Our thesis
A path out of the fire — built from every modality, every family, every hard-won answer.
Today: a real understanding of every option out there. Tomorrow: the path itself. Minta is learning which modalities actually work for which symptoms — sharpening with every family who joins, every cohort we run, together.
Built by a mother · Trained by every family · Published openly
Compounding promise
It gets better with every family who joins. Over time — together — we build the way out.
§ 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 · The engine
One system.
Every facet feeds it.
Parent forums have suggestions. Plan B builds a path. It reads every modality on record, every practitioner teaching, every cohort study we run, and every kid's full intake — and synthesizes them into a real starting place. The more families tracking, the more cohort studies we fund, the faster the real paths emerge — together.
Inputs · What feeds it
Outputs · What it produces
Your family's journey feeds back into the library. The 100th family's read benefits from what the first 99 contributed. More people in → more studies funded → faster to solutions, for everyone.
A real starting place, not silence. Sharpened with every family. Together we get out.
§ 03 · The center
The tracker is Plan B.
- →The doctor willing to talk at 2am — for free.
- →The friend who'll help you troubleshoot when you're out of options and can't sleep.
- →The specialist who knows every modality — and will help you figure out 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.
Minta is still learning — today she offers suggestions. Soon, with every family who joins, a real protocol emerges for every child.
§ 02 · The method
Four pieces. One picture.
PP. 12 — 19
01
● ACTIVEIntake
Log your kid's baseline — symptoms, meds, onset, history, and everything already tried. Takes about fifteen minutes, or an unhurried conversation with Claude.
02
○Weekly
Rate each symptom on a 0–10 scale, week by week. Add new symptoms as they surface, flag the returning ones.
03
○Daily
When titrating meds or starting a protocol, track changes in real time and flag new symptoms as they appear.
04
○Analysis
Claude 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
01
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.
02
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.
04
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 consult isn't an option. Every log adds to your kid's picture and the library that helps the next family. Use it. Share it. Come back.
§ 03 · The why
Understanding the mechanism — so solutions get easier to craft.
Plan B isn't only matching modalities to kids. It's pursuing the questions underneath — which behavior is which driver? Every added family, every added cohort, every added data point pushes these questions closer to answers.
- Q1
Are these behaviors pathogen-driven?
When sudden OCD, rage, or regression appears — is the brain reacting to a specific infection? Which one, and in which kid?
- Q2
Or are they symptoms of an inflamed brain?
Is the driver the pathogen itself, or the inflammation it provoked? Different answers mean different protocols.
- Q3
Does strep have a personality? Does mold? Does lyme?
Do specific pathogens produce specific behavioral signatures? Does a kid picking their nose constantly mean parasites? Does a kid saying "I want to die" mean lyme? We're collecting the data to find out.
- Q4
Which combinations load the bucket fastest?
Mold + strep + methylation stall + stress — what order? Which is the bottleneck for which kid?
- Q5
Where does each modality actually fit?
Not “does it work” — where in the sequence does it belong, for which kind of kid?
The why is how the solution gets precise. Every family helps us answer it.
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.
Deleted on request
One click and everything your family put into Plan B is gone — from the tracker, the chat, the aggregate library. No questions asked.
Never shared without consent
Aggregate patterns (de-identified) help the next family's read — but only if you opt in. No consent, no contribution. Default is private.
Read the full privacy policy.
How to start
Three steps. Nothing else to figure out.
01
Do the intake
Twenty minutes, or break it across days. Pregnancy, birth, triggers, meds, symptoms, everything you've tried. The more detail, the sharper Minta's read.
~20 min
02
Log daily
Thirty seconds before bed. Mood rating, med changes, new symptoms, flare notes. Six weeks in, the pattern becomes visible.
30 sec / day
03
Ask Minta anything
2am meltdown, new symptom, stuck on protocol choice — Minta has your full record and runs the correlations a single visit can't.
anytime
What makes Plan B different
You've already tried the other places.
| Facebook groups | PANS forums | Doctor visits | Plan B | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2am access | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Specific to YOUR kid | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reads every modality together | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Remembers your kid's full history | — | — | partial | ✓ |
| Gets sharper with every family | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Cost | free | free | $300–$2,000 per visit | free |
| Data belongs to | Meta | forum owner | their chart | you |
Parent forums have suggestions. Doctors see their slice. Plan B is the only place that holds everything together— your kid, every modality, every family's story.
Voices · From the families using Plan B
Our first families are joining now.
As stories come in — breakthroughs, stalls, real journeys — we'll share them here (with consent). If you're using Plan B and want yours included, email Rachel.
Stay in the loop
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Put Plan B on your phone
No app store. No download.
Plan B lives on your home screen like any other app. Updates automatically. Works offline for the daily tracker.
iPhone · Safari
- Open app.planbforpans.com in Safari
- Tap the Share button (square with arrow)
- Scroll down, tap Add to Home Screen
- Tap Add
Android · Chrome
- Open app.planbforpans.com in Chrome
- Tap the ⋮ menu (top right)
- Tap Install app (or Add to Home screen)
- Tap Install
