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Thank you again for the replies and advice. Getting her to school each day has been reeeeeeally hard, but my motto of late has been that I refuse to have her go backwards. Sometimes I am walking out the door with my keys and she thinks she is still negotiating to stay home. If I had a nickel for how many times she has said "I NEED to talk to you" The moment of separation is agonizing at school, but she has amazing support once she is there and has stayed for a bit longer each day.

Thank you for the replies. It sounds like I will need to look at additional treatments. I was really hoping the abx would knock this down. She is still on Azithromycin. (day 21) She originally started on Keflex, then Amoxicillin. She was able to go to school for part of the day this whole week, so this was a big step.

My 10yo daughter has major maternal separation anxiety. It came on almost overnight after 2 bouts of strep, and multiple concurrent exposures. Titers are currently very high. She had some other PANDAS type symptoms, which have slowly improved after 45 days of antibiotics, but the separation anxiety has not budged much. She has missed several weeks of school, won't go to her best friend's house where she would go almost daily, won't leave my lap to play soccer, basketball, or go to parties. All of which she did easily prior to strep. We are seeing a counselor for CBT, and are listening to anxiety reduction audio tapes. She still says repeatedly that she must see me at all times. She thinks I will leave and never come back, even though this has never happened in the past and I have never threatened to leave. Her fight/flight response is on high alert so pushing her to take steps is extremely difficult. She fights back and would never do that prior to strep. She desperately wants to get back to doing all these things, but she says she just can't do it. We have tried easing her back in this week, but the moment of separation is extremely difficult and she says she can't concentrate in the class because she is worried that I may leave when she is at school. She panics and asks to go to the nurse almost the instant she goes in the class. Does anyone have any advice on steps that I can take to help resolve this? What may have worked for you, and how long did it take!? Thanks.