2022 PANS PANDAS Triumphs!
Thank you to everyone who took a moment to celebrate the successes of the past year so our community can carry hope into 2023! ...
Personal Stories
March 27, 2023
Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis
Dedication to PANS/PANDAS Awareness and Advocacy with Advocate Gabriella True “It’s not always about overcoming, it’s about living.” Gabriella True Link to Podcast Episode on...
Share Your 2022 Triumphs!
Please share your success stories for ASPIRE’s 2022 Triumphs Highlights! We all know PANS PANDAS is rough (understatement) but let’s take a moment to celebrate the successes from...
For me, healing from PANDAS is all about making holistic lifestyle changes that work for you.
As a PANDAS kid, I know what a journey it is to have my life interrupted, to be repeatedly misdiagnosed and mistreated, and to ultimately find a solution for my...
A letter to my 14 year old self
Our friend gave ASPIRE permission to share this letter to her 14-year-old self. Many of us know how it feels to be too affected by PANS/PANDAS/BGE to go to school....
My name is Lexi and this is my PANS story…
Lexi’s story exemplifies the absolute devastation patients and families go through as a result of being misdiagnosed for too long. In our article on Clinical Urgency of Diagnosing and Treating,...
From IVIG to PEX to Rituximab to Helminths to treat PANS
Before We have four kids; two have PANS. Charlie’s came on like a freight train in the summer of 2010 at age 5. Maddie’s PANDAS was a slower unfolding until...
A PANS PANDAS Recovery Poem
8 years ago, I was diagnosed with Pandas 7 years ago, I wobbled on my feet 6 years ago, I moved forward with my life 5 years ago, I realized...
2021 PANS PANDAS Triumphs!
Thank you to everyone who took a moment to celebrate the successes of the past year so our community can carry hope into 2022! ...
Hold Onto Hope!
At the age of 8, my life, as it was, was taken in a week of sickness because of the flu. I woke up with hallucinations, severe OCD, and ADHD-like...
Being a teen with PANDAS and chronically ill is hard!
I think that people often forget about chronically ill teenagers. We aren't adults yet, but we also aren’t little kids anymore. We're in the middle of everything and everyone. We can understand...
Severe Eating Disorder Due to PANS PANDAS
Our family and B have gone through so much since December 2018. It has been completely devastating emotionally, mentally, physically, and financially. At the time, there didn’t seem to be...