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Wow, I am so glad to have found you all. What amazing response time and amazing suggestions. I am headed to the grocery store now. My son is a fruit junky fortunately but I read in Sheila's book that apples and oranges may not be good for TS any experience with this as he loves both?

I just ordered Sheila's new book from Amazon and received it yesterday. I had read most of it by last night and am very intrigued and willing to try. My 10 year old son has had TS since 5 and as statistics show it has become more severe now that he is 10. It was comforting to read all of the stories in the book as well as your forums because my family and I have been dealing with this alone for 5 years and our stories are the same as yours. It has been completely manageable up until the last few months and is still not what I would call severe but still disturbing and I worry about what is yet to come. My primary goal is to make sure my son stays a happy, well adjusted kid and that TS does not make him depressed. So, I got up this morning ready to start by omitting milk products, dyed foods, wheat, eggs, juice drinks, etc from his diet as well as the family. I thought we would tackle this together. I had no idea what to fix for breakfast or to pack for his lunch. I thought we would try this for two weeks and see what happens. Does anyone have a food plan to share or a website that I can go to for what to give my son to eat? I am also intrigued by the supplements but again do not know which to use or how much to give him. He also suffers from a mild case of OCD. We currently have him taking a half a pill of Zoloft a day for the OCD in hopes that if it alleviates some of his stress the tics might decrease as an added bonus. The Zoloft seems to be working well for the OCD. He says he does not have any "thoughts" anymore. As to if it is helping the tics-I do not really know. So taking into consideration he is on Zoloft does anyone have any suggestions about the mulitvitamins, magnesium, vitamin c, etc? I plan to clear all this through his psychiatrist. My son also loves to play Playstation and computer games so I dread trying to put a halt to that. Any suggestions? I thought maybe I would sit down with him and aks him which he would rather-video games or no tics and put him in control. I am going to ease into this but I am game. I look forward to ckecking in with this group on a regular basis from now on. One last thing, are there any national conferences that any of you have attended and found helpful?