Why Plan B exists
PANS has a protocol. When it works it is a miracle.
It cured my daughter. Advil and Augmentin, and she never came back — not a relapse, not a flare.
It did nothing for my son.
When the protocol fails, families fall off the end of the map. Nobody has described what those children need, or why they are the second group. You are left assembling an answer alone, from forums and whoever you can afford.
That is who Plan B is for. And it is free.
§ 01
Why this happens to some children and not others
Why Plan B exists
Your child’s doctor isn’t ordering the right labs — and it’s usually not their fault.
PANS/PANDAS falls between specialties. Neurology, immunology, infectious disease, and psychiatry each see a sliver; none owns the whole picture. It’s barely taught, it’s not in the guidelines, and it doesn’t fit a 15-minute visit.
So the OCD, the rage, the tics, the regression get sent to behavioral health — and the immune, infectious, and metabolic drivers underneath never get tested. Families spend years being dismissed.
Plan B holds the whole picture no single specialist has time to hold. We assemble the workup that should have been done — every test coded and insurance-ready — put an ordering clinician behind it so it actually happens, and read every result ourselves. Then we connect you to someone who’ll treat.
That’s the gap. That’s why we’re here.
Our thesis
A path out of the fire — built from every modality, every family, every hard-won answer.
Today:a synthesis that reads every lab, every modality, and your child's whole history together — and names what's been missed and what hasn't been tried. Tomorrow: as more families join, the patterns sharpen — which modality actually helps, for which child, in what order.
Built by a mother who's lived it · We never prescribe · Every number checked against the source
§ 01 · The problem
35 symptoms. 12 supplements.
Three new meds this month.
What is actually working?
PANS and PANDAS families carry a cognitive load no spreadsheet can hold. New symptoms appear. Old ones come back. You start a binder and the headaches get worse — is it the binder, or a flare, or the guanfacine you bumped up last Tuesday?
Plan B is the tracker built for that exact confusion.
§ 02
What you do first
Upload everything. Find out what is actually driving your child. It costs nothing.
How it works
Your path to a roadmap.
Four steps, and all four are free. Then you're never alone working it.
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Sign up
Your name, your email, your child's first name. No card, no insurance details.
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Upload everything
Every lab and doctor's note — including the old ones, and the ones you were told were normal. No labs yet? The Synthesis tells you exactly what to run.
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Tell us her story
When things changed, what she was like before, what you've already tried. This is what makes the labs mean something.
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Get your Synthesis
One integrated read of everything — what's wrong, why, and the roadmap: what to ask, what to test, in what order. Then Minta and a 60-second daily tracker walk every step.
§ 03
How you keep going
Track her daily. Ask Minta daily. This is the part people skip, and it is the part that finds the drivers. Lost your login, or not sure where Minta lives? Here is how to get back in.
WHO IS MINTA
Minta is our AI, and she has read your child’s entire record — every lab, every doctor’s note, the history you gave us. She writes your synthesis. And she is not a chatbot you start from scratch each time: you can ask her anything, any day, and she answers about yourchild. She will also tell you when she doesn’t know.
WHAT THE TRACKER IS
A place to score your child each day — the rage, the tics, the stomach pain, the sleep, whatever her picture actually is. Zero to ten. It takes about two minutes, and it lives on your phone’s home screen.
They are not two things.
The tracker is how Minta learns your daughter. Every day you log, she knows her a little better — so when you ask “why was this week so bad?”, she isn’t guessing. She is reading ninety days of your own observations against her labs, her medications and what you tried last month. That is the whole system, and it is why the two minutes a day matter.
§ 03 · The center
The tracker is Plan B.
- →Answers at 2am, when there’s nowhere else to turn.
- →The friend who'll help you troubleshoot when you're out of options and can't sleep.
- →Every modality, held in one place — so you can see your next lane.
Every answer Plan B gives starts from your kid's full story — captured in intake, extended daily by the tracker. Without that, there's nothing to synthesize. With it, the engine works for your kid specifically, and sharpens every time you come back.
Your Synthesis is real today — built by a person, checked against the source. And it keeps getting sharper: with every family who joins, the patterns behind it grow stronger.
§ 02 · The method
Four pieces. One picture.
