Jim B

WOW, I have found a place where people can understand what we are going through! My son is 12 and has had Tics since he was around 6. It started with facial grimaces and hand twitches that seemed mild and it didn't interrupt his life. When he was around 7 his allergies were so bad, an allergist put him on allergy shots. We continued them for about a year and weened him off of them, His allergies seemed to be tolerable, so we never put him back on them. Though his tics always seeemd to be worse in the spring when baseball season started, we thought it was stress related due to the competition. We finally took him to a neurologist about two years ago and he was put on all of the typical anti-sych drugs. They were absolutely no help. He just gained a bunch of weight and was constantly depressed. The doctor finally told us he did not have Tourettes because the med's he prescribed didn't help! Idiot! Since then, we have tried to identify what the triggers were. We have taken him off of dairy, sugar, bread and others. Each seemed to help the tics, but they always seemed to creep back in, almost as if the tics were finding a new reason to flare up. This spring he did not play baseball for the first time since he was 4 and the tics came with an added vengence. I believe we may be dealing with allergies and have an appt with the same Allergist in two weeks and a different nuerologist in June. He is in the 7th grade and the kids at school are teasing him beyond belief. Has anyone seen help using the allergy shots with the tics. The tics were so mild back when he was on them that he may not have had them at all. We feel so helpless. All we want is for him to be as normal and happy as possible. Jim