Scared over rabies.

[MagpieWitch]

We are actually very very sensitive to things that are unknown to our body. Yeah if someone you know is near you and accidentally touches you you might not be jumpy. But when our body feels a foreign and strange thing in its close proximity all those nice instincts we have from our predecessors fire up.

I am saying if the bat got close it wouldn't swatted you with the wing or made a lot of noise and you would've woken up even if asleep. It was on your face. We wake up from mosquitoes flying near us.

And 2nd thing, bats cannot fly, they glide. They can't take off. So if it went down on your face to bite you, it wouldn't be able to fly off without you feeling it. They can't take off from the ground they gotta climb and let go and then glide. And there's no way a bat can bite you multiple times in a silent flight you wouldn't feel.

Your little wounds are def from biting your mouth and I have a lot of those too cause my lips are often dry. Please don't worry over this, it's literally impossible!

[elswordfish]

I cannot stop flipping out about it. I know it's impossible but my HA is screaming "it's possible. It happened. Go the ER" I cannot stop flipping out.

I am so scared that I am somehow gonna be the person to die from this.

[elswordfish]

I just cannot stop looking at my lips. I see like 7 places. One is on the other side of the same lip.

ETA: My left shoulder is starting to hurt. I am getting really scared now. There's nothing they can do now if it was a bat bite. I will die.

I keep going back and forth with myself between thinking why me and thinking that this is ridiculous. That there's no way it's a bat bite because I didn't see or feel the bat and these marks are all over my top lip.

[MagpieWitch]

Please try and calm down. You shoulder pain has nothing to do with it. If you read articles and they said that people got arm/shoulder pain, it's because thats the bite site. Its not a symptom.
Also no bat can bite you 7 times without you noticing on the most sensitive part of your body. He would need to stop and touch your face.
People bitten by bats they dont remember wake up with the bat on them but thats like one case reported by some news site. Most people that encountered rabid bats know they were bitten because they handle them.
Also another thing about bites: they are painful cause the saliva is dirty. I got a scratch on my hand by a kitten and it hurt. My friend was bitten by a hamster and her hand swole. You would have an immediate noticable reaction like swelling or redness - not just dots.
Please I know I am a stranger online but I am convinced you weren't swooped by a bat 7 times, I really hope you can calm down :(

[elswordfish]

My cat bit me and that hurt and now I am worried that he has it. That was about 2 weeks ago and he's alive and not sick. So probably not.

But, thank you for telling me about it hurting because that is a bite site. My lips don't hurt.

My leg where my cat bit me hurt like hell. But, he's alive and perfectly healthy. So, he didn't give me rabies. I need to stop worrying.

[MagpieWitch]

Your healthy domestic cat does not have rabies and yes if it was 2 weeks ago definetly no rabies.
Also see it has to hurt.
Your lip marks are not from a bat.
You are fine and you don't have rabies.

[paranoid-viking]

So. This morning I was laying down and had my eyes closed. I wasn't asleep. I heard something fall (I say that because I noticed my fever thermometer did fall from one of my containers to another one) or scurry and I was thinking it may be a mouse because I've had them pop in my room before.

Well. I thought I felt a tingle on my lips when I had my eyes closed. I set up and looked around and didn't see anything.

I looked in the mirror and saw 2 tiny little marks right on my upper lip line. I mean they are small. But, I am so worried that it was a bat in my room and I have rabies. The news said there was a rabid bat found in the county next to mine and in another county here in my state. So I am flipping out. I have so many issues right now with my HA and I am hoping this is just another one. That I didn't really get bitten. I would have actually felt a bat right? Especially if it was on my face. Right? I'm so scared.

Someone help me.

Please read this:
https://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=219591

And do a google search on no more panic+rabies. And read it and read it over and over. The admin set it up to prevent more and more rabies threads puring in over and over. If you read it I promise to answer you if you post your worries in THAT thread.

Oh and one thing: what are you doing to combat your irrational health anxiety?

---------- Post added at 17:18 ---------- Previous post was at 17:16 ----------

I cannot stop flipping out about it. I know it's impossible but my HA is screaming "it's possible. It happened. Go the ER" I cannot stop flipping out.

I am so scared that I am somehow gonna be the person to die from this.

So what are you doing about this anxiety? Are you seing a professional?

---------- Post added at 17:21 ---------- Previous post was at 17:18 ----------

My cat bit me and that hurt and now I am worried that he has it. That was about 2 weeks ago and he's alive and not sick. So probably not.

You allready know the answer so why are you posting this? Is it so that you can never feel at ease before someone from this forum is confirming what you allready know? That it is us posting here, and not the doctors and experts who can give you the magic reassurance? Is that the reason behind all those completely outlandish rabies threads of The Twilight Zone in here?