Elizabeth_reasha

Hey Nola, I have a brother with vocal tics/TS. A couple of years ago my mother was in the same place you are now, it was terrible. If my brother wasn't home schooled I don't know how he would have functioned in school. Anyway right now we seem to have a handle on the tics, he is on Trace minerals, multivitamins, stress relief pills, and a no wheat/dairy, no refined sugar, no artificial preservatives or coloring diet. And I know that all sounds extreme but unfortunatly it seems necessary. And the truth is its hard on us to give them all these things all day and regulate thier diet, but it's worth it to help your childs quality of life. It's so sad to see a child with TS, they are truely suffering. By the way it took months to finaly get the right dose of all these things for him to be symptom free. We would see improvement with the addition of each supplement, but getting the dose correct was key. We also saw great results using a b-complex and trace minerals just for his vocal tics, the other things we are giving to treat OCD and obstinance disorder.. Its mind blowing when you start researching all the nerological disorders that can appear in a child.. Good luck.

I just wanted to tell you what my experience has been with vocal tics. My brother has TS and for quite some time it was off and on and mild to severe, Well anyway a couple of years ago I started giving my mother some lists of minerals and vitamins, the reason my interest was peaked was because my son has some issues, nothing that could easily be diagnosed, but im his mother and I know somthing isn't right, the Dr's did tests and the dr's answer to me was maybe its just how he is, my husband tells me he just doesn't try hard enough. He has attention problems and he is outright lathargic, very low energy, which is probably why he can't focus, he has always taken a little longer to be able to accomplish his goals, bed wetting, riding his bike, playing video games, and he is very spacy. I am still searching for an answer to some of these issues the spaciness and energy level is my hardest symptom relieve. Anyway I began my quest to fix my own child and in the process helped my mother. This is what I found, when we fixed one issue another would arise, for instance, my brother was on trace minerals and vitamins, his vocal tics went away, over time he had to have b-complex vitamins added to keep the tics away, well eventualy he developed OCD, he had irrational fears and fobias, so we started him on stress releif herbs, and fatty acids, I was attempting to regulate his sleep cycle and really feed his brain the right amout of fatty acids to function correctly. Well all of his symptoms have gone away, but if my mother changes up his doses he starts to become extremely obstinant, he will disagree with anything you say and he starts to just cause havoc, for no reason. I am just dreading what will arise next, but it seems like when ever we think we get a handle on his symptoms change. My son doesn't nearly have as many issues Thank god, but all the same like your child he will be so hard on himself and cry that he isn't good, I think its a form of depression. Anyway I am new to this forum so if anyone has a sugestion please i'm always open to try new things.. Oh also we are currently doing the Brain Ballance program on both of them, so to be honest its so hard to tell whats helping, or is it a combination of everything. Good luck liz