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			<title><![CDATA[ need help ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I haven&#39;t been on for a long long time, but we are sort of in a crisis and I need some help. Maybe someone can steer me in the right direction... My son
was diagnosed at Children&#39;s with &quot;mild Tourette syndrom with OCD tendancies&quot; when he was 6. He is now 12. We have been doing &#39;OK&#39; for the
past 6 years. We&#39;ve hit road bumps, but he seems to have bounced back ok through the years. He just started middle school. He is bright, but doesn&#39;t
seem moitivated in... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:56:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hello, New person saying heys ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi my name is Rhys im 23 from south Wales, ive had TS for about 4 months now and ive just been recently diagnosed. i have corolalia (lucky me) which is quite
umm shouty at times, not so much the swearing but random words normally, encluding chicken!! (thankyou Greg Storey from the bbc TS Documentary). i also have
severe facial and motor tics, the neurologist that diagnoosed me wants to film me at some point because of how fast the symptoms have developed which should be
fun Arggg!!! i have... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:50:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ My Twitchy Little Problem ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hello. New here. I&#39;d like to share my story, if yall don&#39;t mind. Mostly just because I need to tell it all to someone. If you don&#39;t want to read,
by all means, don&#39;t.
<br>
<br>
I&#39;m a 31 year old male. I live in Colorado. I&#39;ve dealt with what I believe is Tourette&#39;s Syndrome all my life.
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It started as a very young child. My earliest symptom was an obsession with rubbing very soft fabric between my fingers. The real tics though, began somewhere
around 7-10... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Vike)</author>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:40:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Topamax Results/Questions ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I started Topamax a while back, in addition to the 1mg of Orap that I currently take, and I am up to
100mg, going toward 200mg. It has really helped me control my tics and I have started to lose some of the weight I put on as a result of the Orap. Win/win in
my book.
<br>
My questions are:
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a) Has anyone else tried Topamax? What were your experiences?
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b) If you have tried it, have you been able to come off of your other meds? I... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:57:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ New to this site, not new to TS ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hello!
<br>
Just wanted to introduce myself.  It&#39;s great to have found a message board like this.  Frankly my daughter&#39;s tourettes wasn&#39;t a big problem for
many years as she was diagnosed with a mild case back at age 6.  Well at age 13 now, her TS has &quot;blossomed&quot; to coprolalia.  Oh joy!  Even though I
support her 100%, this tic is a tough one I&#39;ll admit. 
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<br>
So hopefully I or we (my wife included) will be able to find some answers in the way of new, more... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:32:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Not getting any easier with age ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I often wonder of others afflicted.  TS has doubtless been my ugly companion all my life. As long as I can remember a variety of manifestations evidenced
themselves over the years almost exclusively facial tics of one form or another.  The tics migrated from one to another but they were always there and it&#39;s
always been a constant struggle to suppress them; hiding them has always been unacheivable. Youth wasn&#39;t easy but it wasn&#39;t terrible either, I made up
for the odd... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:44:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ New from Australia ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi I&#39;m fairly new to this forum and very new to TS.  Our son hasn&#39;t been diagnosed yet and we seem to be going around in circles at the moment. 
Anyway, I was wondering if there was anyone else from Australia on this forum and possibly from QLD Fraser Coast area.  I&#39;d love to be able to chat to
someone else who knows a bit more about this condition and how it&#39;s viewed over here.  I know that it&#39;s not seen as a disability so the schools
don&#39;t get funding for children... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:58:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Getting a diagosis ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Until about 3 days ago our DS didn&#39;t seem aware of his tics and then overnight this changed.  He developed a new tic which involved scrunching his right
eye and a sort of squint/frown/grimace type action which he does every few seconds.  Yesterday morning I looked over at him watching the TV and he looked like
he was going to cry, when I asked him what was wrong he said &quot;I never used to do this and now I do it all the time and I don&#39;t like it&quot;.  Now
that it&#39;s obviously... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:49:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ My story. ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I started repeating the last word to myself at around 6 to 9 years old, around my early teen years they&#39;ve disappeared completely,but other weird habits
came up, I had this odd grooming problem, I believe my hair was messed up even though others told me otherwise I had to keep slicking my hair back anyways, I
did odd shrinking of my eyes, when I got into my late teen they disappeared until I was 15 I started to get violent body jerks mostly when I was trying to go
to sleep, they last for... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:30:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Looking for friends! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Anybody interested? My names Amanda I&#39;m 17, and I want to find friends here...so...anyone interested send a message! plz! ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:33:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ New mom on here ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ My name is Ryann (pronounced like Ryan... I guess my parents wanted a boy, LOL!), I live in MD. I have two daughter, the one who has Tourettes is 7 years old
(then I have a 4 year old who stutters). I myself have a mild tic disorder (not tourettes) and mild stuttering... both of those thing run in my family, so
I&#39;m very familiar with it all. Plus my husband has Epilespy (it&#39;s controlled with medication).
