Does PANDAS cause sudden severe depression? suicidal ideation?

[philamom]

definitely!

 

My dd (7 years old in 2008) had these symptoms when her PANDAS was at its worse.

 

I hope your dd continues to improve on abs!

 

Doxy would also help if mycoplasma were a factor...so it could be that or Lyme.

 

I thought they used Azith. in young kids with Lyme. Has that been considered? Azith. can also get Mycoplasma.

 

They don't seem to like to use Doxy in kids but it worked so much faster/better than Amox, could also be that Amox did a lot of the work and Doxy given after is getting all the glory, hard to know, we just saw such a major improvement. DD's emotional state was going off the charts on Amox but this may have been a Lyme herx, not sure. Azith does not work in Lyme at all but I can't recall why. DD has very high Mycoplasma (labs were a 5, normal cut off range was under 2) We are seeing Dr. B's PA in 10 days, seeing a PANDAS/Lyme (I think/hope) literate neurologist and have an appointment with a well known agressive Lyme "guru" next week. Today I went through the Neurologist's patient questionaire symptom checklist and was completely alarmed to see that I had checked many, many boxes in the neurological symptoms section. I really appreciate this forum, this is the best I have found for answers. Thank you, I hope your DD is healthy and happy.

My daughter was given zith as part of her lyme cocktail.