Patient Comments
"My diagnosis of cerebral folate deficiency meant a second chance at life and stability. With treatment, life was no longer consumed by fear of when I would have my next major depressive episode. I was lost after high school because I never anticipated living long enough to see myself graduate and hence gave no thought to career options. After diagnosis and treatment, ... I understand the suffocating feeling of depression, without fear I will return to that place."
"To be honest, it gave me some relief because I finally had an answer as to why I was feeling so bad. Even now when I am not feeling my best and I’ve practiced my coping skills, I am allowed to remind myself that It is not my fault."
“I have been searching for an answer for 14 years, I knew something was wrong my first year as an adult…subtly turned into an immense wave of unexplainable anguish as I did by best to live my adult life. 10 doctors, 50 medications, a life of memories wipes from ECT… but now, now I don’t have to search anymore. I have the answer, something I wish I could have found early on. I look forward to a brand new life, having a new unimaginable reality that I can finally interact with.”
"Well for 30 years I have struggled going to doctors and clinics to try to get help for depression and feeling down and not being able to function as normal people do. So for years I have taken multiple medications to cope, none of which helped relieve the stress and anxiety pushing me to the point of a suicidal attempt on my life to end the pain and struggle.
After being somewhat stabilized by Dr. Pan thank god she suggested a spinal tap test and blood work to test the reason for the resistance to the drug treatment. Through this test and only through this test the diagnosis of Tetrahydrobiopterin Deficiency was found to be the cause of my long suffering illness. At that point it was recommended that I should be put on Kuvan to counteract what my body cannot produce naturally. I was over joyed that finally something could be done, and without this test it would never been diagnosed and I probably would not be here today...Thank god for Dr. Pan and all of the time she has fought for me."