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a little background first, i have been unemployed for 5 months, stressed out every month on how i will pay my car each month. i’ve had a few trips planned prior to my unemployment that i need money for, which also causes me stress. i have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression for 15 years, i don’t take any medication for it, i just do occasional therapy when i can afford it.

back to my anxiety. i have severe health anxiety/death OCD, and am constantly convinced i have something that is going to kill me. last week my thoughts were rabies. i kept a log of my “symptoms” that made me have those thoughts:

sunday itchy leg

monday itchy/pain on front of leg. progressed to calf

tuesday itchy/pain all over leg. headache at end of day

wednesday itchy/pain sometimes but in a more general area. on and off headache/sore throat . couldn’t sleep

thursday calf muscle pain onand off. headache/sore throat later in the day. couldn’t sleep

friday small tingling feeling in one area of leg on and off (drank so i knocked out but didnt sleep long)

saturday tingling on and off on 1-2 areas. felt a little sick mid day. throat felt inflamed, back of head hurt. later in day head felt fine but throat was feeling weird. cannot sleep feel like i can’t breathe

sunday didn’t feel anything until i tried to sleep, a little calf pain took magnesium to fall asleep

monday only pain in my calf and right side of ankle occasionally can’t sleep

now if you notice i only started not being able to sleep once i had more “symptoms.” it’s not just a normal “i can’t sleep”, about 2 hours before i anticipate sleeping, i get this feeling that i know i wont be able to sleep. and then about 30 minutes before i want to sleep, i start having muscle twitches. that’s what’s keeping me awake. it will be in any part of my body but something will twitch and keep me alert, so as im trying to sleep it will do that. it will happen for hours and hours until i eventually just pass out, and then i will only sleep 4-5 hours. during the day i feel completely fine as far as nothing having spasms, it is only happening when i try to sleep.

since its been about a week of this going on now i’m thinking of going to urgent care or maybe even the ER to get checked out because im just so tired and don’t know if this is just my anxiety or something worse.

a little background first, i have been unemployed for 5 months, stressed out every month on how i will pay my car each month. i’ve had a few trips planned prior to my unemployment that i need money for, which also causes me stress. i have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression for 15 years, i don’t take any medication for it, i just do occasional therapy when i can afford it.

back to my anxiety. i have severe health anxiety/death OCD, and am constantly convinced i have something that is going to kill me. last week my thoughts were rabies. i kept a log of my “symptoms” that made me have those thoughts:

sunday itchy leg

monday itchy/pain on front of leg. progressed to calf

tuesday itchy/pain all over leg. headache at end of day

wednesday itchy/pain sometimes but in a more general area. on and off headache/sore throat . couldn’t sleep

thursday calf muscle pain onand off. headache/sore throat later in the day. couldn’t sleep

friday small tingling feeling in one area of leg on and off (drank so i knocked out but didnt sleep long)

saturday tingling on and off on 1-2 areas. felt a little sick mid day. throat felt inflamed, back of head hurt. later in day head felt fine but throat was feeling weird. cannot sleep feel like i can’t breathe

sunday didn’t feel anything until i tried to sleep, a little calf pain took magnesium to fall asleep

monday only pain in my calf and right side of ankle occasionally can’t sleep

now if you notice i only started not being able to sleep once i had more “symptoms.” it’s not just a normal “i can’t sleep”, about 2 hours before i anticipate sleeping, i get this feeling that i know i wont be able to sleep. and then about 30 minutes before i want to sleep, i start having muscle twitches. that’s what’s keeping me awake. it will be in any part of my body but something will twitch and keep me alert, so as im trying to sleep it will do that. it will happen for hours and hours until i eventually just pass out, and then i will only sleep 4-5 hours. during the day i feel completely fine as far as nothing having spasms, it is only happening when i try to sleep.

since its been about a week of this going on now i’m thinking of going to urgent care or maybe even the ER to get checked out because im just so tired and don’t know if this is just my anxiety or something worse.

a little background first, i have been unemployed for 5 months, stressed out every month on how i will pay my car each month. i’ve had a few trips planned prior to my unemployment that i need money for, which also causes me stress. i have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression for 15 years, i don’t take any medication for it, i just do occasional therapy when i can afford it.

