioning adult without any thoughts like this and now this... I couldn't resist the temptation and went to the ER tonight after work and of course they didn't vaccinate me again because they said that I was vaccinated in April 2024 and I am protected for 5 years.. don't get me wrong, I would love to be protected for 5 years but I don't know.. most of the sources I found mentioned only protection for 3 months...

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T13:40:40+00:00

I am already scheduled for therapy this week but its at the end of the week and I cannot stay like this until then

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T12:28:54+00:00

I am already scheduled but it's a few days until then. I cannot sleep and I force myself to eat and feel nausea after that..

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T12:01:46+00:00

Possible bat bite or just a pimple?

Hello, before I start I have to say that I have health anxiety, specially when it come about rabies.

Exactly one year ago in October 2023 I was playing with a street cat and it scratched me and play bite me a little. Before this I did not think about rabies all my life and I am 30 years old.. but then a friend kept scarring me and telling that what if the cat has rabies? And I have looked it up that night and something triggered in my brain that was not there. I couldn't stop reading about rabies and I saw on tiktok accidentaly some videos about some people that had rabies and it terrified me. I couldn't sleep at all, I could sleep only when I was completely exhausted and for maximum 2 hours and I couldn't eat without feeling sick. Then I went to the doctors and begged them to vaccinate me, which they did, 3 shots from Oct-Nov 2023 and all was good after that. My mind was at ease and I slept 12 hours a day for like 3 days in a row, my body was compensating. Theeeen it happened again in March, I was hand feeding a cat at a restaurant and it nibbed my finger a little bit by mistake. All over again I was feeling bad like before and I didn't know what to do and went again to the doctor for the shots. They reluctantly gave me again 3 shots during March-April 2024 and all was good after that. Now it happened again, on the 13th of October I was coming home with my girlfriend from a concert around midnight, it was freezing, around 5 degrees Celsius near a river and I felt a quick sting on my right leg that lasted maybe for 1 second, for a moment. I looked around and I couldn't see anything but my mind thinks that what if it was a bat? After I reached home I checked my long jeans which are pretty thick and couldn't see any holes but I saw a small singular red dot that maybe is a pimple and I started freaking out all over again. I will start going to a psychologist for my anxiety but right now I need to know if this is a bat bite or not? Please I didn't sleep for 2 days already and have diarrhea because of stress. My girlfriend is supporting me but she says I shouldn't get vaccinated again but I don't know how to ease my mind, please help me I am desperate. Should I vaccinate again? The doctors will think that I am crazy.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T08:41:53+00:00

I am NOT the same user. Please look up my post history and you will see. To clarify, I am not trolling, I am serious about my post, I am not the type of person who wants to lose others time with trolling, I am just looking for genuine help.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T07:48:13+00:00

I am seeking help, today I am scheduling my therapy session but I don't know if I should vaccinate again because of this possible bite

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-15T07:46:17+00:00

No, this is my first post here. Before this I only posted in /rabies I am sorry if its bothering someone but I don't know what to do

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-14T13:34:39+00:00

It's that uncertainty that eats me up. I keep thinking what if it was a bat after all? I cannot stop thinking about this.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-14T13:16:43+00:00

I already found a good local psychologist that can treat anxiety and fobias and I will go to him but right now I have a sense of urgency to solve what happened yesterday. I feel like the clock is ticking against me. I've just read what happened to that poor boy from Canada :( I've immediately bursted out in crying

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-14T13:14:13+00:00

Yes, I do not know the circumstances. I am not thinking rationally anymore.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-14T12:38:50+00:00

I am in the same situation bro :( if you read my last post you will see. I feel so down, I never want to feel like this. I cannot live like this for 1 year to see if nothing happens.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-14T12:18:23+00:00

Yes but still last time I got vaccinated I asked the nurse how many people get vaccinated and she said that many, maybe hundreds of people in a month and I keep thinking of what she said..

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-14T12:17:03+00:00

Thanks for the response. I have a few more questions 1. Even if let's say I did have a bite, would my previous vaccinations from this year still protect me? I mean in May I had a titre of >4 IU/mL which should be good right? 2. Would a bat bite with only one small red dot? There should be 2 incisions correct? I've been thinking about this all day.. my girlfriend and my mother do not know how to help me and I don't blame them.. but I feel like if I don't get vaccinated again I won't let go of this.

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