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Old 02-20-2019, 10:05 PM
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Default Hello there, Thaitraveler

As you have read this entire thread, you know the roller coaster of symptoms and emotions you are experiencing are very understandable. It's an awful place to be in. Hopefully you attended to even that light bite with lots of soap and water right away. Six days out from the bite isn't ideal for treatment, but keep in mind, even here in the United States, an unvaccinated dog is held in quarantine for 10 days observation before the bitten person goes for rabies treatment (if the dog shows positive within that 10 days) so your time frame window isn't too bad. I was three days out from my bat bite before I began PEP. I know it's small comfort, but you've done everything correctly, you've done everything possible, and now your only option is to sit tight and see how everything plays out. Remember too, that incident in the Middle East where a group of severely bitten people received Imovax 14 days after exposure and survived. So glad you found us on this site. For me the support here was far more honest and assuring in a different way than what the doctors had to offer. It's hard, you run yourself around in circles mentally and emotionally, only to arrive at the same conclusion
every time, "I've done all I can, there's no more to be done." On top of the anxiety, there are the unpleasant physical side effects. For all of us here except two who were repeatedly vaccinated, the symptoms did subside, things got much better, and in spite of a few lingering effects, life is so good and we're glad to be here. Don't be surprised if new neurological symptoms crop up over time. The seizures and partial paralysis didn't present for me until two and three months post vax. Hopefully you will find a good neurologist and a good infectious disease specialist to guide you through this. Mine ran some basic tests, but erred on the side of caution and didn't go all invasive risking more side effects. The best thing they did was reassure me the test results were normal, and things would improve. When the neurologist told me it might take two years or more for the neurological side effects to subside, that was hard to take, but she was right. Two years out and as I said in my last post, some sleep associated myoclonus, and I have to be careful not to physically over-do.

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