back to my anxiety. i have severe health anxiety/death OCD, and am constantly convinced i have something that is going to kill me. last week my thoughts were rabies. i kept a log of my “symptoms” that made me have those thoughts:

sunday itchy leg

monday itchy/pain on front of leg. progressed to calf

tuesday itchy/pain all over leg. headache at end of day

wednesday itchy/pain sometimes but in a more general area. on and off headache/sore throat . couldn’t sleep

thursday calf muscle pain onand off. headache/sore throat later in the day. couldn’t sleep

friday small tingling feeling in one area of leg on and off (drank so i knocked out but didnt sleep long)

saturday tingling on and off on 1-2 areas. felt a little sick mid day. throat felt inflamed, back of head hurt. later in day head felt fine but throat was feeling weird. cannot sleep feel like i can’t breathe

sunday didn’t feel anything until i tried to sleep, a little calf pain took magnesium to fall asleep

monday only pain in my calf and right side of ankle occasionally can’t sleep

now if you notice i only started not being able to sleep once i had more “symptoms.” it’s not just a normal “i can’t sleep”, about 2 hours before i anticipate sleeping, i get this feeling that i know i wont be able to sleep. and then about 30 minutes before i want to sleep, i start having muscle twitches. that’s what’s keeping me awake. it will be in any part of my body but something will twitch and keep me alert, so as im trying to sleep it will do that. it will happen for hours and hours until i eventually just pass out, and then i will only sleep 4-5 hours. during the day i feel completely fine as far as nothing having spasms, it is only happening when i try to sleep.

since its been about a week of this going on now i’m thinking of going to urgent care or maybe even the ER to get checked out because im just so tired and don’t know if this is just my anxiety or something worse.

i live with my bf and his parents in a pretty good, safe subdivision 20 minutes out of flint, mi. my bf’s dad was outside doing yard work with the garage open and we were in the room looking outside when we noticed a woman walking down the driveway, taking a bunch of pictures of the house. she would walk a few feet, take a picture, back up some more, another picture. she was driving just a regular blue jeep, had on some shorts and light blue tshirt. got in her car and drove off pretty fast. is this something we should be worried about??? i’m a little freaked out but my bf doesn’t seem to be bothered at all.

I have read the FAQ.

this is what’s been going on:

sunday: itchy leg

monday: itchy/pain on front of leg. progressed to calf. couldn’t sleep

tuesday: itchy/pain all over leg. headache at end of day

wednesday: itchy/pain sometimes but in a more general area. on and off headache/sore throat . couldn’t sleep

thursday: calf muscle pain onand off. headache/sore throat later in the day. couldn’t sleep

friday: small tingling feeling in one area of leg on and off (drank so i knocked out but didnt sleep long)

saturday: very small tingling on and off on 1-2 areas. felt a little sick mid day. throat felt inflamed, back of head hurt. later in day head felt fine but throat was feeling weird. cannot sleep feel like i can’t breathe

everywhere says paralytic rabies can mimic guillain-barré syndrome, and that paralytic rabies takes longer to get you and i don’t know if this sounds like it’s mimicking that or if it’s just anxiety.

i’ve been dealing with anxiety related to rabies for a few months now. 3 days ago i finally felt like i was coming down from it until that night when my ankle started to burn a little bit. i brushed it off bc i haven’t shaved my legs in a while and thought it was just the hair pulling.
2 days ago i woke up to a red dot on my ankle and it was burning and itchy now. i started to freak out for a little bit until i calmed myself down. didn’t really feel it much once i started my day unless i was sitting for a while and was focused on it. progressively the pain seemed to spreading from just that spot on my ankle to all around my ankle and up my entire calf. i looked for the mark i had seen earlier and it was now looking like a red streak instead of a red dot. i started to get a little more worried after that
yesterday i woke up and the pain was gone from my ankle but it was more of my calf now and it would tingle around the same area few areas every now and then. throughout the day it seemed to be getting less but it would randomly tingle in one particular spot more then others. i looked at the area and noticed i had a mark right in that area of my calf. shortly after i started to get a headache.
today i woke up with an on and off headache and my throat gets itchy every now and then when i swallow. my leg felt completely fine for the first few hours i was awake but eventually the weird burn/tingle came back on my calf where the mark was. sometimes it’ll happen on another area of my calf but it’s mostly the same area.
i’ve been checking my temp like crazy and it literally hasn’t went up 97.1. the headache and sore throat showing up today is really what’s freaking me out, i took some tylenol and it seemed to go away for maybe about an hour but im just freaking out so bad

i’ve been seeing bat droppings on my front porch for about a month. haven’t seen a bat at all. am i safe or should i get vaccinated? I have read the FAQ.

i’ve been seeing bat droppings on my front porch for about a month. haven’t seen a bat at all. am i safe or should i get vaccinated?

i’ve been dealing with anxiety related to rabies for a few months now. 2 days ago i finally felt like i was coming down from it until that night when my ankle started to burn a little bit. i brushed it off bc i haven’t shaved my legs in a while and thought it was just the hair pulling. yesterday i woke up to a red dot on my ankle and it was burning and itchy now. i started to freak out for a little bit until i calmed myself down. didn’t really feel it much once i started my day unless i was sitting for a while and was focused on it. progressively the pain seemed to spreading from just that spot on my ankle to all around my ankle and up my calf. i looked for the mark i had seen earlier and it was now looking like a red streak instead of a red dot. then i started to panic and haven’t stopped. the pain seems to come and go but it’s still just on my ankle and calf. i literally have no other symptoms, no headache, no fever, just this mark and some on and off pain but i can’t shake the anxiety of rabies off. I have read the FAQ.

