My daughter also has a regulatory disorder (sensory modulation disorder) and she just recently started having tics. My recommendation is to go to a website called nowleap.com. They test for food and chemical sensitivities which can play a big role in epilepsy and/or tics. They will send you a kit and you go to your doctor and have blood drawn from your child. They will send you or your doctor a report that delineates what your child is highly, moderately, or not reactive to. You then eliminate the things that your daughter is highly or moderately reactive to in her diet and you may see a great improvement in your daughter's tics.
Apr 18, 2010 Rating
Transient tic disorderNEW by: ugates
My daughters tics started off as rapid eye blinking and neck twisting. It would come and go with intensity, but each time with a new tic. She does have a lot of anxiety and that does play a role with her tics. She also has verbal tics and other motor tics (shoulder shrugs, leg and arm twitches, stomach twitches, etc). Her newest tic is she shakes her head back and forth rapidly and snorts. Her previous verbal tic was a grunt. Hers started about two years ago.
I am thinking hers is tourettes, but her neurologist thinks transient tic disorder. She is on clonidine which is the main treatment for tourettes. We are currently still investigating this, but sometimes feel I am just spinning my wheels with the neuro. Her neuro did rule out seizures.
She does have an O.T. and she said my daughter has sensory modulation and processing disorder.
She is going to see a therapist starting this week and see what she says. Sometimes I feel we are being thrown from one doctor to the next. It can get frustrating.
We try not to bring attention to her tics and take one day at a time.
