My Son Has Vocal Tics Help!!!

Go to a nuerologist who treats tourette syndrome and other (involuntary) tick disorders. They can help you, and you should be speaking to other adults who have been sucessfully treated for this issue and hear how they feel about their treatment, drug and otherwise, before you prejudege what it is that you want for your son. Your son may be very angry with you as an adult if you do not give him a therapy that would have helped him as a child and let him suffer needlessly because of how you would feel about that stygma of having treated a biolgically based nuerological brain disorder.

This is one of those disorders where if you were to replace "tick" with "pee" you would never, never deny him good medical care to help him be less embarassed or anxious about how his body behaves. While we can control pee, sometimes pee is out of our control, just as the ticks are beyond your son's control. Get him to a nuerologist, and seek out a support group for people who have this issue, have lived with it, and know how controlable this is, or isn't.

People with ticks can be very succesful, very friendly, very smart and very happy people. Ticks, and the conditions that cause them, are not charachter defects, so forget about stygma and get him help.

M.

You might want to try checking out Jenny McCarthy's book from the library. It's called Healing and Preventing Autism . It has information about what his body may be lacking, or what his body may have too much of.(vitamins) We used this with my grandson(who also had vocal tics) and it worked. It's a great book. It's cheaper and natural.

I have this! Maybe not to the degree your son does, but I've always done the "make noises with the throat" thing. It's mostly when I'm in a really stressful period, and as I've gotten older I've done it less and less (although the stress of having a baby has brought it back a little). I also went through a phase where I would blink really hard, really frequently. It's a feeling of being "stuck" until you get it just right, if that makes any sense. I have a very mild case of OCD as well, and these are all related.

None of this ever bothered me much, and I could mostly control it around friends and coworkers, so it never affected my social or work life. The only person it ever bothered was my mom, who seemed to think I only did it to annoy her. The fact that you want to help your son means he's already in pretty good shape!

A neurologist or psychiatrist may be able to help. It sounds like his tics are worst in times of stress too, so helping him learn some relaxation techniques and taking some of the pressures off him may help a lot. Hopefully by controlling the stress he can avoid the need for drugs. Life is hard at 12, and being a high achiever is a lot of pressure!

Wow, get that boy to a neurologist ASAP. It may be Tourette's Syndrome. Good luck. See www.tourettesyndrome.net.

Have him checked out by a neurologist and a speech therapist. There's a reason why he's doing what he's doing and it maybe something that is simple to remedy but you won't know until you have it checked out.

Best of luck to you and your son.

It sounds like he may have Tourette's. I would contact a psychologist and see if are some techniques they could help him with to manage his anxiety and perhaps the tics as well