Georgia doesn’t recognize rare disease | What parents are doing [Video]

Three Georgia mothers say their daughters went from happy, playful girls to children struggling with anxiety and rage overnight.

They’ve come to the same conclusion: their daughters have a serious medical diagnosis. It’s backed up with documentation – but some doctors refuse to treat them.

Those doctors say the diagnosis, PANDAS or PANS, doesn’t exist.

It’s a medical conundrum in the pediatric neurology and rheumatology fields – and it’s putting thousands of parents in a dilemma finding and affording care for their child.

Here’s just a glimpse of what some families face.

Personality changes

Kelly Grant, Nicole Furrow and April Beck share this common conundrum. Their girls just met, but they seemed to be a perfect fit.

Their moms say they were a perfect picture of health.

“She is the most cheerful, happy-go-lucky, confident little girl,” Grant said, describing her now 9-year-old …