Hi all,
I'm new to this forum, but am hoping to get some guidance. My 7 year old has congenital Lyme, Bartonella and Babesia. We have been treating at a Klinghardt clinic for a couple of years. Our main issues with her are anger / rage, aggression, oppositional behaviors, rigidity in her behavior, emotional lability, etc. She is very unmanageable. She flies off the handle off and on all day, and everything sets her off.
During her Lyme treatment, she's tested positive for yeast, was treated, and became a completely different child. But only for a few weeks, then she regressed. Then she tested positive for parasites and was treated, and again, became a completely different child. But only for a few weeks again, and then she regressed.
It's been recently suggested to me that perhaps she has mold toxicity which is causing so much inflammation that her Lyme treatment isn't able to "stick". And also that her emotional issues sound like PANS (she's never had strep, so I don't think it could be PANDAS).
She definitely meets some of the criteria, but I'm not sure she has any forms of OCD. She definitely doesn't restrict her eating - she's always hungry and a bit obsessed with food. But she does have the co-morbidities required for diagnosis. I am willing to pursue this if is seems like it's a real possibility, but the Lyme treatment for her (plus me and my other 2 kids) is draining us financially.
I guess I'm wondering if there are OCD behaviors that I'm just not seeing on the websites that I'm not thinking of that maybe my daughter does.
I also can't say that she had a sudden onset of symptoms. She had severe colic as an infant and screamed every waking moment until she was 3 months old. She was a happy baby after that, but then toddlerhood hit and she had the terrible twos. She just never seemed to grow out of it. I'm not sure if because she has congenital Lyme that maybe PANS was triggered when she was really young and I never noticed the sudden onset because it coincided with the time when kids are naturally behaving this way???
I'm just so lost and don't know where to turn...