Does your body feel like its panicing?

[AHB900]

Hey everyone, just a quick question to those with tics on the boards. When i tic a lot of times my body feels like its panicing and i feel short of air and i feel super uncomfortable. Is this something everyone with tics feels or would this possibly be some other problem that can be causing my tics.

[guy123]

Hey everyone, just a quick question to those with tics on the boards. When i tic a lot of times my body feels like its panicing and i feel short of air and i feel super uncomfortable. Is this something everyone with tics feels or would this possibly be some other problem that can be causing my tics.

 

 

is it because of a breathing tic?

[AHB900]

I guess if there is such a thing. :-\ I really get uncomfortable from this damn tic. My eyes start to water i have trouble breathing i cant concentrate i get super tired.

[Darla]

Could it be anxiety?

 

 

 

 

I guess if there is such a thing. :-\ I really get uncomfortable from this damn tic. My eyes start to water i have trouble breathing i cant concentrate i get super tired.

[AHB900]

Ive thought of anxiety. Could anxiety cause tics?

[Chemar]

yes

 

being anxious or stressed can trigger tics as well as that feeling of shortness of breath & tightness in body

[AHB900]

Hmm if i really think about it. I do tic alot when i get stressed or like panic. Like while driving a car when a car pops out of know where i kinda start panicing and like go all OCD and tic and stuff. Also another question. Would be checking things alot also be a tic? or should i look into OCD? Because i have this tendency to check door locks like 10 times or i have to make sure my wallet keys are always in my pocket like every 5 mins. I always have to check my rear view mirror or i wont be comfortable or i have to look at my window controls in my car. Would this be tics?

[Chemar]

checking things is usually indicative of OCD

 

if you have a TS diagnosis, it could be you have what is known as tourettic OCD, where the two can freqyently morph into each other

[AHB900]

The thing is. isent TS genetic? From what i can see im the only one in my family with tics. I have never met anyone in my family that has ticed, but i do have cousins with anxiety.

[Chemar]

According to classification, not all TS is genetic, tho I often wonder if many are misdx with TS when their tics are in fact due to something else. even if no one in the family that you are aware of has tics, OCD and other neuro issues can be manifestation of the genetic susceptibility

[MichaelTampa]

I am only one in my family with Tourette's, and, while I'm sure there are many families with multiple cases, there probably are a number of families with just one case.

 

About the OCD, the doctor that diagnosed me looks at all the psychiatric-like comorbid conditions of Tourette's (like depression, OCD, bipolar) as really part of the Tourette's--not a separate condition. While many look at Tourette's as uncontrolled movements or uncontrolled vocalizations, he adds two more things to the list--uncontrolled emotions and uncontrolled thoughts. It is just a pattern of some system in the body doing something out of control.

 

Without a doctor with this view, I would never have been diagnosed with Tourette's, because my movements/vocalizations are so minor. But, if you look at the totality of my case and compare them with lists of Tourette's symptoms, you would see a perfect fit. The diagnosis explained many things that were previously a mystery. It sometimes looks like I have depression, and sometimes OCD, and sometimes bipolar. The symptoms can be identical, so you can call it depression/OCD/bipolar if you want, albeit temporary. But, the thing is, it comes from a different source within the body (neurological vs. psychiatric). And that matters when you look at how to treat it. For example, while fluoxetine may help depression, for those with Tourette's exhibiting depression, it will not help, but put things in a different worse direction. (This is what my doctor said, but, I will say, before I went to him, I had tried fluoxetine for depression, and it did put things way off course and definitely worse.)

 

Maybe you really do have OCD, I cannot say. But, I would suggest you consider the possibility that this may all really be a part of the Tourette's.

 

By the way, your mentioning of tightening up and breathing reminds me of a breathing problem I have. Sounds like it is probably different, but I'll note a little similarity, and am curious if others with Tourette's experience this. Anyway--some nights, when I am just falling asleep, I will awake abruptly and not be able to breathe. I believe it is the stopping breathing that causes the wakening up, but it happens fast and is hard to be sure on that. I am fighting for 10-30 seconds, sounds like wheezing, where I am really making deep inhaling and exhaling movements with a noise, just fighting to have air go through either way, and eventually it does ... at least so far. It is extremely frightening. Sound familiar to anyone? It is a question I ask myself--is this from Tourette's or some other problem, like sleep apnea.

[AHB900]

about the breathing problem you mentioned. Never experienced that but i did have this sever cough one time where i would wake up cough really badly then my air ways would shut for about 10 seconds then id wheeze my way till they opened