Chemar
Thank you for answering my post so quickly about the l-carnitine. We have a appointment with the peditrician next week and I wanted to be specific as he is not very supportive of the supplements. We are scheduled to see a new peds neurolgist next month and I am hoping he will be more open minded. All our current neurolgist would suggest is adding Orap to the Tenex my son is currently taking and at the time I decided we needed to see someone else. This new doctor is very highly recommended so I hope he can help us.
Aaron is now almost ten and has had mild tics since about 5 1/2. They did not really interfere a great deal until this past May when they just seemed to go out of control. He had to stay home from school for several days and was ticcing so badly he could not go to his baseball games. At that point we tried the Tenex. He is on 2 mg per day at the present time. It has seemed to help a little bit. This summer he has had the most trouble with vocal tics (sniff, humming and almost like a gasp). This is new to us because he had virtually no vocal tics before this.
After saying no to the Orap I starting looking around on the web and stumbled across Latitudes. We are trying Bonnies vitamins, but so far I have not seen any really noticeable results. I was glad to see that you mentioned giving the vitamins a month or so as we have only been on them about 2 1/2 weeks and I do not have them up to the full strength she has suggested yet. I have been increasing them very slowly. Aaron does not have any of the ADHD problems or OCD (for which we are very thankful) so maybe it just takes a little longer to calm the tics.
Thank you for all of your words of wisdom. Reading through the forum has helped me we a very low period that I was going throught after the doctor said Orap was our only other alternative. I'll post again after we give the vitamins and little more time and I see what the Ped. says abouth the l-carnitine.
Thanks again