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While mild tic disorders, stuttering and OCD all run in my family... no one... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:14:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Newbie ]]></title>
			<link>http://tourettesyndromenowwhat.yuku.com/topic/6223/t/Newbie.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ My son was dx in the past year but was really struggling long before that, so far the official dx is TS+, adhd, PDD-NOS, anxiety disorder, odc tendencies and
tons of sensory issues.  He has low muscle tone and a very limited diet (about 6 foods he will eat), agression and developmental delays. I quit my job about a
year and a half ago, as daycare was not something he could handle all day and now my life revolves around helping him and raising my younger son as well (he
does not have TS)... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:16:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Wassup?! ]]></title>
			<link>http://tourettesyndromenowwhat.yuku.com/topic/6219/t/Wassup-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Looking for friends, anyone else out there need a friend talk to me! ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:53:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Brand new to the boards and to ts ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi there. I&#39;m Sandra and my 11 year oldson was diagnosed with tic disorder this past spring based on one tic that had been present for over a year and that
was increasing in frequency and severity. Since this diagnoses he has developed over a dozen physical tics and a few vocal tics. I think this puts him into the
realm of ts now but am not sure. Not sure what going back to the neurologist will get me besides a formal label as I don&#39;t want to consider drugs at this
time. I am however... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hi there!! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi, my name is Amy and my 3 year old son has Tourettes.  My 7 year old daughter also shows some signs, but to a much lesser degree.  I&#39;m still pretty new
to this, but I think we will come through it just fine.  Both of them are bright and wonderful, just a little different.  I worry about how it might progress,
especially in my son.  I&#39;m so glad I found this message board where I can read and respond to others going through the same stuff I am (we are). ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:11:49 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ hello ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I just signed up today.  My wife has tourettes.  I&#39;m 40 and she  is 39.  When I first met her 5 years ago I knew almost nothing about tourettes.  She is
such an incredibly wonderful and beautiful person, we clicked right away, and all I knew back then was that I loved her, which I still do today.  I soon
discovered that she also had anxiety issues.  These included being afraid to ride in the passenger seat of a car (if she drove then it was ok), along with
numerous other fears.  She felt... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:10:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hello ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <font color="#990099" face="Comic Sans MS">Hello everyone. I have a 10 year old son who was diagnosed with TS about 4 years ago. I hope that within this forum
I may gain support for myself as a mom of a child with TS, and hope to help others through my experiences. Right now is a very hard time for my son...and
therefore a hard time for me, as well. I keep trying to take my own &quot;dose&quot; of advice that I give to my son, &quot;TS is NOT the worst thing in the
world.&quot;..&quot;Look at... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:21:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Mom w/TS has son w/TS...how to tell him? ]]></title>
			<link>http://tourettesyndromenowwhat.yuku.com/topic/6209/t/Mom-w-TS-has-son-w-TS-how-to-tell-him-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Hi. I&#39;ve lived with TS since I was six years old. I&#39;m nearly 40 so back then it took forever for the doctors to figure out what it was. Since my kids
were born, I&#39;ve been watching them closely and my son started showing signs at age 3. His tics have been extremely mild so far, but he&#39;s approaching
age six and about to start kindergarten. I&#39;m wondering if this is the year that the tics get more intense. BTW, my nephew who is also nearly six just
started having tics this... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:35:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ hello everyone! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I just found you and i am glad i did! I am the grandmother of a 13 yr. old boy who was diagnosed with TS when he was 6. he&#39;s been struggling in school
since that time and i&#39;ve tried to get my daughter to allow me to homeschool him over the years, but i live in another state and he was just too young. I
keep him in the summer and this year, he will be coming back in September to be homeschooled. I&#39;m thrilled. He and his mom finally realize that public
school is not the right place... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:17:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hi there. ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ My son Jake is 8 and was just diagnosed a few weeks ago with ts. He&#39;s had tics - mostly head jerking, but others have been spitting, whistling, an arm
jerk, licking his lips raw, licking other things (his shirt, papers, wall, brother) - for about a year and a half. When we brought up his behaviors to his
peditrician we were given the referral to a neurologist but had put it off for fear of him being &#39;labeled&#39; in the system so early on. After a year we
decided we should look more... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:11:26 GMT</pubDate>
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