I have read the FAQ.

just a genuine question i’ve always been curious about. i hear the most common symptom is tingling/pain at the wound site when it’s infected with rabies, but does that mean the wound comes back or is the pain just felt in that area?

about a month ago my bf filled out a scam application (didn’t know it at first) they sent him money for equipment and then demanded the money back later. random numbers with our state area codes continued to text threatening to hurt him and his family bc they had all his info like address and phone number. sent some creepy pictures and stuff. and then the messages stopped coming in. he doesn’t seem to be too worried but i’m worried. do you think they will actually do something or is it just a scare tactic?? i’m genuinely so scared

one month ago my bf was on his colleges website for jobs. he came across one he was interested in and applied. i don’t know what the application entailed but he filled it out and got a text back a few days later. they gave him all the info he needed for the job but then it got weird. they emailed him a check for like $100 or something saying it was for the supplies he would need for the job. he scanned it and it was real so he got $100. i guess the person was still texting him letting him know all about the job whatever. now i don’t remember what happened but it started getting fishy so my bf stopped replying. shortly after that a random number text him telling him to give the money back or they would come for him. the area code was different but still from our state. then they threatened to off him and said they knew all his information and that he wasn’t safe. they were sending him pictures of people they apparently had hurt from taking their money. the english in the texts was very broken and the pictures looked like something you could’ve found on bestgore. i guess he blocked that number. and then a text from another number, different area code but still from our state, text him with the same stuff, same pictures, saying they had all his info and knew his loved ones. telling him he can’t run and hide that they would ruin his life when they got him. again, very broken english and the pictures were the same from the other number. he never responded to these people and they never said anything after that. so obviously this was all a scam, the “job listing” disappeared shortly after that, which again was on his colleges website. it’s been a month since this happened and i’m genuinely afraid for our safety. like i know people do those types of things to scare people but how real do you think it is? i’m an extremely paranoid person so im always on edge but i am so scared for what could happen

hello i am 21F, no history of migraines or anything. i am diagnosed with anxiety, depression and ptsd. 2 months ago i had a minor concussion. i typically get tension headaches that kind of just hurt on the sides of my head and sometimes forehead if im in a store too long, driving too long, in the sun too long, pretty normal things. one week ago i was moving some furniture by myself, on an empty stomach, and shortly after my head started to hurt. i took tylenol, slept and felt fine the next morning. saturday i woke up and throughout the day i noticed the back of my head started to feel like it was being squeezed but it wasn’t enough to hurt me?? throughout the week the squeezing in the back of my head will come back randomly with nausea and sometimes my face will get hot. once i sleep and wake up i feel fine but it will randomly happen throughout the day. i have only used tylenol once this entire week and it helped slightly and like i said it stops once i sleep but im just worried that its happening everyday. i cant get in to see my doctor for another 3 weeks so im not sure what to do.

hello i am 21F, no history of migraines or anything. i am diagnosed with anxiety, depression and ptsd. 2 months ago i had a minor concussion. i typically get tension headaches that kind of just hurt on the sides of my head and sometimes forehead if im in a store too long, driving too long, in the sun too long, pretty normal things. one week ago i was moving some furniture by myself, on an empty stomach, and shortly after my head started to hurt. i took tylenol, slept and felt fine the next morning. saturday i woke up and throughout the day i noticed the back of my head started to feel like it was being squeezed but it wasn’t enough to hurt me?? throughout the week the squeezing in the back of my head will come back randomly with nausea and sometimes my face will get hot. once i sleep and wake up i feel fine but it will randomly happen throughout the day. i have only used tylenol once this entire week and it helped slightly and like i said it stops once i sleep but im just worried that its happening everyday. i cant get in to see my doctor for another 3 weeks so im not sure what to do.

may 2nd i found a weird 2 pin-point mark on my finger about 5mm apart that stung if i touched it and my mind instantly went to what if i got bite by a bat at some point. fast forward to last week and i started getting a strange back of the head headache that didn’t seem to go away with tylenol, but did go away with sleep. however the headache seems to come back typically at the end of the day around 5-6 along with a little bit of nausea and light sensitivity and it’s been happening every day for 5 days. i have no other symptoms but i am soo so terrified that the bite might have been a bat bite and i possible contracted rabies. i deal with extreme anxiety/ocd that i am trying to get under control but does this sound bad??

