PANS/PANDAS STORIES

Episode Two - Lucy McDonald talks to Jessica about life as a teen with the illness PANDAS


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In Episode Two Lucy meets Jessica, a warm and courageous 14 year old with PANDAS. Her initial symptoms were tics and anxiety, but progressed to multiple non-epileptic seizures every day. She talks about having a "pet panda in her brain that causes havoc" and how her PANDAS diagnosis was the worst day of her life.

IVIg - Intravenous immunoglobulin - an immunotherapy that can help some people with PANS/PANDAS

EDS - Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a disease that weakens the connective tissues of your body

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PANS/PANDAS STORIESBy Jo Joyner and Lucy McDonald

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