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OCD after strep throat??

Postby tony1510 » Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:56 pm

Hey guys. Wanted to see if anyone can relate to me. Several weeks ago I had strep throat and I took antibiotics for 2 days and got a allergic reaction and i stopped. I told my nurse and she said it was fine to stop because i felt fine. Right after I developed severe OCD and anxiety and depression. I started having a lot of suicidal thoughts and my anxiety was high. I have never experienced this. Went to a psychiatrist and gave me Zoloft and it has been hell ever since. I did some research and I saw that some people developed ocd and anxiety after untreated Strep throat. I guess it’s called pans or pandas. I insisted that my doctor did a throat culture test and it came back positive for strep after 3 weeks of being “cured”. Has anyone ever experience something like tbis?
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Re: OCD after strep throat??

Postby Snaga » Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:16 am

I've wondered about that, in myself, but it's unconfirmed. I've had anxiety and possible OCD issues since preschool, definitely by around ten or eleven for OCD w/intrusive thoughts. I vaguely recall having an very high fever of unknown origin in the preschool years, and an allergic reaction to the antibiotic, Penicillin. This would have been the late 1960s. When I first heard of a possible link between Strep and anxiety disorders incl. OCD, I was intrigued. But I don't have an official Dx, much less think that around fifty years later, there could be a proven link.

Refresh my memory, are adults included in this? For some reason I was thinking it might only explain possible causes in childhood onset.
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