What Is the Best Fix for My Severe Motor Tics When I’ve Tried Almost Everything and Only Found 1 Good Solution?

Question by BTE41493: What is the best fix for my severe motor tics when I’ve tried almost everything and only found 1 good solution?
I’ve had motor tics for as long as I can remeber. If you can relate, then you should feel my anxiety and torture as well. I have had years of practice trying to overpower them and can gladly say that I have gained control of them pretty well. Now I wouldn’t say too gladly since trying to control motor tics is stressful and a constant annoyance. I can be sitting in class for example and not for one minute that will I not be thinking non-stop about keeping themm under control (by them I mean the tics). And after a while it pisses you off. I was starting to tell my parents how serious they were getting and told my doctor as well. He perscribed me Clonodine and I thought I’d give it a try since it also helped with my ADHD as well. But that didn’t help worth of crap since I felt even worse and exhausted all day with only a slight decrease of tics which was when I tried to think of the side effects from the medicine as a good thing that was supposed to help. By the way, the medicne worked like shit and this was more of a placebo than anything. So I tried reading about helpful tips on this subject and have tried a few excersices but they weren’t sattisfying my urge to get rid of this constant build up of spasms all over my body and not just the face or neck but almost everywhere. Then I told one of my friends that I wanted to try pot and at first it was just for fun obviously and had nothing related to helping my tics since at the time I had no idea that Marijuana could help in any way. After my first time I started to get curios on the history of Marijuana and the facts. So I started reading and a matter of fact I did a pursuasive essay on, “The Legalization of Marijuana.” and you may shit yourself when I tell you this but in an English class of almost 40 people I was the only one who happened to get 100% on the assignment (and everyone had to write an essay). This may have happend because I was so mislead with adds on T/V and internet about how pot is potentially deadly and the negatives were so overstated with no convincing evidence, to show us how they can call something that is so harmless with astonishing medical uses, and call it “a killer threat.” Aynway I used pot a few more times and last Summer I started to notice how pleasant I felt and how amazing it was not having to deal with severe motor tics for once and just simply enjoy life. This may sound pretty rediculous to you but you don’t know what you have until it’s gone, meaning in my case a normal life to a constant stress producing mind set where you think more about keeping a syndrome under controll more than anything else, and I mean anything. When a new pathway opened which was me finding a relief for my tics which so happened to be Marijuana I suddenely realised that I wasn’t just doing it for the “high” but for the soulution to treating my problem. I honestly had no idea in the first place that pot can help with TS or motor tics but I noticed my tics vanishing into thin air. From then on I wanted the pot for that reason instead since when ever I though of it I didn’t think of the high feeling it might have given me but for one of the best feelings that I’ve ever experienced, a relaxed enviroment with no sudden jerks or twitches of my muscles. And that feeling has given me more hope than almost anything except for what I just happened to google just out of curiosity. Can you guess what that was? What I typed in or googled was “Marijuana and motor tics” and I almost pissed myself which kept me from going into shock. I found tons of related searches that have to do with Marijuana decreasing or relieving motor tics 50% +. Next, the articles showing the same kind of people with the same kind of problems that i was reading showed me that I’m not alone and that someone does understand and maybe even cares for what I or should I say “What We” have to live with daily. And to know that I thought Marijuana helped me before reading these topics is even more overwhelming since now I can say that it does help without having to hear it from a proffesional, or anyone for that matter, in the first place. So what I’m saying is that I relized it for myself so I truly believe that it can work without having to try and believe what someone else says and just take their advice on it. An example would be when a doctor gives, say 30 people a medication for a problem and half of them are taking the real thing and the other half are taking a pill for a placebo kind of effect, in other words a fake pill that they think is the real thing and letting them use a mind over matter cure. So in my case there was no placebo effect and I found out that it helped me with no prior knowledge of marijuana helping tics. So to me the only fix fthat works would be Mrijuana unless someone can prove me wrong. So I would like to hear what you have to say or what you would like to maybe, add. And by the way if you want to know my age I’ll tell you when you can guess it, which isn’t going

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Answer by uberzwitter67
I can sympathize with your search for that one thing that will change things. I don’t have tics, but I had uncontrolled epilepsy. I have no better option for you. I just wanted to say I am happy that you have found something. Above all concerns, I hope that you can stay safe, be wise with your choices in how you consume, from who. Marijuana, like ALL things is neithier completely bad nor completely good. While it does not deserve to be villlanized, it can be dangerous at the wrong moments and with the wrong people. I don’t know where you are, but perhaps you can look into the options for medical marijuana or maybe take this chance to fight for it. Maybe you will find another option down the line, Eithier way, if you are receiving care, if you trust your doctor enough maybe you can inform him that you are taking this route so he is at least aware. I wish you luck.

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