Anonymous

Date posted: 9h

Vaccine

I want to get the PEP vaccine for rabies because I believe the exposure I had was reallll but I know I shouldn’t :///

Circe908

Date posted: 8h

I had a very similar experience recently rabies, but it was geared toward my new cat. We adopted her from the shelter over the weekend. The one shot she needed updated was rabies. There’s been like one case in my area and I convinced myself (among other health OCD issues mind you) that she could’ve been exposed before the shelter and the virus was still incubating. She had her wellness visit with our vet today. Got the required vaccine. I allowed myself one question about what would happen if she’d been exposed before now, and it was difficult but I accepted the answer and didn’t go into reassurance seeking. Is it out of my mind completely? No. But I’m accepting and not ruminating like I was. So small victories, which it sounds like you’re having a victory too in how you’re recognizing the false memory 🖤

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@Circe908 I hope I can become at peace with this :( Rabies ocd is terrible I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I’m glad ur finding peace :))

Brekgel

Date posted: 8h

I have been there before and decided to not get the vaccine and ride through the uncertainty! It’s been 10 months and I am completely fine! You got this!

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@Brekgel That’s what I know I should do :(( I thought I saw a bat but I think my ocd is putting some false memory but it feels soo real. I hate it :,( this has been the worse theme for me

Brekgel

Date posted: 8h

@Anonymous Ughh I have been there! I saw a small scratch on my hand after I found a newborn raccoon that I didn’t even touch with my bare hands lol. OCD is such a tricky thing and no amount of certainty can help. You have to tell yourself “maybe it was a bat, maybe it wasn’t” and try to not do your compulsions.

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@Brekgel Omg I can only imagine how that made u feel. I have bad compulsions of reading things online and I saw an article of a women finding a bat in her toilet and the next morning I didn’t check good enough because I was half awake and my brain right after I flushed was like “ what IF there was a bat in there and u just didn’t check or see it good enough. And it made me spiral omgggg🫩

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@Brekgel My first “ bat exposure” was going outside and I felt something brush on my neck and I was convinced I had gotten scratched because I had scratches on me but that was almost 2 months ago

haleyA

Date posted: 8h

I think you are okay ! not all bats have rabies I think ur mind is just messing with you, I work with animals and to get rabies you have to get bit and it’s very rare things like happen ! I was exposed to what we thought was rabies at my job and we had to get vaccined and trust I spiraled down the loop , I was all up in that dogs grill too , it’s 4 shots and it’s like 2k so ITS A LOt OF MONEY I think you should just try your best , YOURE OK !!!!

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@haleyA Deep down inside I know it is :( I guess the long incubation period drives me crazy tooo. It doesn’t help that I get false memory and I know it’s not real because how am I getting exposed” so much when I never was before this fear 😣😣

haleyA

Date posted: 8h

@Anonymous i’m sorry ur going through this , I felt the same way with the long waiting period but it went by for me and iam okay just like you will be !

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@haleyA Is the incubation period 3-8 weeks? Or is it not true about the years thing because I have seen it can take years 😭

haleyA

Date posted: 8h

@Anonymous don’t worry about it because you are fine !!! trust me 💜

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@haleyA Okay thank u !!❤️

haleyA

Date posted: 8h

@Anonymous i’m here for you if you need anyone tho okay ! i’m new to this app and I know how terrible OCD can be

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@haleyA Thank u that means a lot truly . I have been going through this for the past 2 months and it’s been hellll I’ve had like 5 exposures “ it’s been awful awful !! So thank u!!

Illyas

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 8h

What was the exposure ?

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@Illyas So basically I found out what rabies was like 2 months ago and I’ve been having “exposures. I have bad false memory. I read an article about a women finding a bat in her toilet and the next morning I didn’t check well enough and my brain was like what if there was a bat in ur toilet and I didn’t have a way of looking back because I used to take pictures of everything but I stopped doing that because that was my main compulsion so now I’m spiraling

Anonymous

Date posted: 8h

@Illyas I hate hate having false memory ocd because ik deep down it’s BS but it’s the WHAT if and the false memories make it seem sooo real

Illyas

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 4h

@Anonymous I’m asking because I actually had an exposure to rabies not long ago. lol and I end up getting the vaccines right away, thankfully the cat that bit me is still healthy after 10 days which it’s good cuz that means never carried rabies but since it was a feral I couldn’t risk it. Anyway, my point is, if you actually had an actual exposure I would recommend going, at first I thought oh maybe my ocd is acting etc but also even us with ocd have to live life and things happen and we have to know when it’s actually good to worry and act. If you know why I mean. But if you didn’t have any contact with no animal then I’d say yeah it’s prob 100 ocd. Mine was different for sure

Anonymous

Date posted: 3h

@Illyas Got it. I’m glad ur okay now. Yeah I def don’t think mine is a real exposure but it feels realll my brain says yeah that’s what happened but Deep down I know it didn’t.

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