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Our story began when one name and diagnosis to the dark
cloud that was attacking our
day about 3 months after being
son. It was P.A.N.D.A.S.
diagnosed with a routine Strep
infection, our son started (Pediatric Autoimmune
presenting strange motor tic Neurological Disorder
Associated with Streptococcus
movements. We were very
bacteria) that’s right... our son's
concerned and had no idea
body was attacking itself
what was wrong. We brought
him to the pediatrician and his because of a SIMPLE STREP
THROAT INFECTION that was
flippant answer was..."ignore it;
hiding in his cells! In other
it will probably go away by
words, intracellular bacteria
itself." Another doctor
Bulletin
diagnosed him with Tourette were wreaking havoc in his little
Syndrome. However, it wasn’t body, causing his immune
"Tourette Syndrome" and it system to attack his own body.
The doctor prescribed a long
didn’t "go away by itself." Over
the course of two years it course of antibiotics (90 days
waxed and waned, but each plus) which initially brought
some improvement, but soon
time when it came back, it was
that improvement began to
worse than before. First came
OCD symptoms, Restlessness, fade away. He then added
frequent eye blinking, and eye steroids which helped, but only
temporarily, and not without
rolling. Then the throat
taking a huge toll on his body
clearing, and the slight cooing
and his white blood cell count.
noises or vocal tics. And finally
and even more suddenly he Our son was on medication for
started shaking his head almost two years and yet his
condition continued to
uncontrollably. We were
deteriorate. we were losing our
frightened and devastated. We
took our son to the neurologist, son to PANDAS.
and for the first time he gave a
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