i just know someone who has it and i was wondering if you can gradually grow out of it or anything?
2007-11-20 05:00:12 · 3 answers · asked by Keila 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Tourettes is lifelong and there is not a cure. There are medications that can lessen the severity of the tics, but nothing can take them away altogether.
There is a pattern that exsists with some people with TS. It is: childhood onset with increase in tics during puberty, and then a lessening of tics by about age 18 or so. Not all people with TS display this pattern.
2007-11-20 11:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by Juliart 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Im 15 and i cant stand Tourettes I i have bruises all over my back and on my sides. I cant stand the pain. I developed physical Tourettes in the 4th grade. I am now a freshman in high school. And i am afraid it is going to affect my career in photography. I lay in bed everyday when i get back from school. Still does not help. The medication does not help with it at all either all it does is make me go to sleep. People at school make fun of me for it and call me names like "twitchy" and "back bender". I do not do anything on the weekends and when i do it's to eat or get a drink of water. Ive already started to develop the vocal part of Tourettes. I whine some times and clear my throat a lot. Almost every night i go to sleep crying. In the morning I wake up and my back is soar. Then I have to do it all over again. I hate Tourettes. It has prevented me from doing many things in my life.
2016-04-05 00:17:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tourette's never goes away but with mediation and behavior modification therapy using positive reinforcement, it can be fairly successfully controlled. When there are mulitple tic disorders involved, the outcome tends to be less successful.
2007-11-20 05:52:26 · answer #3 · answered by TweetyBird 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