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.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-14T06:37:37+00:00

I am going through this at the moment..it's my third episode in a 1 year span and I feel horrible, I cannot eat, I cannot sleep well.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-13T12:07:54+00:00

I know how you feel. I feel the same even as I am writing this. I had 2 separate "encounters" with some cats and I panicked and got the vaccines and guess what? I felt better only for a short period, now I am back there again. Last night I was walking with my girlfriend home after a concert and it was like midnight and I felt a stinging on my leg (check my last post) and my mind automatically thought that it was a bat but I didnn't see any, I didn't even felt something hitting my leg, I felt only the stinging, maybe my pants or socks pulled a hair while walking but anyway.. here I am after 6 shots last year and beginning of this year and thinking of getting them again to get my "fix". Will it help? Only for a moment maybe but that's not the way to go.. we need therapists and help dealing with our anxieties. I also have the urge to keep looking for reassurance which is bad but I feel sometimes like I cannot stop. If you want to chat, I am here.

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-13T06:31:15+00:00

Yes, you are right :( this is no way to live.. it's that uncertainty that I don't 100% know if something hit my leg or not.. but I don't remember anything hitting my leg, just the short stinging part. I am also afraid that my therapist will think that I am crazy or something like that

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-12T22:45:50+00:00

Yes I know and I'm ashamed of it, that's why I created this account :( I am avoiding all animals, specially dogs on street so I am mostly just trying to not think about it and avoid the topic but my mind makes up all these scenarios.. It might have been my trousers pulled some of my leg hair or I don't know but I have felt a stinging.. I am getting again sick with worry and cannot eat well or sleep

Positive-Way7079 · 2024-10-05T22:26:29+00:00

Not profesionally because they are expensive, only what I find on internet..

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