Ivan

Just want to add my support to stimulants setting off tics. How doctors can say its just a coincidence that tics start up a week or so after stimulants are begun, it's a joke. No wonder there's so much tourettes these days. (A rare condition? Hardly!) One of the hard things seems to be that everyones different. its too bad your child fell into that one to two percent with severe reactions. sure wish you the best.

I've seen a lot of eyerolling and neck tics with my son (11) when he goes swimming in a public pool. I've never paid much attention to it but read somewhere that it's not even good to take a bath in chlorinated water at home but that seems a little extreme? but here the pools are loaded with chlorine and kids are in there for hours. you said you switched to Baquacil. That should be better from what i have read. But maybe your son is sensitive to something in that even still since it's still a sanitizer. Or maybe your pool was a lot better for him but he kept also swimming at friends houses last summer? could that be? also are you watching what he eats. i see a lot of posts on that. it was really good you wrote this. am going to be more careful about pools for him now. good luck. hope you tell us what else you find out.