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    Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    I went out to take the garbage out the other night and afterwards that night I found some kind of two pronged bite on my leg. My mind immediately went to a bat and “OMG it is rabies!”

    now the bite is tingling some. And, it’s been five days. I am really scared it was actually a bat even though I didn’t see or feel or hear one. And, it is rabies.

    I went to the immediate care yesterday and the nurse said it didn’t look anything like a bat bite though. But, the tingling didn’t start till after I got home.

    I tried so hard to believe her. But, with it tingling now I can’t.

    Please help me.

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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    Okay:

    * Ninja bats aren't a thing
    * If you didn't see something bite you you don't even know if it is a bite
    * That tingling? Probably because you're hyperfocusing on the area
    * You don't have rabies. You don't
    * Look into getting help/more help for your anxiety
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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    God bless you BlueIris.

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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    Quote Originally Posted by BlueIris View Post

    * Ninja bats aren't a thing
    Spoilsport! You'll be telling us there's no Easter Bunny next!
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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
    Spoilsport! You'll be telling us there's no Easter Bunny next!
    Oh, there is, though! How do you think you get chocolate raisins?
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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    Eww. Haha.

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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    Quote Originally Posted by BlueIris View Post
    Oh, there is, though! How do you think you get chocolate raisins?
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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    Freaking out again. Now I have a temperature. It’s 98.7 really worrying me as I stay between 96.9 and 97.7.

    I can’t stop thinking I’m gonna die.

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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    Quote Originally Posted by elswordfish View Post
    Freaking out again. Now I have a temperature. It’s 98.7 really worrying me as I stay between 96.9 and 97.7.

    I can’t stop thinking I’m gonna die.
    I'm glad you said 'temperature' because that's a more accurate word as opposed to 'fever'. How is 98.7 a fever and how would one die from a 'normal' body temp? (and don't give me the 'for me' nonsense )

    Sorry to be so blunt but your thinking is totally skewed here.

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    Re: Health anxiety back. Focused hard on rabies. Actually bitten by something.

    Ok, so your body temperature has gone up by 1 degree from your usual checking - you do know that a bodys temperature varies during the day, during weather conditions and from anxiety ?

    "normal" body temperature can fall within a wide range, from 97 F to 99 F. It's usually lower in the morning and goes up during the day.
    Why a bat ? WHy not a snake or spider ? Or a hornet sting ?
    Last edited by Carys; 12-06-21 at 12:55.

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