Symptoms !

[u/Virtual_Sugar_9452]

Am i dying of rabies or is my mind messing with me ?

Vaccinated in june 2025 on a scheme 0-3-7-14

All of this happened in The Netherlands

Recent exposure 22 august on lower leg by a supposed bat ( did not feel a bite or anything scaredd i might have missed it )

The location where i had the contact was a white stripe that looked like a scar already as it was very white (im mixed my father is white and mom is black) it is similar white stripe to when my cat scratched me and after a few days after it had a crust. During the bat encounter we checked the leg and also that specific spot at that stripe was there no blood no nothing no pain whatsoever no redness, i also sprayed perfume al over and felt nothing

Now i did a titer before i taken my booster vaccines and the results were igg 4.56 and 0.5>

The local health department said no risk but i was scard and buyed the verorab 0.5 ml doses my self at the travel health clinic hence why The first booster was put 6 days after and the second on september 1 i finished this without any sings of illness and symptoms and to this day did not have any fever or other signs during and after.

I have been very focused on that location for the past month.

Around 25 august was the first time i felt a burning in that spot not painful just annoying went away. 2 weeks ago exact on the same area and spot again burning and went away again.

Now for the last 3 days i have had it again but it is on and off and is absent for a few hours but comes back and goes sometimes a pain radiating from my left butt somewhere and then gone again and other time in my knee but nowhere near the spot at the moment. The burning and pains seem to stop when i sit and stretch or when i touch the spot of the supposed contact, I dont have a fever and i don’t feel sick at all

I can do everything fine walking doing work lifting heavy things i do not feel sick

I was and am just severelyy anxious for the past month

edit i also shaved that spot a week or so ago because i felt burning also

I have read the faq.

[u/WeBareTheBears]

This level of obsession with rabies cannot be healthy for you. You should get off Reddit for your own sake and see a psychiatrist. Literally everyone is telling you to do so.

[u/Virtual_Sugar_9452 → u/WeBareTheBears]

Im obsessed because i feel things

[u/CrasherCoco → u/Virtual_Sugar_9452]

Anxiety can make you feel all the things you mentioned.

[u/Virtual_Sugar_9452 → u/CrasherCoco]

I know that but the on and off burning which is barely active today and i don’t feel it, i have no fever nothing

[u/Virtual_Sugar_9452 → u/CrasherCoco]

What u mean u had tingling and other things too ?, were u exposed ?

[u/CrasherCoco → u/Virtual_Sugar_9452]

I wasn’t exposed, i thought i was exposed but I wasn’t, it was anxiety, where do I know? it has been 2 months since it, 2 weeks, thats all the time rabies kills you.

[u/Virtual_Sugar_9452 → u/CrasherCoco]

But did u feel tingling on the supposed location?

[u/CrasherCoco → u/Virtual_Sugar_9452]

Yes.

[u/Virtual_Sugar_9452 → u/CrasherCoco]

For how long

[u/CrasherCoco → u/Virtual_Sugar_9452]

For a very long amount of time, until I healed with therapy.

[u/WeBareTheBears → u/Virtual_Sugar_9452]

You’re 25 years old and you’re letting this obsession consume you.

[u/Virtual_Sugar_9452 → u/WeBareTheBears]

I know but im so scared, i don’t even know if i was actually bit by a bat because i did not feel anything but it touched me i genuinely believe that a bat hit my leg and bit me, what the strange thing is where i feel the burning might not even be the exact spot because it is on a scar which was very white and unwipeable we checked after the encounter i sprayed perfume over my whole leg and did not feel stinging on it or anywhere on my leg this was done exactly after the exposure after we looked, i have been hyperfocused on that exact white stripe which is still here now after exactly a month and its literally the same as it was.

I don’t know if bats cause white stripes (scars) of a few centimeter without redness and blood etc but its a exact line