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Tic Disorders
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Question: Does anyone take the medication Guanfacine for tic disorders? I would like to hear about any side effects that anyone has had from the medication Guanfacine. It was prescribed to me for nervous tics, but it is also a blood pressure medication. Is there anyone out there??
Answer: A neighbour was prescribed Tenex (Guanfacine ) and felt weak, washed out.
It doesn't affect everyone in the same way though. You never know until you try it for yourself.
Question: Does anyone know anything about tic disorders and Add ? My son has both of them and I wonder what could tratments are avalible.
Answer: try to learn more from these websites, these will help you get some questions for your pediatrician alongwith improving understanding on the disorders, good luck
Question: How do you distinguish tic disorders and OCD? Are they functionally distinguishable ? Explain
Answer: I always felt that a "tic" was more involentary. I had a stress tick on my left eye lid once. It just had to run it's course.
Now, with my OCD, I can control that easily. I just drop the stress level and the symptoms vanish.
I would guess that a tic operates at a deeper level than OCD.
Question: Folks, my step-son is 15yrs old and has a 'tic' disorder? He has been to the neurologist, tested for tourettes syndrome and the test came back negative. He said "He will out grow it by the time he is 13" and prescribed catapres. I do not remember the dosage. Every once in awhile, the "tic" comes back, lasts for a few days then goes away. He has had it for about a month now, is seeing a GP today, unfortunately at school he is known as "The Twitch". Obviously, the neurologist was wrong, I warned his dad he will never out grow it. He stopped the medication when I believe he was 10. Vocal and shaking of head and shoulders, the disorder continues. Any safe meds for a 15 year old to "control" this? Thanks
Answer: I think he VERY well might have Tourette's. I was diagnosed with it. Besides Clonidine (Catapres), there's another medication, called HALDOL-Haloperidol. Maybe he can try the Haldol.
Question: What is Tic Disorders?
Answer: Movements or vocalizations than can't be consciously controlled; presumably caused by a nervous system abnormality. Tourette's Disorder is probably the best known tic disorder. Some people have motor or vocal tics, some people have both.
Question: How to prevent tourettes's Syndrome (tic disorder) whic is common in childrens ? childrens brain disease how to prevent it ?
Answer: Hello~
Tourette's is a neurological disorder. It's believed to mostly be a genetic issue and connected to neuro transmitter problems.
It can sometimes be brought on by a certain reaction to a medicine or develop with certain other diseases. Some children have developed it after an immunization shot.
Do you have a child that you suspect it is developing?
Best wishes~
Question: What kind of tic disorders are there? can this come with O.C.D? BONUS STARS? I know there's o.c.d, and turettes, but theres this gurl i know, one of my bffs, and she was diagnosed as a person with o.c.d, but she says that when she does random weird tics and stuff, that she doesnt feel like she HAS to do them all the time. and she can control it, but it would bother her if she didnt. So it's not turettes, bc she wouldnt be able to control it? She does noises and twitches when she gets nervous or worriful . She is o.c.d, but i want to know, can that come with o.c.d? or could that be something else? BONUS STARS
Answer: She's lying.
Question: I think I have a tic disorder or Tourette's, but most websites say people start to show signs around 7-10 yrs.? But I started my tics when I was 15-16. The website continues to say that most people stop doing these tics around their late teens and 20's. I am in my late teens! HELP!
Answer: Tics have to start before your 18 years old to be diagnosed with tourettes. I'm not sure about a tic disorder. My tics started when i was 14. With tourettes, it never goes away. tic disorders might though. When you get older (if you have tourettes) most of your tics go away but you will still have a few. For some people with tourettes, though, their tics never get better.
Question: How do children get Tic Disorder? Where dose it come from and is there a cure for it?
Answer: Hi! I believe this disorder is genetic. Hope this helps.
Question: Do i have a tic disorder? Do i have a tic disorder?
i am 14 and i have arm tics once or twice a day i have head-neck tics around 15-20 times a day and face tics about 2-5 times a day.they have got worse i have had them for 2,3 years. some of my family has tics.i don,t or haven't ever take meds other then the stuff you take for when my head hurts.
Answer: you should talk to your doctor first because if its getting worse it could be some kind of disorder.
Tic Disorders News
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PLoS Blogs (blog)
The PANDAS hypothesis is a controversial theory that children with a genetic vulnerability can have an autoimmune overreaction to streptococcus that attacks the nervous system leading to obsessive-compulsive disorder or tic disorders, like TS (for more ...
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Psychiatric Times
... the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic at the University of Minnesota-Milwaukee; and Martin Franklin, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Child and Adolescent OCD, Tic, ...
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GenomeWeb
Tic disorders were excluded. Twenty-five patients were prospectively recruited with the following primary movement disorders: dystonia, paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia, tremor, chorea, myoclonus, and paroxysmal non-kinesigenic dyskinesia.
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'TourettesHero' Website Goes Viral, Crashes Server
Babble (blog)
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PR.com (press release)
Cargan, who practices in Mountainside and has many pediatric patients with Tourette Syndrome, went through a comprehensive presentation highlighting both well- and little-known attributes of the disorder ? such as the many different types of tics, ...
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MyCentralJersey.com
Tics are rapid sudden movements or sounds that cannot be stopped or controlled. Often, like Silvers, those afflicted with Tourette's also have comorbidities such as obsessive compulsive disorder or attention deficit disorder.
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Forbes
It's also a nervous tic ? don't know what to do with your hands, check your phone. Nomophobia is an example of displacing blame onto technology. Blame the phone, not the anxiety or obsessive disorders that make you feel compelled to check it all the ...
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Bangor Daily News
For several years, Ecola had suffered an unexplained, intermittent facial tic, in which she scrunched up her face as if she were tasting something awful. Because it seemed linked to stress, Ecola consulted a behavioral therapist in an effort to banish ...
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Spiked
Is autism a disorder? Is autism an identity? If you had asked me these questions a few years ago, before I became involved with the Autism Ethics Group at King's College London, then my answer would have been a clear 'yes' and 'no' respectively.
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