Tourette's - How do you know?

[Guest guest]

I think the doctor would be happy to take a phone call to discuss

what you're seeing.

My son, with zero tics through childhood, did that facial grimace you

described along with some soft growling type sounds for a few weeks

while we were ramping him up on lexapro - then they disappeared.

>

> Hi all,

> Things have improved here during the daytime. I have a happier

> daughter who I can actually talk to again. Morning and evenings

> rituals are still difficult, but hopefully improving.

> She is on 40mg prozac now, and 25-37.5 seroquel. The facial

grimace

> is better, but now I am noticing other things, or am I being too

> critical? She makes sounds at inappropriate times, I don't know

> why. And occasionally (maybe more, but I don't look at her all the

> time), she puts her chin down or something a little unusual with

her

> mouth. I am not really sure. At first, her mouth was really dry

from

> the seroquel, and she was licking her lips a lot.

> Are these tics or side effects to the seroquel? Or the prozac? I

> really believe that the zoloft made her nuts. She is back now,

that

> she is not on it, however, the OCD is still here too.

> How do I know if she has TS? I worry about the rare serious side

> effects of seroquel (I am a worrywart), and wish I could know what

> these things are. We see the doctor in the middle of the month,

but

> until then, I am watching carefully and not sure what would be

> important to report to him or not. I don't want to overreact about

> anything, but I also don't want to not tell him something that

might

> be important.

> She has copied peoples' sounds for years, but that was all I

noticed

> until now. I am sad because I feel like the zoloft brought this

> out. Might this all go away? Kind of confused, Ellen

>

[Guest guest]

Hello,

Thanks for all the answers. Hopefully, they are just tics, and not

TS. The psychiatrist is wondering if it is some variant of TS and will

treat it accordingly. So, given that, I probably don't need to go to a

neurologist. (we are still doctoring her knee and may end up at a

rheumatologist).

I have so many questions about all this. I keep getting thrown new

curve balls, all the time. I guess I should just listen and talk to my

doctor. But, each doctor will do things different ways. My dd went

straight to 40mg prozac. Others would start low and ramp it up. My

doctor figured that this was the equivalent to the zoloft dose. Oh

well...... I need some coffee this morning!!!! My dd is still

sleeping. Have a nice day everyone!!!!! Ellen