Hi all. I went water skiing on a freshwater lake a few days ago. Someone brought up brain eating amoeba as a joke and it freaked me out! I then proceeded to look it up and realized you can get it from warm fresh water lakes if you get water up your nose. I didn’t inhale water through my nose but it definitely splashed me while I was skiing in the face and some probably got in my nose. Anyway now I am concerned I could have the brain eating amoeba. I have a lot of health problems already going on including a pretty bad immune system. I have frequent headaches and just keep thinking I could be coming down with the brain eating amoeba. I know it’s extemley rare and thousands of people swim in lakes every summer and don’t get it but I can’t help but think I’ll somehow be the one in a million. One person has had it in the state of from so I’m scared it may have been the same lake!
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