Hi, My DS is 10 has had a dramatic change in personality over the past few months, the onset was very quick and very severe. His symptoms are ocd type of behavior, many tics, anger, meltdowns, spd (Cant stand being touched)etc my cuddly happy funny little boy is gone. We have wracked our brains as to what has caused this, a small insignificant change, bullying, abuse, brain tumor everything has crossed my mind. I also looked up pandas but discounted it as he didnt seem the ‘same’ as the kids I saw on YouTube. Anyway I’ve been trying for 2 months to get him help , the child mental health services here are awful under funded under staffed and even going private isn’t much better (I have a private apt but not until the end of the month) anyway something happened over the weekend and I had enough I went to A & E with him I was told to go there by my gp in case of emergency, we were sent home and told to come back the next day and someone from Camhs would be there to see us, we arrived the next day waited hours eventually got to see someone. They said they wanted him to get checked for PANDAS (I never mentioned pandas to them) they also want him to go on a very a low dose antipsychotic medication which I’m a bit scared about. But to do any of these things they need a blood test, my DS is all over the place he will not in a million years consent to a blood test. They also need an ecg? Because these antipsychotic meds can interfere with the heart. They said they can give us the antipsychotics without the tests but it would be our decision, they say it’s very low dose just to take the edge off his symptoms but I’m so afraid after they said it can affect his heart. I don’t know what to do or where to turn. Do I let them give him the antipsychotic meds this might enable them to get bloods from him To check pandas etc. The more this goes on the worse his behavior is becoming. Thanks for reading