The Overloaded Bucket
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.
How It Works
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Intake
Log your kid's baseline — symptoms, meds, onset, history, treatments already tried. Takes about fifteen minutes.
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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, starting binders, or running any protocol — track changes in real time and flag new symptoms as they appear.
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Analysis
Claude reads your full timeline and flags likely correlations, possible reactions, and the one thing most worth pausing or trying next.
Free. Modality-agnostic — works whether you're doing conventional meds, homeopathy, IVIG, biomagnetism, supplements, or anything else. Your data stays yours.
The Bigger Picture
Every family who uses Plan B contributes — with consent, de-identified — to a growing pattern library. What combinations show up in the overloaded-bucket kids? What interventions correlate with regression versus recovery? Which modalities actually move the needle, and which ones just add noise?
As the dataset grows, Claude gets sharper. The 100th family's analysis benefits from what the first 99 contributed. Once patterns are clear enough to publish, they will be — openly, for every PANS parent, practitioner, and researcher trying to piece this together.
Private data. Public insights. Your kid's file is yours alone. What we learn from the aggregate becomes the research the community has been missing.
Who's Behind This
I went down the PANS rabbit hole the way most PANS parents do — because my kid was sick, conventional medicine ran out of answers, and I had to become the researcher nobody was going to hand me.
Plan B is what I wished I'd had at 2am, staring at a new symptom and a dozen variables in play. It's not a protocol. It's not a clinic. It's a way to see your kid's pattern — one modality, one symptom, one week at a time.
“Every PANS kid is a unique puzzle. The work isn't matching them to a protocol — it's assembling their specific puzzle, one piece at a time. That's what Plan B is for.”
Rachel
The Podcast
Conversations with the parents, practitioners, and researchers figuring PANS out in real time. The tracker and the podcast are two halves of the same project — share what's working, learn what isn't, move the conversation forward.
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