Hosted by Jo Joyner and Lucy McDonald · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 21 episodes
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Welcome to The PANS/PANDAS Stories. In the first series, actor and charity campaigner Jo Joyner, and child counsellor and journalist, Lucy McDonald, meet children and families affected by this neuropsychiatric disorder. They also interview experts at the cutting edge of treatment. Awareness is growing, and the pair hope this podcast will offer hope and support to sufferers as they navigate an often long and complicated road to recovery. Disclaimer - Episodes can contain upsetting themes. It does not replace medical advice.
Jo Joyner and Lucy McDonald hosts PANS/PANDAS STORIES, a health show with 21 episodes published.
Dr Zoe Gillispie is one of the world's leading neuroimmune-psychiatric psychologists, working with children and families with PANS/PANDAS from her Californian practice. Here she shares insights and expertise about the il
Show notesMichelle Newby thinks that Occupational Therapy should be the fourth pillar of PANS/PANDAS treatment, after controlling inflammation and infection and psychiatric and psychological help. She works closely with PANS/PANDA
Show notes"I want every single kid, every single teen, every single young adult, every single adult with PANS/PANDAS to realise what they are capable of because they are capable of so much more than their disorder gives them the n
Show notesIn this episode of PansPandas Stories, host Lucy McDonald interviews Freya Shacklock, a 19-year-old who shares her inspiring journey of recovery from PANS-PANDAS, a condition that caused her severe mental health challeng
Show notesIt has been a while since the last PANS PANDAS Stories and our return is marked by an interesting chat with Dr Kiki Chang. He has a long PP pedigree and now works privately in the States where he has been instrumental in
Show notesIn the last episode of the year, we talked to Lucy from Parenting_PANDAS on Instagram. Lucy shares her story with her 10,000-strong community, charting the hope and despair of life as a PANDAS parent. Originally posting
Show notesDr Denis Bouboulis, an allergist and immunologist from the US, has been diagnosing and treating PANS PANDAS for nearly 20 years. He talks about the "wild card" of Covid and how Long Covid could be linked to underlying ve
Show notesJo Joyner speaks to Education Expert Tina Coope from the UK charity about helping children at school. She has good tips about how to speak to schools and help teachers understand how to help these children. If you have a
Show notesBrilliant chat with Naomi Fisher about low demand-parenting, how parents unwittingly create pressure for their children, how to choose the right school, how to collaborate when things go wrong, and why saying less can be
Show notesLucinda Miller is back to talk about her new book Brain Brilliance. It looks at how what you eat affects your health and mood. The book is described as a nutritional toolkit for neurodivergent kids, and is full of health
Show notesJulie Cox is the mother of all PANS PANDAS therapists and she has been working with these children and families for the last 20 years after her daughter got the illness. She has poured her personal and professional knowl
Show notesAmy Joy Smith is a legend in the community, and one of the first practitioners to help children heal from PANS/PANDAS. She has helped hundreds of families, and her compassionate, rigorous approach ensures that children g
Show notesLucy McDonald here, This conversation was mind-blowing for me. I have long known of the rheumatologist Jennifer Frankovich's work, but in this chat, she taught me so much about PANS. Well specifally PANDAS. She treats ch
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Hello, Lucy here with Episode 1 of our Easter mini-series. This week, I talk to functional practitioner and nutritionist, Stella Chadwick. Stella talks about her journey to treating PANS/PANDAS after a family member got
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Hello everyone In our last podcast of our first series, Lucy speaks to Dr Tim Ubhi. He is well-known here in the UK as a passionate advocate for PANS/PANDAS, and has played a large part in many people's recovery. He has
Show notesIn our fifth PANS/PANDAS Stories, Lucy McDonald chats with Helen Huitson, a PANS/PANDAS mother and campaigner from the NE of England. She is the mother of the wonderful Jessica, Lucy spoke to in Episode 2. In the podcast
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Jo Joyner talks to naturopath Lucinda Miller about the healing power of food. Lucinda has helped hundreds of families, including Jo's, and focuses on feeding the brain, the immune system and the gut microbiome. Find out
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This week, Jo Joyner talks to Gareth Costello about his daughter Rose who went from a confident, popular girl, who loved school, to a shadow of her former self almost overnight. Gareth describes this change, as a "light
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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 pan
Show notesWho better to start the series than Vicky Burford, who runs the PANS/PANDAS UK charity? She talks to Jo about how her son Gregory had a flu-type bug on holiday in Tenerife aged 12, and developed serious neuropsychiatric
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