PP. 12 — 19
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● ACTIVEIntake
Log your kid's baseline — symptoms, meds, onset, history, and everything already tried. Takes about fifteen minutes, or an unhurried conversation with Minta.
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○Weekly
Rate each symptom on a 0–10 scale, week by week. Add new symptoms as they surface, flag the returning ones.
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○Daily
When titrating meds or starting a protocol, track changes in real time and flag new symptoms as they appear.
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○Analysis
Minta reads your full timeline and flags likely correlations, possible reactions, and the one thing most worth pausing — or trying next.
01 — Intake form
← INTAKE · LIVE VIEW
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Intake
The whole story, captured once.
Pregnancy, birth, environment, diet. Every medication ever tried, every supplement, every modality. Every symptom, every flare, every weird behavior that nobody else took seriously. Labs, tests, imaging. The onset story — told in your own words, in conversation with Minta, at your pace. About twenty minutes in one sitting, or broken up across days. It all saves as you go.
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After intake, the tracker opens
Daily check-ins. Thirty seconds before bed.
Once your intake is in, the tracker takes over — from your phone, every day. Tap a mood rating (0–10). Log any med change, new supplement, dose tweak. Rate each symptom you care about — OCD, rage, sleep, tics, food aversion, anxiety — on the same 0–10 scale. When a new weird behavior shows up (a tic, a food fear, a rage episode, a 2am wake-up), tag it the moment you see it. Free text for context when you need it: ‘meltdown at 4pm, right after screen time and missed lunch.’
Saturday gives you a weekly rollup — bar charts for every symptom, a timeline of every med change, all your flare notes in one place. Patterns you couldn't see before start to jump out: rage was 8/10 Monday, 3/10 Wednesday — what changed? The binder dose, probably. Six weeks in, the pattern is visible in a way no memory, no folder of doctor notes, no stack of Google tabs could ever hold.03
Minta reads both
Troubleshoots from the full record, 2am included.
Minta already has your intake. Now she has every day you've logged. Ask anything — ‘why did we have a bad week?’, ‘is this new symptom concerning?’, ‘what should we try next?’ — and she reads the whole record before answering. She runs correlations across meds, symptoms, timing, triggers: ‘Rage spiked the week you raised guanfacine AND started the new binder. Tics ticked up same week — may be rebound. Pause the binder at half-dose for 10 days to isolate which one is the driver.’ Specific to your kid. Grounded in your data. Not generic advice.
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It sharpens
We’re teaching Minta to spot patterns.
Your kid's data (consent-based, de-identified) joins every other family's data in the library. As stories come in, Minta is learning which modalities actually work for which symptoms — spotting the patterns no single family can see alone. Every successful story teaches her what to suggest. Every failed one teaches her what not to. Every cohort run adds signal. The read you get today is only as sharp as what the first families contributed. The read the hundredth family gets is sharper still.
Nothing works without your intake. Nothing sharpens without your log. This is where the compounding lives.
Use · Share · Use again
The more you log — what's failing, what's working — the faster Minta sees your kid's patterns and the path out.
Make this your trusted advisor while you're waiting six weeks for the next intake appointment — or when the $2,000 half-hour specialist consult isn't an option. Your free Synthesis is the path that always is. Every log adds to your kid's picture and the library that helps the next family. Use it. Share it. Come back.
§ 04
When you are stuck
If you are still scared and directionless. If the AI missed something, or you want more guidance — if you need someone to hold your hand through the gates.
Why buy the synthesis
You don't need another opinion. You need every piece connected.
Most PANS parents are handed a half-baked protocol — one that treats a single issue at a time and never integrates the whole. Plan B does the opposite: it brings every healing modality and every issue your child faces into one compact healing journey, and it knows things your doctor doesn't. When you're stalled, Minta has your Plan B — a real idea of why, and many new things to try. Doing that takes two things working together.
What you actually get · free
The Synthesis
Every piece, in one place.
- ›Every lab, symptom, prior treatment and practitioner letter — read together, not in slices.
- ›Every healing modality your child's picture calls for — methylation, infections, gut, immune, detox — woven into one sequenced plan.
- ›What's been missed, and what hasn't been tried — the drivers no single specialist connected.
- ›A compact, week-by-week healing journey you can actually follow — with a practitioner letter to bring to each visit.
