Please HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE DELAY

[myrose]

I have always been wanting to ask alot of you that maybe can help me understand something.

I know there are some tics that appear very earlier in life suggesting that maybe some parents did not see the earlier ones thus their tics may have indeed started sooner than they think or thought.

I know for sure when my daughters started...i am sure there are also plenty others who also know exactly when theirs started as well.

 

My question is this: How come these children were happy and perfectly healthy and normal for the first few years or so of their lives before this all starts???? I have never got this and it again has me in wonder and amazement

You would think that if it was a genetic thing or a predisposition thing or whatever.....that it would show up immediately after birth.

I am completely confused....PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS ONE.

[lurker]

Jas,

 

I think there could be a million reasons for a tic disorder, but if we are talking genetics only, then there are a lot of genes in the body that are programmed to express at a certain time or when some unknown influence triggers them. For example, your daughter has not gone through puberty or menopause yet, but she has encoded genes that will express themselves at the appropriate times. Also, in the autism study that was mentioned regarding the mercury exposure, the vaccines before 7 months were correlated with tic disorders at 7 years. I would have to assume that it is a period of growth or development that triggers it. Another example, I went to a small school, but a handfull of girls had grey teeth. Their mothers took tetracyclene (sp?) during pregnancy, and the first clue anyone had that there were side effects was seven or eight years later when their children got permanent teeth. Diabetes is an example of a disease that is not usually evident until middle childhood. I hope this helps some.

 

P.S. This got me wondering if my little man will be bald in 45 years!

[bmom]

Something I read about autism and got me thinking about tics describes the immune system as how it keeps getting hit at a young age. These children have immune systems that have way too much being thrown at them until one major thing (such as a vaccine or strep) or possibly another small thing just puts it over the edge and their little brains cant take it anymore. It can take awhile to reach that point. It seems that for a lot of these kids, it begins around 7 as by this time their systems are at full. Yet for some, possibly their systems are overloaded early on. Something else I had read lately was about Rheumatic fever. The average age was also 5-15. Rheumatic fever is like PANDAS only it is attacking the heart rather than brain. I wonder if for some reason that is the ages that bodies react with more inflammation in those areas- like when people get arthritus more in their older years.