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In the next year, new and more severe OCD symptoms and tics emerged. An integrative doctor gave a rapid strep test and said it’s not PANDAS. We now know blood work is necessary to show heightened strep titers.

We are trying to beat this dreadful disorder. I figured out that when he is aggressive, loud and out of control, his body is being attacked by a virus causing inflammation in his brain.

If we had a pediatrician who was knowledgeable about PANS/PANDAS, we could have treated him sooner. My son suffered for two years because of the medical community’s ignorance to this dreadful disorder.