what are the symptoms for turrets syndrome?

I have a 7 yr old daughter. Last year, for a few months, she continuously cleared her throat. It finally went away. Then she had the eye blinking thing for awhile. Now she has the head twitching. Should I seek treatment now or do I have to wait until she has had one of these tics for a year?

my sister has these tics and shes had them forever but the only time they really happen is when she is mad. She has been to the doctor and they are not sure what it could be could it be teretts?

I was diagnosed with turret syndrome in 2003, and all that happens in my life is getting picked on by people and family. It is a horrible life, turrets for me causes suicidal thoughts at time.

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My 12 year old son has tourrettes. When he was in daycare before elementary school the teachers asked us if there was a history of this in our family which there isn't as far back as we can find. At that time we saw no visible signs of the syndrome at all. It's important to note that most people are diognosed with this in their adolescent years and it is most common in males. As if becoming a teen wasn't difficult enough right?! My son is now 12 and has for several years progressively moved from having one tick to another to combining some of them but rarely is he calm and still, without his ticks. It used to drive us crazy - the throat clearing, the eye squints, the sniffles, the body twithces, the bending of the neck in obscure stretches, the rotating of the shoulders as if his body is stiff and he's trying to loosen is muscles. The list goes on. If we point it out, he will take a deep breath and relax for a few minutes but can only do that if he maintains concentration on the ticks themselves. We have learned to accept it rather than make him more self concious than he already is. I wanted to refere to your little brother having itchiness 'under the skin' and twitching. Be very careful with having him misdiognosed or being too ready to agree that it must be tourettes. I have two friends oddly enough who after years of fighting with doctors, allergists, and specialists, brought their children to Homeopaths and found out that one of them actually had an internal parasite - not tapeworm or anything that prominent, but there are other microsopic parasites that as humans we can live with and do, without any problems. BUT some people, mostly children can end up with ticks, restlessness, itchiness, itchy nose syndrome, and all kinds of other signs that are often the parallel symptoms for other more easily diagnosed illnesses like tourettes. The other friend who's daughter suffered similar problems and complained constantly about being 'itchy inside' ended up having a rare allergy to specific food additives, preservatives, and colourings. Allergists don't commonly test for the chemical additives to foods because this is not so much a common problem. But knowing someone who's child has found some relief from it - and it took a lot of hard work narrowing down food categories, times of day that she was eating specific foods, keping lists to find similarities, contacting food companies for ingredient information, common ingredients in foods for example processed meats contain nitrates. Often doctors will dismiss these concerns because of the rarity of them or their own unfamiliar experience with them. Oddly enough - both friends' children were diognosed by a homepath. There's something to be said for good natural medecine and diognosis I guess. You might have to be extremely perseverent. It won't be an easy road getting medical professionals to admit or aknowledge this could be a seriously uphill battle for you. Good luck.

i keep saying fogglypoo and shaking my head r vujfc 8nv8hxdf repeatedly sorry i just had a spasum. can u suggest any remidies for my disease help me! my mummy and daddy thinks im mad and all my friends think im high on weed but i swear i have never smoked weed with uncle billy from canal street at 12 oclock just after sunday dinner mmmm roast pork and gravy mmmm fogglypoo.

Oh my God! I do that sometimes when I think of something embarassing or stupid I said. Is that considered Tourettes??

Dear Sandy and others,



Of course you wouldn't want to leave your boyfriends if they are good people. Tourette's is not contagious or completely debilitating - most people who have it live happy, functional and otherwise normal lives just like everyone else. Please seek help through local or national associations for Tourettes. Many of them have local chapters that meet regularily, have wonderful people who lecture, or provide information or talks on it, and it is a great place to find more info and be able to share with others about how to live with Tourettes, how to be a loving friend to someone with Tourettes and how to deal with these nervous tics and sometimes awkward behaviours. I am including a few web links that might be able to provide you some direction on finding local groups or at the very least some more informtaion. And please, by all means, continue to love and enjoy your partners as you have been. The ne thing that almost all Tourettes people agree on is that they don't want to be singled out and need people around them whothey are comfortable with and who care about them regardless of them having Tourettes.



http://www.tsa-usa.org/

http://www.tourette.ca/

http://www.hopepress.com/html/resources.html#tourette

http://www.ability.org/tourette.html



Best of luck,



~C



the Canadian Phoenix

I have often wondered if I have some sort of turrets. I often think I do, but I then read something that makes me think otherwise. For one, I am almost always able to control my tics or other little episodes if others are around. But at times it gets so bad that I wait until they turn around, and I go to town of whatever I'm doing, whether it be nodding my head repeatedly, rising my eyebrows, repeatedly grunting, rubbing my fingers together right next to my ear as quickly as I can, or doing some sort of labored breathing...
I actually think it would be nice to know if I do have it, as I could explain to people that I have it. I know they see my episodes, but no one has ever said anything about it. My wife tries, I think, by saying things like "Sometimes I have to redo something repeatedly if I don't do it the same way I usually do, do you do that?" Problem is, I DO! I have many little routines that I MUST follow, or I will start over.
So given all of this, can anyone tell me if there are any other explanations to this? Oh yeah, I forgot, my actions grow stronger if I have caffiene in my system. I think at least.
Anything anyone can offer on this, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
d

am an bit unshore . i dont shout out loud but the is something telling me to do things i souldent . i blank out at times and dont even know or get on to it at the time . i no that my dad had sytsafena .am and have been on antedepreshons on and off for five yeas. is the a salooson or treetment

