I recently learned of PANDAS/PANS and have done a bit of reading on these illnesses. For an ME/CFS patient it immediately strikes you how PANDAS/PANS mirrors ME/CFS in so many ways:
- Abrupt onset of symptoms/encephalatic-like onset
- Diagnosis which is heavily reliant on the symptom presentation
- Neurological symptoms (anxiety, depression, emotional lability, etc)
- Immune system involvement (autoimmunity, immune dysfunction)
- Infectious trigger
- Sleeping difficulties, enuresis, frequent urination and other urinary problems
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