Then ask Minta anything to troubleshoot — pay-as-you-go, no subscription. Fed new studies and learning across every family, she evolves daily.
Why trust it — and why “not a doctor” is the point
Rachel
The doctors are who failed you.
- ›Every family here has already been failed by doctors — the “wait and see,” the specialist who read only their slice. You're not missing a doctor. You're missing the integration.
- ›No one doctor has the hours or the cross-training to connect Walsh, Shoemaker, Buhner, methylation, immune and gut against your child's labs. That's the work — and it isn't a prescription.
- ›We never prescribe. Every recommendation is a question to bring to your practitioner, plus the test or driver they overlooked — leverage, not a competing opinion.
- ›Built by a mom of three recovered PANS kids who did this homework for years — and every number checked against the source.
Not a doctor — and the doctors are exactly why you're here.
Why it works
You don't need another doctor's opinion. You need someone to connect every piece — and tell you exactly what to ask for next.
That's the synthesis. The receipts are on the stories page: in one case it surfaced an immune deficiency, a tickborne infection, and a methylation block that five specialists had missed over three years.
Isn’t ChatGPT already good for this?
Yes. It’s extraordinary — and getting better.
Gemini remembers. ChatGPT remembers. The models are remarkable, and Minta runs on the same kind of engine — so we won’t pretend we’re smarter. We’ll be honest about the parts a chat window will never be:
It learns across families — not just yours.
A chatbot remembers your chats. Plan B sees what's actually moved the needle across hundreds of PANS kids like yours — which driver showed up, what order worked, what backfired. That's outcome data no general AI has or can get. Your hardest season sharpens the next family's read; theirs sharpens yours.
There’s a human who has lived it.
A mother who has been exactly where you are reads your synthesis and gets on the phone with you. A chatbot does not call you back at 2am.
It’s not a chat window — it’s the whole way through.
A chatbot gives you answers. Plan B gives you the system: the tracker that catches when your child stalls, the synthesis built from your whole record, the map, and the exact thing to hand each doctor. A parent with a chatbot still has to drive. Plan B drives.
It already knows PANS — and what to ask.
Not just memory — it brings the field (Walsh, Yasko, Shoemaker, O'Hara, Crista, Nathan, the FRAT test, mold sequencing), kept current with every new study, and asks the questions you don't know to ask yet.
We don’t beat the AI. We wrap the data, the human, and the systemaround it — the parts a chatbot can’t be.
§ 05
Why it gets better the more of us there are
Volume is the bottleneck. Every family who tracks makes the answer clearer for the next one.
Compounding promise
It gets better with every family who joins. Over time — together — we build the way out.
Where they were · What the synthesis found
Two families, stuck for years. The picture no one had connected.
Real syntheses. Names anonymized, lab details shared with permission.
Family 01 · Teen son · Europe · 30+ labs, 25 categories · 5 specialists, 3 years
Three years. Thirty labs. Three drivers nobody had stacked together.
Where they were
A teen son with PANS-spectrum symptoms — OCD, anxiety, recurrent infections, gut problems that wouldn’t resolve. Five specialists across three years. Hospital bloodwork, a full functional-genomics SNP panel, EU l…
Read the full synthesis →Family 02 · Teen son · U.S. · multi-driver PANS · 2 years of treatment
Two years of treatment. The labs never moved. Minta knew why.
Where they were
Two years of homeopathy, functional medicine and biomagnetism. Every panel run, more than once. And the labs kept coming back the same — histamine high, strep that never came down, mycoplasma climbing, mold throu…
Read the full synthesis →In their words
What families are saying
I’ve been using ChatGPT for the last year or two but it forgets important details, can’t remember lab results, and gradually slows to the point of becoming unusable. Then I stumbled across Plan B for PANS. OMG! I love it! Thank you 🙏 Why isn’t everyone using this?!
This is the most amazing, comprehensive document I ever received, concerning my child’s health and test results. You and Minta are excellent! It makes so much sense 🙏
Voices · From the families using Plan B
“This is the most comprehensive document I have ever received concerning my son's health and test results. You and Minta are excellent — it makes so much sense.”
Mother of a teen son · Europe · read his story
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Our promise on your kid's data
Yours, always
Your kid's intake, logs, and conversations are your data. We don't sell it. We don't share it with advertisers, insurance, or schools.
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