Need help with next step for tics

[mrsagain]

My 8 year old daughter has had a couple of motor and vocal tics for a couple of months now. We hoped when school was out they would improve. As I have read they have been waxing and waning. She is most upset by a vocal tic...she repeats a sound over and over. At first it was the end sound of a word. Now it seems to be a g or an r most often. We started chiropractic care about a month ago. Have a neurologist appointment scheduled for mid September. What do I do next? Would greatly appreciate any guidance you can give. Feeling list at this point.

[Pilbara]

Make sure you read Sheilas book at the top of the page, it will really help guide you through the investigation process. Also you need to spend time working through older posts on this forum and the pinned posts at the top are very helpful.

For every child the triggers are going to be different. For many it is diet related, for my son it is primarily chemical sensitivity that sets off the tics. He also had toxic levels of aluminium in his system that we had to detox out of him, Sheila has a quote about the kids "have something in their body that they do not need, or something they need that they do not have", this has certainly proven to be correct for us. Got the aluminium out, balanced his nutrients, removed chemicals from the house and I've very conscious of chemicals in the food supply as well. Now you wouldn't know he has TS. He still only has the occasional tics, but they don't tend to last long and are so minor that they go unnoticed by most.

Good luck with your journey, have hope that many of us have achieved good results by investigating triggers and you can make a difference, but it does take commitment and work, but so so worth it.

[flightgoddess]

I still haven't figured out my son's triggers. Possibly too much dairy...he seems to handle some dairy about every other day fine. We figured that out after an elimination diet. After the cough went away on the elimination, he would go back to coughing with any dairy. But after about 6 months, we saw he could tolerate occasional dairy. Possible supplements help. I was more regimented about the supplemets during his elimination diet, but then that fell off during the holiday season. His cough (his main tic) crept back over a couple months. So this spring I got him back on supplements and the cough has seemed to go away again. He takes omega/fish oil, a zinc/c gummy, probiotics, digestive enzymes, and branch chain ammino acids a few times a week. I wish I could get him to take magnesium, but I haven't found one he likes yet. Anyway, since before he was diagnosed with a transient tic, it was always 'waxing and waning' so all of this could be purely coincidence.