Comments on: The Causes & Triggers of Tourette’s Syndrome

By: Vrinda Pendred

Vrinda Pendred — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:23:42 +0000

Hi Colleen. Thank you so much for your feedback and also your husband’s story. It’s such a hard road finding your unique therapeutic method(s). Nutrition, exercise and sleep seem to help a lot of people with not just Tourette’s but so many other medical conditions, as well. Seems like such a basic, ‘primitive’ solution, but I think people underestimate how powerful those three things really are!

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By: Colleen Kloscak

Colleen Kloscak — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 02:16:28 +0000

We found your articles to be so helpful. They are the most insightful and well-written by far of any material we have ever seen on Tourette’s.
My husband began to have Tourette’s symptoms in the late 1960’s, but wasn’t diagnosed till 13 years later. Unfortunately, he had been loaded with horrible drugs, the same ones you received, which produced no ultimate benefit.
Nutrition and exercise and sleep seem to be helping the most.
Thank you so much for enlightening the public on this syndrome!
We would like to subscribe to your blog please.

By: Vrinda Pendred

Vrinda Pendred — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 22:28:17 +0000

Thank you, Beth. I’m really proud of your son for not trying to hide it! The fact is, as he gets older, he’ll start masking some of it without even meaning to. You just start incorporating it all in your normal gestures. Whenever I tell anyone I have it, now (I tell everyone, if it’s relevant to the conversation), they stare at me in surprise and say they hadn’t noticed. Then they say I must not have it that bad. But I do – I really do. I’m just so used to it, now – and your son will be, some day, too.

My son has now developed it, out of nowhere. It’s very sad to watch, because I know he’s so unhappy about it. But it is what it is, as you say, and I know he’ll make it through it over time. Anyway, eventually I’ll be writing an article all about children with TS, and what it’s like to parent them (especially when you have the condition yourself!). Hope you’ll stay tuned 🙂 Miss you too.

By: beth muse

beth muse — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:17:13 +0000

Wonderful. Thank you, Vrinda! My son has a moderate TS, as you know, and has given up ever trying to hide it. I still believe that science can and will find a way to alleviate at least some of the tics, but if not, it’s good to know that TS is not necessarily a sentence for your children, though it can be. In my case, I had two complications with pregnancy and I often think that this is what drew out the symptoms. But it is what it is. I have missed working with you. Take care!