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Hello pesosmom, I am so delighted that your daughters tics subsided! It gives hope to everyone else. As I mentioned in a previous posting, my 12 year old daughter developed twitching in both of her shoulders at the end of August, after being very anxious about starting Middle school, we have had so many tests, all came back normal. Yet both shoulders are ticing and the muscles hurt a lot as a result of it. the kids are asking her in school why her shoulder is jumping all the time and I am so afraid that it will become a vicious cycle where it will only increase in intensity because the kids are asking, she feels more uncomfartable. We have gone thru physical theraphy(was useless), biofeedback(did not help), accupunture (3 sessions so far, insurance does not cover it and I don't know if it helps), and are doing massage theraphy as well. Massage makes her feel better, interesting that the massage therapist told me that she thinks the problem is in her neck with all the muscles being so tied up and that it manifests itself in a shoulder. Should we go to chiropractor? I am really besides myself. Untill I found this website, I truly thought that we were the only one with this issue. We leave about 30 min from NY city in a highly populated area, one would think that either neourologist or pediatrician dealt with issues like this one before. I started my daughter 2 days ago on (she weights 100 pnds and is very tall) Magnesium 2 tablespoon, Multivitamins from the health strore, coromega 3. I think I read somewhere that ticks may become more intense at first? For the past 2 days her shoulders have been twitching really a lot. I guess I need with above supplements no matter what hoping that reaction will reverse itself? Thank you everyone for all your help!!! I feel like souch a scatter brain, asking questions that may be were already answered elsewhere, I don't thing I ever felt so hopeless... Thank you! Anna Just wanted to let everyone know that my daughters tics are almost un-noticeable anymore since I've been following the advice given on this website. Finding this website was a Godsend!!! Giving her the liquid magnesium, natural vitamins, staying away from artificial colorings as much as possible (darn Halloween had to come ) and keeping her away from so much caffine was the trick for us. I just had to go back to the neuro and show him what I found on the "world wide web". In his words "unless we put her on meds, their is NOTHING to do" and he had to go to how many years and pay how much money to medical school to come up with this conclusion! I'm sorry I am losing faith in medical docs. I will start going the homeopathic way from now on. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart everyone. My daughter is happy again.

Hello, I was just wondering how your daughter is now and what have you done since this post. I am new here, and posted just 2 days ago about my daughters tick which began 2 months ago, she is 12. I am so desperate to help her. Just wanted to know if you did anything that was helpful.

Hello, all, I am so hopeful someone can help me. I am new to this site. My daughter is 12 and all of a suddent developed a tic in her shoulders, first one, now both. It has been 10 weeks now . It still did not go away. Both shoulders are twitching quite constantly and she is constantly in pain. Towards the end of the day the pain is quite sever because of the muscle contracting the whole day long. There are many evenings when she can not fall asleep, is really miserable and overall it is very scary experience. We have gone thru 2 neurologists, had EEG, cat scans, blood work, x-rays on neck and spine, all is fine. All tests are negative. We have gone thru 6 visits to physical therapy, 6 visits to biofeedback, 2 different orthopedic doctors, now we are doing acupuncture (did 3 sessions already and will do 3 more and it is not covered by insurance). Nothing really seems to help. Whenever I speak to the neurologists they say that ticks can take a long time to go away and sometimes it doesn’t (????) and they prescribe me clonopin and some other drugs which I really have not given her. Because of side effects and because the problem is not to become sleepy and drowsy but to get rid of pain and twitching which these drugs don’t do. I am really at loss… I see some people are writing about supplements. Can you advise which ones? I don’t know what else to do and it is so very frustrating. If you have any ideas- please!

Hello, all, I am so hopeful someone can help me. I am new to this site. My daughter is 12 and all of a suddent developed a tic in her shoulders, first one, now both. It has been 10 weeks now . It still did not go away. Both shoulders are twitching quite constantly and she is constantly in pain. Towards the end of the day the pain is quite sever because of the muscle contracting the whole day long. There are many evenings when she can not fall asleep, is really miserable and overall it is very scary experience. We have gone thru 2 neurologists, had EEG, cat scans, blood work, x-rays on neck and spine, all is fine. All tests are negative. We have gone thru 6 visits to physical therapy, 6 visits to biofeedback, 2 different orthopedic doctors, now we are doing acupuncture (did 3 sessions already and will do 3 more and it is not covered by insurance). Nothing really seems to help. Whenever I speak to the neurologists they say that ticks can take a long time to go away and sometimes it doesn’t (????) and they prescribe me clonopin and some other drugs which I really have not given her. Because of side effects and because the problem is not to become sleepy and drowsy but to get rid of pain and twitching which these drugs don’t do. I am really at loss… I see some people are writing about supplements. Can you advise which ones? I don’t know what else to do and it is so very frustrating. If you have any ideas- please! Thank you