Please help!

[Bio and adopt]

Forgot to say he also has three ringworm spots on his leg, could this cause increase in tics?

 

I am going to copy and paste from my post yesterday. My sons snorting tic is really bad. It is so loud and hard he will not be able to continue to go to school, it is too disruptive. He is in high school and cant afford to miss days. We do not have a local doctor to help. The out of state PANDAS doc we had been using suddenly began to be unreachable. What do I do to help him. below is run down on my sons current situation and what we are doing?

 

My 15Yo sons main tic is snorting. Tonight he is snorting continuously and very hard. Last week he was diagnosed with severe dust mite allergies and yesterday started Veramist and Zyrtec. Could this be making his tic worse?

Over the weekend he started of complaining of frequent urination. No pain, burning etc. Frequent Urination syndrome has been one of his PANDAS symptoms in the past. He was diagnosed with strep on September 20, so it has been about six weeks since that. Could that be the problem?

He also broke his arm this weekend but I dont see where that could be a problem. I have never heard of body trauma causing increase in symptoms.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

 

I have some Biaxin XL and am going to start him on that and he is already taking Ibuprofen for the arm pain.

Edited November 3, 2010 by Bio and adopt

[thereishope]

I'm sorry your son (and you) are going through this. I want to start by saying my son did not have tics. As for the allergy meds, each child is different. When I first tried Claritin, on day 11 he became very hyper and OCD ramped up from it. So, there is a chance the Zyrtec can be causing the worsening of tics for your son. If you were to change the Zyrtec or spray, I'd change the Zyrtec first. For my son, he does well with Benadryl (he does not get sleepy) or Natural D-Hist Jr.

 

As for the strep at the end of September, maybe it didn't clear. You could take him in for a strep test, but remember you can get a false negative while on antibiotics. Did everyone else in the family get tested when you found out he had it again?

Edited November 3, 2010 by Vickie

[Fixit]

I am going to copy and paste from my post yesterday. My sons snorting tic is really bad. It is so loud and hard he will not be able to continue to go to school, it is too disruptive. He is in high school and cant afford to miss days. We do not have a local doctor to help. The out of state PANDAS doc we had been using suddenly began to be unreachable. What do I do to help him. below is run down on my sons current situation and what we are doing?

 

My 15Yo sons main tic is snorting. Tonight he is snorting continuously and very hard. Last week he was diagnosed with severe dust mite allergies and yesterday started Veramist and Zyrtec. Could this be making his tic worse?

Over the weekend he started of complaining of frequent urination. No pain, burning etc. Frequent Urination syndrome has been one of his PANDAS symptoms in the past. He was diagnosed with strep on September 20, so it has been about six weeks since that. Could that be the problem?

He also broke his arm this weekend but I dont see where that could be a problem. I have never heard of body trauma causing increase in symptoms.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

I have some Biaxin XL and am going to start him on that and he is already taking Ibuprofen for the arm pain.

 

 

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[peglem]

Body trauma often does cause inflammation...which can increase symptoms.

[kim]

Forgot to say he also has three ringworm spots on his leg, could this cause increase in tics

 

Wondering if you have checked out goggle image for erythema marginatum (a condition which may be linked to strep antibodies...if I'm remembering correctly). I'm wondering if the two conditions could be mistaken for one another?

[Bio and adopt]

Forgot to say he also has three ringworm spots on his leg, could this cause increase in tics

 

Wondering if you have checked out goggle image for erythema marginatum (a condition which may be linked to strep antibodies...if I'm remembering correctly). I'm wondering if the two conditions could be mistaken for one another?

 

 

The spots on his leg are definitely ringworm, he is a wrestler and very prone to ringworm. Anyone know why some kids get RW a lot and some kids never get it.