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Funny I just got a notification from this response. I have not been on this forum in a very long time. I am so happy to report that I have a very healthy happy 16-year-old daughter who is no resemblance to the child that was in such turmoil. I will however say it has contributed to the person she is kind, compassionate and confident. I just went for an IEP meeting today which we did not even try Start one until eighth grade where things got worse before they got better but I have to say once over the hump of entering puberty things really started to balance out. She has not used one accommodation from her bare bones IEP she has good grades healthy social relationships and almost no residual OCD. I hope this gives hope to the parents that are going through this. My main advice and one of the hardest lessons I learned and she actually helped me see it was not turning her into something that needed to be fixed with all the desperation of trying to find her help she did feel like that for a time. Funny once I excepted exactly how she was whether it was going to last forever or not is when she started to get better. Sending love and good vibes to all of you and hope for a better day.

Many years after posting, I'm checking through old accounts and thought this deserved a reply to give others hope. I notice that I had deleted my messages, but I just want to say that the very typical and rather full-on symptoms typically associate with PANDAS (OCD, inability to speak, eventual inability to walk) eventually went away, but it took a couple of years. He is absolutely fine now and I see this as fitting into how PANDAs can impact some children at a very specific time in their lives. The parents didn't ever get much help. 'Social services' for a while thought that he may have been mistreated (something I knew wasn't the case).. then the doctors switched to a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue and never shifted from that. It really did appear to match PANDAS though and now he's fine and thriving and it all seems like a nightmare or a dream of old. It's in the past. I hope that others here, feeling desperate due to the condition and lack of help, reach the same place. Thanks.