I have read the FAQ.

may 2nd i found a weird 2 pin-point mark on my finger about 5mm apart that stung if i touched it and my mind instantly went to what if i got bite by a bat at some point. fast forward to last week and i started getting a strange back of the head headache that didn’t seem to go away with tylenol, but did go away with sleep. however the headache seems to come back typically at the end of the day around 5-6 along with a little bit of nausea and light sensitivity and it’s been happening every day for 5 days. i have no other symptoms but i am soo so terrified that the bite might have been a bat bite and i possible contracted rabies. i deal with extreme anxiety/ocd that i am trying to get under control but does this sound bad??

hello everybody, so i had my concussion happen may 1st of this year. i had i guess pretty normal symptoms for about a month and then it seemed to clear up, i was back in the gym, went to an amusement park and everything. 3 days ago i was cleaning out my basement and moved a pretty decent sized shelf by myself. it wasn’t heavy enough that i couldn’t move it alone but just heavy enough that i had to put it down for a second then move again. shortly after that the back of my head started to hurt like how it hurt after my concussion. ever since then the pressure in the back of my head is on and off like my concussion headaches. has anyone else experience this happening after healing?

little backstory first. 3 days ago i was cleaning my basement when i started getting a headache around 11pm. i live in michigan and the wildfires from canada had the air quality at 500, and the basement isnt very ventilated so i could smell of the smoke.

i woke up around 12pm the next day(2 days ago) and got back to cleaning. the smell was completely gone, no headache. around 5pm i realized i hadn’t eaten but was locked in so i had some water and a coke zero. around that time i started having a headache but i figured it was from not eating so i took a break not too long after to eat. head felt fine got back to cleaning. i ended moving around 3 small sized shelf’s and a mini fridge all by myself along with tons and tons of boxes. just as i was finishing up i bent over to move a larger box and as i stood up i got a little lightheaded but felt fine after just a few seconds. shortly after i noticed the back of my head hurting. didn’t think much of it, went to bed around 1 and was fine.

yesterday i woke up around 1pm and needed to finish up cleaning so i didn’t eat again and got right to it. ended up not eating until 8pm when everything was finished. i had the slightest headache on the back of my head afterward but not enough to bother me. as time went on it got a little worse so i took some tylenol and drank a bunch of water since i hadn’t all day. it helped but i could still slightly feel some pressure.

now today, i woke up around 9am and had to run some errands. i started to get hungry around 11 and the pressure in the back of my head was back. i was able to eat and drink lots of water around 12 and felt fine after. was out for another hour and the pressure was back and now it will come and go. it’s not enough for me to take any medicine but it feels like the back of my head is being slightly squeezed every now and then. i have horrible health anxiety/ocd so im constantly googling my symptoms. google of course said it could be anxiety or a brain hemorrhage so im not really sure what to think. does this sound serious enough to head to the er or could it just be from overdoing myself for the last few day?

little backstory first. 3 days ago i was cleaning my basement when i started getting a headache around 11pm. i live in michigan and the wildfires from canada had the air quality at 500, and the basement isnt very ventilated so i could smell of the smoke.

i woke up around 12pm the next day(2 days ago) and got back to cleaning. the smell was completely gone, no headache. around 5pm i realized i hadn’t eaten but was locked in so i had some water and a coke zero. around that time i started having a headache but i figured it was from not eating so i took a break not too long after to eat. head felt fine got back to cleaning. i ended moving around 3 small sized shelf’s and a mini fridge all by myself along with tons and tons of boxes. just as i was finishing up i bent over to move a larger box and as i stood up i got a little lightheaded but felt fine after just a few seconds. shortly after i noticed the back of my head hurting. didn’t think much of it, went to bed around 1 and was fine.

yesterday i woke up around 1pm and needed to finish up cleaning so i didn’t eat again and got right to it. ended up not eating until 8pm when everything was finished. i had the slightest headache on the back of my head afterward but not enough to bother me. as time went on it got a little worse so i took some tylenol and drank a bunch of water since i hadn’t all day. it helped but i could still slightly feel some pressure.

now today, i woke up around 9am and had to run some errands. i started to get hungry around 11 and the pressure in the back of my head was back. i was able to eat and drink lots of water around 12 and felt fine after. was out for another hour and the pressure was back and now it will come and go. it’s not enough for me to take any medicine but it feels like the back of my head is being slightly squeezed every now and then. i have horrible health anxiety/ocd so im constantly googling my symptoms. google of course said it could be anxiety or a brain hemorrhage so im not really sure what to think. does this sound serious enough to head to the er or could it just be from overdoing myself for the last few day?