health anxiety

Anyone else sooooo afraid of getting tests done at the doctor? I have MRI and blood tests coming up and just can’t stop thinking about what it might be. Playing the worse scenarios in my head of when my doctor gives me the results. I’ve been having so much muscle and nerve pain- tingling...

HELP i scratched my leg on something rusty yesterday (technically the other day since it’s 12 am now) and i forgot until now and now i’m freaking out

So I was very calm this past few weeks not thinking about rabies or bats again but something happened a few days ago. Hi guys, so a few days ago, i was at a movie theater with a friend watching a new movie. I am from USA and bats are not common around where I live but sometimes they are found...

Something got into my nose after seeing a thing that resembled a bat. Possible rabies saliva. Hi guys, I am new at this and i just wanted to ask a question and see if i have to worry about anything. I live in USA, in western coast and the most common species of bats in my county are Mexican...

Hi y’all, so i will try explain why i am worried. Today my kitchen drawer where we store knives and forks, got stuck because a large knife was stuck in the drawer and it was not opening properly. So i had to put my hand in there to try to move the knife and after 25 minutes it worked. Now after...

Possible bat bite, scared of rabies. Hi guys, so i will cut to the chase. It was 5:30 P.M. and it was still very cloudy and very much light outside. I was in my friend's car chatting with him and decided to get out of the car and while getting out i felt my hair on top of my head getting...

I was walking out of a convenience store at a populated rest stop and walked underneath a large tree. A very tiny drop of something hit my lower lip, could this have been saliva from a bat? I didn’t see any bats. For context it was a sunny day at 2pm in Florida and this was a populated rest...

Does any one else have a tight throat or feel their food going down or stuck when eating . It’s freaking me out and I’m worried I have something serious

Hi guys, so one month ago, I developed a rabies fear from bats. I live in a city where there are no bats, there are, but we don't see them. But still, I am afraid of them. I was researching bats when I learned about rabies, and that is where my fear started. I read that you could be bitten...

so on october 26 i touched a trash bag directly where a raccoon ripped it open in the middle of the night. i don’t know if he did it with his teeth or hands. regardless i had a cut in my pinky that i got on october 25 (the day prior) and i had no clue if i touched the bag or not. the raccoon...

Please delete this if this is not allowed. I’m not sure where this started. I’m 24 years old, I am overweight, and I struggle with PCOS. I also have had bouts of hypoglycemia, but do not have diagnosed diabetes. Within the past several months, I have had instances of severe panic attacks Post...

Hi guys. So, a while back, I had a bite, and I thought something rabid bit me, and that is when my fear of rabies started. I almost got out of it until a couple of days ago. This is another thing that happened to me that I think I may have been exposed to rabies and that I may be gone in two...

Hi Guys, So I will try my best to keep this short. A month ago, I found out that something bit my foot. It hurt a lot, and it looked like a spider bite. Fast forward to yesterday, I developed a dry throat, dry cough, and low fever, muscle aches. When I try to sleep, I constantly swallow my...

Hello, i have posted before here when i had a kinda valid concern that i had contracted rabies from a scratch from a stray cat. Now that this danger is gone and this cat is still fine almost a month later i find myself still scared to death by rabies, all the info i learnt while researching are...

So we just got a boat. We took the kids swimming at specifically lake Perris in Perris ca yesterday. I was swimming with my daughter I usually always plug my nose and forgot yesterday due to having one too many trulys, when I jumped off the boat in the middle of the lake and got water up my...

hello fellow health anxiety sufferers, my story is really classic. I am from greece where we have A LOT of strays, everyone pets them especially cats and they go and sit on everyone and ask for food etc. So, 15 days ago i was scratched on my hand by a cat i was petting, it was a minor scratch...

Hello I live in the Philippines. About 8 days ago I had a bat encounter, I was out buying beer for my dad around dusk and when I got back my sister screamed that there was a bat on my back and climbing up to my neck(I was wearing a shirt at the time). Of course, I didn't felt it was on my back...

im drunk asf rn so bare with my typing, ivebeen getting dull aches in my left arm and leg and being an idiot by googling it and getting more and more scared. my dad suffers with heart disease and is a stroke victim and im terrified i inherited those traits from him, so many symptoms i get are...

Hello! I have reached a point where even posting here feels like I am jinxing myself and going to cause me to fall ill (if I am not already..). Honestly even just writing this I think will be cathartic, so for what it's worth, getting this off my chest my help, and maybe someone else will...

We all know Panic attacks and Anxiety disorders affect us in different ways, but I'm curious to know what are some of the physical symptoms do you guys get during the attacks? For example, A couple of big ones for me: -I feel like my movements get more rigid and stiff almost like my body...