My 12 year old daughter has coughed since the first grade (now a 6th grader)
We have taken her to many doctors and specialists. Childrens Memorial Hospital in Chicago didn't see anything wrong either. One doctor suggested that she see a psychiatrist and that it was just all in her mind. We did and it helped for a short period of time ( 3 months). My daughter says that she feels the back of her throat itching and that is why she coughs. I just came back and her pediatrician suggested we now see an allergist. She has taken allergy medication and that hasn't helped. I have heard of turrett before and was thinking that this might be a symptom. Is it? Has anyone ever come across something like this? I am desperate to find out what, if anything, will help my daughter. Her cough is loud and seal-like. It is distracting in her class as well as every where she goes. Please help.

My 9 year old daughter started moving her hear rapidly like looking around her room in a quick fashion and at the same time will stomp her foot on the floor. She has done this for the last few months, could this be a tic?

jeneesdad... tourrettes syndrome usually affiliates itself with more than one tic... when i was little (i am now almost 15) i had the same sort of thing coughing and clearing my throat along with many many other tics. does she have any other tics ? i have tourrettes syndrome along with ADD and i know that it started out when i was young and it worsened and worsened up until now... ive seen neurologists,pediatritians, MDs, and psychiatrists about my problems and ive been put on clonodine along with other meds in search of a solution to aid the situation. i hope that your daughter never ever gets as bad as i did but let me assure you that there are plenty of ways to cope if u can find them urself. i live a very normal life with my tics and involuntary vocal grunts and strained breathes and things like that and i have well over 50 different ones. i cope very well with this considering my situation and although it is so aggrivating, at times more than others.. i still make it through and live an above par life i would say. you just have to accept it. and im not saying that your daughter does have tourrettes or anything but in the event that she does, there are also plus sides to this situation too and if u can cope than it all balances out .

good luck,

-matt

can someone please help me? i have had tics ever since i was 5 and now im 11 every year they get worse and i have over 50 tics! the worst ones are cracking and strangling and moving my neck, squeezing everything i hold, twitching my eyes and twitching my eyes until they make clicking noises, twitching my nose like its itchy, making letter sounds during awkward silences, and this is really gross but always checking if i have to go to the bathroom and while im sleeping just sit up straight and not lie back down. it really hurts me. also, everyone in my new school makes fun of me for it and calls me names. can anyone please help me? sometimes i cry to sleep i hate it so much. please help me

Hi guys! I am a kid who has been diagnosed with tourettes syndrome for a few years now. A really good hospital to go to for this is the Sick Kids hospital, however it is really hard to get into. You could also try going to a natural-pathic doctor.

I have, for two years experienced neck twitches, and a general grunting/throat clearing, finger twitches and just the general need to spontaneously move random muscles.

Please feel free to tell people about your tourettes, and argue me if you feel that I am wrong, but before I twitch it is almost like a mounting pressure in the area and it builds and builds until you release it by moving that muscle.

There are also cases where certain medicines/chemicals have caused a severe attack of these tics and twitches. So I believe there might be a chemical aspect involved.

I have however managed to manifest this syndrome in a positive way and have turned it into being a neat freak when typing on the keyboard.

Hey ya'll, my names Sarah(16) and i have terrets and A.D.D.
yes...both of them.
anyways, when i was younger i did 'involutary' movements. ex: eye blinking, face stuff, smelling hands, rolling eyes ect..
now its better because i know when im doing it, but i still do it sometimes(more when im under stress). Its not O.C.D because O.C.D people feel that if they dont do there ''ticks'' or movements that something bad will happen.
If I dont do them, i just feel really stressed out and cant forget about it until i do it. No, i dont yell out cuss word, or even words. Sometimes i do this thing with my mouth, and recently i cant stop biting off my tast buds..it really hurts. Anyways, if you think you have turrets i hope this helped. Over all i have about 30 different tics, but i cant name them all. IF you think your child has it, maybe they do. In boys, normally, it makes them REALLY hyper. However, if a girl has it(like me) we dont tend to be hyper hyper, but Daydream...a lot. But like i said, when i was little I had NO idea i was doing it, so how could i stop? even if i did know when i was doing it I couldnt stop. But go with intuition, i was mis-dyignosed 2 times and just a year ago found out i had A.D.D.
but dont freak! Almost no one knows i have turrets unless i tell them or they know what to look for. Right now im on meds. to help with the A.D.D.
but frommm...6th-10th grade i didnt take any at all. And i dont regret having turrets, its really made me a better person.