you need to get help for the anxiety now, if you let it go on it just gets worse and ytou will homebound yourself and its not a fun life.
Maybe I amlosing my mind. I've ended up in the dogs community. oh boy.
When I wake up when I'm asleep, I'm all cringed and stiff. I'm now having troubles walking and I think I'm scarying myself into not being able to drink water. I feel handicapped and I was so normal just 5 months ago until my body had a severe immune response to something. It was the slow decline in vision that started it all. I seriously hope and pray every night. I need help. I was actually thinking about admitting myself into a mental institute here in jersey. Just so that I could be monitored by proffessionals. I just hope that they'll eventually release me. I don't like rules.
I wish I can just forget about all of this. BUT HOW? Even my toes feel pain and spazy.
Anyway, thanks for helping me out about the whole rabies thing. Even I know that it's impossible that it's rabies but I'm still concerned about that ..01% Everyone around me now is saying that I'm crazy. If only I can afford to see an infectious desease specialist, a GI specialist, A Rheumotologist, Optomotrist and a neurologist. I can't even work anymore. I'm like a malingerers dream come true.
When I was in nursing school, I had the symptoms of every single disease we ever studied. The mind is indeed, a powerful thing.
You've gotten great advice. Best of luck.
GREAT response there Ghilly!
undiagnosed81 - Ghilly is right. Sustained anxiety for any reason can result in very real physical symptoms. The sensation of your throat closing off is even part of what can happen in an anxiety-induced panic attack.
For now, I think you can safely assume your symptoms are in no way related to rabies. Even if you think your docs are full of baloney about stress and anxiety, go ahead and get treated for it. If nothing else, it will be ruled out as a cause if you don't improve. Take the meds and start seeing a psychologist. I see one myself for my chronic pain issues, and it's done me more good than all the pain meds I've taken over the years. The mind is a very powerful organ, and it doesn't just deal with thoughts and emotions.
Mammals (including people) can harbor the rabies virus for as long as two years after being exposed to it, however, the doctor was right, after symptoms of physical illness start, the victim only lives from two to ten days. So it's EXTREMELY unlikely that your problem is rabies, because there is no way you would still be alive after all that time if you were actually rabid.
Please don't think that I am belittling you or making fun of you in any way, because I certainly am not. But I think that you have gotten yourself so wound up worrying about this that now you have become a hypochondriac when it comes to reading about the symptoms, and have convinced yourself that that's what you have. It's VERY possible to do that, because I have a cousin who has diagnosed herself with everything from AIDS to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever to Dutch Elm Disease (yes, she thought she had something that only a TREE can get). The mind is a very powerful thing, and when it starts to run wild, it can wreak all kinds of havoc.
It IS entirely possible, however, that you have Lyme Disease or even Fibromyalgia Syndrome. A lot of the symptoms that you have described, even the difficulty swallowing, occur with both of these diseases, but especially with the Fibromyalgia.
I would make an appointment with a doctor. Sit with him and tell him EVERYTHING. Ask him if he will run complete blood panels to test for Lyme Disease and if he will test you for Fibromyalgia. BEG him to check you over as thoroughly as possible because you need to get to the bottom of whatever if is that is causing you to have the symptoms you're having. Please let us know how you make out. I feel so badly for you, I can FEEL your fear through the words you have written. I can't tell you what you DO have, but I can be 99.9% certain that it is NOt rabies. Good luck and I hope you get to the bottom of it.
Ghilly